By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This post offers 36 ideas for how to create a study space that’s awesome. Some tips are better suited for college or university students, and some are for middle and high school students. Some tips will help you design your personal …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. I’m going to share a test-taking tip that can lower your testing anxiety and increase your test grades. That might sound too good to be true, but if you do it right, it is very true. I call this test-taking tip …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. You need to know how to analyze quotes in essays for high school, college, and beyond. Finding and including quotes to support your argument is an important first step, but the real skill is in how you analyze the quotes to …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This post offers tips and mindset shifts for how to study when you have no motivation. Motivation is a funky topic – one that is often misunderstood and mischaracterized. As I explain in detail below, in many cases motivation is a …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This post teaches you how to take notes from a video. There are various scenarios when you’ll have to take notes from a video, especially for online classes. The following best practices apply to students in middle school, high school, college …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Before you learn how to take notes from a textbook, you need to make two key decisions. Where will you take your notes, and what note-taking format will you choose? I explain both decisions below. Where to take your textbook notes …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. One-size-fits-all study tips do not work for students with ADHD. This post offers strategies, advice and study tips for ADHD that are designed with the unique ADHD brain in mind. Study tips for ADHD – what works While the following study …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. The following is a complete list of the 100 best organization tips for college students. Many of the tips apply to students in high school too. However, college students will need next-level organizational strategies to stay on top of their game. …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. There are many reasons why students might take summer classes in college: to graduate early, to make space for a double major, to retake courses that didn’t go so well, for personal enrichment, and to boost your student resume. Taking college …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Weekends are for sleeping in, seeing friends, doing life-maintenance things (chores, errands, etc.) and Netflix. Yes, yes – all of this is true. However, weekends are also for (prepare to gasp) studying. You may not love to hear this from me, …