Many students create flashcards, but only use them one (1) way - read the syllabus, recite the content, flip and check. Now, this is definitely the way most people use flashcards, and is a good starting place to using them. But I have 5 other ways for you to use your flashcards to further develop [...]
As your final term of school begins you should be spending much of your time preparing for your HSC PDHPE trial exam. Your trial is likely to be worth around 30% of your submitted school grade and can often seem daunting. Trial exams are often the most difficult exams you will do in your HSC. [...]
Study camps are a great way to get ahead in HSC PDHPE and the HSC in general. Study camps, however, are underutilised as a resource or the HSC. I still remember the study camp I went on in year 12 when I completed my HSC. Before the study camp, I was averaging just over a [...]
The BOSTES key word justify occurs periodically throughout the HSC PDHPE syllabus. BOSTES define the term as follows: Support an argument or conclusion The key word justify relates to two other BOSTES key words: Account Account for: state reasons for, report on. Give an account of: narrate a series of events or transactions Which is [...]
One of the reasons I so highly recommend flashcards to my students is because flashcards are self-testing. What I mean by this, is that, when used correctly, flashcards are essentially a method to continually test your brains ability to recall information. This recall of information is exactly what you are required to do in [...]
Flashcards allow deeper thinking to occur, and for this thinking to occur more quickly. Previously I wrote an article looking at how flashcards help improve memory by moving content into long-term memory and strengthening neural pathways for faster recall. When information shifts into your long-term memory it shifts out of your working memory. This [...]
At a very basic level flashcards improve memory of content. The frequent exposure to the content that comes with the use of flashcards enables this to occur. For me, going to my flashcards every week and working my way through the pile until I could remember it all was providing me with frequent exposure and [...]
Flashcards are all about rote learning, so why would anyone recommend them as a study method? There is good reason for using flashcards, and over the next 3 weeks I will tell you exactly why I use and recommend flashcards in this flashcards series of posts. Over these weeks I want to convince you that you [...]
The multi-tasking myth has been around for a long time. This myth says that we can do 2 tasks well at the same time. This could be listening to music while you are studying, or answering a text message midway through a practice test, but this kind of multi-tasking has a very negative effect on your [...]
Study through deliberate practice! this was one of the key messages in a book I read over the holidays Visible Learning and the Science of how we Learn. In this book the authors spoke repeatedly about the need for students to study through deliberate practice. They said that it was one of the fundamental keys to learning [...]