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My World Famous Mechanical Exam Prep Process

January 26, 2023April 29, 2008

Exam advice week continues here at Study Hacks. I’m posting Wednesday’s article a little early because I’ll be gone tomorrow morning and I wanted to … Read more

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Crowd Wisdom: Your Best Study Hacks Revealed

January 26, 2023March 5, 2008

The Crowd Speaks Enough about me! Last week I asked you to share your most effective and unusual study hacks. You sent in some clever … Read more

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Monday Master Class: How to Peform a Post-Exam Post-Mortem

January 26, 2023February 4, 2008

Dweck’s Chemistry Students In her recent book, Mindset, Stanford Psychologist Carol Dweck describes a study that followed a group of college students through a difficult … Read more

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Crowd Wisdom: How Study Hacks Readers Suggest You Study Foreign Languages

January 26, 2023January 11, 2008

I Asked, You Responded Last weekend a reader wrote me with a question about studying foreign languages. I realized that this spotlighted a gap in … Read more

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Monday Master Class: 5 Bad Study Habits You Should Resolve to Avoid in 2008

January 26, 2023December 31, 2007

Toxic Study Habits I often tell students that there is no magic bullet strategy for increasing their grades. Different people have different work personalities. Some … Read more

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Monday Master Class: How to Use Gmail to Reduce Your Study Time by 50%

January 26, 2023October 29, 2007

Filling in the Gaps One of the most overlooked time sinks in the study process is filling in gaps in your understanding. Think back to … Read more

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Monday Master Class: How to Talk to a TA

January 26, 2023October 22, 2007

The TA Factor… In many classes, your Teaching Assistant (TA) is your most important resource. This is particularly true in technical subjects. If you establish … Read more

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The Art of Stealth Studying: How To Earn a 4.0 With Only 1.0 Hours of Work

January 26, 2023October 3, 2007

Welcome new readers. Study Hacks is a blog dedicated to productivity hacks for students. If you like this article, you might also like these posts … Read more

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Cal launched the "Study Hacks" blog at calnewport.com in 2007, and has been regularly publishing essays here ever since. Over 2,000,000 people a year visit this site to read Cal's weekly posts about technology, productivity, and the quest to live and work deeply in an increasingly distracted world, while tens of thousands more subscribe to have these essays delivered directly to their inbox (see the sign-up form below). To read more, you can browse more than 15 years of past essays in the archive.
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