1. Study Skills for High School Students
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Study skills are an ordered set of actions performed by the student in order to understand and memorize concepts,
principles or facts permanently. After observing the way of studying of students achieving academic success, have
been able to establish the most effective strategies. Regular use of these strategies allows students not experienced
better use of their intellectual resources and, therefore, improve their academic performance.
The study is an essential learning strategy in the educational process of young people today. Far from going out of
fashion, it is necessary to complement other learning activities such as project development, exchange and contrasting
opinions or conducting enforcement activities activity. Study means linking the new with the knowledge already built
and to remember it in a timely manner, ie, understand and memorize permanently.
Study techniques are part of the learning strategies that can be grouped into three groups: organizational strategies,
strategies for classroom work and study and memorization of information.
Organizational strategies help to do the things you have to do in an orderly and efficient manner.
Strategies class work are those that make your class work more useful.
Study skills and memorization of information is to understand and memorize concepts, principles or facts
permanently.
As occurs with other learning strategies, some of our teens need a specific learning these techniques to improve their
effectiveness as learners. Others, however, not succeed alone.
Study skills can not be learned as an isolated learning but his training will take place following the guidance set forth
below guidance while studying classroom content.
Studying is a process that requires four moments:
1. Understanding of the text.
2. Selection and organization of items, such that the amount of information is smaller and therefore easier to
learn.
3. Memorization of key concepts.
4. Evocation of the study.
GUIDELINE FOR THE STUDY
 Understanding the text
Read-ahead. It consists of making a very quick read everything that has been studied in order to get a general idea of
the content of the text.
Reading comprehension. It is read slowly trying to understand well that explains everything. If a word or expression is
not understood, the dictionary is used.
 Selecting and arranging concepts
Underline the main ideas or keywords. If you have done well, reading can only underline the fundamental
understanding of the text. Some texts and give clues about important concepts in bold type or other systems.
However they will have to emphasize certain words or phrases more.

2. Summarize the text. (Do not do if the text is already greatly summarized). A good way to summarize the important
thing is to write complete sentences but forming meaningful. It is interesting that the summary is underline or
highlight key words or concepts.
Make a scheme. It is presenting the words more organized conceptual load forming an outline or overview of keys, for
example. This scheme should not be longer than one page. Once successful, the student will have to study the
information reduced to a minimum and it represents, graphically, the relationships between concepts.
 Memorize key concepts
Viewing schema. To memorize the scheme drawn keys, you will need to look closely for a time, between two and five
minutes depending on the size of the scheme, showing attention to the number of elements in each level, how they
are placed, to how many different levels there ... It is means carefully observing the details. After plugging the scheme
and try to reproduce it on paper. If reproduced successfully move to the next phase. Otherwise, repeat the process.
Repeated recitation of the abstract. First divide the abstract text into small parts to study them separately, one after
another. It can be done by questions or paragraphs. Then read three times, orally or silently, the first of the separate
parts, after which it will clog the read and try to repeat without looking. Then you need to check and, if it is achieved,
do the same with the second part. If not, reread it three times and check again. When you have learned three parties
should go back and check if the above is still remembered. We will have to read again if you have forgotten. Then do
the same in three parts studied.
Review. What has been learned one day there will not hardly looks back the next day, again after five or six days, then
once a week and, finally, the day before the test. REVIEW is a quick read and then go checking for parts if you know
repeating the text well studied. If something is forgotten, it becomes a study as described in paragraphs 6 and 7.
 Evocation of the studied
Examinations. Often the way to show that something has been learned is through exams. Normally, if you have not
adequately studied usually have too many problems, but it's worth taking some precautions:
o Read and understand the questions well.
o Attempt to locate the concepts mentally asking us in the scheme we have developed.
o Attempt to answer with well constructed, understandable sentences.
o We also have to explain the technical words you use and, if appropriate, give examples. It's nice to
think that you explain to a person who comes from another planet and he knows nothing. It is a
misconception that the teacher already knows that it will.
Use all available time and use the excess on review.
o Take the quiz so careful: with good lyrics, clean, no erasures, with margins and using rule statements
or to highlight important concepts.
Although it is evident, I note that the study is not something that should be done a day or two before an exam, it is an
activity that you should go as doing work in class will
It is possible that some of the activities proposed in the orientation guide, how to make an outline, presented some
difficulty at first. However it is worth to keep practicing and, if necessary, consult another article outlines or
summaries or some book.
Practical advice:
Study skills for middle school students. Tips. José María García Lahoz. Educator (academic and vocational Guidance)
Professor of Psychology and Pedagogy in Secondary