January

Good Evening my fellow classmates,

After reading a classmate's blog my eyes were opened to a new study habit that has been useful to many people. Even though this study habit doesn't involve any words it is still useful and helpful to many students. Images, this is a new study habit that has been used to help students with tests that they are about to take. Many do it in flash cards while others draw it on paper. I believe that images help many students with there tests so in a way using images are helpful for everyone because it can help them memorize meaning of words, parts of an organism, etc. As you can see, many people choose not to use this study habit because they find it hard to be drawing a picture for most of the things. On the other hand, many artists who are comfortable with drawing a picture tend to draw a picture to help them understand the topic better and perhaps even master that topic. I can't say that everyone should use this study habit because not everyone will enjoy drawing a picture to help them study a particular topic. In fact, I think that some students may even be irratated about drawing a picture because most likely they will say that they can't draw and complain. I myself must say that I do not prefer to use images as a study habit because it would be difficult for me. The steps needed to be able to use this study habit is simple. All you have to do is draw a picture as a definition to a word that you don't understand or even draw a picture so that you connect parts of the organism if you were to be doing a science test. Results as you may know can be expected instantly if you are using the study habit in a proper way. In conclusion, images is another study habit that can be used and has been proven to have helped a number of people.

December

Good Evening,

I have learned about a new study habit that has been proven to be very useful and helpful to many students. This new study habit is doing three words summaries and by using this study you can find it easy to taked notes and study them later. Personally, I believe that three word summaries isn't for everyone because as you know everyone is comfortable doing their own study habit or the one that they find to be easy and useful. Although this might not be the best study habit in your point of view, but it is helpful and and if anyone were to use this study habit they will find it pretty easy to do three word summaries as well as study them. The steps necessary to do this study habit is simply write three words to summarize a paragraph to an articale or a short story. After you have done this you can always go back to your three wrd summary to see what the paragraph was about. However, it doesn't mean that you can just write three words and say that you summarized that part of the story. In order to make three word summaries you must read the passage carefully, and then put thought into creating a three word summary. By following these simple steps you can expect to be able to read your three words and know what that part was about. Results can be expected to show right away. When you start taking tests about a passage and you get a good grade you know that it was because you created three word summaries that helped you understand more about the main point of the article, short story or passage. I can expect many students to say that would prefer to do another study habit because they might find this study habit to be difficult because they might not be able to summarize it in three words. Others are simply lazy because they think that to summarize it in three words just takes too long even when it is the easiest thing to do. Overall, this is another study habit that people can use.

This month I have decided to talk about a study habit that has been used by many people for a very long time. I wasn't paying attention that all along I have seen this study habit in front of my face mostly everyday. Flashcards, this is the study habit that has been proven to be extremely helpful for many things like a presentation that is about to be given. Also they can be helpful for when there is a very important test that will be given the next day like the CAHSEE or the SAT. Knowing by facts this is the easiest of all the study habits and I would say that it is for everyone. On the other hand, if there are people who can't handle doing simple flashcards than I must say there is another study habit that they will probably enjoy doing. In creating flashcards the steps are simple in doing. First of all, you should probably get some index cards or cut a piece of paper into smaller pieces. Now, if you had to prepare for a presentation than one thing you can do would be to write on the index cards what is is that you would be saying and then you say it over and over again until you have remembered your part and are ready to present in front of your classmates. Furthermore, if you were to be preparing for a test than the best thing to do would be to maybe write little bits of information that you can't remember well. They can also be helpful as to if you were having a vocabulary test and you couldn't remember the words than you write the words on one side of the index card and then you can write the definition on the other side. As you can see, flashcards can be very helpful and easy to do and that is why I have to say this is the easiest study habit ever created. Results can be expected to show right away and you would know it. For instance, if you see that creating flashcards and studying them is helping you t past tests or do great in a presentation than you know the results are in. Therefore, this is why this is the easiest and quickest way to study.

Throughout the weeks that have passed, I have noticed another study habit that can be both useful and helpful. Researching and looking at the facts of this study habit I saw the results of grades on tests as well as assignments and realized that it gave the student an advantage in which the person got a good grade. The name of this study habit is cornell notes and this study habit that can ensure to do of much goodness. Cornell notes can be used by everyone if given the time to create as well as study them. The way that this can be used to help on test or assignments or better yet the steps needed to do this is simple. Firstly, you can fold a paper in half and on one half you can have questions while on the other half you have answers. I am pretty sure this is a simple step to do. Next, since cornell notes are used on readings, you will dissect a piece of reading in the following steps. Before reading the section, you look at the title of the paragraph and find a way to create it into a useful question that will help you take notes. When taking notes on the passage make sure to not take notes on every little detail because I have seen people do that. Instead, take notes on details that are important as well as details relating to the question that you wrote on the left side of your cornell notes. Furthermore, once you have completed a good amount on notes and be sure that you know that the notes make since you find a nice and quite place to be. Once you have found a quite place you pull out your notes and go over all the things you wrote down and spend time memorizing thme over and over again if you have to in order to make sure that you will do a good job. The next day when you are receiving the test you can have your little laugh to show that you know all the stuff, except don't laugh at a point in which people look at you and think that you are a crazy person. Nevertheless, I am pretty sure that after taking the test you are anxious to know what the results were of the test because you are sure you passed it. If you did the steps well you will not have to worry about the test because you should know that you did good. Throughout the rest of your years you can see results of doing a good job by using cornell notes.

Study Habits

First off, there is no wrong way in studying. There might probably just be a bad way in studying. For example, if you are studying with your brothers and sisters playing and running around it isn't a wrong way, but it is a bad way. In order to fix this problem, you can do many stuff. You can go to a friends house to study where it is all quite or you can even step outside the house for a while and study as much as you can. There is even going to the library where it is all silence to do your work, but of course if you weren't to have time later to go to library you can just put a little time from your daily life and stay afterschool in one of your teachers classroom to work if it is alright with them. You see, you might think there aren't many places to do your work so you would go to your teacher the next day and give her an excuse on why you didn't do your homework. This is something that you shouldn't be doing because there is always a solution to any problem that you are having. I can relate to this because last year knowing there were many places for me to do my work I would sometimes come to the teacher the next day telling her about how I was not able to do my homework the night before. After a while, I realized that instead of going to her class every morning I could have been using the time to do my work. This can also be another study habit because you might not have finished your work the night before so by coming early in the morning you can have the extra time that you needed to do your work. One thing you should have learned over the years is that there is no excuse in not being able to do your work or study for something important because there are many study habits you can use to help you out.

Welcome!

Welcome my AP class and everyone who reads this blog. My name is Xavier Ortiz and I am a sophomore who goes to Camino Nuevo high school. I welcome you to learn about the different study habits there are to ensuring you a good grade. I will talk to you my fellow classmates about the ways you can study and what can you do to make sure nothing is distracting you. Not everyone is able to study in peace because of problems they have or maybe because they have to help out around the house. Well, I am going to write about all the possible ways to study if you are not able to do one study technique or another.