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Outlining
The first step to studying is organization! Before you get organized,
there always seems to be an impossible mass of
stuff that you are supposed
to know for a test. It feels like a
mountain that’s too high to even begin to
climb. Have you ever let a room of your house
(or your garage) get so messy
and cluttered that it seemed impossible to
clean? So, you just left it that way?
(Guilty here. You should see my garage right
now. I remember having a pool
table out there somewhere… I think it’s under
the biggest pile!)
That’s what studying for a math test can feel like – a huge thing that
can’t
be done. But, it really isn’t. The key to
making the material feel like it’s
something you can conquer is to make a study
outline.
Several years ago, I started teaching my students how to make study
outlines. For the first couple of tests,
I handed out an outline. Boy, they
loved that! The outline lead them through
every little thing they needed to
know for the test. Grades went up! Then, I
told them that I wasn’t going to
give them the outlines anymore… Talk about an
angry mob! Boos and
hisses! If they had rotten fruit and
vegetables, they would have thrown them
at me. (OK, it wasn’t that bad.)
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