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| Effective Study Skills |
 Looking for effective study skills? Try M.U.R.D.E.R.:
– Mood: Think of studying as a date that you would like to impress and go out of your way. Try to create the right environment. Choose a place that can help you concentrate, most people need a place where there is silence but there are a handful of people that need noise to concentrate. You may play some music to sustain your mood.
– Understand: Get yourself a marker and mark areas of your text that strikes you as important; or make an outline of the material.
– Recall: Stop every once in a while to paraphrase what you have read in your own words; if you can express the idea in your own words, it means you have understood what you were studying and have also memorized it.
– Digest: You can also mark concepts or ideas that you did not understand and look it up further or ask for a second opinion from a classmate or the professor.
– Expand: Try to see the connection between the material you are currently studying and your previous lessons; or try to see the relevance of your text in your life.
– Review: Review the materials you have studied; ideally, you should be reviewing the highlighted texts and the notes you have made instead of reading everything again. Whether you just want to maintain a respectable GPA or you have a big exam, always keep MURDER at the back of your mind: MURDER, the only crime that pays.
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