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What They Don’t Tell You About Becoming Laser Focused For School

What They Don’t Tell You About Becoming Laser Focused For School

Focus is an important ingredient in your success. The more focus you have, the less you’ll need of everything else. If you’re focused then you don’t need to study as long. You don’t need to work as hard. You don’t

Aaron RichardsonJune 17, 2019June 21, 2019 Memory Improvement, School Tips, Study Better 6 Comments Read more

Surviving And Thriving Through The Finals Rush

Surviving And Thriving Through The Finals Rush

You can get killer grades even through the busiest parts of your school year. Sure… if you use the usual strategies taught to students, you’re going to have a tough time. If you use the strategies taught on this blog,

Aaron RichardsonApril 30, 2018April 8, 2018 College, Memory Improvement Read more

How Studying Too Much Will Destroy Your Grades (And What To Do About It)

How Studying Too Much Will Destroy Your Grades (And What To Do About It)

Studying too much is the most common mistake I see from students. Doesn’t this sound awesome? More slack time, right? It’s not that simple though. If you’re studying right then your grades will get better. Studying isn’t a masochistic self

Aaron RichardsonJanuary 8, 2018January 13, 2018 Memory Improvement, Study Better Read more

An Introduction To NLP For Students

An Introduction To NLP For Students

The way a student thinks determines their results. If a student thinks the right thoughts then they’ll learn the right information. When they learn the right information, they’ll pass the tests. The way a student thinks decides if they can:

Aaron RichardsonOctober 23, 2017May 2, 2021 Memory Improvement, School Tips, Study Better, Tools Read more

How To Crush Language Classes (And Actually Learn The Language)

How To Crush Language Classes (And Actually Learn The Language)

Learning a second language was one of the most fulfilling things I’ve ever done. Language learning classes were some of the most painfully boring classes I’ve ever taken. (Okay… I’m exaggerating a tiny bit but they did suck.) Somehow they

Aaron RichardsonJuly 10, 2017August 31, 2017 Memory Improvement, School Tips, Study Better 1 Comment Read more

5 Powerful Active Recall Strategies – A Guest Post

I used to struggle with tests before I learned to use active recall for studying. The test would be sitting in front of me. I would be scrunching up my face thinking, “I know this… I think I know this…

KayApril 3, 2017April 3, 2017 Memory Improvement No Comments Read more

Study Strategies That Work – And Some That Don’t

Study Strategies That Work – And Some That Don’t

Smart Student Secrets is all about making studying easy. We’ve published hundreds of articles on studying. We get new readers everyday trying to learn how to study better. They’re looking to improve their grades a little but aren’t sure the

Aaron RichardsonMarch 13, 2017August 31, 2017 Memory Improvement, Test Strategies 17 Comments Read more

You Suck At Studying And Here Is Why – Familiarity Is The Enemy Of Memorization

You Suck At Studying And Here Is Why – Familiarity Is The Enemy Of Memorization

Most students suck at studying because their study strategies fall flat in basically every scientifically verifiable way. Students use strategies that just don’t work for school. Sure… many of the ideas students have are good. They’re just not good for

Aaron RichardsonDecember 19, 2016August 31, 2017 Memory Improvement, School Tips 6 Comments Read more

Q/A – How To Actually Remember

Q/A – How To Actually Remember

How does a person actually remember stuff? This week’s question brought up a subject that I haven’t delved too deep into recently. I looked into this subject a while ago but haven’t done much about it recently. I get the

Aaron RichardsonOctober 31, 2016August 31, 2017 Memory Improvement 7 Comments Read more

4 Signals For Studying Verbatim

4 Signals For Studying Verbatim

Learning is a complicated subject particularly when you try to mix school into the equation. Studying verbatim is an area where most students don’t completely appreciate the potential advantages for school. School has something to do with learning but the best

Aaron RichardsonAugust 11, 2016August 31, 2017 Memory Improvement, Study Better 5 Comments Read more
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