How to Study as a Harvard Student?

The new academic year will start in the second month. Luckily, there's still a long way to go until the exams, but before your mouth starts watering, it's a good idea to get to know the best study tips from a Harvard PhD student to help you achieve better academic results.

Semester will start soon, and the will to learn is between during the holidays it probably dropped off a lot, with these genius tips from a student Sophie Chua-Rubenfield, Harvard Ph.D, you will get again motivation. Sophie is the daughter of a writer Amy Chua, who raised her children according to the principle of 'tiger parenting', which encourages children to be as academically successful as possible. Her philosophy is clearly working, as Sophie recently became a Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School. On your website it is published detailed advice, how to learn, if you want to achieve the best results.

1. Avoid studying by heart.
2. Work for yourself notes in notebooks. I don't know what's behind this 'science', but everything you write down by hand, stays in your memory. Even if you are bored in a lecture, you can skim to the notebook, which is still better than not being at the lecture.
3. Do it every day a little, but let 'a little' does not turn into a whole day.
4. Encourage yourself.
5. Allow your friends to you they take away their phone while studying. If you feel you need a break to type on your phone, you probably don't need it.
6. Don't focus on books: underlining encourages learning by heart, so you'd better make one yourself notes on the sides in the book.
7. All things do it yourself. You won't achieve anything by copying.
8. Read a lot, but read wisely. Don't be a robot. ask yourself what does the author want to communicate with what is written.

9. Don't read everything, but understand everything you read. It is better to understand more things than to read many things.
10. Work in your notebooks anchor points.
11. He dedicates himself to his studies, a you can't literally move into the library.
12. If you don't understand something, this will definitely be the topic of the exam question.
13. You need a lot of things while studying to remember, but it is not enough to constantly read the material. Repeat it out loud and write it down.
14. Place the substance in a wider picture – try to understand how it is defined the concept matches the overall theme. This will help you understand the material as a whole. Every item is composed of the main theme, which is presented through chapters. Learn to fit them into a whole.
15. Take your pick objects, which you they are interested, because that's the only way you'll enjoy your studies.
16. Study a little, a efficiently.