One of the things I have come to realize with working with college girls one-on-one is that a lot of them don’t seem to understand what the learning process is all about. So, today I wanted to walk you through how to learn anything in college.
There is a difference between learning information and truly understanding and mastering the information in your classes. We learn things everyday. All learning is, is the act of exposing yourself to new information. Which is the basis of college life, am I right?
If you’re struggling with getting the grades you want in college, it has nothing to do with your ability to learn. Where most students drop the ball is, what they do with the new information they’re being exposed to in their classes.
What I am going to talk about in this week’s video is the learning process. What does it truly take to learn anything in college?
The Learning Process Steps:
- Learn, expose yourself to new information. This is probably the easiest step because in college you don’t even have to try. The professor teaches you new information in lecture, they hand you new information via textbooks and even powerpoints. All you have to do is listen, read and do.
- Perform a self-assessment or self-reflection on the new information. Most college students stop at step 1 in the learning process. But girls, we’ve been over this, reading your notes over and over is NOT an effective way to learn. In order to do really well in your classes you need to know what part of the information stuck and what part of the information you don’t know at all. This is called retrieval or quiz and recall. This is the hardest part of the learning process but the most effective part. The harder your brain has to work, the better it is at creating connections and storing information in longterm memory. Which is what we want on exam day.
- Relearn information that didn’t stick. Sometimes when you learn new topic they aren’t going to be sense the first time. It doesn’t mean your dumb, it just means you have to find a way to make the information make sense to you. Sometimes all it takes is having someone teach it to you in a different way. Sometimes it means breaking the information down into the bare basics. This process of relearning created strong