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Common Mistakes And Pitfalls Made By Students In Their Academics by Elbizzcklinz(m): 1:29pm On Feb 12, 2015
One of the important aspects which can give your academic performance a huge setback and a really tough fight is the study habits you employ. So, whether you are a college or university student, high school or secondary school student; lectures, seminars and classes would not be fruitful if you stick to and follow the normal self-study procedures and research methods that yield very minimal results.


However, majority of Nigerian students make a huge mistake in this scenario. The study pattern of most students have been evaluated by educational researchers who published their results in academic journals. As to the results, only few students live up to their expectations and reputations. Many students often employ habits like highlighting, re-reading, summarizing, etc which are just quite low utility habits that actually greatly affect the performance.
READING TWO TIMES WILL HELP IN UNDERSTANDING CONTENTS
The question is does it really work. Somewhat! Various studies have shown that re-reading helps in memorizing data and is beneficial for students who have to work with two dimensional data like grammatical rules, terminology, structural details, formulas, etc. With regard to comprehension, it is different.
When it is about the criterion task, then you can say that the effect of the rereading will be durable. But researchers feel that most of the effects are related to recall based memory steps while the benefits it has on comprehension is still vague. That is why there is a great need to distinguish between your analytic and mnemonic ...VIST AND READ MORE https://www.rivprojectonline.com/blog/2015/02/12/common-mistakes-and-pitfalls-made-by-students-in-their-academics/
Re: Common Mistakes And Pitfalls Made By Students In Their Academics by BeeBeeOoh(m): 1:41pm On Feb 12, 2015
U head dey dia. Re-reading helps a lot, at a point in time it will berecorded in ur memory permanently.. Note-taking also helps a lot too..

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