hi everyone
I ave a pressing issue on the card here
It's about a beautiful young girl who is in Senior
high school and prepping for her skul certificate
exam.
She aspires to be a great lawyer but she as huge
problem in her academics which is failure. which
isn't that she doesn't read nor study but she
keeps getting grades that are below her
expectations and her parents. To the extent that
sometimes she ponders negatively.
Well, I was informed about this by her parents. I
took an investigation on her lifestyles and
reading. And gave her some studying skill which
we were thought in school all na wash.
I'm sure people here will have an effective study
skill that will allow this girl actualize her dream.
Plsoooo no be say I no know book oo but my
style no work for am ni.
I go appreciate am wella if you can suggest study
skills that makes u the best amongst the rest.

She should start interactive studying first. Best way is to read related topics online. She has issues with books at the moment, so I'd advice she does pdf and online for now, then after a month she can start mixing online studies with paper back books.
When reading paper back books, on the first day she can read let's say first 3 pages, the next day she shouldn't start from page 4, she should start from page 1 again and read through to page 5 or 6, the next day again from page 1 to page 9 or 10, next day again from page 1 to 13 or14...........and so on...this way revision and getting used to reading for long will be done speedily.
Whenever she gets tired again, tell her to go and study online....the interactive nature of reading something online makes it fun.

Best wishes to her.

CHM11:
She should start interactive studying first. Best way is to read related topics online. She has issues with books at the moment, so I'd advice she does pdf and online for now, then after a month she can start mixing online studies with paper back books.
When reading paper back books, on the first day she can read let's say first 3 pages, the next day she shouldn't start from page 4, she should start from page 1 again and read through to page 5 or 6, the next day again from page 1 to page 9 or 10, next day again from page 1 to 13 or14...........and so on...this way revision and getting used to reading for long will be done speedily.
Whenever she gets tired again, tell her to go and study online....the interactive nature of reading something online makes it fun.

Best wishes to her.

Thanks sir for that.
I think I ave tried showing her this.
But she can't just retain the information she get. I think her problem is forgetfulness.
I dunno what to do to make recall the info she get both on paper and online.

complete20:

Thanks sir for that.
I think I ave tried showing her this.
But she can't just retain the information she get. I think her problem is forgetfulness.
I dunno what to do to make recall the info she get both on paper and online.

Then question type of reading should work for her. She should get series of questions before reading.
Then additionally, she should try and remove her mind from other stuffs while reading.

CHM11:

Then question type of reading should work for her. She should get series of questions before reading.
Then additionally, she should try and remove her mind from other stuffs while reading.

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Tell her to stay away from social media for a while (that's if she's addicted to social media) and devout that time to her books.

Now to your question...reading if you must know is all about your mind set and your determination...if you're not determined, even if you spend the whole day going through your books, it would look like greek and latin to you despite your efforts.

You'll keep asking yourself why isn't all this stuff getting into my head? The simple answer is that you've allowed distraction creep into your mind thereby causing your mind to shift its attention from an uninteresting task (your book) to something much more interesting (friends gist, social media alerts, movies...etc) when this happens, you'll encounter great difficulty in trying to recollect topics you've covered in the course of your reading.

Meaning if someone should ask you any question on a topic you've covered, you'll find it difficult giving him/her a convincing reply. This is the beginning of failure, and this is the major reason why we keep recording massive failures in WAEC, NECO, JAMB and the likes.

For starters, tell her to create a to-do-list, that list should contain all her activities of the day (including her chores) along with their estimated time frame. She should include reading, interacting with intelligent friends, who can help her academically, going to the internet and reading topics in line with her field...etc.

I strongly believe that if she keeps up with that list, and spends the time she allocated for her books reading and browsing through topics on the internet, believe me, with time she would get used to that lifestyle. And her bad grades would be a thing of the past.

Good luck.

Her problem is lack of concentration. Find out whats troubling her on the inside. From what I know, if a child is facing these kinda problems, its more than an academic problem. Its also possible that she's facing/faced some emotional setbacks on the homefront or something. She needs to let go of whatever she spends most of her precious time thinking of. Interactive session among friends is still d best bet. Reading alone wouldn't help a bit. Pardon my blunders.

CrazyMan:
Tell her to stay away from social media for a while (that's if she's addicted to social media) and devout that time to her books.

Now to your question...reading if you must know is all about your mind set and your determination...if you're not determined, even if you spend the whole day going through your books, it would look like greek and latin to you despite your efforts.

You'll keep asking yourself why isn't all this stuff getting into my head? The simple answer is that you've allowed distraction creep into your mind thereby causing your mind to shift its attention from an uninteresting task (your book) to something much more interesting (friends gist, social media alerts, movies...etc) when this happens, you'll encounter great difficulty in trying to recollect topics you've covered in the course of your reading.

Meaning if someone should ask you any question on a topic you've covered, you'll find it difficult giving him/her a convincing reply. This is the beginning of failure, and this is the major reason why we keep recording massive failures in WAEC, NECO, JAMB and the likes.

For starters, tell her to create a to-do-list, that list should contain all her activities of the day (including her chores) along with their estimated time frame. She should include reading, interacting with intelligent friends, who can help her academically, going to the internet and reading topics in line with her field...etc.

I strongly believe that if she keeps up with that list, and spends the time she allocated for her books reading and browsing through topics on the internet, believe me, with time she would get used to that lifestyle. And her bad grades would be a thing of the past.

Good luck.

thanks.
what you ve stated distraction Is her real problem
when I investigated/communicated with her what I learnt was that she is being distracted by thought she said she can't control. I asked her is it boyfriend or what she said that the thought has nothing of such.
So I asked her that what then she said it th thought of her failures that her fwends that do not even study as much as she does even get better grade than her.
I gave her the little advice I can muster.
I would appreciate if you can state ways in which she can eliminate this thought.

Yes, her problem is lack of concentration which is the same as distraction.
I know of three ways to reproduce whatever you've learnt or taught; either you cheat, you cram or you fully/genuinely understand the concept.
I believe she will improve if you can train her mind to concentrate first by CRAMing. Let her reproduce simple then later, compound sentences. You can give her a very long list of items to look through for a short time and ask her to reproduce the list in order.
Secondly, make sure she understand the concept or principle of whatever she is reading. This is very helpful in the sciences. Ones you have a good understanding of a principle, trust me there is no how you won't be able to reproduce EXCEPT you have problem with expressing your self.( so, you need to ascertain her writing skills too).
Lastly, try and see how effective is her memory retaining capacity. For how long can she keep information and reproduce fully? This will help you to know how frequently she needs revisions.
In conclusion, let her realise that she is the only solution to her problem, the reason she has not improved is that she hasn't wanted to. Her friends doesn't have two heads. Let her pray about her problem day and night. By so doing she would have declared a total war on the situation and you don't sleep at war except you want to be caught by enemies ( her failure).
I hope this assist?

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