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Dead Week: What It Is and How to Study Through It

Dead week is the last week of classes before final exams, and the colleges that regulate it keep finals out of it. Most of them still hold lectures and allow graded work that was on the syllabus from…

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How Many Hours Should I Study a Day? What the Data Says

How many hours should I study a day? For a 15-credit semester, US credit rules assume about 5 hours of work outside class on six days a week, and one course needs about an hour. For an exam, divide…

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Academic Comeback: A 4-Week Plan to Save a Bad Semester

An academic comeback starts with arithmetic, not motivation. For each course, work out how much of the grade is still open and the best result you can still reach. Save the courses where that still…

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How Many Hours Should a VCE Student Study? Year 11 and 12

How many hours should a VCE student study? There's no state figure, so each school sets its own. Six of the eight Victorian school documents we read land between 10 and 20 hours a week outside class…

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Is It Bad to Study in Bed? What We Know and What to Do

Is it bad to study in bed? We found no evidence that it hurts people who sleep well. The rule that a bed is only for sleep comes from insomnia treatment, so it matters most if you sleep badly. After…

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How to Study Like Rory Gilmore: 6 Habits Worth Copying

Learning how to study like Rory Gilmore means copying six habits that Gilmore Girls actually shows. She always has a book going and checks her far-off goal up close. She works decisions out on paper…

StudyDuo Team · 7 min read
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TEAS Study Group: Where Applicants Meet and What to Drill

A TEAS study group pays off for nursing applicants who test in the same season and give shared time to science and reading, the two largest sections. Look for one at your college's tutoring center…

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Real Estate Exam Study Group: How to Build One in Your State

Start a real estate exam study group with people who will sit the same state's exam in the same month. Together you can do what one candidate can't: argue out fact patterns, check each other's math…

StudyDuo Team · 6 min read
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WGU Study Group: Where Students Find One and Keep It Going

A WGU study group rarely forms on its own: Western Governors University has no set class times, and each student moves through courses at their own pace inside six-month terms. Students find each…

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CAPM Study Group: Run It Like a Two-Week Sprint

Run a CAPM study group like the agile projects the exam asks about: a backlog of PMI's exam tasks, two-week sprints and a retrospective after each practice test. Find members in your 23-hour course…

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