✨️ Tips 📚 How to Read Like a Pro: Simple Tips That Work! ✨️

Midterm season is coming soon~~ 🙌🏻👀 Books open, minds sharp — what better way to own this season? ⁉️❤️‍🔥

Today, NEXKY puts together some tips on ” How to Read Like a Pro ” — perfect for boosting your study efficiency! 📚💡What study methods work best for truly understanding and remembering what you learn? Let’s find out! 👇🏻

⭐️ Elaborate : try to explain materials in your own words
Making connections between new knowledge and what you’re already familiar with can help you understand the new materials better. Some examples include making further connections with things that you need to remember, restating it in your own words, illustrating it in your mind, or connecting it to something that you’re familiar with.

⭐️ Genetrate & Test : practice through exercises and exams 📝
This is a great way of reviewing materials and testing whether we understand them or not.

⭐️ Organize 📑 : categorize the materials to make them more manageable
This helps making connections and finding patterns in the materials that you need to study easier. It also helps with preventing overload, and can make understanding faster and more efficient.

⭐️ Take Breaks 😴 : schedule enough time for sleeping and resting
Spacing effect explains that studying time should be divided into 45 minutes of studying and 5 minutes of resting. This also depends on how long you can concentrate with studying, but on average, humans have about 50 minutes of attention span. Sleeping is also of the utmost importance.

⭐️ Avoid Illusion of Learning : try asking your self; Do you really understand the topic or are you barely getting a gist of it? 🗞️
Repetition helps us become more familiar with the materials, but that doesn’t mean that we thoroughly understand them just by reading repetitively or highlighting everything. Instead, you should think first before highlighting whether the text is important for further thought and making further connections or not. Do not highlight instinctively.

⭐️ Be an “Active Note Taker” : take notes by writing and summarize in your own words ✏️🔎
Writing with our handwriting is better than typing when it comes to remembering materials. Furthermore, when we write, it’s better to write in our own words because ir can be quite hard to just write down every single thing (which wouldn’t be different from transcribing our professor’s lectures into notes)

📖 NEXKY wishes these tips are helpful in some way to all Chula students❣️

We wish you guys the very best of luck for this semester’s midterm. Don’t forget to try all the tips! Hope you guys get a 99 out of 100 in every courses~~💢📌