How to Start a Study Group

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By Christie Korth, CHHC AADP
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Start a Study Group

Need some help with your homework? Enlist the assistance of your favorite people, your friends! Here are some practical tips on how to do start a study group.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

3 friends
homework assignments
notebooks, paper, calculators, pens, laptops, etc. depending on the project.

Step 1

Maybe doing homework is challenging for you, or perhaps you would like better grades. Consider getting a few friends together for a study group. Odds are you of you will be good at english, the other math and so on. The practical tips of your peers can be helpful for learning new material.
Step 2

Choose to work in a small group of 3-4. The smaller the group, the more likely you will be able to stay focused and concentrate on the task at hand.
Step 3

Pick a set time and date that you will meet each week. Maybe Mondays and Wednesdays at 3pm. You can meet at someone's home, school library, bookstore, your local library, the park. Be creative, but choose a place that is condusive to sticking to your work work thats quiet and calm. If you are relaxed in your environment, you will do better in your studies.
Step 4

Add some brain food to your study group. Fresh fruits provide carbohydrates for energy. Pair that with some cheese or almonds and these protein laden foods will give your brain the power it needs by fueling it with essential omega 3 fatty acids. Light snacks can be your key for stamina during long study sessions.
Step 5

For quizzes, have each person write up their understanding of the topic. Have participants go through their notes on the topic as well as relevant text book chapters. Formualte 10 questions each with the answers. You can take turns quizzing each other with your questions, until you all become pros!
Step 6

For essays, take turns proofreading each others work. Give your study buddies your opinion on grammer, sentance structure and critique each others work. Revise and hand in excellent papers for your efforts!
Step 7

For complicated tests, try making up flash cards with terms and questions. For example, if your topic was english and you had to remember definitions, you could put the word on one side and have your partner guess the meaning written on the back.
Step 8

Come up with silly acronyms to remember your test materials. When I was going to school for my bachelors in nutrition, I used the work ADEK to remember that Vitamins A, D, E and K were fat souluable. Or PEMDAS, for Please excuse my dear aunt sally. Be silly with these, I always found the funnier the acronym, the better I recalled it!
Step 9

Get additional help from teachers and librarians. Maybe you can have a tutor volunteer to sit with your group to help with a topic you are struggling with. Use the internet to look up terms you are confused on. Resources like Wikipedia, the online free thesaurus can also be quite effective in research on essay topics.