which is

called more great ways to study and we're gonna talk about these four

methods today

the history have to do with your textbook

this one has to do with what it says switches flashcards

and so uh... what i want to start with is this uh... two one zero method

almost no students i've ever talked to

actually have heard of this error ever tried it but i'm hoping

that after i teach this to you

and least in the spring when you start your new uh...

classes you get your new textbooks

you'll give this a try because this is a very easy way to study

he gives you a lot of good

feedback or information that you can use for further study so many

uh... start

it's by drawing something and again i encourage you to uh...

take notes on some of these things are going to get a couple of handouts in a few minutes

uh... that go with a couple of them but

again sometimes teachers uh... want you to show on notes you took or whatever so i wanna

make sure that you do this in a way that gives you uh... for credit

if i ask you what is this a picture of

eileen anybody here would be able to figure it out mess because i'm not very artistic

but it's actually

a book

people have set a window uh... door and all that

it's a book

um... i want you to imagine the two pages of a textbook open side by side

and everybody here knows what textbooks tend to look like but i just want you to imagine

this

you have a bold print heading here and then you have another one over here

so all this information

right here is related to that heading

so everybody knows that that's pretty simple

here's how this two one zero method works and why it's so easy and helpful

when you open up your textbook you're sitting in the library

you're sitting at home i guess it works a little better at home

use it for a few minutes did you read from one heading to the next and then when you

get to this next heading

instead of just continuing to read you stop everything you're doing

and you read uh...

heading that you just got through reading the section about

outloud

and then you either close your eyes

cover the book

look away whatever and outloud try to explain everything that you just read the last couple

minutes almost like you're teaching it

to somebody who would never read it

when you're done open your eyes or take your hands away and skin through in look

z how you did

and you're actually getting give yourself a score of to or one or zero

that's why it's called the two one zero method

a score of stew

indicates that in your opinion you did a good job at

explaining that material

unwanted stands for

okay

and what are you

studio this as a student i'd always used to think of this one

as kind of like this

fifty fifty which means that i remembered some of the main points but i also forgot

some service okay but not that great

what what is the robie them

yet and uh... i'd like to use the word for this late you're the only human being who

ever seen this 'cause you're doing this on your own c_-minus will be really honest

so this is my favorite word

for a zero

and that's terrible

okay and so i want to explain one more thing about this before i get into the next aspect

of it

uh... i've had some

students who have tried this before just the way i explained but

they told me that when they did that with the each heading in their chapter they look

back at the end and they had no to this

aston

notices at all

and they say no and i said why mister because i always forgot at least a few things

so i wanna make sure you understand about this that score of two doesn't mean perfect

it just means good

and sometimes i i would be surprised if you could do this i don't think i could

read two pages in a textbook close your eyes and be able to

explained every detail all the way through

that's really hard

but if you could get most of the big chance you know the big things

that's a good performance

uh... as i explained the one means ok and then i want to demonstrate his zero

this happen to me many times a student

you know how when you finish reading something that you normally feel like ok there was i

read it i got it

but sometimes

you don't have it it's just like slid right out of your here

and so one of the ways that this is determined that this is how is your own kurt

is that i would read something i would say this okay i'm now going to teach you about

such-and-such

yep that's what i'm gonna do

and just blanked out or maybe i could remember like one fact here

and everything else i forgot that's pretty sad

so that's zero ok after doing that here

i do it with an exception to the next session and i go through the chapter that way

it doesn't take much longer to read it after that way that this reading it

because you're just pausing for a minute after each heading so a little more time but not

much

and then when you're all done you have numbers everywhere

so i want to show you one other specific thing about this and then i'll get to the purpose

behind this

there are actually two ways that you can mark your scores down

one of them

would be to do this this is what i did the most often

and that is to put this course

right next to the heading in the book

that's the easiest

but some people are still under the delusion that they're going to get all their money

back if they don't mark in their book and i hope you don't think that 'cause you're

going to be in for a big shock

but if you don't like marking in your book set off what some students have done is to

take issued of notebook paper

look through the chapter and just copy every heading

and then that use this as uh... wicker's core carter's course sheet so you could do that

to it just takes a little bit of extra time so either way

it now

when you're all finished

reading the chapter

and you see numbers like this everywhere or you see them on a page like this

then when you go back to review later

i hope

you're going to avoid a mistake that a lot of students make

when most

students read a chapter to get ready for a test and then they go back to review it they

just start

skimming through it

and just looking at everything

and that doesn't sound bad

had except for some reason and we don't know why this is for some reason

some things that you read

and up

sticking beautifully the first time

somethings

don't

and you don't even really really realize that while you're doing it

these are the emergencies

because and this is my way of explaining this

when i used to give myself a zero

after i tested myself you know what that meant to me

i'd just failed my own test

so if i just feel my test on this

i have no hope of doing well if the teacher asks me any questions about that also instead

i would say

this is an emergency

and i would go back to the beginning of the chapter and i would find differences

zero and i usually didn't have to turn very many pages to find that

and then i would read that this action again

and then do the same thing test myself

usually i did better then this i can do any worse than this so usually i improved and

so the first goal

when you go back to review all of this is to get rid of all this zeros

get along out other

gate what is your ultimate goal with this what are you trying to do before the test

yet suz how many of them

all about the right

all to stand out a good i've actually had students before who showed me their textbook

in their numbers everywhere

you see nothing but

shoes eventually

and by look at them and they say okay so you have a test tomorrow on this

chapters that rightly say yes

and i i say everything every page editor ninety two's everywhere so what that means i think

is if i just turned to one of those

and i read it to you you'd be able to tell me all about it is that right

and they say sure anyone go

for so they're very confident that's good so i just flip through the pages i find one

and i say okay how about this one

and they sell

that's very interesting and then they begin teaching me and they talked for thirty seconds

forty five seconds and they explain it really well

yes good how bob this one

uh... that's good too

and they're just like an encyclopedia they're just full of knowledge

well if you can get every one of the headings

to be too

year as ready as you can ever be to do well on the test and one other specific thing about

this uh... this may not seem like it's that important to you

hopefully i can make a little sense out of this

there are two basically wait is that a person can record and keep track of their scores

and i want to see

if you can figure this out you get a fifty fifty shot at this okay

one-way

would be to have the heading either in the book or on paper

and you get yourself a zero a listing the first time

and then the second time you do better so you give yourself online

and then later on you go back and you do it again and you do even better and you give

yourself uh... too

so that's one way to do it

the other way would be best

and this is the same thing right i mean you end up seeing where you finish

i think one of these is a lot better way to do it and so which one was that the copper

bar

bottom why bottom

shows progress what's that supposed to do for you

encourages build her confidence right because remember what is your only jeremy's this

and what is to me

uh... let me tell you all about

that's incredible when you can go from this clueless

to being an expert at something and when you look for your chapter you see a bunch of these

that really makes you feel hopeful that you can do well on the test ok now like although

uh... and

study techniques that i teach

this will not work with every text book that you ever have

uh... my favorite example of this is math

i guess you could try this with a math book but i don't think it would work too well there

are other uh... classes where the book doesn't really fit but when

uh... the book has definite headings and lots of factual information in there

this works really well

and so again if you've never heard of this or try this

you could technically do this with some of the reading you have to do in the next week

or two for the final but at least

starting in the spring keep this in mind an experiment with your books

some of them won't work all that well this way and some of you think this is really helpful

and you'll be able to discontinue that

uh... in questions on this one

the second one is the shortest one of all the things i've been a teaching today it's

called reducing

uh... everybody knows what

reducing means

and if i asked you whether you wanted to have a test in one of your classes

on ten pages in your book or fifty

which would you pick

well yes it was a fifty please