How to study effectively?

These pages will teach you study skills strategies and will help you study effectively.

Learning strategies
Learning strategies or study skills determine the approach for achieving the learning objectives. The
strategies are usually tied to your needs and interests to enhance learning and are based on many types of
learning styles.
Here are some strategies that can help you be successful in your studies.
Set small, achievable goals
Start with small steps to reach higher targets.
1. For example, try to learn 5 new English vocabulary items every day.
2. Set a 30 minutes study session every day.
3. Learn the lyrics of an English song every now and then.
4. Read a short English text every day.
Setting small targets is much better than setting huge goals that you cannot achieve. Remember that "small
drops of water make the mighty ocean"
Plan your studies
Planning your studies gives meaning to your work. If you know all the steps necessary to achieve a goal and
these steps are written down on a piece of paper, it will be easy for you, then, to see the whole picture.
Be motivated
The secret to success is that you should be motivated to learn. Try to avoid boredom by having fun in what
you do. Try to find a positive aspect to studying English.
1. Read about what you are interested in (hobbies, fields of interest...)
2. Watch your favorite films in English
3. Listen to your favorite English songs and learn the lyrics.
4. Write your diary in English.
5. Read about your favorite stars in...
Remember, we learn better and fast things we really want to learn.
Manage your time
In order to manage your time successfully, having an awareness of what your goals are will assist you in
prioritizing your activities. Time management provides you with the opportunity to create a schedule that

works for you, not for others. This personal touch gives you the flexibility to include the things that are most
important to you.

Set a reward for yourself

Set a reward for yourself that you can look forward to. For example, when you reach a goal, give yourself a
reward:
1. Watch a movie.
2. Have a delicious snack.
3. Meet your friends.
4. Go to the caf.

Preparing for exams

How to prepare for exams
Exam Success
Success in exams is determined by many intrinsic factors. Because motivation represents an essential
element of success, it should be born in mind that no preparation might yield positive results if you are
demotivated. So the first thing to do is to try to ask yourself what motivates you to pass the exam. Do you
seek a financially rewarding job? Do you want to attend a university course? Or is it just a need to realize a
dream? What ever motivates you is the crucial drive for your success!
In addition to motivation, you must have a realistic strategy towards success. This involves steps before and
during the exam.
Tips for Success
Before the exam:

You need to plan and organize in an orderly way.

You need to set preparation timetables and set measurable, attainable and
realistic goals.

Each subject should be given its due importance.

You must use mind maps, short notes summaries to revise lessons.

Previous exams can be of great help to students by reading them and

familiarizing themselves with format, marking scheme, language, terminology,
types of questions

You must also set a time for sleep and relaxation.

While sitting for the exam, you should read the instructions carefully and
check all the pages.

Students should consider which questions they will answer first and which
they should leave for later. For example, it might be helpful to start planning
the most difficult questions, but answer the easier questions first.

It is also preferable to plan timing according to the number of questions and

marks for each.

Managing stress is an important factor. One tip that might work for students is
taking deep breaths now and then.

During the exam:

Prepare for your exams with a healthy body and mind

Stress and Exams
To be able to deal with stress makes students stand a better chance of exam success. The only way to deal
with stress is first to admit and recognize stressful patterns of behavior and find healthy ways of dealing with
them
Stress is part of students lives
The first thing students should do is to admit that stress constitute part of their lives.
Quick fixes
Some students will try alcohol, smoking, drugs, coffee to cope with their stress. However, most of these
quick fixes will only make the situation worse and add fuel to fire.
A healthy mind in a healthy body
The secret to success is to take into consideration the prerequisites for a healthy body. This will prepare the
ground for building the foundation of well-being and the necessary conditions for success.
1. Moderation.
Pay attention to how you lead your life most of the time. A healthy lifestyle is one that
doesn't take extremes as a way of life. Be moderate in what you do.
2. Eat well.
It is important to pay attention to both what you eat and how you eat. As Socrates

said: "Thou should eat to live; not live to eat." A varied diet with vegetables and fresh
fruits is good for the brain. Also take time off for meals.
3. Exercise.
Students must know the value of exercise because it plays a vital part in
counterbalancing the stress responses produced in our bodies by having to meet
deadlines and exams.
4. Sleep.
Students are getting less and less of sleep which might lead to more stress. The hours
of sleep before midnight are thought to be the most beneficial. For this reason
students must re-regulate their body clock and go to bed and get up at regular times.
5. Express yourself.
The way students feel about their work and other issues in their life plays a huge part
in how they deal with stress. It is advisable that students should be realistic whatever
happens in their lives.
To sum up, studies are really very important, but never at the expense of students physical and mental wellbeing. Besides, if students feel well they will be ready to face the challenges of exams alive and kicking.

Preparing for the baccalaureate exam

How to Prepare for The English Baccalaureate Exam?
Exam Success
Success in the baccalaureate exam requires perseverance, hard work and patience. Passing the exam and
getting the Diploma will open for you a wide horizon of possibilities. It's a new beginning and a fresh start
for the realization of your dreams. To help you pass the English baccalaureate exam in flying colors, we
suggest the following pages:

Awesome pages
Grammar:
Especially the following pages:

Tenses and examples of tenses

Passive voice

Reported speech

Relative pronouns and relative clauses

Verbs followed by the infinitive or the ing forms (gerund)

Modals

Concessive clauses

I wish / if only

Conditional sentences

Phrasal verbs

Vocabulary
Here are some interesting pages:

Sustainable development

Science and technology

Brain Drain

Education

Mass media

The environment

Idioms

Reading
Develop your reading comprehension skills with interesting texts with intercative exercies
Grammar and vocabulary execises
Examples of baccalaurete English tests (exams)

Quotes about Success

Success is determined by many factors some of them are intrinsic while others are extrinsic. This is a
list of famous quotes about success.
A belief
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

Michael Jordan
A failure
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
A man's growth
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A pessimist versus an optimist
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Accepting failure
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
Against it
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
Winston Churchill
All great deeds
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street
corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus
An artist cannot fail
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
Becoming a man of success
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Change
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been
waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
Climbing
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

William Shakespeare
Constant dripping
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
Consult not your fears
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your
unfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for
you to do.
Pope John XXIII
Critics
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
Malcolm X
DESIRE
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak
results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
Do what you have to do
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Do you wish to rise?
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the
foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine
Don't become discouraged
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets
discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas A. Edison

Dreams and success

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Easy or difficult

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Thomas Fuller
Essentials
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness;
third, common sense.
Thomas A. Edison
Every adversity
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
Failing
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
Failure
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
From failure to failure
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Glory
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall.
Author unknown
Happiness and success
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an
invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller

Hard to fail!
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
How far?
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot
I had a friend
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Abraham Lincoln
I have not failed
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Impossible
It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela
Inaction
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the
mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligence without ambition
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
It freed me
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever
happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again,
less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Steve Jobs
Key to success
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill

Limits
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within
themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen Keller
Limits of the possible

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C Clarke
Luck
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
Denzel Washington
Make mistakes!
So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that's where you will find success. On the far
side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Making mistakes
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
Man of success
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Many of life's failures
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
Negative situation
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan
Never
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Buddha

Not in ease and quiet

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul
be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Not to please you

I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.

Marilyn Monroe
Nothing is impossible
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander the Great
Obstacles
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to
climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Obstacles
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
Our dreams
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Our greatest weakness
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
Out of suffering
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran
Ploughing a field
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown
Reaction
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
Resolution to succeed
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
Resolution to succeed

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Responsible
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere
Secret of success
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
Smile
Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry alone.
Author unknown
Straight in the eye
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
Strike the iron
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
Strong enough
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill
Strong lives
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
Stumbling
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Succes equation
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
Success

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Nelson Mandela
Success and failure
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
Success and failure
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and
failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Success and hatered
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success
without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
Marilyn Monroe
Success is a lousy teacher
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
Success is not final
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Successful marriage
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Succession of errors
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley
Succession of lessons
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller
The mind and success
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
The chance

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson
The idea that success spoils people
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is
erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
The introduction of a new order of things
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,
than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The lessons of failure
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
The starting point
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill
They happened to things
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen
to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci
Think twice before you speak
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or
failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill
To be a successful father
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two
years.
Ernest Hemingway

Triumphs
Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel
the smooth road.
Author unknown
Two mistakes

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
Undervalued
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William Hazlitt
Victory is always possible
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Napoleon Hill
Vision
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese proverb
We can do anything
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
Well done!
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
What is in your power
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
When things fall apart
Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together
Marilyn Monroe
Without your consent
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You are right!
Whether you think you can or can't, you are right.
Author unknown
You can
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

Henry David Thoreau

You can win
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
You'll make progress
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama