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Study isn’t just for the night before an assignment’s due or the night before an exam.

It’s never too early – or too late – to develop good study habits. The sooner you get into a good study groove, the easier everything will be and the more your chances of getting good marks will improve.

Here are our top tips for getting the most out of study.

1. Pick a place and time

Everyone has their own idea about the best place and time to study. Whether it’s your bedroom at night or the library after school, find a study space and a regular study time that works for you and stick with it.

• Set up your study space – Your study space should be quiet, comfortable and distraction-free. It should make you feel happy and inspired. Decorate it with your favourite pictures or objects. If you want to listen to music or burn incense, pick a space that lets you do that.
• Find your best time – Some people work better in the morning. Others work better at night. Work out which time suits you and plan to study then. Don’t study much later than your usual bedtime – pushing yourself late at night can make you too tired to study properly.

2. Study every day

If you study a little bit every day you’ll be continually reviewing things in your mind. This helps you understand things. It also helps you avoid the stress of last-minute cramming.

Early in the year an hour or two a night might be enough to stay on top of things. Later in the year you might need to study more each day.

If you’re finding it hard to find time to study, cut back on some (but not all!) of your other activities. Prioritising study might mean spending less time online, or it might mean cutting back on shifts at work, or giving weekend sport a miss for a while.

3. Plan your time

It helps to have some plans in motion so you can make the most of your study time.

• Set alarms – Set alarms to remind you about your study plans. A regular reminder keeps you honest and your plans on track.
• Use a wall planner – Stick a calendar or wall planner up so you can see it whenever you’re studying. Mark it up with important dates, like exams and assignment due dates. Use it to block out your regular study timetable too.
• Make to-do lists – Lists break tasks down into manageable chunks. At the start of the week, make a list of the things that you need to have done by the end of the week. Make a to-do list at the start of each study session too, so that you’re clear about what you need to be doing with your time.
• Set time limits – Before you start your study session, have a look at your to-do list and give yourself a set time to spend on each task. If you don’t get something done in the set time, consider whether it’s the best use of your time to keep going with it, or to start working on something else.

4. Discover your learning style

Most of us have a preferred way of learning. Get to know the learning style you’re most comfortable with and study in the ways you learn best.

Note that these styles are just a way to think about diffent studying techniques – they’re not hard and fast rules that say you should only study in one way. Try each of these out and see which ways you prefer.

• Auditory learners prefer to learn by listening. Try reading your notes aloud and discussing them with other people. You might like to record key points and play them back.
• Visual learners prefer to learn by seeing. Try using colours in your notes and draw diagrams to help represent key points. You could try to remember some ideas as images.
• Tactile/kinesthetic learners prefer to learn by doing. Try using techniques like role-playing or building models to revise key points.

5. Review and revise

At least once a week you should go back over the things you’ve studied in class. Thinking things over can help you to understand the concepts and help you remember when you need them the most.

• Quiz – Get a friend or family member to quiz you on key concepts. Offer to help your friends with their work too. Quizzes are great ways to get confident about what you know and find out what you still need to learn.
• Make your own study materials – Think up some practice exam questions or create your own flash cards to help you study. This way you learn it all twice: once when you make the study materials and once when you use them to revise.

6. Take breaks

It’s important to take breaks while you’re studying, especially if you’re feeling tired or frustrated. Working too long on a task can actually decrease your performance.

When you take a break, make sure you get away from your desk or study space. A bit of physical – even just a walk around the block – can sometimes help you to look at a problem in a different way and could even help you to solve it.

7. Ask for help

If you’re stuck on something, or something just doesn’t seem to make sense, you can always ask for help. Talk to your teachers or lecturers about the things you don’t understand. Talk to your friends and fellow students too.

8. Stay motivated

When you’re studying it helps to keep in mind your reasons for doing all this hard work, like a course or career you’re working towards. It can help to have something in your study space to remind you of your goals.

You could also decorate your study space with inspirational quotes or photos of people you admire and family members you want to make proud of you.

9. App it up

There are heaps of apps out there for helping students with all aspects of study. Have a chat with your friends and teachers or lecturers to see which apps they recommend.

You should also check out the iTunes Collections page on iPads for Learning, which provides links to Australian Curriculum courses on iTunes U as well as educational apps aimed at high school, middle school and primary school students.

10. Look after yourself

You’ll study better if you take care of yourself. Make sure you eat well and get enough sleep and physical exercise. Don’t reward yourself with too many sugary or fatty snacks or push yourself to study late into the night. It’s also a good idea to make sure you drink lots of water when you’re studying.

Now come up with your own strategies

These tips are only some of the things you can do to get the most out of your studying. You might already have other things that work better for you. Find out what your friends do when they’re studying. Maybe your teachers have some good recommendations too.

Whatever it is, whatever strategy you come up with, when you find something that works for you, put it into practise and go for it!

Links

If you’ve got an exam coming up you might also like to have a look at our Top Ten Exam Tips page. You should also check out the links below.

Ergo – Study Skills
The State Library of Victoria’s Ergo website has a helpful range of studying tips and advice.

iPads for Learning – iTunes Collections
Links to collections of apps and iTunes U courses.

“Should I keep looking for a new job with all of this going on?”

If this thought has crossed your mind at some point since the coronavirus pandemic began, you’re not alone. In the middle of all the chaos, fear and uncertainty, it’s normal to wonder if you should put your job search on hold or keep looking.

But, now is not the time to pause the breaks.

While hiring may slow down, companies are still hiring. Sure, every company may not continue to hire. But there are still so many companies looking to bring on great talent to alleviate problems and solve frustrating challenges.

But, less hiring does mean a more competitive search. So, it’s even more important to know how to stand out and show up as the person companies are looking for now so that you bypass the competition and land the job offer.

Here are five steps to help you navigate your job search and land a new role during the coronavirus pandemic:

Shift your mindset

If you allow fear to make you feel like there aren’t any opportunities out there for you, then you will not find any opportunities. If you focus on all the reasons getting a new job is no longer possible for you, getting a new job will not be possible for you. You have to shift your mindset. Even if it feels weird or too optimistic during this time, thinking positively and tapping into an abundance mindset will keep you focused on finding the right opportunities rather than settling or not finding anything at all because you’ve convinced yourself that it’s impossible to land a new job right now.

Stop playing the numbers game

Contrary to what everyone else might be saying, this is not the time to send your resume to every job opening you see online. It’s not about how many applications you’re sending out. It’s about making sure the applications you are sending out communicate the best version of you. You need to prioritize quality over quantity.

Because, even when job openings are popping up left and right, only a handful of jobs are truly great fits. In a slow job market, there are even fewer opportunities that align with your experience, values, and career goals. So, instead of wasting your time applying to as many jobs as you can in one day, consider spending more time crafting quality applications so that you stand out for the right jobs you do want.

Show that you can solve problems

Jobs open because a company needs to solve a problem. Maybe an employee recently left and they need to fill the position as quickly as possible. Maybe they’re having trouble with a new product and need a fresh strategy. Maybe a specific team is overworked and they need more hands to get things done more efficiently. The list goes on and on.

But whatever the problem is, if you want to stand out in a slow job market, it’s important to show employers that you can alleviate their frustrations and tackle their challenges. Be the problem solver companies are looking for by consistently conveying, at every step of the hiring process, that you have the experience and expertise necessary to be successful in the role. But don’t just tell them, show them using clear and specific examples.

Find alternative ways to network

Just because we’re all practicing social distancing doesn’t mean you can’t reach out and network with people in your industry. But, of course, networking will look a little different. Instead of meeting up for coffee, you may have to have a virtual chat or a conversation over the phone, but it can still be done. If networking during this time feels strange or insensitive, consider how many people you know are bored at home. Or, with all the free time you have, think about how happy and productive you would feel if someone reached out to you with a thoughtful note wanting to jump on the phone for a quick chat.

During this downtime, with everyone at home killing time, it’s a perfect chance to make new authentic connections and to revive old ones. Doing so will put you in a more favorable position to find out about new roles quicker.

Be adaptable and persistent

Just like networking will look different during this time, so will interviewing. With offices closed and employees working from home, in-person interviews will be on-hold and recruiters and hiring managers will be using other means to interview candidates. This will result in more phone interviews and video interviews. But you shouldn’t let the idea of more phone or video interviews intimidate you, remain confident and focus on showing your value.

With so much unknown because of the coronavirus pandemic, hiring processes may be a little slower as employers navigate the best way to interview during this time. Be patient but also don’t be afraid to follow-up. And, please don’t be that person who waits days to respond when you do hear back because you don’t want to look too available. Show employers that you’re ready and excited to move forward. If you’re willing to be adaptable and persistent, you’ll demonstrate to your future employer that you’re serious about the role and can handle changes in an uncertain climate.

Although we don’t know much about how things will pan out over the next few months, you can choose hope over fear. Companies are still hiring and if you use the gift of time we’ve all been given and follow these steps, you’ll be much more equipped to come out of this with so much more clarity, confidence and direction in your career.

There are many job sites you can use to find job openings online, but the best job boards and job search engine sites have search tools that are quick and easy to use. They allow you to search based on the type of job you’re looking for, your location, and other criteria.

There’s one question that’s guaranteed to be asked in every job interview – ‘tell me about yourself’. This question isn’t quite as straightforward as it may seem, as it’s not really so much about who you are, but about how you work. What’s really being asked is ‘why are you the right person for us to hire?’.

The hiring manager wants to know about you as a professional and how you’d fit into the company. They want to learn about you present yourself – are you confident, quiet, reserved, outgoing, etc. The manner in which you answer this question is as important as the content of the answer itself. If you find that it’s hard to talk about yourself, practice until it feels natural. A strong delivery of your answer helps project competence and confidence in your own ability.

Remember this acronym – WIIFM.

The point of answering this question is to sell yourself to the hiring manager, not to talk about your entire life story. To best do this, you’ll want to answer ‘what’s in it for me?’ – easy to remember as WIIFM. The ‘me’ in this instance is the company, so you’re essentially answering what does the company gain by hiring you?

Don’t talk about your personal life.

The interviewer wants to know who you are professionally, not personally. You can intersperse a few personal details that support your professional story while answering the question, but do so sparingly. The interviewer doesn’t need to know all of your hobbies and passions, but feel free to mention one or two if they’re relevant to the job you’re interviewing for.

Speak about your most relevant skills.

You’ll want to tailor your answer to be relevant to the role you’re interviewing for. Always speak about both soft skills and technical skills to show that you’re a well rounded employee, and then dive into role-specific skills. If it’s a management role, focus on leadership skills and highlight any successes you’ve had leading a previous team. If it’s a technical role, you should also highlight skills that could be complementary, like soft skills and leadership abilities.

Provide examples.

Providing examples strengthens everything you say. Rather than just saying ‘I’m a team player and believe in the power of collaboration.’, back it up with an example that illustrates that point. Talk about a time where you worked well on a team and the results that were a result of good teamwork. Explain why you feel so strongly about the power of collaboration and how that influences the way you work.

Keep it simple and short.

You want to pique the interest of the hiring manager so that they’ll be eager to hear what else you have to say as you answer the rest of their questions. The key is to give enough detail to prove your value, but not so much that your answer drags on and on. Keep it short so you have plenty of time to answer the remaining interview questions without needing to rush through them.

We tell you how In short, financial planning gives you a cruise control of your life and your future

Future is very unpredictable. No matter how hard we try, you cannot really predict what is in store for you in the times to come. However, what you can do is to prepare yourself for it with the best of your abilities. Each one of us has his/her own goals, desires and objectives that we dream to fulfill at some or the other stage of our lives. These objectives cannot be achieved without a solid financial planning.

Financial planning is a strategy to achieve your life’s objectives through meticulous management of your finances. Financial planning is important for each and every one of us and we should take it more seriously to better shape and safeguard our futures. Allen Lakein has famously said, “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Thus, it is critical that you need to plan your finances better for a secure future. You should carefully choose a financial planner who can understand your needs and devise a plan that will lead you throughout your professional life to retirement. Also, the sooner you start, the better it is for you.

Let me share some critical factors that will help you to understand the importance of financial planning for your future.

• Growth in income: Financial planning helps you to properly monitor your income source and grow it further. It lets your money work for you. It allows you to multiply your money that you can utilize at the time of need, be it short-term, mid-term or long term. With accurate planning, you can take the pole position to control all the aspects of your income and work towards building a solid financial platform in terms of your personal as well as professional life.
• Growth in cash flow: Growth in income naturally leads to growth in the overall cash flows. Financial planning is necessary for the day-to-day activities of your business and personal life where you are required to honor various obligations as and when they come up. With careful analysis of your spending patterns and budgeting, you can easily identify activities or responsibilities that need more attention. Such prioritization of expenditure can significantly help you to monitor your cash flow, cut down unnecessary expenses, and subsequently build up the overall capital.
• Secure the future your family: Providing a safe and secure future to your family is a very critical aspect of financial planning. Savings generated from careful financial planning can turn out to be very helpful at difficult times in life. It strengthens you to face the adversities in life without disturbing the overall financial structure of your life. For instance, a good insurance cover will keep you and your family secure in cases of hospitalizations or other difficult times. It also offers a solid financial platform for your family members to thrive on in the future.

 

• Investments: A good financial plan covers your personal circumstances, risk appetite, and future objectives. It then guides you to select the right investments that suit perfectly with your requirements, objectives, and personality. Financial planning helps you plan and create financial assets for the future.

 

• Asset creation: Having assets gives you a great sense of comfort and peace of mind. It is critical to understand the true value of an asset. Financial planning gives you those insights on asset creation and makes sure that you create those assets that don’t become a burden for you in the coming years of your life

 

• Better prepared to deal with inflation: Inflation has been labelled as the biggest destroyer of the buying power. There has been a steep decline in the value of money, over the last decades. Looking ahead, it is only expected to continue further. Thus, it is imperative to plan your finances for a better and safe future. With acute financial planning, you are better poised to deal with the rising inflation in coming years, as your grow old.

 

• Achieve your long-term goals: Some objectives are very crucial in our lives. Be it to own a house, buy a family car, education and marriage of your children; it is important for you to achieve these objectives. Financial planning helps you devise an accurate plan to achieve your objectives in a specific amount of time

 

• Happy Retirement: While fulfilling your family responsibilities and professional duties, it is important to plan for your life after retirement. Financial planning helps you generate enough wealth for a happy retirement. You need to plan today for a better and brighter tomorrow

To sum it up, it would be right to say that financial planning ensures that you are in complete control of your finances, incomes, liabilities and know exactly what you need to do if a certain situation comes up. In short, financial planning gives you a cruise control of your life and your future.

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Learn any skill deeply and quickly

Becoming a super learner is one of the most important skills you need to succeed in the 21st century. In the age technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education — a lifelong mastery of new models, skills and ideas.

In a world that’s changing fast, the ability to learn a new skill as fast as possible is quickly becoming a necessity. The good news is, you don’t need a natural gift to be better at learning something new even when you have a full-time career.

Many polymaths (people who have excelled in diverse pursuits) — including Charles Darwin, Leonardo da Vinci and the Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman — claimed not to have exceptional natural intelligence.

We all have enough brainpower to master a new discipline — we use the right tools, approaches, or apply what we learn correctly. Almost anyone can learn anything — with the right technique.

Better learning approaches can make the process enjoyable. The key to rapid skill acquisition isn’t complicated. If you aim to learn a new skill to improve your career this year, some of these habits can be useful for you.

1. Super learners read a lot

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to your body. It gives us the freedom to roam the expanse of space, time, history, and offer a deeper view of ideas, concepts, emotions, and body of knowledge.

Your brain on books is active — growing, changing and making new connections and different patterns, depending on the type of material you’re reading. Highly successful learners read a lot.

In fact, many of the most successful people share this appreciation for reading — they don’t see reading as a chore but as an opportunity to improve their lives, careers and businesses.

Elon Musk grew up reading two books a day, according to his brother. Bill Gates reads 50 books per year. Mark Zuckerberg reads at least one book every two weeks. Warren Buffett spends five to six hours per day reading five newspapers and 500 pages of corporate reports.

In a world where information is the new currency, reading is the best source of continuous learning, knowledge and acquiring more of that currency.

2. Super learners view learning as a process

Learning is a journey, a discovery of new knowledge, not a destination.

It’s an enjoyable lifelong process — a self-directed and self-paced journey of discovery. Understanding any topic, idea or new mindset requires not only keen observation but more fundamentally, the sustained curiosity.

“A learning journey is a curated collection of learning assets, both formal and informal, that can be used to acquire skills for a specific role and/or technology area,” writes Sonia Malik of IBM.

Learning is an investment that usually pays for itself in increased earnings. More than ever, learning is for life if you want to stay relevant, indispensable and thrive in the changing world of work.

Super learners value the process. They don’t have an end goal, they seek consistent improvement. They keep mastering new principles, processes, worldviews, thinking models, etc. The “ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated” pursuit of knowledge is important for their maturity.

3. They adopt a growth mindset

You can’t go wrong cultivating a growth mindset — a learning theory developed by Dr Carol Dweck that revolves around the belief that you can improve intelligence, ability and performance.

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn,” argues Alvin Toffler, a writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies.

Cultivating a growth or adaptable mindset can help you focus more on your most desirable goals in life. It may influence your motivation and could make you more readily able to see opportunities to learn and grow your abilities.

The ability to keep an open-mind, acquire better knowledge and apply it when necessary can significantly improve your life and career.

4. Super learners teach others what they know

According to research, learners retain approximately 90% of what they learn when they explain/teach the concept to someone else, or use it immediately.

Teaching others what you know is one of the most effective ways to learn, remember and recall new information. Psychologists, call it the “retrieval practice”. It’s one of the most reliable ways of building stronger memory traces.

Learn by teaching someone else a topic in simple terms so you can quickly pinpoint the holes in your knowledge. It’s a mental model coined by the famous physicist Richard Feynman.

Known as the “Great Explainer,” Feynman was revered for his ability to clearly illustrate dense topics like quantum physics for virtually anybody. The Feynman Technique is laid out clearly in James Gleick’s biography, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman.

The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to transfer it to another. A better way to learn, process, retain and remember information is to learn half the time and share half the time. Example, instead of completing a book, aim to read 50 percent and try recalling, sharing, or writing down the key ideas you have learned before proceeding.

5. Effective learners take care of their brains

Keeping your brain healthy keeps it sharp. What you do or don’t do for your brain can significantly change how your record, process and retrieve information. Everyone wants to live an active life for as long as possible. And that goal depends on robust brain health.

That means eating lots of foods associated with slowing cognitive decline — blueberries, vegetables (leafy greens — kale, spinach, broccoli), whole grains, getting protein from fish and legumes and choosing healthy unsaturated fats (olive oil) over saturated fats (butter).

Fruit and vegetables combat age-related oxidative stress that causes wear and tear on brain cells,” says Dr Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry and ageing.

Our brains naturally decline if we do nothing to protect them. However, if you intervene early, you can slow the decline process — it’s easier to protect a healthy brain than to try to repair damage once it is extensive.

6. They take short breaks, early and often

Downtime is crucial to retaining anything you choose to learn. According to recent research, taking short breaks, early and often, can help you learn things better and even improve your retention rate.

“Everyone thinks you need to ‘practice, practice, practice’ when learning something new. Instead, we found that resting, early and often, maybe just as critical to learning as practice,” said Leonardo G. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., a senior investigator at NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Better breaks help the brain solidify, memories during the rest periods. Whatever you choose to learn over time, it’s important to optimise the timing of rest intervals for better results.

Experts at the Louisiana State University’s Center for Academic Success recommends 30–50 minutes sessions. “Anything less than 30 is just not enough, but anything more than 50 is too much information for your brain to take in at one time,” says learning strategies graduate assistant Ellen Dunn.

Our brains’ neural networks need to time process information, so spacing out your learning helps you memorise new information more efficiently — give your brain enough time to rest and recover.

Read Tips for home studying during the coronavirus pandemic