{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/study-skills-and-learning",
 "id": "study-skills-and-learning",
 "title": "Study Skills",
 "category": "health-life",
 "subject": "Study Skills",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12",
  "college"
 ],
 "description": "Ways to study, remember, organize time and take notes.",
 "tags": [
  "study skills",
  "learning",
  "memory",
  "notes"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Term",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Active recall",
   "Testing yourself from memory instead of rereading"
  ],
  [
   "Spaced repetition",
   "Reviewing material at increasing gaps of time"
  ],
  [
   "Flashcards",
   "Cards with a question on one side and answer on the other"
  ],
  [
   "Practice test",
   "A sample test to practice under test conditions"
  ],
  [
   "Retrieval practice",
   "Pulling information out of your memory"
  ],
  [
   "Interleaving",
   "Mixing different topics or problem types when practicing"
  ],
  [
   "Chunking",
   "Grouping information into small meaningful pieces"
  ],
  [
   "Mnemonic",
   "A memory trick, like a rhyme or acronym"
  ],
  [
   "Acronym",
   "A word formed from first letters, like ROY G. BIV"
  ],
  [
   "Acrostic",
   "A sentence where first letters stand for items to remember"
  ],
  [
   "Method of loci (memory palace)",
   "Remembering things by placing them in imagined locations"
  ],
  [
   "Visualization",
   "Making a mental picture"
  ],
  [
   "Elaboration",
   "Adding detail or explaining why to connect ideas"
  ],
  [
   "Feynman technique",
   "Explaining a topic in simple words to find gaps in understanding"
  ],
  [
   "Teach someone else",
   "One of the best ways to learn"
  ],
  [
   "Summarize",
   "Say the main ideas in your own words"
  ],
  [
   "Paraphrase",
   "Restate in your own words"
  ],
  [
   "Main idea",
   "What a passage is mostly about"
  ],
  [
   "Supporting details",
   "Facts that back up the main idea"
  ],
  [
   "Skim",
   "Read quickly for the general idea"
  ],
  [
   "Scan",
   "Look quickly for a specific fact"
  ],
  [
   "SQ3R",
   "Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review"
  ],
  [
   "Annotating",
   "Writing notes in the margins while reading"
  ],
  [
   "Highlighting tip",
   "Highlight only key points or you'll mark too much"
  ],
  [
   "Cornell notes",
   "A note layout with a main notes column, cue column and summary"
  ],
  [
   "Outline",
   "A list of main ideas and subpoints"
  ],
  [
   "Mind map",
   "A diagram of connected ideas around a central topic"
  ],
  [
   "Concept map",
   "A diagram of ideas linked with labeled arrows"
  ],
  [
   "Graphic organizer",
   "A chart that organizes information visually"
  ],
  [
   "Venn diagram",
   "Overlapping circles comparing two things"
  ],
  [
   "Study guide",
   "A summary of what to learn for a test"
  ],
  [
   "Review",
   "Look over material again"
  ],
  [
   "Cramming",
   "Studying everything at the last minute, which works poorly"
  ],
  [
   "Study schedule",
   "A plan of when to study each subject"
  ],
  [
   "Planner",
   "A book or app to track assignments"
  ],
  [
   "Prioritize",
   "Decide what to do first based on importance"
  ],
  [
   "Procrastination",
   "Delaying tasks until later"
  ],
  [
   "Pomodoro technique",
   "Work 25 minutes, rest 5 minutes, repeat"
  ],
  [
   "Time management",
   "Using time wisely"
  ],
  [
   "Deadline",
   "The time something is due"
  ],
  [
   "Break big tasks into steps",
   "Makes large projects less overwhelming"
  ],
  [
   "SMART goals",
   "Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound"
  ],
  [
   "Eisenhower matrix",
   "Sorting tasks by urgent and important"
  ],
  [
   "Study space",
   "A quiet, well-lit place with few distractions"
  ],
  [
   "Distraction",
   "Anything that pulls your attention away"
  ],
  [
   "Multitasking myth",
   "Switching between tasks reduces focus and quality"
  ],
  [
   "Sleep and learning",
   "The brain stores memories during sleep"
  ],
  [
   "Exercise and learning",
   "Physical activity can boost focus and memory"
  ],
  [
   "Growth mindset",
   "Believing you can improve through effort"
  ],
  [
   "Metacognition",
   "Thinking about your own thinking"
  ],
  [
   "Self-quiz",
   "Make up questions and test yourself"
  ],
  [
   "Rereading",
   "Less effective than testing yourself"
  ],
  [
   "Study group",
   "Students studying together to discuss ideas"
  ],
  [
   "Ask for help",
   "Talk to a teacher or tutor when stuck"
  ],
  [
   "Office hours",
   "Time when a teacher or professor meets with students"
  ],
  [
   "Homework",
   "Work assigned to do outside class"
  ],
  [
   "Rubric",
   "A scoring guide for an assignment"
  ],
  [
   "Thesis statement",
   "The main claim of an essay"
  ],
  [
   "Draft",
   "A first version of writing"
  ],
  [
   "Revise",
   "Improve writing content and organization"
  ],
  [
   "Edit",
   "Fix spelling, grammar and punctuation"
  ],
  [
   "Proofread",
   "Check for mistakes before finishing"
  ],
  [
   "Citation",
   "Credit to the source of information"
  ],
  [
   "Bibliography",
   "A list of sources used"
  ],
  [
   "Primary source",
   "An original document or evidence from a time period"
  ],
  [
   "Secondary source",
   "A source that discusses or interprets primary sources"
  ],
  [
   "Test anxiety",
   "Nervousness before or during a test"
  ],
  [
   "Test strategy: skip and return",
   "Skip hard questions and come back to them"
  ],
  [
   "Process of elimination",
   "Cross out wrong answers to improve your odds"
  ],
  [
   "Read directions carefully",
   "Prevents avoidable mistakes"
  ],
  [
   "Check your work",
   "Review answers if you have time"
  ]
 ]
}