In this post, Steve Schwartz from LSAT Blog shares five tips to help you fit time in your schedule to prepare for a graduate-level exam without detracting from your college classes. If you have a full college courseload and social life, it’s probably hard to balance the two already. Add studying for the LSAT to [...]

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Intro/Hook. Download the articles you plan on using, and save them in a single folder. You don’t want to pay the penalty for someone else’s site going down, or free content being transferred to a paid archive. If the source website doesn’t allow you to save the article to your website, there are two workarounds. [...]

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It is very useful to use the internet to make a research… You want to make a study on the financial crisis (common at the moment…)? Well, it could be useful to have a look at what the best journalists and professors say about the current financial crisis. It could be useful to have their [...]

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Taking notes during lectures is perhaps the most important part of retaining knowledge throughout your university semmester, but most students are simply not that good at it. They tend to focus on either writing down every word your lecturer says, and just the important points. There is a much easier method which will definetly pay [...]

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During finals week, time and time again I hear things like “you have such nice handwriting,” and “so much lecture information on so few pages,” and I am always very thankful that over a decade ago, my German teacher (props to Frau Bahr) told me that I’d learn best if I rewrote my notes for [...]

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The internet is truly a wonderland. Thousands of news stories, blogs, games, videos, social networking sites, all lie tantalizingly beneath your fingertips, just waiting to be explored. Don’t surf the internet on study time. Some buildings on my campus don’t have wireless. I remember being stuck inside the Political Science department once in a rainstorm. [...]

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Although I was a Freshman over seven years ago now, I remember feeling so overwhelmed as I packed my first few boxes. What am I gong to need? What is everyone else bringing? What am I forgetting? Everyone knows to bring the big stuff, bedding, pillows, your toothbrush, a computer, but I forgot three things, [...]

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Please thank That College Kid for this guest post. If anyone else would like to contribute a guest post to The Student Help Forum, please contact me. My university has a first year program that is designed to help freshmen become accustomed to the college experience. We have a triad of classes that are intertwined. [...]

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First, a quick introduction! I’m Sarah, a new writer around here at The Student Help Forum. I’m a full-time post baccalaureate student in public health education. I work over 30 hours a week, write for four blogs and try to have a social life on top of everything. I hope my words of advice within [...]

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Facebook has become a major distraction for university students around the world. There is just so much happening at any one time that all thoughts of assignments and study get thrown out the window. This has happened to me on many occasions. But there are some applications you can use to help increase your productivity, [...]

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Please thank Cal Newport for this guest post. I will be writing up a post at his blog, Study Hacks, very soon. Cal is also a successful author, with two books entitled: How to Become a Straight A Student, and How to Win at College. A Surprising Discovery To research my second book I devised [...]

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GPA or Grade Point Average, is the one deciding factor that compares the quality of your work with your classmates and ranks you accordingly. The higher your GPA the better. But sometimes it is much harder to increase this simple number than it first seems. Thankfully, there are some simple steps you can take to [...]

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