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Hey everyone… Leonard Williams here.

Are you getting ready for the GED? Taking an adult education course? Whether you’re attending local classes, taking online GED classes or managing a self-study program at home, you’ll want to ensure that your study time is effective.

Make a Note! Here’s one surefire study tip that has proven successful for adults working toward the General Educational Development credential, the diploma awarded for passing the GED Test.

Take Notes

For many GED students and adult learners, taking notes seems boring or tedious, or they can’t see the relevance of taking notes. Perhaps they have an abundance of GED study materials from various sources including the GED online classes and they don’t feel a need to add more to the pile. And for some GED students, taking notes is new … they’re reluctant to take notes because they’ve never done it, never learned the skill or never found it necessary while taking GED classes online.

Taking notes is easy—it just starts as a practice and soon becomes a skill. Taking notes is highly effective and ensures learning when it’s a three-part process. And, taking notes is a critical way to shift new information that’s learned from the brain’s short-term memory bank to the brain’s knowledge vault, weather you are taking online GED classes or managing self-study program.

Initially, many people feel like they’re copying or jotting material just for the sake of it. It’s difficult for them to see how taking notes helps them learn. It may seem like a mindless activity. Still, it’s important—just write down information as you move through material on your own, or during GED classes. The act of taking notes engages you with the study material beyond just hearing information, reading or seeing it.

Just as note-taking improves with practice, so does learning. As notes are taken more frequently and regularly, students begin to recognize key information and main points more easily and more often. Note-taking becomes more logical since the act of taking notes engages the logical processing of the brain. When the logical brain becomes engaged, the learning process is activated and information is better retained.

In the next article, I’ll have more study tips for your GED.

Leonard Williams

The GED Academy

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The GED Academy is part of a new breed of educational software. Through their innovative passGED study program, The GED Academy brings a virtual classroom to life on students’ computer screens—a classroom peopled with fellow students who struggle with real-life problems. “Maria Ramirez is a virtual student at The GED Academy,” says Michael Ormsby, the Academy’s president. “Her story shows how easily young people’s lives can be side-tracked by personal issues. But she’s back on track now.”

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An innovative new GED preparation software program brings GED students to life in a virtual classroom. Dwayne Stone, a twenty-something who delivers pizza for a living, makes connections with learners’ real-life experiences and problems.

The GED Academy is part of a new breed of educational software. Through their innovative passGED study program, The GED Academy brings a virtual classroom to life on students’ computer screens—a classroom peopled with fellow students who struggle with real-life problems. “Dwayne Stone is one of our most memorable virtual students,” says Michael Ormsby, the Academy’s president. “He is the class clown—and every classroom needs one. He’s also our go-to guy for pop culture—movies, music, things students enjoy. But underneath his wacky joking, Dwayne has some substance. He wants to make everyone else happy—and struggles with his own low self-esteem.”

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