Learn What to Learn

By Janine Gee

This work is dedicated to making matters of fundamental importance as simple as possible.
Two military maxims are fundamental to this simple approach towards achieving better grades. The first is Know Your Enemy. In terms of senior secondary school or post compulsory education studies this translates to Know what is expected or required of you. The second military maxim, Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted, is the complementary co-justification for this simple strategy. The logic of this approach is that, once you realise what has to be learned for the best chance of better grades and how to go about finding out about this information, you will be better able to allocate your time and effort to maximum effect.
Implementing this suggested strategy is a form of empowerment. That is, you can provide yourself with your best chance of success. This empowerment will be achieved principally because you have been introduced to the fundamentally important concept of how to concentrate your efforts on those aspects of a secondary or post compulsory education course or unit that are most likely to result in the highest possible mark or grade. That is, you are playing with the odds; not against them.
Remember, when all the dust has settled, it is what appears on your academic record (i.e. your results sheet) that counts most, as far as others are concerned. You will hear irrelevancies about how you should immerse yourself in 'university life' via activities other than study. If you do this to the detriment of achieving your best possible results, then you will have spoilt the initial opportunity that is the starting point of the majority of the rest of your life (i.e. your occupation) and the rewards it brings.
Leave the 'immersion' to others. Focus your attention on what to learn; then efficiently and effectively concentrate your efforts so that you will be able to represent yourself best whenever assessment of your progress is conducted.
In addition, be aware of the fact that senior secondary and post compulsory education, like any form of gainful or purposeful employment, is heavily dependent upon basic skills and associated systematic processes. Learn these basic skills and the fundamental processes of scholarship and you will better equip yourself. Better results will build confidence in yourself.
Begin your crusade to achieve your best possible results from the first day of each semester or term. Seek out what has been asked in the past. This will most likely provide you with an understanding of what has been identified by past examiners as being the essence, i.e. the important or the relevant content of the discipline, course or unit being studied.
Using the set textbook, you should be able to begin to outline the important elements or aspects of each concept that has been asked in past examination questions. This procedure of outlining and clarifying (or 'mapping') the important aspects of a concept is crucial to success and must be practised properly and regularly.
Read this work carefully, several times. Concentrate on learning what appears to be its relatively simple recommendations. You will be inordinately rewarded if you make yourself proficient in these simple strategies.
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John Elms spent more than 20 years at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba Queensland. During this time he has conducted comprehensive applied research in regard to improving higher education student productivity. After directly observing many novice higher education students struggling with the various forms of 'progressive assessment' he formulated a simple and practical set of productivity strategies to cope with the most common forms of assessment.
The results achieved by students who have adopted his strategies have acted as the right kind of advertisement. His books are respected by students because the strategies described in them are easy for most students to implem...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Janine Gee
• Release date: May 29, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458095336

Janine Gee

Janine Gee was born, raised and educated in Adelaide, South Australia. Throughout her diverse career she has worked all around Australia in documentation and training in the software implementation environment (Information Technology in a variety of clients' industries). This experience facilitated her progression into a career as author. On a personal level Janine, a serial monogamous dieter, tried diet after diet, each with the same disappointing result. In 2001, a lengthy juggle of dieting and many minor ailments culminated in a battle with a persistent migraine. Janine's 30-year battle with her weight and abrupt solution to a six-week migraine sparked a journey of unimaginable discovery which became the foundation of the book The Epigenetics of Diet. It is about foods, imitation foods and contaminants and their effects on our emotions, bodies and behaviour. Her first book explains how the reader can discover their ideal body shape without the need for drugs ... simply by eating real food ... a *dietary* survival guide! It dispels the myths asserted by the agricultural, pharmaceutical and psychiatric industries! Epigenetics is a fascinating science that bridges the gap between nature and nurture. People evolve in order to survive. Children born on the Gaza strip with PTSD live longer than children born there without PTSD ... and they certainly aren't medicated either. A number of elderly Australians have also teamed up with Janine to co-author many other titles about travelling safely and surviving natural disasters and man-made emergencies (Survival Guide) and University booklets that detail what is required and expected of tertiary students. Her diverse experience and extensive skill set support her talent as a gifted author and co-author of books that appeal to a wide audience. Simply take a look at the growing diversity of her titles. There is likely to be something for even the most discernible reader.

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About this book

Foreword

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The basis of this work

Chapter 3. The keys to success

Chapter 4. Identify the type 1 (instructive) keyword(s)

Chapter 5. Begin gathering pertinent information about each type 2 key word topic

Chapter 6. Identify the type 3 (qualifier or delimiter) key word(s)

Chapter 7. Understand the concept and demands of progressive assessment

Chapter 8. Learn to identify other clues regarding the foci of examination questions

Appendix

About the Author

A note from the co-author

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About this book

Higher education involves concept attainment. Many students never really learn just how easy concept attainment can be. This work provides a simple and effective method for establishing the 'must know', 'should know' and 'could know' information relating to a course of study.

Learn What to Learn lifts the lid a little more on the processes that are fundamental to succeeding at university.

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Foreword

This work is dedicated to making matters of fundamental importance as simple as possible.

Two military maxims are fundamental to this simple approach towards achieving better grades. The first is Know Your Enemy. In terms of senior secondary school or post compulsory education studies this translates to Know what is expected or required of you. The second military maxim, Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted, is the complementary co-justification for this simple strategy. The logic of this approach is that, once you realise what has to be learned for the best chance of better grades and how to go about finding out about this information, you will be better able to allocate your time and effort to maximum effect.

Implementing this suggested strategy is a form of empowerment. That is, you can provide yourself with your best chance of success. This empowerment will be achieved principally because