College Academics

How to Improve your Grades

By Rebecca Kelleher

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Having trouble in class? Can’t seem to get that “A” you’ve been striving for? Sometimes you may just need a little push in the right direction. Follow these simple steps, and see your grade improve... more »

How to Improve Your Grades

By Art Vandelay

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In order to improve your grades, you will need to put in a good deal of effort. College is not meant to be easy, which is why low grades are the main cause of the high college dropout rate. If, however, you are willing to attend class, study at ... more »

How to Improve Your Listening Skills in College

By Paul McDaniel

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Listening is a vital skill in all aspects of life. Being able to listen well will contribute to a persons overall success. Listening is an important skill for students to improve and develop while in college as they are preparing to enter the ... more »

How to imrpove your memory!

By jerryfriend15

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I am going to give you a few tips on how to remember things more easily... more »

How to increase your memory

By Sidhartha

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Retaining information quickly and retrieving it quickly is a truly valuable skill. If done correctly and practiced enough you will be an unstoppable memorizing machine. Below are a few key steps that I've used to memorize just about everything ... more »

How to Interpersonally Relate to Students

By Karen Hamilton Silvestri

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Studies have shown that establishing an interpersonal relationship with students is just as important to the learning experience as are the actual lessons that you teach. Instructors need to balance instruction with interpersonal skills. Read on ... more »

How to Invite Friends to Study When You Feel He / She Doesn't Like To...

By kushikimi

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I am into a Study Center and one aim of this institution is to invite friends so that our ideas, learnings, and deeds would be fruitful enough to make this positive effect "Contagious"..... more »

How to Keep your books in good shape

By Rockney

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Everyone who has books at home understands how with time they start losing their glamour. To keep them in good shape and condition you can do several things... more »

How to Keep Your Child in College (When They Want to Quit)

By madambutterfly

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Keep your kid in college! High school was a blast. The first year of college was okay until the novelty wore off. Now, the classes have gotten harder, the parties are fewer and they're beginning to wonder why they have to stay in college... more »

How to Know Mexico's States and Capitals

By Paul McDaniel

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An understanding of geography, particularly that of one's own country, is of fundamental importance in this era of globalization. One way to begin amassing a knowledge of geographic literacy is to know all the states and capitals of Mexico, the ... more »

How to Know the Big Questions in Geography

By Paul McDaniel

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An article appearing in the August 2002 issue of the academic journal "Professional Geographer" by Cutter, Golledge, and Graf, discusses ten big questions that scholars and researchers working in the field of geography should be ... more »

How to Know the Longest Rivers in the World

By Paul McDaniel

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Knowing facts about world geography is one way to build and maintain geographic literacy and knowledge - an important skill in this era of globalization. Knowing about the longest rivers in the world would certainly play an important part in ... more »

How to Know What You Can Do with a Major in Geography

By Paul McDaniel

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Geography is the study of the interrelationships between the earth and its people. The field of geography is considered both a physical science and social science. Geography focuses on (for example) climate, land, water, space, mineral resources, ... more »

How to Know Why You Should Learn Chinese

By Paul McDaniel

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Chinese is spoken by approximately 1.176 billion people around the world in the People's Republic of China (mainland China), the Republic of China (Taiwan), and in many overseas Chinese emigrant communities throughout the world. Obvious reasons ... more »

How to Know Why You Should Learn Spanish

By Paul McDaniel

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Spanish is one of the top three most spoken native languages in the world (along with Mandarin Chinese and English). It is spoken by around 322 and 400 million people as a native language. The majority of countries in Latin America (Mexico, ... more »

How to Learn Spanish the Garfield Way

By AngelBean

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Don’t you just love Garfield he’s so cute and sassy and has so many sharp ways of getting to the point. I love it when Garfield gets in the neighbor’s flower garden or sends Odie somewhere far away or when they are all on the farm. If Garfield ... more »

How to Learn why the Inequality Sign is Reversed when Both Sides of an Inequality Problem is Multiplied by a Negative Number.

By Z-MATH

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Many students in solving Inequality Problems, wonder why the Inequality Sign is Reversed when Both Sides of the Inequality is Multiplied or Divided by a Negative Number. This Article will show the reason the INEQUALITY SIGN is Reversed or changes ... more »

How to Maintain a High GPA in College

By eHow Education Editor

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If your goal is to graduate from college with a high GPA (grade point average) or with honors, know that you can be successful in reaching your goal. If you plan ahead, stay organized and know how to do it, a high GPA and honors can be yours. ... more »

How to Make a Tedious Writing Assignment Fun

By missmargot77

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Writing, when not for pleasure, can often be no fun. Long hours staring at a computer screen or notebook can become tiresome. Here are some little tricks to make your experience a little more enjoyable... more »

How to Make your Professor Believe you Read the Book

By Lancec

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Ever taken a really boring class? Maybe you thought that a night class wouldn't really be that bad. Guess again! I am going to show you some techniques to fool your professor into believing you did the reading when you really were watching a ... more »

How to Map Out Your Semester

By EwaChicago

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The beginning of the semester is time for planning and strategy. It can be very overwhelming to think about all of the work that you have to do in all of your classes for the entire semester, but it is crucial to do it now... more »

How to max your learning ability in college.

By aconner

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College is absolutely nothing like high school. Most freshman students in college are motivated, encouraged, excited but ready to get it over with. Sometimes they can burden themselves with feeling like they need to do it all, everything and ... more »

How to Multiply a Monomial by a Polynomial

By derbyka

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Multiplying monomials by polynomials in algebra can be tricky, especially when it comes to keeping negative and positive signs straight. Here are some guidelines to getting it right. The key is to do signs, then numbers, then variables... more »

How to Name Acids

By eHow Education Editor

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Acids release hydrogen ions when dissolved in water. Hydrogen (H) is usually the first element noted in a formula for an acid. Next noted are the one or two nonmetal elements in the acid. It's usually a pretty straight forward process to name or ... more »

How to Name Molecular Compounds

By eHow Education Editor

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When you name molecular compounds, you will follow a few basic rules you can learn. Of course, there are common names for some compounds that you will just know like ammonia and water. That doesn't help for the millions of existing molecular ... more »

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