How to Remember What You Learned During the School Year
The sun and fun of summer can empty your brain of school thoughts with surprising speed. Stem the exodus by following these steps.
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Instructions
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Make a commitment, before your schoolwork is done for the spring, to do some reviewing over the summer.
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Create a study schedule for yourself before you leave school for the summer. Schedule in one or two hours per week, and stick to it. If you let it slide once, you're likely to let it slide again.
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Keep your notebooks and books from your classes in a central place.
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Get out your notebooks and browse through them. It's OK to be fairly passive: you're not studying for an exam, you're just trying to keep your brain engaged with school material.
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Look over old homework and papers, thinking about how you'd improve them.
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Thumb through textbooks, keeping an eye out for anything you've highlighted. If you've taken reading notes, review them.
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Study just enough to maintain a baseline of brain activity so that you're ready when fall inevitably rolls around again. After all, summer is for play.
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Pat yourself on the back when you're done and go have fun!
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Tips & Warnings
Study outside if it's not too distracting. This will make it more entertaining and less "scholastic."
This process shouldn't stress you out. The point is not to be test-ready, but merely to avoid forgetting.
Consider summer school if you feel you need more incentive to study. (See Related eHows.)
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Jun 30, 2006
During the school year, put all of your school work in a separate folder. Then during summer break you can look over them. Some of the workbooks you use don't usually have to be returned. If you have no textbooks, go to your library and ask the person at the reference desk for the textbook, they probably have it. -
Jun 30, 2006
During the school year, put all of your school work in a separate folder. Then during summer break you can look over them. Some of the workbooks you use don't usually have to be returned. If you have no textbooks, go to your library and ask the person at the reference desk for the textbook, they probably have it.
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Nov 22, 2005
You say to keep your books in a central location to study in the summer, but high school is not like college; the books are almost always owned by the school and you do not get to keep them. You must give them back.
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Nov 22, 2005
You say to keep your books in a central location to study in the summer, but high school is not like college; the books are almost always owned by the school and you do not get to keep them. You must give them back.
