Category: Articles
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Tips of parents returning to schools
Article Submitted by Education News Articles If you are a parent, you are used to teaching your kids and helping them with school work, but are you prepared for the transition from being a parent to becoming a student? Understand your motivation – Think about your rationale for returning to school. Are you developing additional…
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Horrible Software Glitches
Software was made to be imperfect. All software for all systems is meant to have glitches and bugs. For a software tester, it is his job to eliminate as many of these bugs as possible. However, there are so many issues to consider when designing software, it is impossible to locate all the glitches. Software…
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Save Money on Your Textbooks by Not Buying Them
You really want to know the best way to save money on textbooks? The answer isn’t buying them used, or buying them on Amazon or eBay, or trading your buddy a package of Ramen noodles for the Chem. text from the course he failed last semester. The best way to save money on textbooks is not…
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Use Continuous Self-Testing to Remember Information
Quizzing yourself is really a great study tool. But when you’re cramming, there’s not a whole lot of time to write up your own flash cards is there? I suggest you use what I call “continuous self testing” to memorize stuff the first time around. Immediately after you read a key piece of information; say a definition…
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How to Cram for a Test
Cramming isn’t such a bad thing; if you do it right. Of course the best option is the traditional one: study frequently, read the chapters of your textbook every week like you’re supposed to, and take copious amounts of notes. But comon, we’re in college right? Who has time for studying that often when there’s…
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Prepare for Finals Early
Did you know every year, there is a disaster that hits college students twice a year in May and December? Without warning it sweeps in, disrupting lives of thousands of people. Some people don’t make it, and the people who do survive would rather forget the whole experience and look to the future. Sound familiar?…
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Where Does Your Instructor Get Their Test Questions?
I’ve had professors who gave very organized lectures every day. I diligently took notes over every lecture, only to find on that fateful test day that nothing they talked about was on the test! If you’ve had this happen, you know how frustrating it can be. After getting burned a couple of times, I learned there…