Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another.
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Countless times students have asked me what is the best way to study. While the recommendations that I am about to make to you are no guarantee of success, I believe they will optimize your chances of success.
PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROBLEM:
Research shows that the average student will study for a test. The average person will study four hours for a daily quiz, four hours for a weekly quiz, four hours for a major test, four hours for a midterm, and four hours for a comprehensive final. The outcome of this four hours of study will vary from an A for a daily quiz to an F for the comprehensive final. This means that in high school grades are strongly determined by intelligence since everyone studies the same amount of time.
College is different. Most of the students are highly intelligent and some are highly motivated.
In almost all college courses if you have a poor vocabulary and do not really like to read, you are in serious trouble. If you can succeed with your weird teachers, then you can succeed with your even weirder bosses. Your study habits formed in high school may vector you toward failure because you have never experienced what it takes to perform at the college level. That is why the freshman year is the hardest year you will ever experience in college.
It takes about one year to learn how to learn at a college level. Most people never learned to learn at a college level. They then encourage their children to get the education they never got. They rarely read and talk about intellectual ideas, thereby predisposing their children for low academic achievement.
You should break the pattern. There is no gain in life without some pain.
The brain does not process and store information the way students prefer studying. Occasionally, some succeed by studying at the last minute, but they are exceptions to Read more about How To Study Chemistry
Education in Poland (Education encyclopedia) Added: 06/09/10 4:59 AM (Two hours, twenty-two minutes, fifty-five seconds ago) Rating(0) Viewed(843)
Since changes made in 2009 Education in Poland starts at the age of five or six for the 0 class (Kindergarten) and six or seven years in the 1st class of primary school (Polish szkoła podstawowa). It is compulsory that children do one year of formal education before entering 1st class at no later than 7 years of age. At the end of 6th class when the students are 13, they take a compulsory exam that will determine to which lower secondary school (gimnazjum, pronounced gheem-nah-sium) (Middle School/Junior High) they will be accepted. They will attend this school for three years for classes, 7, 8, and 9. They then take another compulsory exam to determine the upper secondary level school they will attend.
There are several alternatives, the most common being the three years in a liceum or four years in a technikum. Both end with a maturity examination (matura, quite similar to French baccalauréat), and may be followed by several forms of upper education, leading to licencjat or inżynier (the Polish Bologna Process first cycle qualification) , magister (the Polish Bologna Process second cycle qualification)and eventually doktor (the Polish Bologna Process third cycle qualification).
STUDY TECHNIQUES FOR CHEMISTRY (How to study) Added: 06/09/10 2:56 AM (Four hours, twenty-five minutes, twenty-three seconds ago) Rating(0) Viewed(266)
Before taking any chemistry course, make sure that you have the required math skills. Since chemistry involves many calculations, you must have the math prerequisites specified in your university catalogue. Moreover, read the course description very carefully, and if you have any further questions, contact the chemistry department.
COMMON PROBLEMS FACED BY ALL STUDENTS:
• Often students sitting in a chemistry lecture fail to stop the professor when they do not understand a problem or a concept. Ironically, many other students have the same question. Don't push it aside and hope that you will understand it later on; you are paying for the course, and you need to ask questions.
• Perhaps the most annoying situation a student gets into is working a problem out and failing to get the correct answer. This is not rare. Almost everyone works a problem wrong the first time. In addition, these mistakes teach us what we did wrong. Chemistry requires discipline in order to understand it and solve problems.
• "Which professor should I take?" The professor can make a big difference in your grade. Therefore, you should ask other students who have taken chemistry courses at this university whom they recommend.
• "How can I improve my problem solving skills?" There are many things that one could do; however, the best thing to do is work as many problems as you can. Every chemistry book should also have a study guide with many problems worked out and explained. These study guides are very useful, and they assist you in understanding the material.
• "My professor talks too fast, and I can't keep up with him while taking notes." The best thing to do in this situation is to bring a tape recorder into the lecture room and tape the lecture. (Make sure you have the professor's permission to tape the class lectures.) Meanwhile, you can listen to the lecture and concentrate on any problems he or she may work on the board.
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Designing Effective Business Documents (How to study) Added: 06/09/10 12:56 AM (Six hours, twenty-five minutes, thirty-eight seconds ago) Rating(0) Viewed(273)
Because such a great difference exists between the academic and the nonacademic reader and the purpose of writing, you must always consider the following issues as you plan your documents. Without good planning, your writing may not be effective.
Every assignment that imitates a business situation will involve these design steps!
Know to whom you are writing. Ask yourself a number of questions:
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Who is my reader?
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What does my reader know about my topic?
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What is my reader's background?
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What is my reader's attitude toward me and the topic about which I am writing?
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Who else may read what I write? Could anything be misconstrued by unknown readers and reflect unfavorably on me or the organization ?
Know why you are writing. Ask yourself several more questions:
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What do I want my reader(s) to do after reading my document?
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Or, what do I want them to know or understand?
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What attitude(s) do I want them to have?
Choose your ideas. Based on questions you asked about audience and purpose, select and list the ideas you need to include to achieve your purpose with you reader(s).
Writing in School vs Writing at Work (How to study) Added: 05/09/10 10:54 PM (Eight hours, twenty-seven minutes, eight seconds ago) Rating(0) Viewed(282)
You may be wondering why so many programs now include a capstone course in business communication and why upper-level courses in so many fields have case assignments. You may have made an A or a B in freshman composition and in literature courses. In fact, you may have passed the notorious freshman writing exam and won an exemption from English 103. However, studies of employee communication have shown consistently that employees spend from 25%-30% of their time writing and that writing skills can help or hurt advancement opportunities. So preparing for the kind of communication you will do in business will help you apply the specialized knowledge you have gained in your major.
IMPORTANT: The way you communicate at work requires that you approach writing in a different way from the way you have approached your written assignments in school.
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In school, you write to get grades.
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On the job, you write to do your job.
Writing in School
Throughout your years in school, your school writing assignments have had one purpose: to show that you understand some topic or concept. To put it bluntly, in your academic writing, you have always written for a reader, a teacher, who is an expert in the field or who knows more about the topic than you do. Teachers are paid to read what students write no matter how good or bad it is, to evaluate the material on its correctness, and to return the assignment to each student with some grade that reflect how well the student understands the assigned material or topic.
Writing at Work
On the job, however, this situation will change. You will be writing to other employees, to clients, and to an almost unlimited number of individuals. You will be writing to achieve goals and Read more about Writing in School vs Writing at Work
