The document provides tips for studying effectively. It recommends getting to know yourself as a learner, your lecturers, and your program of study. Developing an organized strategy is key, including organizing materials, establishing a regular study schedule, forming a success council, and teaching others. Mastering these techniques can help ensure academic success.

1. HOW TO STUDY EFFECTIVELY
Ezenwoke Azubuike
Department of Computer and Information Sciences,
College of Science and Technology,
Covenant University.
11th January, 2012

2. Lecture Outline
• Introduction
• Know Thyself
• Know your Lecturers
• Know your program
• Develop a winning strategy
• Conclusion

3. Introduction
• A wise man once said, “The First Best time to
plant a tree is 20 years ago, The Second best time
is NOW”
– The implication of this statement is that preparing for
an examination, should have begin longest time ago,
but its not too late to start today.
• The Journey to a first Class result begins from
being mindful from the very first Class.
• Zig Ziglar said, “Any Dummy can succeed if He
knows what it takes.”

4. Know Thyself
• Self discovery is the Greatest Discovery
• Understanding your uniqueness is the key to
your distinction.
• Everybody is programmed and wired different
from the rest
• Our uniqueness is validated by our individual
purposes In Life.

5. Know Thyself
• In the study of learning, it has been proven by
research that there are 3 main categories of
learning approaches
– Visual
– Auditory
– Kinesthetic
• Everyone of us can operate a combination of
all of these.

6. Know Thyself
• Visual Learner
– Love to see texts, pictures, graphics and multimedia
before they can appreciate learning contents.
• Auditory Learners
– Can relate better with Sounds, or auditory signals of
learning contents
• Kinesthetic Learners
– These group of learners learn best when they are
involved in some learning activity of a particular
learning content.

7. Know thy Lecturers
• The same way everyone of us is different, so
also is our lecturers.
• Lecturers in CST differ from lecturers in CDS:
– Moreso accounted for by the difference in
discipline (Program), training of the lecturers and
their own preferences.
• How lecturer A prepares his notes and teaches
will be different from lecturer B’s.

8. Know Thy Lecturers
• So, its important that each student should
strive to understand individual lecturers
• How?
– Just walk up to them and ask!
– By Observation

9. Know your Program
• For many students,
– the major reason for failure or low academic
performance is lack of interest in their course of
study.
• Lack of interest in your program or a particular
course will affect your attitude to studying.
• At this stage, you must find your motivation in
your present course and re-align your attitude.
– Various Examples Mrs. Ada Sonia Peters

10. Developing Winning Strategy
• Organize, Organize and Organize!
• Mike Murdock said, “Pain is the product of
Disorder” he also said that, “The only reason
why men fail, is broken focus”
• Focus can only be achieved where there is
absolute order.
• Order here or organization refers to how each
student is able to acquire, analyze and store
and retrieve information/knowledge.

11. The Winning Strategies
1. Develop and organized method of studying
lecture materials
2. Develop a regular time study pattern
3. Develop a success-council
4. Teach others

12. Winning Strategy-1
• The world is organized
• Knowledge and Information is organized
– That is why what a person studies in school is
called a Discipline.
– It means that the individual has submitted his/her
self to certain organization of knowledge.
– Science is defined as, “an organized body of
knowledge….”

13. Develop A Winning Strategy-1
• How to I organize my Lecture Materials during
my study period?
– The Materials has been organized for you!
– Each course has a list of topics, sub-topics and
sub-sub topics.
– Store the information in the order it is presented,
because the examiner will require from you what
he gave to you.

14. Develop A Winning Strategy-1
• How can I achieve that?
• Anytime you want to Study,
– Start first by quickly skimming through the
materials.
– Develop an organized outline from the material
– Know the outline by heart by constant repetition
– Read to fill in the gaps in your outlines
– Start the process again when next you want to
study

15. winning Strategy-2
• Another wise man said, “Time is God’s way of
not allowing everything to happen at once!”
• Its not enough to know how to organize your
materials during study, you must know how to
organize your time.
• Don’t read disorderly, develop a particular
time study pattern.
– E.g.

16. Winning Strategy-2
• For example,
• You find out how many Day(s) you have left
and distribute your courses over those days.
• You must ensure discipline in adhering to your
schedule.

17. Winning Strategy-3
• Develop a “Success-Council”
– A group of like minded persons who share your
passion for success.
– Spend time in the company of each other and
encourage each other to highest academic
performance.
– Also, Have an academic mentor or role-model
whom you look up to and learn from their
examples

18. Winning Strategy-4
• Teach Others
– “Give and it shall be given unto you…”
• Robert Half said, Anytime one teaches two
learn.
– Ensure you are helping someone else succeed in
their academic pursuits.
– When you can successfully teach someone else,
then you have successfully master the subject.

19. Conclusion
• Success is not a myth, it is achievable.
• Just as Zig Ziglar said, Any Dummy can succeed
if he knows what it takes.
• Your commitment to understanding what it
takes to succeed and putting it to work will
deliver your academic desires to you
sweatlessly.
• S_CCESS is not complete without “U”

20. THANK YOU FOR
LISTENING