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Study skills or study strategies are approaches applied to learning. Study skills are an array of skills which tackle the process of organizing and taking in new information, retaining information, or dealing with assessments. They are discrete techniques that can be learned, usually in a short time, and applied to all or most fields of study.
Autodidacts are self-taught [1] humans who learn a subject-of-study's aboutness through self-study. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This educative praxis (process) may involve or complement formal education . Formal education itself may have a hidden curriculum that requires self-study for the uninitiated.
Cramming is a widely used study skill performed in preparation for an examination or other performance-based assessment. [citation needed] Most common among high school and college-aged students, cramming is often used as a means of memorizing large amounts of information in a short amount of time.
The state practices self-taught higher education examination system. Students having passed the examination shall be issued corresponding certificates of educational background or other certificates of studies. A similar test, the Bachelor's Degree Examination for Self-Education, was established in South Korea in the early 1990s.
Mock exams: Mock examinations help students prepare for the real exams. They are intended to give students a clear indication of the structure and content of the actual exam and experience of examination conditions, whilst also offering them a snapshot of their current performance.
A study published in 2010 by Wichita State University compared two note-taking methods in a secondary English classroom, and found that the Cornell note-taking style may be of added benefit in cases where students are required to synthesize and apply learned knowledge, while the guided notes method appeared to be better for basic recall.
The Avatar Course, often simply called Avatar, is a series of LGAT self-development courses founded in 1986 by Harry Palmer and run by his privately held company, Star's Edge, Inc., which trains and licenses Avatar Masters (teachers) to deliver the Avatar Course globally. The Avatar Course has been described by many as having cult-like qualities.
Julio Cortázar was a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe. Mark Twain, a self-taught writer. [9] Faulkner called him "the father of American literature." [10]