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How to Build Your Critical Thinking Skills in School

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At all levels of schooling, I've always had test anxiety until now.  While earning a professional degree, there's an extreme amount of work to commit to memory.  My method of beating test anxiety also works to enhance the critical thinking skills required to excel in professional schools.  How do we beat the clock during a test, overcome test anxiety, and get good grades? The answer lies in doing less work. Eh-hem, I mean the answer lies in taking timed practice questions.

How to Build Your Critical Thinking Skills in School

Pros

-Get competitive grades

-Beat test anxiety.

-Get better test grades in fewer study periods. Enjoy more free time.

-Build critical thinking skills.

-Get better at taking and completing timed tests.

-Recall info better during test time.

-Maximize eu-stress, the stress to get things done, to better retain information learned in school and accomplish goals.

How to Build Your Critical Thinking Skills:

*Critical thinking is the ability to decode what is being asked, in a test question for example,  and apply the appropriate information.

a) Scenario A:  You have a month to study for an exam.  Leave two weeks to study for the test.  Divide the number of chapters to cover evenly amongst the weekends you have made available to study.  Take 100-200 timed practice questions in total.  These questions must cover the content of what you are planning to study in one weekend day.  Review the questions you got wrong.  Understand why you got those questions wrong.  I also further reinforce what I learned by writing down summaries of the rationales for the questions I got wrong for each question I got wrong.  This is optional.  You may find that you do not have many wrong questions to review.
 
b) Scenario B:  You have free weekends or you make time available each weekend to study.  You dedicate three hours a week on a Sunday to review the notes you made during the week or at least the parts of the notes you understood the least.  Then, you take timed practice questions.  Review the questions you got wrong. Understand why you got those questions wrong.  I recommend doing Scenario A and Scenario B throughout the semester to learn the most material, do well, and feel like a competent practitioner of your craft!
 
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