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Study Strategies for Better Grades (and More Learning)

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How do you study for exams? Are you using evidence-based strategies? Did you know there are ways to study that improve exam scores? Educational psychologists and others have researched study strategies extensively, and their findings show that some approaches consistently produce higher test exam scores. Here’s a list of evidence-based study strategies and ways to maximize their effectiveness. Some you may be using already, but are you using them in the best possible ways? Others you may not know about. Will they work for you? There’s only one way to know. Try them out.

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