Study Skills
Life Orientation
Grade 10
, Life Orientation
STUDY SKILLS
Definitions:
Study skills: your abilities to learn, read, understand, concentrate, remember and
organize your learning material, and manage your studying time.
Concentration: the ability to focus and pay attention.
Distract: to cause you to stop thinking about or paying attention someone or
something and to think about or pay attention to someone or something else
instead.
Scanning: moving your eyes quickly over the material until you find a piece of
info you looking for.
Skimming: getting a general idea of the reading material by reading only
headings and main ideas.
Study methods: ways to study, learn and remember.
Similarity: a quality that makes one person or thing like another.
Compare: see how ideas, things or people are similar.
Contrast: see how ideas, things or people are different.
Critical thinking: evaluate or ideas.
Creative thinking: generate, produce or make new ideas; think in different ways;
give unusual or other ideas.
Problem solving: offer solutions.
Assessment: a process of gathering evidence of performance.
Informal assessment: not recorded, does not count for marks.
Formal assessment: serious, recorded, required, counts for marks.
Annual study plan: a plan of what you are doing and need to study for a whole
year.
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Life Orientation
Grade 10
, Life Orientation
STUDY SKILLS
Definitions:
Study skills: your abilities to learn, read, understand, concentrate, remember and
organize your learning material, and manage your studying time.
Concentration: the ability to focus and pay attention.
Distract: to cause you to stop thinking about or paying attention someone or
something and to think about or pay attention to someone or something else
instead.
Scanning: moving your eyes quickly over the material until you find a piece of
info you looking for.
Skimming: getting a general idea of the reading material by reading only
headings and main ideas.
Study methods: ways to study, learn and remember.
Similarity: a quality that makes one person or thing like another.
Compare: see how ideas, things or people are similar.
Contrast: see how ideas, things or people are different.
Critical thinking: evaluate or ideas.
Creative thinking: generate, produce or make new ideas; think in different ways;
give unusual or other ideas.
Problem solving: offer solutions.
Assessment: a process of gathering evidence of performance.
Informal assessment: not recorded, does not count for marks.
Formal assessment: serious, recorded, required, counts for marks.
Annual study plan: a plan of what you are doing and need to study for a whole
year.
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