Year 8 Assessment Booklet 2020

STUDY SKILLS

Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. All students are different and will wish to study in different ways. However, there are three important ingredients you will need in order to maximise your best effort. They are: motivation, self-discipline and organisational skills. It has been proved that organised students do better than disorganised students. You do not have to be academically brilliant. HERE ARE SOME TIPS TO ASSIST YOU: 1. GOALS - set yourself some goals. 2. CLASSROOM – LISTEN CAREFULLY as teachers give ideas; they tell you what is important and therefore what will be tested. TAKE NOTES as this will help keep you alert, and you have a record. Ask questions when you do not understand. 3. HOMEWORK – complete work set by your teachers; revise work done that day; continue assignment work; do some general reading and REVISE, REVISE, REVISE. 4. STUDY ENVIRONMENT – you need a chair, good light, a calendar and no noise interference. 5. TIME ORGANISATION – you need to balance time so that you obtain sufficient sleep, sufficient time for physical and social activities, family time and study time. Good study techniques actually save you time in the long term! 6. STUDENT DIARY – this needs to accompany you to and from school as well as to every class. All information regarding homework should be in this book. 7. STUDY TIMETABLES – will be given out before exams; use them effectively.

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