Secrets of Effective Learning Practice in School and Work

Taking into consideration factors including the type of subject matter, your personal background and the situation under which you are acquiring knowledge, you will be able to develop your own effective learning practice.

Based on learning principles, the following learning practice tips will help you develop the best learning practice that applies to you.

1. Look for Important Portions of the Study Material

The first step in studying anything is knowing what are its important portions and aspects. This will save you time and effort and accelerate your learning. Before going into thorough study -- scan the whole material and identify its important portions. After this, you may proceed with going through the whole material by giving less time and effort on less important portions and more on the important ones which are highly likely to be given by your professor the corresponding emphasis in lecture and examination.

2. Cultivate New Viewpoints on Learnings That Contradict Your Previous Concept

When you encounter principles or theories that contradict your personal concept on a certain subject matter, develop a new mindset regarding it. It is not enough that you merely accept it because it will be reduced to memorization and will have a high percentage of being forgotten.

3. Practice Makes Perfect, Repetition is the Mother of Learning

After understanding the principles and theories that you formerly had a contradicting perception, putting it to practice or applying it repeatedly will be helpful. This will reinforce your true learning.

4. Solicit Comments and Suggestions

Ask other people like your professor if you are a student, your immediate superior in work or colleagues or peers for comments and suggestions on the output in which you applied your learning. Request them to analyse your work and tell you their observations.

5. Set Expectations and Goals for Yourself and Ask Your Professor or Supervisor for Their Expectations of You

First, you can hardly learn anything if you do not have the confidence that you will be able to do so. So tell yourself that you can learn the material at hand. Then after some time, set expectations and goals on your learning like increasing scores in school or more output in work. Next, ask your professor or supervisor of their expectations of you. They might have higher ones but have valid reasons for not telling you.

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