The power of studying groups

Part 3

Guidelines for getting a group together

Here are some guide lines for creating and running a study group: how many? Create a group of four to six people. In a large group, it’s easy for someone to get left out and smaller groups can easily get off track.

Who? Pick classmates who seem to share your interest in doing well academically. Look for people who stay alert in class, take notes, ask questions and respond to the teacher’s questions. Include someone who understands the material better than you and can explain the concept and someone who doesn’t understand it as well, to whom you can explain the material. Where? Hold study group sessions in a place that if free of distraction and that has room to spread out books and notes. How long? Meet for no more than 2 to 3 hours at a time. Having a time limit helps the group focus. If you know you only have an hour, you’re more than likely to stay on task.

When try to meet regularly, on the same day and time each week. Treating the study session as you would other activities helps you to keep to a schedule and ensure that everyone attends.

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The power of studying groups

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The benefits of study groups

Group study offers other advantages in addition to gaining a deeper understanding of class materials. These include the opportunity to: reinforce note taking. If your AP® biology notes are unclear, you can ask a member of your study group to help you fill the gaps. Share talents. Each person being different strengths, such as organizational skills, the ability to stick to a task or a capacity for memorization.

Cover more ground members may be able to solve a calculus problem together that none would have alone. Benefit from a support system. Members often have common goals, such as good grades. Each person’s work affects the other members, which results in making members supportive of another. Socialize. It’s more fun to study with others; the give and take makes it more interesting. And because it’s more fun, you spend more time studying!

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The power of studying groups

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Working together helps everyone

You may have noticed that when you’re explaining something you’ve learned to a friend, you begin to understand it better yourself.

This happens because, when you explain an idea, you need to think more deeply about it.

The same principle makes study groups useful. Studying with others in a small group is helpful because you:

·       Think out loud

·       Share ideas.

·       Learn from one another

In an effective study group, you and other students hash out lesson materials together explaining concepts, arguing about them, figuring out why one person’s answer differs from other’s and in the process, you most likely learn more than you would have studying by yourself.

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