During WWII, a colonel from Alaska asked Prof. Emeritus Walter J. Pauk to draft a brief guide on how to teach his soldiers to read and study effectively for their correspondence courses. The guide ...

My freshman year, I freaked out when midterm season rolled around, because I had no idea how I was supposed to study. Midterms in college can be daunting. It feels like there's so much more pressure ...

I can't be the only person who has only recently learned about a way to take notes called The Cornell Note-taking System, so named because it was developed by a professor at Cornell University, back ...

Divide notebook paper into 3 sections, as shown in the diagram. Write the course name and date at the top of each page. Occurs during class itself. Record facts, ideas, and examples. More important ...

Success in academics often hinges less on raw intelligence and more on consistent habits—and effective note-taking is one of the most powerful of them all. Top students know that great notes are more ...