Study Skills: Please include this as your homepage during this semester. This will ensure you are always on top of the necessary skills!!

a) Self diagnostics

Print this check list and after each lesson, check each point and most importantly be honest to yourself, as the course progress, there must be clear improvement and reduction of bad habits.  The worst thing you can do to yourself is to lie to yourself.

Failure Diagnostics checklist: How to check whether you are going to fail this course

SS = Go watch Study skills videos  in businesslawvideos blogspot

M= Go watch Motivation Videos in businesslawvideos blogspot

Name of Student:	Solution	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
o                         A) Still in dreamland that the Law paper is easy when in fact is it the toughest	M
o                         B) Still in the holiday mood and your brain needs time to “warm-up”… until a couple of weeks before the exam	M
o                         C) Not coming for class or disappearing during class thinking that you can get by with the slides and textbook alone	M
o                         D) poor effort at preparing for  the tutorials, in time, and comprehensively o                           Buddies: please check their tutorials	M
o                         E) Thinking the lecture was easy to understand and not doing your readings after each lesson and summarizing the lecture into a mind map	M
o                         F) Getting distracted in class, lack of active listening skills	M/SS
o                         G) Thinking you can get by studying someone else’s Mind Map and ending up confused	M
o                         H) Not motivated to seeking help or easier ways of understanding the topic when you get stuck.	M
o                         I ) Multi-tasking with while studying or during class	SS
o                         J) Thinking that failure will happen to the guy next to you and NEVER you. o                           20-30% failed every sem… so out of every three , one of you will be back. So if we remove the repeaters, it means 40% of fresh students will fail.	M
o                         K) Expecting spoon feeding like a Secondary School Student  without additional reading of the textbooks	SS
o                         Last minute cramming and studying	SS
o                         StudyBuddy’s Name: o                         ______________________ o                         Declaration: I hereby swear to tell my buddy the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about where he is heading.	Signature

Study Skills


i)http://www.howtostudy.org/


ii)Just watch the " most views" youtube daily the following  subjects until you really "get it":

a)How to study http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXNfVs1pPQc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLjip0wygAI

b) How to take notes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvsf591rYWE

c) How to make mind maps : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4yzG65r6Ko

d) How to memorise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulk9BCRA83Y

e) How to listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9LBUf1NzU0&feature=relmfu
for example :

f) How to reduce study time using flashcards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS8RZoirLzQ



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QVRiMkdRsU&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH95h36NChI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7y7XEC66M&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xeHh5DnCIw&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9GrOxhYZdQ&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5bxp5DY6dc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=e0dKnzu8-D8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEdoiwnJyW0&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfqZWWA5Rgo&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG0sdlNVxBQ&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQmAeXIwI5M&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT-_G4-fYkw&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kj6DrkygyE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRzmKQ-OEKY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aer6YqOmK2A&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H7es6CkE8k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdGDnUKZcMM&feature=related



Be humble...there may be more to learn than what you already know...so keep at it for the next 2 months, if you find a good one ...rate it and share it here in the comments below.

or you might try....

iii) http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Category.aspx?CategoryID=949

iv) In general study skills consists of four steps:

a) Preparation: http://secondaryonevideos.blogspot.sg/2012/07/study-skills.html

b) Taking in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRjAokddf9I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kj6DrkygyE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlabrWv25qQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLWV0XN7K1g&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRzmKQ-OEKY&feature=related

http://secondaryonevideos.blogspot.sg/2012/08/study-skills-taking-in.html


c) Remembering: http://secondaryonevideos.blogspot.sg/2012/09/study-skills-remembering.html

d) Output , testing skills:  http://secondaryonevideos.blogspot.sg/2012/09/study-skills-output.html

b) Law exams: IRAC Method of answering IS A MUST FOR LAW ASSIGNMENT CASE QUESTIONS AND EXAM CASE QUESTIONS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6KOsHYiL3k&feature=related

http://www.lawnerds.com/guide/irac.html#TheIRACFormula

http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/poole/books/001common/guidance/



d) Memory flashcards on your mobile device! 20-200 times more effective.  This is on iPhone, but I'm sure you can find similiar ones on your Android or PC, so go look and add into comments to share your findings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiYS1d5BmN0&feature=related

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS8RZoirLzQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6nExtqBs8A&feature=related




or simply just use your phone camera as a flash card device.

e) If English is your problem...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssuiqtreiBg&feature=related