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A research framework of smart education

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The development of new technologies enables learners to learn more effectively, efficiently, flexibly and comfortably. Learners utilize smart devices to access digital resources through wireless network and to immerse in both personalized and seamless learning. Smart education, a concept that describes learning in digital age, has gained increased attention. This paper discusses the definition of smart education and presents a conceptual framework. A four-tier framework of smart pedagogies and ten key features of smart learning environments are proposed for foster smart learners who need master knowledge and skills of the 21 st century learning. The smart pedagogy framework includes class-based differentiated instruction, group-based collaborative learning, individual-based personalized learning and mass-based generative learning. Furthermore, a technological architecture of smart education, which emphasizes the role of smart computing, is proposed. The tri-tier architecture and key functions are all presented. Finally, challenges of smart education are discussed.

Introduction

With the exponential technological advances, anything could be instrumented, interconnected, and infused with intelligent design, so is education. Smart education has gained significance attention in recent years. Educational projects focused on smart education have been performed globally in recent years (e.g. Chan 2002 ; Choi and Lee 2012 ; Hua 2012 ; IBM 2012 ; Kankaanranta and Mäkelä 2014 ). In 1997, Malaysia first carried out a smart education project, Malaysian Smart School Implementation Plan (Chan 2002 ). Smart schools, which are supported by government, aim to improve the educational system in order to achieve the National Philosophy of Education and to prepare work force that meets the challenges of the 21 st century. Singapore has implemented the Intelligent Nation (iN2015) Master plan since 2006, in which technology-supported education is an important part (Hua 2012 ). In the plan, eight Future Schools that focus on creating diverse learning environments are established. Australia collaborated with IBM and designed a smart, multi-disciplinary student-centric education system (IBM 2012 ). Their system links schools, tertiary institutions and workforce training. South Korea had the SMART education project, the major tasks of which are reforming the educational system and improving educational infrastructures (Choi and Lee 2012 ). New York’ Smart School program emphasizes the role of technology integrated into the classroom (New York Smart Schools Commission Report, 2014 ). They focus on enhancing student achievement and prepare students to participate in 21 st century economy. Finland also realized a smart education project that is on-going systemic learning solutions (SysTech) in 2011. The project aims at promoting 21 st century learning with user-driven and motivational learning solutions (Kankaanranta and Mäkelä 2014 ). United Arab Emirates (UAE) began to invest a smart learning program named Mohammed Bin Rashid Smart Learning Program (MBRSLP) in 2012, which aims to shape new learning environment and culture in their national schools through the launch of smart classes. Overall, the smart education focus and developments has become a new trend in the global educational field.

In the following sections, the related research topics of smart education development are reviewed; The concept of smart education and a conceptual framework for research are proposed; Also a research framework on smart education is depicted. Furthermore, the technological architecture of smart education is mentioned and the role of smart computing is depicted. Finally, the challenges of facilitating smart education are presented to inspire researchers and educators who are interested in smart education design and development.

Literature review

The evolution of smart learning.

As a new educational paradigm, smart learning bases its foundations on smart devices and intelligent technologies (Lee et al. 2014 ; Kim et al. 2011 ). As identified and heavily studied over the last decennia, technology can be implemented and utilized in helping learners learn. This is described as technology-enhanced learning (TEL). TEL is used to provide flexibility in the mode of learning. Technologies can be as media or tools for accessing learning content (Daniel 2012 ), inquiry, communication and collaboration, construction (Bruce and Levin 1997 ), expression (Goodman 2003 ), and evaluation (Meyer and Latham 2008 ) in TEL.

With the development of mobile, connected and personal technologies, mobile learning has become a major TEL paradigm. Mobile learning emphasizes the utilizing of mobile devices and focuses on the mobility of the learner, in contrast to the static traditional educational types. In addition to that, the supporting of ubiquitous technology has caused further changes that moving learning style away from the mobile learning toward to the ubiquitous learning which emphasizes learning can take place anytime and anywhere without the limitations of time, locations, or environments (Hwang et al. 2008 ).

Recently, many research begin to pay attention to the importance and necessity of authentic activities in which learners work with problems in the real world (Hwang et al. 2008 ). In order to situate students in authentic learning environments, it is important to design learning that combine both real and virtual learning environments. Seamless learning, which overlaps with some aspects of mobile learning and ubiquitous learning, is expounded as an one-to-one TEL model which learners can learn across time and locations, and they can convert the learning from one scenario to another conveniently encompassing formal and informal learning, individual and social learning through the smart personal device (Chan et al. 2006 ).

Also other intelligent technologies, such as cloud computing, learning analytics, big data, Internet of things (IoT), wearable technology and etc., promote the emergence of smart education. Cloud computing, learning analytics and big data, which focus on how learning data can be captured, analyzed and directed towards improving learning and teaching, support the development of the personalized and adaptive learning (Lias and Elias 2011 ; Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier 2013 ; Picciano 2012 ). With these adaptive learning technologies, learning platform reacts to individual learner data and adapts instructional resource accordingly based on cloud computing and learning analytics, and it can leverage aggregated data across mass learners for insights into the design and adaptation of curricula based on big data (NMC 2015 ).

In addition, the IoT and wearable technology support the development of contextual learning and seamless learning. The IoT can connect people, objects and devices. Learners carrying smart devices can benefit from various related information that is pushed to them from their surroundings (NMC 2015 ). Wearable technology can integrate the location information, exercise log, social media interaction and visual reality tools into the learning.

The concept of smart learning

There is no clear and unified definition of smart learning so far. Multidisciplinary researchers and educational professionals are continuously discussing the concept of smart learning. Still, some crucial components have been discussed in literature. Hwang ( 2014 ) and Scott & Benlamri ( 2010 ) consider that smart learning is context-aware ubiquitous learning. Gwak ( 2010 ) proposed a concept of smart learning as follows: first, it is focused on learners and content more than on devices; second, it is effective, intelligent, tailored learning based on advanced IT infrastructure. The technology plays an important role supporting smart learning, but the focus should not just on the utilization of smart devices. Kim et al. ( 2013 ) considered that smart learning, which combines the advantages of social learning and ubiquitous leaning, is learner-centric and service-oriented educational paradigm, rather than one just focused on utilizing devices. Middleton ( 2015 ) also stipulates on the learner-centric aspects of smart learning and how it benefits from the use of smart technologies. The personal and smart technologies make learners engaging in their learning and increase their independence in more open, connected and augmented ways by personally richer contexts.

Also, others attempt to indicate the features of smart leaning. MEST ( 2011 ) presented the features of smart learning that is defined as self-directed, motivated, adaptive, resource-enriched, and technology-embedded. Lee et al. ( 2014 ) proposed that the features of smart learning include formal and informal learning, social and collaborative learning, personalized and situated learning, and application and content focus.

• Smart learning environments

Generally, smart learning environment is effective, efficient and engaging (Merrill 2013 ). The learner is always considered as the heart of smart learning environment. And the goal of smart learning environment is to provide self-learning, self-motivated and personalized services which learners can attend courses at their own pace and are able to access the personalized learning content according to their personal difference (Kim et al. 2013 ). Koper ( 2014 ) proposed that smart learning environments are defined as physical environments that are enriched with digital, context-aware and adaptive devices, to promote better and faster learning. Hwang ( 2014 ) specified that the potential criteria of a smart learning environment include context-aware, able to offer instant and adaptive support to learners, and able to adapt the learner interface and subject contents. Smart learning environment not only enables learners to access ubiquitous resources and interact with learning systems anytime and anywhere, but also provides the necessary learning guidance, suggestions or supportive tools to them in the right form, at the right time and in the right place.

Learning can take place anytime and anywhere via the utilization of smart devices. The context-aware aspect plays an important role in smart learning environments that can support to provide proper learning service to learners. Kim et al. ( 2011 ) designed a smart learning environment based on cloud computing. The smart learning service provides context-awareness supporting push smart learning content to learners through collecting and analyzing their behaviors. It aims to provide personalized and customized learning services to learners. Scott and Benlamri ( 2010 ) built a smart learning environment, which is learner-centric and service-based, based on semantic web and ubiquitous computing. The learning environment is composed by ubiquitous collaborative learning spaces, which transform traditional learning spaces into intelligent ambient learning environments through context awareness and real-time learning services. Huang et al. ( 2012 ) considered a smart learning environment is high-level digital environment that realizes learning context awareness, recognizes learner’s characteristic, provides adaptive learning resources and convenient interactive tools, records learning process automatically and evaluates learning outcomes. Its goal is to support easy, engaged and effective learning for learners.

Based on interactive resources and services, smart learning environment is learner-initiated and collaborative (Noh et al. 2011 ). Spector ( 2014 ) considered that smart learning environment supports planning and innovative alternatives for learners and instructors, and should be effectiveness, efficiency, engagement, flexibility, adaptivity, and reflectiveness. And these features might include support for collaboration, struggling learners and motivation.

Through reviewing these literatures, we can find that smart learning environment emphasizes learner-centric, personalized and adaptive learning service, interactive and collaborative tools, context-aware and ubiquitous access. And smart learning environment aims to support to realize the effective, efficient and meaningful learning for learners.

The meaning of smart in smart education

Globally many countries have participated in projects focused on smart education. Malaysian smart schools aim to help their country to foster the workforce of 21 st century by utilizing and enabling the leading-edge technologies into schools. And the smart schools not only focus on stimulating thinking, creativity, and caring for the students, but also considering the individual differences and learning styles among their learners. The smart education in Singapore also emphasizes the role of technology. Their goal is to foster engaging learning experience to meet the diverse needs of learners, through the innovative use of information and communications technology (Education and Learning Sub-Committee, 2007 ). In order to realize this, Singapore created an enriching and personalized learner-centric environment, and additionally created a nation-wide education and learning architecture for educational institutions and life-long learning. Korea carried out the smart education project to provide the customized and adaptive learning for students to foster self-directed learning ability and have fun to use various resources and technology. Individualized instruction and creativity-centered education is considered as the main keyword of smart education. Australia aims to build a smart, multi-disciplinary student-centric education system using the following strategies: adaptive learning programs and learning portfolios for students, collaborative technologies and digital learning resources for teachers and students, computerized administration, monitoring and reporting, and online learning resources. New York proposed the keys for achieving Smart School as following: embracing and expanding online learning, utilizing transformative technologies, connecting every school using high-speed network, extending connectivity between inside and outside of the classroom, providing high-quality, continuous professional development, and focusing on foster 21 st century skills (New York Smart Schools Commission Report 2014 ). Finnish smart education aims at using user-driven and motivational learning solutions to promote 21 st century learning (Kankaanranta and Mäkelä 2014 ). They proposed a pedagogical network of educational institutions called “value network” that is the central of program. It has five categories as following: to understand user experience and usability, to receive expert feedback, to indicate learning outcomes, effects and quality of learning, to develop skills and expertise (Mäkelä et al. 2014 ). United Arab Emirates (UAE) aims to advance their education system to student-centric through the application of world-class teaching science and latest technology. They encourage learner to develop creativity, analytic thinking and innovation. Their approach encompasses learning both inside and outside the classroom. The students can control and active participant into their own learning process in interactive, engaging and enabling learning environments.

Through analyzing these smart education projects, we can find some generalities as follows. The goal of smart education is to foster workforce that masters 21 st century knowledge and skills to meet the need and challenge of society. Intelligence technology plays an important role in the construction of smart educational environments. In smart educational environments, learning can happen anytime and anywhere. It encompasses various learning styles, such as formal and informal learning, personal and social learning, and aims to realize the continuity of learning experience for learner. In this learners are provided with personalized learning services as well as adaptive content, and according to their (learning) context and their personal abilities and needs. So generally, ‘smart’ in smart education refers to intelligent, personalized and adaptive. But for different entities and/or educational situations, the meaning of ‘smart’ has different definitions.

For learner, ‘smart’ refers to wisdom and intelligence. Wisdom is defined as the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgments. According to Confucius who is the most famous educator of China, wisdom can be achieved by three methods: reflection (the noblest), imitation (the easiest) and experience (the bitterest). In addition, the intelligence is the ability to solve problems that are valuable in one or more cultural settings (Gardner 2011 ). According to the concepts of wisdom and intelligence, we comprehend that smart for learner means an ability enabling people to think quickly and cleverly in different situations.

For educational technology, ‘smart’ refers to accomplish its purpose effectively and efficiently (Spector 2014 ). The technology includes the hardware and software. For hardware, ‘smart’ refers to the smart device much smaller, more portable and affordable. It is effective to support learner take place the learning anytime and anywhere with smart devices. And some hardware (e.g., smartphones, laptop, Google glass, etc.) has functions to recognize and collect the learning data to engage the learner into contextual and seamless learning. For software, ‘smart’ refers to adaptive and flexible. It is efficient to carry out personalized learning for learner according to their personal difference, with adaptive learning technologies (e.g. cloud computing, big data, learning analytics, adaptive engine, and etc.).

For educational environment, ‘smart’ refers to engaging, intelligent and scalable. Smart educational environment can provide tailored and personalized learning service (e.g. context awareness, adaptive content, collaborative and interactive tool, rapid evaluation and real-time feedback, etc.) to engage the learner into effective, efficient and meaningful learning. And the open system architecture is required to better support the integration of increasing interfaces, smart devices and different learning data.

Research framework of smart education

Based on the generalities of different countries’ smart education and the meaning of smart, the concept of smart education is proposed. Zhu and He ( 2012 ) stated that “the essence of smart education is to create intelligent environments by using smart technologies, so that smart pedagogies can be facilitated as to provide personalized learning services and empower learners, and thus talents of wisdom who have better value orientation, higher thinking quality, and stronger conduct ability could be fostered “(p. 6).

And based on this definition of smart education, a research framework is proposed in Fig.  1 . This framework describes three essential elements in smart education: smart environments, smart pedagogy, and smart learner. Smart education emphasizes the ideology for pursuing better education and thus had better to be renamed as smarter education, which address the needs for smart pedagogies as a methodological issue and smart learning environments as technological issue, and advances the educational goals to cultivate smart learners as results. Smart environments could be significant influenced by smart pedagogy. Smart pedagogies and smart environments support the development of smart learners.

• Smart learners

Learning is conventionally defined as the process of acquiring competence and understanding. It results in a new ability to do something, and an understanding of something that was previously not understood. Competence is sometimes described in terms of possessing specific skills, understanding in terms of possessing specific knowledge.

The 21 st century demand skills and competence from people in order to function and live effectively at work and leisure time. Education needs to prepare workforce for the demand. So the goal of smart education is to foster smart learners to meet the needs of the work and life in the 21 st century.

There are many organizations developing the 21 st century skills independently. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have organized ten 21 st century skills into four categories which include ways of thinking, tools for working, ways of working and ways of living in the world (Ananiadou and Claro 2009 ). Partnership for 21 st century (P21 2015) skills proposed a framework for the 21 st century learning and indicated that the 21 st century student should master these knowledge and skills as follows: key subjects and 21 st century themes; learning and innovation skills; information, media and technology skills; life and career skills. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) proposed that digital-age literacy, inventive thinking, effective communication and high productivity compose the 21 st century skills (Burkhardt et al. 2003 ).

Based on these researches, we propose four level of abilities in smart education that students should master to meet the needs of the modern society. These abilities are basic knowledge and core skills, comprehensive abilities, personalized expertise and collective intelligence. These are grouped under knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values. The four levels of abilities are presenting in detail as following.

Basic knowledge and core skills. Basic knowledge and core skills referring to knowledge and skills in core subjects such as STEM, reading, writing, art and etc. Mastery of these core subjects is essential to students’ success (P21 2015). Jenkins ( 2009 ) also considered that the reading, writing and mathematics are core capabilities for 21 st century.

Comprehensive abilities. Comprehensive abilities refer to abilities to critical think and solve real-world problem. Most of the 21 st century skills frameworks raise the demands of thinking ways for people (Ananiadou and Claro 2009 ; Burkhardt et al. 2003 ; P21 2015). These abilities let student use appropriate reasoning and comprehensive thinking in different complex situations. Based on analyzing and making judgments and decisions, students should solve different problems and produce better solutions.

Personalized expertise. This level ability demands the students to master information and technology literacy, creativity and innovation skills. Information and technology literacy demands students master ICT skills that include using different ITC applications and combining cognitive abilities or higher-order thinking skills for learning (Ananiadou and Claro 2009 ). Creativity and innovation skills demand students to think and work creatively with others, and can act creative ideas to make contributions to the field in which the innovation will occur.

Collective intelligence. The ways of working are important which need communication and collaboration. Collective intelligence refers to knowledge that built up by a group of people via communication and collaboration. After the previous work with information and knowledge, students need to reflect about the ways to share and transmit the results or outputs to other people (Ananiadou and Claro 2009 ). So students need to communicate clearly and effectively in various ways. Also collaboration demand students work effectively and respectfully in diverse teams (p21 2015).

Smart pedagogies

With the rapid development of technologies, increasingly flexible and efficient learning methods for students are developed. Research in cognitive science has indicated that knowledge and skills are closely intertwined (Scardamalia and Bereiter 2006 ). It needs mixing content knowledge and process skills to produce understanding which learners need. Then learners execute their understanding in practice to produce their performances. The critical thinking and learning skills are very important, but these skills cannot be taught independently and some appropriate factual knowledge need to be taught in particular domain and context (Ananiadou and Claro 2009 ). Using the deliberate instructional or learning strategies can be related to cultivate the knowledge and skills for learners. So in order to fostering different abilities of smart learners, we searched the literatures about related pedagogies or learning strategies using conventional subject searching method in some databases. Through analyzing the literatures, we summarized and adopted relevant practical methods.

Students usually accept basic knowledge and core skills in the classroom. Learning goal and process always are the same for each student in traditional classroom. But students with different backgrounds have different needs. Every student deserves a strict education matched with content and performance standards that promote the understanding (Tomlinson and McTighe 2006 ). The classroom should be differentiated and responsive to vary learners’ readiness levels, interests and learning profiles (Tomlinson and Kalbfleisch 1998 ). Differentiated instruction emphasizes the different needs of each individual student and cultivates the basic knowledge and core skills for students.

Whether learning happens in the classroom or online, students who have different performances often need to learn together in-group or team to fulfill common task or achieve common goal. In collaborative process, learners can be fostered comprehensive abilities including critical thinking and solve problem ability (Gokhale 1995 ; Stahl 2006 ). Students in cooperative teams can keep knowledge longer through sharing information and engage in discussion at higher levels of thought to take responsibility for their own learning (Totten et al. 1991 ).

Learning processes should be tailored according to the students’ learning needs that include requirements, background, interests, preferences, etc (Sampson et al. 2002 ). In particular, personal interest is more important than external motivation because it is driven by students’ own passion (Malone 1981 ). Interest-driven personalized learning emphasizes the interests of students and can fosters intrinsic motivations, and then promote the personalized expertise for students (Atkins et al. 2010 ).

Intelligence is an ability to get things done that matter. Sternberg ( 1999 ) describes the three basic aspects of successful intelligence that include analytical thinking, creative thinking and practical application. As mentioned before, we facilitate abilities including problem solving, decision making, creative thinking and interest-driven learning for learners. We need to integrate these abilities to generate intelligence. It is similar to the transfer of learning, or something in which we have been learned in specific situations that are intentionally applied in other different related conditions (Barnett and Ceci 2002 ). Learning is a generative process. In such a process, the learner is an active recipient of information who works to construct meaningful understanding of information found in the environment (Wittrock 1974 ). Generative learning can enable learners to flexible apply the intelligence what they have learned and generated to various relevant future situations (Engle 2006 ; Fiorella and Mayer 2015 ).

So, in order to foster the learners’ performances, we propose four instructional strategies as demonstrated in Fig.  2 . These strategies include class-based differentiated instruction, group-based collaborative learning, individual-based personalized learning (interest-driven predominantly) and mass-based generative learning (through online interactions predominantly). All these strategies encompass formal and informal learning, in both the real and the digital world. The four levels of smart strategies are presented in detail as following.

Four-tier architecture of smart pedagogies

Class-based differentiated instruction. Differentiated instruction is a process to approach teaching and learning for students with different abilities in the same class (Hall 2002 ). And it can coexist with standard-based education (McTighe and Brown 2005 ). The classroom is considered as a community that the students are treated as individual learners (Lawrence-Brown 2004 ). Teachers set different levels of expectations for learning task completion within a lesson or unit through differentiated instruction (Waldron and McLeskey 2001 ). Under differentiated instruction, all the students have tailored learning preferences and learn effectively.

Group-based collaborative learning. Collaborative learning is a situation that two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together (Dillenbourg 1999 ). Teachers design the collaborative learning process to make meaningful learning experiences and promote students’ thinking through solving real world problem. With the development of technology, computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has emerged using computer and information technology to improve learning (Stahl et al. 2006 ). Koschmann ( 2002 ) presents that CSCL is “a field of study centrally concerned with meaning and the practices of meaning making in the context of joint activity, and the ways in which these practices are mediated through designed artifacts“. (p. 18) CSCL can engage students in joint problem solving by designing software to support meaning making, focus on the students’ methods of problematization, and promote intersubjective meaning making when students learn in small groups (Stahl 2006 ).

Individual-based personalized learning. Personalized learning is defined as adjusting pace (individualization), adjusting approach (differentiation) and connecting to the learners’ interests and experiences (Atkins et al. 2010 ) to meet the student’s needs and provide supporting to foster learning ability among individual students (Bentley and Miller 2004 ). In the personalized learning process, students achieve goals or explore interests based on their motivation. But it is not enough, the essential of personalized is that content is flexible to meet the interests of particular students. When students interact with the personal learning environments, their information and technology literacy will be enhanced. They can be engaged in learning activities and their creativity can be inspired in the learning process (Järvelä 2006 ). There are four key issues to enabling personalized learning through information technologies as follows: make informed learning decisions by students, develop and diversify different knowledge and skills, create various learning environments, and focus the evaluation and feedback from students (Green et al. 2005 ).

Mass-based generative learning. The fundamental concept of generative learning involves the creation and refinement of personal mental constructions about the environments (Ritchie and Volkl 2000 ). Engle ( 2006 ) proposed a theoretical framework for generative learning that combines content and context analysis. The goal is to let students participate in the construction of the transferred content and to frame the learning and transfer contexts to create intercontextuality. When students are learning online, they are able to link new information to old, acquire meaningful knowledge and use their metacognitive abilities (Bonk and Reynolds 1997). These activities can promote the students to active participate in constructing relevant content. Also online learning allows students to collapse time and space limitation (Cole 2000 ). It has high interactivity, collaboration and authenticity. These features can support to frame time and participation to create intercontextuality. Then in the leaning process, the abilities especially the communication and collaboration should be facilitated generate for students.

The traditional learning paradigm has been criticized for being too artificial, rigid and unresponsive to the needs of today’s society (Kinshuk and Graf 2012 ). With the development of new technologies and the emergent of new pedagogies in digital age, the use of technologies to facilitate learning and engage learners has become a universal phenomenon. Piccoli et al. ( 2001 ) define and expand the dimensions of learning environments, which include space, place, time, technology, control and interaction. So it is possible to design new learning environments, both technically and pedagogically.

From the technical perspective, ambient intelligence (AmI) is growing rapidly as a new research paradigm recently (Shadbolt 2003 ). In AmI environments, devices support people in executing their daily life activities and tasks in an easy and natural way by using intelligence and information from the network. Devices can interact and communicate independently without coordination with people and make decisions based on a series of factors, including people’s preferences and other people’s presence in the neighborhood (Preuveneers et al. 2004 ). Most students today are digital natives, who have been immersed in the use of smart mobile devices and digital resources for communications, learning, and entertainment in everyday life (Bennett et al. 2008 ).

From the pedagogical perspective, learning analytics as underlying methods enables institutions to support learners making progress and to enable rich and personalized learning (Siemens and Long 2011 ). The general goal of learning analytics is to monitor the learning process and then use the data analysis to predict the future performance of students as well as to find their potential problems (Siemens 2013 ; Zhu and Shen 2013 ). It is possible for teachers to offer informative feedbacks to learners through virtualized learning dashboards via learning analytics. It is beneficial to have a general view of the learners’ activities and how these are related to their peers or other actors in the learning experience through visualizations for learners and teachers (Duval 2011 ).

Smart learning environments supported by technologies should not only enable learners to digital resources and interact with the learning systems in any place and at any time, but also actively provides them with the necessary learning guidance, supportive tools or learning suggestions in the right place, at the right time, and in the right form (Hwang 2014 ). There are many different types of technologies used to support and enhance learning, which include both hardware and software. Hardware include those tangible objects such as interactive whiteboard, smart table, e-bag, mobile phone, wearable device, smart device, sensors which using ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, ambient intelligence, IoT technology, etc. Software include all kinds of learning systems, learning tools, online resources, educational games which using social networking, learning analytics, visualization, virtual reality, etc.

Based on the support of various technologies, we consider that the goal of smart learning environments is to provide rich, personalized and seamless learning experience for learners. To provide seamless learning experience, smart environments can encompass formal and informal learning. To realize personalized learning experience, smart learning environments can provide accurate and rich learning services by using learning analytics. So based on smart education demand, we propose ten key features of smart learning environments as following.

Location-Aware: Sense learner’s location in real time;

Context-Aware: Explore different scenarios and information of activity;

Socially Aware: Sense social relationship;

Interoperability: Set standard between different resource, service and platform;

Seamless Connection: Provide continuous service when any device connects;

Adaptability: Push learning resource according to learning access, preference and demand;

Ubiquitous: Predict learner’s demand until express clearly, provide visual and transparent way to access learning resource and service to learner;

Whole Record: Record learning path data to mine and analyze deeply, then give reasonable assessment, suggestion and push on-demand service;

Natural Interaction: Transfer the senses of multimodal interaction including position and facial expression recognition;

High Engagement: Immersing in multidirectional interaction learning experience in technology-riched environment.

Technological architecture of smart education environments

Smart computing is the latest cycle of tech innovation and growth that began in 2008 (Bartels 2009 ) and an important technology in smart learning environments. It blends elements of hardware, software and networks together with digital sensors, smart devices, Internet technologies, big data analytics, computational intelligence and intelligent systems to realize various innovative applications. All these technologies can effectively support learning to happen in different situations. Above all, the advancement of computing technologies leads smart computing to a new dimension and improves the ways of learning.

In section 3, we proposed ten key features of smart learning environments in smart education. All these features make learning environments smarter. To better understand the technological architecture to support the key features, we present a technological architecture of smart education environments based on smart computing.

Tri-tier architecture of smart computing

Today’s world is moving fast towards an era of seamless networks as mobile devices are becoming smaller, smarter and more affordable. Ubiquity of such devices is an essential element for location based services and learning data transmission. Also computing is rapidly moving away from traditional devices. The tri-tier architecture of smart learning environments is essential which includes cloud computing, fog computing and swarm computing. In this tri-tier architecture, the cloud, fog and swarm are companions. Learning applications may have components running in the cloud, fog and swarm. The cloud and fog may help control and manage the resources of the swarm. Learning contents can move and be analyzed across this tri-tier architecture.

Cloud computing. The innermost layer is the cloud computing, which provides software as a service. It deploys groups of remote servers and software networks that allow centralized data storage and online access to computer services and resources. In smart learning environments, we need method to rationalize the way managing the resources. It is the infrastructure of smart learning environments and provides the platform, virtualization, centralized data storage, and educational services in education. Using cloud computing, the smart learning environments can realize smart pull, smart prospect, smart content, and smart push (Kim et al. 2011 ).

Fog computing. The middle of the tri-tier architecture is the fog computing. Nowadays in IoTs, literally anything can part of it, so very diverse types of services can be produced. This requires much better infrastructure and sophisticated mechanism. This technology is a highly virtualized platform that provides compute, storage, and networking services between end devices and traditional cloud computing data centers, typically, but not exclusively located at the edge of network (Bonomi et al. 2012 ). Through the features of fog computing, smart learning environments can realize real-time interaction, location-awareness, large-scale sensor networks, supporting for mobility and so on.

Swarm computing. The outermost layer is the swarm computing. As the computing technology continues to become increasingly pervasive and ubiquitous, we envision development of environments that can sense what we are doing and support our daily activities (Essa 2000 ). Swarm computing, is also called environment-aware computing, can execute on swarms of smart devices and the networks of sensors due to ubiquitous sensing. And these sensors’ data will transfer to data management systems to analysis.

Key functions of smart computing

In addition, smart computing allows computing technologies smarter because of five key functions of intelligence that are awareness, analysis, alternatives, actions and auditability (Bartels 2009 ). In the tri-tier architecture, the swarm computing support awareness, the fog computing support analysis, alternatives, and the cloud computing support actions and auditability. When smart computing is used in building smart learning environments or systems, it is able to support every stage of intelligent activities.

Awareness. Learning happens anywhere and anytime. We can use technologies such as swarm computing, pattern recognition, data mining, learning analytics, and other tools, capture data on students’ identity, status, condition, and location. Networks can transport this data from learner devices back to smart learning systems central servers for analysis.

Analysis. When system servers receive real-time data from learner devices, intelligence and analytical tools such as learning analytics, data mining, and big data, are used to analyze and store the learning data, and then recommend learning patterns and resources to learners.

Alternatives. Using learning flow or workflow engines, it is able to identify either automatically or through human review alternative courses of action in response to the learning patterns. Once a decision is made, it will trigger the learning action.

Actions. Using integrated links, systems can execute actions to the appropriate process applications. These process apps can be adapted to various scenarios, with specific app components pushed down to our smart devices where we can execute action, that learner receive related learning resource in the museum or acquire location information outside.

Auditability. Whether right learning action was actually taken can only be determined under the auditability. In smart education, it is important to monitor learning process and to make it more efficient. Smart learning systems need to capture, track, and analyze data of learning activities at each stage for purposes of learning evaluation and improvement.

The implementation strategies for research

The first author and his East China Normal University (ECNU) team have engaged in substantial research and development relating to smart education, only a part of efforts is mentioned here:

Developing standards for e-Textbook and e-Schoolbag. Under the leadership of the ECNU team, delegations from sixty ICT companies participate in the development of a set of standards (17 projects) since November of 2010.

Conducting pilot of using e-schoolbag. The ECNU team is invited by Minhang district to design application models of using e-schoolbags in 67 schools since 2012, about seven thousands of students are involved.

Undertaking national research project. The first author undertakes a national project on THE BUILDING OF SMART LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND APPLICATIONS since 2014, which is from the 12th Five Year Research Program in Educational Sciences. 300 schools from a decade of provinces over the country are planned to join the project. The ECNU team gives theoretical guidance, teacher trainings, and application assessments. It is expected that this project will help to test different architectural model of smart learning environments and to tryout the smart learning pedagogy as above-mentioned.

Case studies based on the research framework

Based on the research framework of smart education, we began to carry out some pilot studies. Here introduces two case studies of them. One is flipped classroom project that integrated smart pedagogies and constructed smart learning environments for students. Another pilot project is called “Online J classroom” that also integrated smart pedagogies into learning process to realize precision teaching.

The flipped classroom pilot project is carried out in a middle school of north China. The core idea of flipped classroom is to flip the common instructional approach (Tucker 2012 ). Instruction, which used to happen in class, is now occurred at home with teacher-created videos and interactive lessons. The project aims at fostering self-regulated and collaborative learning abilities for students. At first, there are four classes participating into the project, and then it is extended to all the classes of the school. A process model of flipped classroom based on the idea of smart pedagogies is proposed that includes two phases that include self-regulated questioning and practice showing. Self-regulated questioning phase is consisted of learning objective guiding, textbook self-regulated learning, micro-lecture assisted learning, cooperative learning, and online assessment. Practice showing phase is consisted of difficult breakthrough, practice showing, cooperative improving, evaluated guiding, and summarize reflection. Every student uses the tablet PC to support learning. Through analyzing the questionnaires and interviews data, we found that students’ learning statement, learning capacity and problem consciousness have significantly enhanced. To teachers, they began to more focus on students’ personal learning, and their professional competence has been significantly improved. To school, the overall teaching level has obviously raised.

Online J-Classroom is a district-based project that aims at providing micro-videos in pre-learning process for students. A data-driven instructional decision model is proposed for designing precision teaching interventions. Precision teaching is the educational decisions based on changes in continuous self-recording performance frequencies using the standard celeration charts (Lindsley 1992 ). The online J-Classroom platform has three major functions including resources co-building and sharing, data recording and analyzing, cooperating and innovating between teachers and students. The latest platform version is delivered in October 2015. Through monitoring and analyzing the data of learning process, platform can provide personalized instructional design including direct teaching based on problem, problem solving oriented cooperative inquiry, and task-driven self-regulated learning for students. Students can be ensured to master all the knowledge after pre-learning as well as their self-regulated learning ability should be enhanced.

Conclusion: challenges of facilitating smart education

As stated, smart education is a new paradigm in global education. The objective of smart education is to improve learner’s quality of life long learning. It focuses on contextual, personalized and seamless learning to promote learners’ intelligence emerging and facilitate their problem-solving ability in smart environments. With the development of technologies and within a modern society, smart education will confront many challenges, such as pedagogical theory, educational technology leadership, teachers’ learning leadership, educational structures and educational ideology.

In our expectation on smart education, the smart learning environments could decrease learners’ cognitive load, and thus enable learners to focus on sense making and facilitate ontology construction. Also students’ learning experience could be deepened and extended, and thus help students’ development in an all-round way (affectively, intellectually, and physically). Students can learn flexibly and working collaboratively in smart learning environments, and thus could foster the development of personal and collective intelligence of learners. Furthermore, better customize learning support could be provided for students to improve learners’ expectation.

As the concept of smart city has been paid more attention (Hollands 2008 ), the requirements of smart education based on smart city are promoted. The overall goal of smart education under smart city architecture is to provide every citizen personalized services and seamless learning experience. Learning happens in anywhere and anytime and produce lots of behavioral data of learners. How to integrate the data of different scenarios in smart cities and build data-centric smart education is a big challenge to educators in order to provide seamless learning experience and customized personalized service for learners. The interconnected and interoperable learning service and experience between smart education system and other systems of smart city are the future research focus.

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To improve your grades, you can either spend more time studying, or you can learn to study smart.

That’s how many hours there are in a week.

If you’re a student, you probably feel like this isn’t enough.

After all, you have so many assignments to do, projects to work on, and tests to study for.

Plus, you have other activities and commitments.

And you want to have a social life too.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could study smarter ( not harder), get good grades, and lead a balanced life ?

Of course it would. That’s why I wrote this article.

The main aim of education isn’t to get straight A’s. But learning how to learn is a crucial life skill.

So I spent hours scouring scientific articles and research journals to find the best ways to learn more effectively.

I’m a lifelong top student myself, and I’ve since completed my formal education. Over the course of my academic career, I’ve used almost all the smart studying tips outlined in this article, so I can verify that they work.

Let’s get started. Here are 20 scientific ways to learn faster.

Enter your email below to download a PDF summary of this article. The PDF contains all the tips found here, plus  3 exclusive bonus tips that you’ll only find in the PDF.

How to study smarter and more efficiently.

Studying smart essentially means learning how to learn.

This includes how to learn faster and more efficiently, while retaining information for longer.

1. Learn the same information in a variety of ways.

The research (Willis, J. 2008) shows that different media stimulate different parts of the brain. The more areas of the brain that are activated, the more likely it is that you’ll understand and retain the information. [1]

So to learn a specific topic, you could do the following:

• Read the class notes
• Read the textbook
• Watch a Khan Academy video
• Look up other online resources
• Create a mind map
• Teach someone what you’ve learned
• Do practice problems from a variety of sources

Of course, you won’t be able to do all of these things in one sitting. But each time you review the topic, use a different resource or method – you’ll learn faster this way.

2. Study multiple subjects each day, rather than focusing on just one or two subjects.

It’s more effective to study multiple subjects each day to help you stay focused , than to deep-dive into one or two subjects (Rohrer, D. 2012). [2]

For example, if you’re preparing for exams in math, history, physics, and chemistry, it’s better to study a bit of each subject every day. This approach will help you to learn faster than by focusing on just math on Monday, history on Tuesday, physics on Wednesday, chemistry on Thursday, and so on.

Because you’re likely to confuse similar information if you study a lot of the same subject in one day.

So as a tip to learn faster , spread out your study time for each subject. In so doing, your brain will have more time to consolidate your learning.

3. Review the information periodically, instead of cramming.

Periodic review is essential if you want to move information from your short-term memory to your long-term memory. This will help you get better exam grades.

As the research (Cepeda, N. 2008) shows, periodic review beats cramming hands-down. [3]

The optimal review interval varies, depending on how long you want to retain the information. But experience – both my own and through working with students – tells me that the following review intervals work well (I explain the entire periodic review system in this article ):

• 1st review: 1 day after learning the new information
• 2nd review: 3 days after the 1st review
• 3rd review: 7 days after the 2nd review
• 4th review: 21 days after the 3rd review
• 5th review: 30 days after the 4th review
• 6th review: 45 days after the 5th review
• 7th review: 60 days after the 6th review

4. Sit at the front of the class.

If you get to choose where you sit during class, grab a seat at the front. Studies show that students who sit at the front tend to get higher exam scores (Rennels & Chaudhari, 1988). The average scores of students, depending on where they sat in class, are as follows (Giles, 1982):

• Front rows: 80%
• Middle rows: 71.6%
• Back rows: 68.1%

These findings were obtained under conditions where the seating positions were teacher-assigned. [4] This means it’s not just a case of the more motivated students choosing to sit at the front, and the less motivated students choosing to sit at the back.

By sitting at the front, you’ll be able to see the board and hear the teacher more clearly, and your concentration will improve too.

Now you know where the best seats in class are!

5. Don’t multitask.

The data is conclusive: Multitasking makes you less productive, more distracted, and dumber. [5] [6] [7] The studies even show that people who claim to be good at multitasking aren’t actually better at it than the average person.

Effective students focus on just one thing at a time. So don’t try to study while also intermittently replying to text messages, watching TV, and checking your Twitter feed.

Here are some suggestions for how to study smart by improving your concentration:

• Turn off notifications on your phone
• Put your phone away, or turn it to airplane mode
• Log out of all instant messaging programs
• Turn off the Internet access on your computer
• Use an app like Freedom
• Close all of your Internet browser windows that aren’t related to the assignment you’re working on
• Clear the clutter from your study area

6. Simplify, summarize, and compress the information.

Use mnemonic devices like acronyms, as these are proven to increase learning efficiency. [8]

If you want to memorize the electromagnetic spectrum in order of increasing frequency, you could use this acronym/sentence:

R aging M artians I nvaded V enus U sing X -ray G uns

(In order of increasing frequency, the electromagnetic spectrum is: R adio, M icrowave, I nfrared, V isible, U ltraviolet, X -rays, G amma rays.)

Question: Stalactites and stalagmites – which ones grow from the top of the cave and which ones grow from the ground?

Answer: Stalac t ites grow from the t op, while stala g mites grow from the g round.

Study smart by using mnemonic devices whenever possible. In addition, you could summarize the information into a comparison table, diagram, or mind map. [9] These tools will help you learn the information much faster.

7. Take notes by hand, instead of using your laptop.

If you want to learn how to study efficiently, write your notes by hand.

Scientists recommend this, and not just because you’re more likely to give in to online distractions when using your laptop. Even when laptops are used only for note-taking, learning is less effective (Mueller, P. 2013). [10]

Because students who take notes by hand tend to process and reframe the information.

In contrast, laptop note-takers tend to write down what the teacher says word-for-word, without first processing the information.

As such, students who take notes by hand perform better in tests and exams .

Using an efficient note-taking strategy will reduce the amount of time you need to invest to achieve the same (or better) result.

8. Write down your worries.

Will I do well on this exam?

What if I forget the key concepts and equations?

What if the exam is harder than expected?

These kinds of thoughts probably run through your head before you take an exam. But if these thoughts run wild, the accompanying anxiety can affect your grades.

Here’s the solution …

In one experiment, [11] researchers at the University of Chicago discovered that students who wrote about their feelings about an upcoming exam for 10 minutes performed better than students who didn’t. The researchers say that this technique is especially effective for habitual worriers.

Psychologist Kitty Klein has also shown that expressive writing, in the form of journaling, improves memory and learning . [12] Klein explains that such writing allows students to express their negative feelings, which helps them to be less distracted by these feelings.

To be less anxious, take 10 minutes and write down all the things related to the upcoming exam that you’re worried about . As a result of this simple exercise, you’ll get better grades.

9. Test yourself frequently.

Decades of research has shown that self-testing is crucial if you want to improve your academic performance. [13]

In one experiment, University of Louisville psychologist Keith Lyle taught the same statistics course to two groups of undergraduates.

For the first group, Lyle asked the students to complete a four- to six-question quiz at the end of each lecture. The quiz was based on material he’d just covered.

For the second group, Lyle didn’t give the students any quizzes.

At the end of the course, Lyle discovered that the first group significantly outperformed the second on all four midterm exams.

So don’t just passively read your textbook or your class notes. Study smart by quizzing yourself on the key concepts and equations.

The Feynman technique is particularly effective in understanding concepts and memorizing them long-term. And as you prepare for a test, do as many practice questions as you can from different sources.

10. Connect what you’re learning with something you already know.

Study faster by connecting new concepts with the knowledge you already have.

In their book, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning , scientists Henry Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel explain that the more strongly you relate new concepts to concepts you already understand, the faster you’ll learn the new information. [14]

For example, if you’re learning about electricity, you could relate it to the flow of water. Voltage is akin to water pressure, current is akin to the flow rate of water, a battery is akin to a pump, and so on.

Another example: You can think of white blood cells as “soldiers” that defend our body against diseases, which are the “enemies.”

It takes time and effort to think about how to connect new information to what you already know, but the investment is worth it.

11. Read key information out loud.

Studies have been conducted, which demonstrate that reading information out loud helps students to learn faster than by reading silently (MacLeod CM, 2010 & Ozubko JD, 2010). [15] [16]

What’s the reason for this?

When you read information out loud, you both see and hear it. On the other hand, when you read information silently, you only see it.

It isn’t practical to read every single word of every single set of notes out loud. That would take way too much time.

So here’s the process I recommend to study faster by reading aloud:

Step 1 : As you read your notes, underline the key concepts/equations. Don’t stop to memorize these key concepts/equations; underline them and move on.

Step 2 : After you’ve completed Step 1 for the entire set of notes, go back to the underlined parts and read each key concept/equation out loud as many times as you deem necessary. Read each concept/equation slowly.

Step 3 : After you’ve done this for each of the underlined key concepts/equations, take a three-minute break.

Step 4 : When your three-minute break is over, go to each underlined concept/equation one at a time, and cover it (either with your hand or a piece of paper). Test yourself to see if you’ve actually memorized it.

Step 5 : For the concepts/equations that you haven’t successfully memorized, repeat Steps 2, 3, and 4.

12. Take regular study breaks.

Taking regular study breaks enhances overall productivity and improves focus (Ariga & Lleras, 2011). [17]

That’s why it isn’t a good idea to hole yourself up in your room for six hours straight to study for an exam.

You might feel like you get a lot done this way, but the research proves that breaks help you to study faster in the long run. So take a 5- to 10-minute break for every 40 minutes of work.

I recommend that you use a timer or stopwatch to remind you when to take a break and when to get back to studying.

During your break, refrain from using your phone or computer, because these devices prevent your mind from fully relaxing.

13. Reward yourself at the end of each study session.

Before starting a study session, set a specific reward for completing the session. By doing this, you’ll promote memory formation and learning (Adcock RA, 2006). [18]

The reward could be something as simple as:

• Going for a short walk
• Eating a healthy snack
• Listening to your favorite music
• Doing a couple of sets of exercise
• Playing a musical instrument
• Taking a shower

Reward yourself at the end of every session – you’ll study smarter and learn faster.

14. Focus on the process, not the outcome.

Students who succeed in school concentrate on learning the information, not on trying to get a certain grade.

Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck’s research shows that these students: [19]

• Focus on effort, not the end result
• Focus on the process, not on achievement
• Believe they can improve – even in their weak subjects – as long as they put in the time and hard work
• Embrace challenges
• Define success as pushing themselves to learn something new, not as getting straight A’s

Not-so-successful students tend to set performance goals , while successful students tend to set learning goals. [20]

What’s the difference between these two types of goals?

Performance goals (e.g. getting 90% on the next math test, getting into a top-ranked school) are about looking intelligent and proving yourself to others.

In contrast, learning goals (e.g. doing three algebra problems every other day, learning five new French words a day) are about mastery and growth.

Most schools emphasize the importance of getting a certain exam score or passing a certain number of subjects. Ironically, if you want to meet – and surpass – these standards, you’d be better off ignoring the desired outcome and concentrating on the learning process instead.

15. Drink at least eight glasses of water a day.

You probably think you drink enough water, but studies show that up to 75% of people are in a chronic state of dehydration. [21 ]

Dehydration is bad for your brain – and your exam grades too.

University of East London researchers have found that your brain’s overall mental processing power decreases when you’re dehydrated (Edmonds, C. 2013). [22] Further research has shown that dehydration even causes the grey matter in your brain to shrink. [23]

The simple solution?

Drink at least eight glasses of water a day. Bring a water bottle wherever you go, and drink water before you start to feel thirsty.

And if you’re taking an exam, bring a water bottle with you. Every 40 minutes or so, drink some water. This will help you stay hydrated and improve your exam performance. Plus, this also acts as a short break to refresh your mind.

16. Exercise at least three times a week.

Exercise is good for your body. It’s also very good for your brain.

Various studies have shown that exercise …

• Improves your memory [24]
• Improves your brain function [25] [26]
• Reduces the occurrence of depression
• Helps to prevent diseases like diabetes, cancer, and osteoporosis
• Enhances your sleep quality
• Reduces stress
• Improves your mood [27]

Exercise is quite the miracle drug!

So to study smarter, exercise at least three times a week for 30 to 45 minutes each time. You’ll be healthier and more energetic, and you’ll remember information better too.

17. Sleep at least eight hours a night, and don’t pull all-nighters.

When considering how to study efficiently, don’t neglect sleep.

I’ve spoken to and worked with 20,000 students so far. Not a  single one has told me that he or she consistently gets eight hours of sleep a night.

“There’s just so much to do,” I hear students say, again and again. As a student, sleep often seems more like a luxury than a necessity.

But what does the research have to say about sleep?

The research shows that if you get enough sleep, you’ll be more focused, you’ll learn faster, [28] and your memory will improve. [29] You’ll also deal with stress more effectively. [30]

This is a recipe for excellent grades.

So sleep at least eight hours a night. This way, you will have more productive study sessions and you won’t need to spend as much time hitting the books.

In addition, sleep expert Dan Taylor says that learning the most difficult material immediately before going to bed makes it easier to recall the next day. [31] So whenever possible, arrange your schedule such that you study the hardest topic right before you sleep.

Lastly, don’t pull all-nighters. As psychologist Pamela Thacher’s research shows, students who pull all-nighters get lower grades and make more careless mistakes. [32]

18. Eat blueberries.

Blueberries are rich in flavonoids, which strengthen connections in the brain and stimulate the regeneration of brain cells.

Researchers at the University of Reading have found that eating blueberries improves both short-term and long-term memory (Whyte, A. & Williams, C. 2014). [33] [34] Blueberries may also help to prevent degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.

19. Eat chicken and eggs.

A team of researchers from Boston University conducted a long-term study on 1,400 adults over 10 years. They found that participants who had diets high in choline performed better on memory tests. [35]

Choline is the precursor to acetylcholine, which is essential for the formation of new memories.

What foods are high in choline?

Chicken and eggs (the egg yolk contains 90% of the total choline in the egg [36] ).

Just in case you’re worried about the high cholesterol content of egg yolks, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Recent studies show that eggs – including the yolk – are a healthy food for almost everyone. [37]

And if you’re a vegetarian, there are alternatives to getting choline in your diet:

• Sunflower seeds
• Pumpkin seeds
• Cauliflower

20. Eat omega-3 fatty acids.

Omega-3 fatty acids are critical for brain function. [38]   One experiment (Yehuda, S. 2005) also found that taking a combination of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids reduced test anxiety in students and improved their mental concentration. [39]

Omega-3 fatty acids are linked to the prevention of high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, depression, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) , dementia, Alzheimer’s, asthma, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer. [40]

That’s an incredible list!

Here are foods that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids:

The bottom line on studying smart

This is a long article that contains a lot of information. But don’t feel overwhelmed, because there’s no need to implement everything at one shot.

As the saying goes…

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

In the same way, to implement all 20 tips in this article, do it one tip at a time. Focus on just one tip a week, or even one tip a month.

Once you’ve turned that tip into a consistent study habit , move on to the next one.

Throughout the process, don’t let the goal of getting straight A’s become an unhealthy obsession. After all, education is about more than getting good grades.

It’s about the pursuit of excellence. It’s about cultivating your strengths. And it’s about learning and growing, so you can contribute more effectively.

There’s hard work involved, but I know you’re up to the challenge. 🙂

Like this article? Please share it with your friends.

July 27, 2015 at 3:21 pm

Thanks Daniel! this is awesome!

July 27, 2015 at 4:01 pm

You’re welcome, Amanda!

March 24, 2019 at 10:02 pm

Thank you so much Daniel for this tips God bless you

February 16, 2021 at 4:24 am

Thanks so much Daniel for this article. God bless you.

July 18, 2023 at 8:56 pm

Thanks alot you have really helped me

August 25, 2023 at 9:21 am

Thanks alot. I have learned alot and now understand the concept of learning smarter

April 15, 2019 at 11:42 am

Hello daniel, can you please give some tips on how to get better with practical lessons ie, iam a student of commercial cooking, my theory marks are 99/100 but practical mark was 85/100.. how to improve on cooking skills that trainers teach?

January 21, 2020 at 7:13 pm

What!? So 85 is low or you kidding! Focus on learning process than outcomes

April 3, 2020 at 10:48 am

Daniel, thank you so much. This really helps. God bless you

May 3, 2020 at 10:27 pm

If you re-take a look at point 10 I think it might help you out.

December 19, 2022 at 6:45 pm

Hi there. this is something i do to improve practical marks. Like of course practice makes perfection but you know you can make short notes and put them in a list like format. that way you will remember what to do more easily. plus start connecting what u learnt about that certain practical in theory in your own way and not how the book or teacher essentially instructs you to connect. hope it helps you a bit 🙂

August 16, 2023 at 2:14 am

Thanks Daniel and God grant you all your help

June 6, 2019 at 12:42 pm

I suck at Maths and I have a midterm in one day. My instructor English is very hard to understand and am very scared. I practice questions on YouTube but once I want use the same method on the questions the instructor gives. I get stuck. Please what should I do. I don’t want to fail

January 7, 2020 at 7:12 am

thank you so much, Daniel this has really helped me you’re an ANGEL!!!!

April 4, 2020 at 12:44 am

Sir I m very much anxious about my future. I m preparing for civil services but when I examine myself I don’t get good result..please suggest some tips for removing anxious.thank you..sir.

August 5, 2020 at 5:28 pm

STAY FOCUSED AND CONSISTENT AND JOIN A COACHING CLASS OR ONLINE PLATFORM IF YOU FEEL YOU’RE STUCK . MOST OF THE CIVIL SERVANTS FACE SIMILAR PROBLEMS.KEEP AWAY YOUR DISTRACTIONS AND YOUR DREAM WILL SURELY COME TRUE .

October 8, 2020 at 10:27 pm

Focus on the learning process, not the result. And don’t forget to stay calm and hydrated.

May 6, 2020 at 5:44 am

Thanks so much

June 8, 2021 at 2:04 am

I want to try this i hope it will help am very smart but i hate reviewing what i am taught that’s why i suck in my exams sometimes

August 18, 2020 at 1:23 pm

it was helpful

January 15, 2021 at 2:38 pm

You are nice. Your tips are the best. 👍👍👌

March 16, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Fantabulous. I’m so happy with this and I’m going to add them to the things I practice.

April 20, 2021 at 9:27 pm

thanks daniel i realy apreciate it good work buddy i really helps for my test thank you buddy seee ya

December 30, 2023 at 7:06 pm

Pls teach my kids to be good at every subject 🙏 thanks and happy Christmas 🎄

August 1, 2024 at 1:01 pm

studying law in the philippines right now. Just read this for a break. Was a very fun read! Thank you kind stranger :>God Bless!

October 31, 2018 at 3:20 am

GG BEst Artical Ever read and IT WORKS!

December 3, 2018 at 10:38 am

I KNOW RIGHT . This has really helped me. MY IQ LEVEL HAS BEEN RAISED TO 420.

December 11, 2018 at 4:27 pm

whattt your smarter than albert einstien

May 10, 2019 at 3:30 pm

thanx for give us what u have

November 20, 2019 at 1:04 am

Daniel help me on how I can improve my performance

April 16, 2020 at 4:51 pm

thank u sir

April 30, 2020 at 9:27 am

Thank You Mr. Wong, this is information is immensely valuable!

May 22, 2020 at 4:46 pm

thank you very much this was great really helpful

June 1, 2020 at 12:14 pm

Thanks and God bless, this really inspires me

August 1, 2024 at 2:55 pm

Just seeing this article too and very educational and useful

August 17, 2015 at 11:39 am

Thank you Daniel. I will share it with my children. High of them are in polyps and I am sure that they will find it useful. Many thanks.

August 17, 2015 at 11:44 am

You’re welcome, Simon. I hope your children find it useful!

May 22, 2019 at 7:01 am

Thank You For This…

August 17, 2015 at 2:05 pm

Thank you Daniel.This is simply superb, I will certainly share with my kids and it will find them very useful. Paul Gangadharan

August 17, 2015 at 2:13 pm

You’re most welcome, Paul!

November 2, 2018 at 3:06 pm

Hey daniel i am at 8th class in afghanistan school and i cant focus on my studies properly

January 30, 2019 at 4:10 pm

Maybe you have ADD or ADHD.

April 13, 2019 at 11:51 pm

Thankyou Sir very very useful for students!

December 31, 2020 at 11:18 am

It’s really beneficial for me… thank you for your amazing article

August 17, 2015 at 2:45 pm

Tks Daniel for the great stuff !

August 17, 2015 at 3:34 pm

I’m glad you found the article helpful, Alice!

October 31, 2018 at 7:55 pm

This article was very useful

January 4, 2020 at 8:09 am

I appreciate your efforts

August 17, 2015 at 7:37 pm

You’re an ANGEL

August 17, 2015 at 7:39 pm

I don’t actually think I’m an angel, but thanks 🙂

August 17, 2015 at 9:22 pm

Very useful information and not too lengthy. 4 pages are great wealth of knowledge. Thanks Daniel.

August 18, 2015 at 8:41 am

It’s my joy to help, Veena.

August 17, 2015 at 10:25 pm

Thanks a lot Daniel 🙂 I’m starting university this fall so I will do my best to heed the advice given.

August 18, 2015 at 8:42 am

You’re welcome, Offeri. All the best as you start university!

August 18, 2015 at 12:20 am

Thank you very much Daniel. Superb list. Will share this with my students

August 18, 2015 at 8:43 am

You are most welcome, Helen. I hope your students find the tips easy to apply!

August 18, 2015 at 9:04 am

Thanks Wong. I hope I can fully apply the tips !

August 18, 2015 at 9:30 am

Sure thing, Daniel. I hope you can apply the tips fully too!

August 18, 2015 at 5:09 pm

Im a student.But sleeping for 8 hours a day is nearly imposibble .I sleep for 5 hours only (max)

August 18, 2015 at 5:21 pm

Hi Alexa, I used to be like that too. But as I started using the techniques in this article (and many others that I wasn’t able to cover), I actually managed to sleep 8 hours a night — and I still managed to complete a double major in university with good results. So I encourage you that it really is possible if you make sleep a priority.

August 19, 2015 at 12:39 am

Thanks so much for the information Daniel. I’m a student and I find this very helpful thanks so much!

August 19, 2015 at 8:06 am

It’s my pleasure, Kuhan. Wishing you all the best!

August 19, 2015 at 8:31 am

I’m sure my daughter will find these helpful especially with exams around the corner. Thanks for sharing Daniel.

August 19, 2015 at 9:40 am

You’re welcome, Suja. Wishing your daughter all the best for her exams!

January 19, 2021 at 8:18 pm

Sir thanks a lot and everything that you wrote was really helpful and I learnt a lot from you thank you so much. As I am going to write my exams I was in fear and I saw all your notes and I won’t forget anything that you’ve said. Thank you so much sir.

August 21, 2015 at 2:20 pm

oh this is really helpful to manage my study,, oh thanks Iam waiting for your next article…….

August 21, 2015 at 4:57 pm

That’s great to hear, Wahyu. I’ll do my best not to disappoint!

August 23, 2015 at 6:43 am

Daniel, thanks for your sharing. It will be useful for my son, would like to share that too. Thks

August 23, 2015 at 7:36 pm

You’re welcome, Eric. I hope it helps your son!

October 21, 2020 at 8:29 am

Thanks Wong I’m starting University this year and I will try to apply all the tips

January 14, 2021 at 8:19 pm

Dear Daniel It’s 2021,I just finished reading your article and am actually grateful,u made my year and day a blast😁😄be blessed to infinity and beyond.Thank u

August 31, 2015 at 9:01 pm

Thank you Daniel,this helps a lot! Keep it up

September 2, 2015 at 11:37 pm

You’re welcome, tasnim!

September 1, 2015 at 10:52 pm

Thank you for the tips, Daniel! I’ve practised some of these tips throughout my first year of my bachelor’s degree life, and trust me, it works. Today I found these useful tips, I feel more motivated for my second year starting off soon. Thanks again!

September 2, 2015 at 11:38 pm

Sabrina, that’s excellent to hear that you’re feeling motivated about the start of your second year. Wishing you all the best!

August 8, 2018 at 9:02 pm

Thank you Daniel I will use this infor for my next up coming final exam which is to start in October (gcse(

August 8, 2018 at 9:21 pm

All the best for the exams!

August 10, 2018 at 6:28 am

thank you daniel…i really find this useful in my exam

August 10, 2018 at 9:52 am

You are very welcome.

August 10, 2018 at 10:58 pm

How many blueberries do I have to eat? Also thank you about this even though I just read this and not doing it yet, my exam is on August 14-17.

August 11, 2018 at 10:38 am

Thanks a Lot! Really amazing tips.

August 11, 2018 at 11:34 am

Glad you like it!

August 11, 2018 at 10:05 pm

It is simply acceptable without any complication.thank you for the suggestions Sir

August 16, 2018 at 8:59 am

Thanks Daniel for the tips I am a 10 grade student. So, I need this. Thank you so much.

August 17, 2018 at 5:57 pm

Please I’m not so good with school and I’m about to enter the university. How can I work hard to get a 5.0gp this 1st year. I really want to make my mom happy

August 19, 2018 at 1:14 am

Thanks alot bro, i though it was very hard to study but am sure this will help me alot.

August 19, 2018 at 2:08 pm

nice post very helpful thanks dear

August 23, 2018 at 4:33 pm

thanks soo much it helped me alot

August 24, 2018 at 12:37 am

Wow! Thanks I really find this article helpful because I’m about to write my matriculation exams into the university. Thanks a lot.

August 24, 2018 at 11:30 pm

thnks i fnd tha information useful

August 30, 2018 at 6:12 pm

Thank u Daniel ,I used to suffer a lot, thank u, it will help me a lot

August 31, 2018 at 3:28 am

thabnks danile! this helpled me a lot!!!! i luv u >3,><

September 2, 2018 at 4:53 pm

Thank you author for your wonderful share. its worth tips for learner like us.

September 5, 2018 at 8:54 pm

hi denial plz tell me some tips to overcome exam fear I m just so bad at exams I can’t concentrate properly when I study for my paper I just can’t stop thinking that how bad my exam can go and plus I leave everything for future I mean like when I study I feel like I will do it afterwards but till then I lost my time….plz help

October 1, 2018 at 10:25 pm

divide your work, cut the procrastination, I suffer from the same problem and trying to work this out! you need a reason to do all this! find the reason and your fear is gone!! so keep the aim you want to beat the highest scorer if that’s too much, keep a competition and do this, with an aim you can do it!! all the best

September 6, 2018 at 3:04 pm

thanks sir; really superb

September 10, 2018 at 12:51 am

Sir I find it very useful but I have a doubt that how learn the things for long time???

September 16, 2018 at 9:58 pm

Thanks a lot,I’ll definitely try and hope everything will work out well.How would I ask you for suggestions in case I need assistance?? Regards

September 21, 2018 at 12:20 am

My granddaughter is in her first year of college. She took her first final exam and is felt ready bad to she may not have done well, but your 20 Study Smart Scientific lessons are spot on. In fact, I mentioned a few of these lesson to her for personal experience. Thanks so much. I will also used them for myself, as well as pass on to others.

September 24, 2018 at 12:52 am

Thanks Daniel. I want to beat my scores and be better. I want more and more tips. Plzzzzzz

September 25, 2018 at 4:28 am

Finally found blog with some serious study tips. Love you Daniel for these precious tips

September 26, 2018 at 1:35 pm

Thx Daniel! My exam is coming up in a few days and I find this very useful!

October 1, 2018 at 8:51 pm

Dang this information is really useful thanks!

August 7, 2019 at 6:16 pm

i would like to say thanks for tips that you gave me guys ,i wish like other people can get this help

October 1, 2018 at 10:21 pm

HI DANIEL!! THIS is really great and thanks for guiding me! this is going to be really helpful for my exams

October 8, 2018 at 3:56 pm

what is the main goal of the article.

October 9, 2018 at 2:22 am

Thanks a lot Daniel…… It will be very helpful for my exam preparation…….👌👌👌

October 9, 2018 at 2:30 am

Mr Daniel Sir, I got very fantastic information from you. It is really helpful to me…

Thank you so much sir.

October 9, 2018 at 11:24 pm

Thank you so much sir. It is very helpful . I have got better marks in this example.

October 10, 2018 at 9:48 pm

Thanks Daniel, this is very helpful I feel like I’m okay with exams now. I pray that you get the wealth of life. Thank you very much!

October 15, 2018 at 2:35 pm

Thank you Daniel. I am currently doing the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and my grades were not up to scratch and so this advice has helped me a lot.

October 19, 2018 at 2:32 am

Thanks for the most important information.

October 20, 2018 at 9:02 pm

Thank u ,I will definitely apply this.

October 21, 2018 at 1:41 pm

thnx verry much it helped me alot

October 24, 2018 at 2:05 pm

I can’t thank you enough for this. I promise myself to follow all the tips within a years time. 😃

October 26, 2018 at 1:33 am

Amazing Tips!

October 30, 2018 at 8:44 pm

Thanx Sir…. That actually helped me in a long way throughout my whole life…

October 31, 2018 at 3:34 am

I think that by me reading this has just gave me a new way to look at life , and work at school.

October 31, 2018 at 4:08 am

thx u really helped

October 31, 2018 at 4:09 am

thx it really helped with everything

November 1, 2018 at 4:55 pm

Tank danyal

November 2, 2018 at 11:20 am

Thanks Daniel

November 2, 2018 at 5:36 pm

Great tips I’ve seen and they are real thanks so much

November 5, 2018 at 6:57 pm

Thanks, Daniel, an appreciable piece of work indeed. The best part is that your site is quite interactive, I really enjoyed reading the blog. A very vital information has been presented in a very interesting manner. I have practically tried some of the above-mentioned points and they turned out to be very helpful. But I had some queries for which I expected your help: What is the best time to sleep for students studying in class 9th? Also, I find it difficult to concentrate after taking lunch or dinner due to the drowsiness, so how to tackle it? THANKS ONCE AGAIN EAGERLY WAITING FOR YOUR REPLY.

November 5, 2018 at 7:04 pm

Thanks, Daniel, an appreciable piece of work indeed. The best part is that your site is quite interactive, I really enjoyed reading the blog. A very vital information has been presented in a very interesting manner. I have practically tried some of the above-mentioned points and they turned out to be very helpful. But I had some queries for which I expected your help: What is the best time to sleep for students studying in class 9th? Also, I find it difficult to concentrate after taking lunch or dinner due to the drowsiness, so how to tackle it? THANKS ONCE AGAIN

November 8, 2018 at 2:05 am

I loved ur tips and I hope so I would learn new things…….. And I’m very thankful and grateful to u………. I’m gonna ace this exam!!!!!!!

November 20, 2018 at 10:46 am

good tips in learning thank you for giving such information

November 23, 2018 at 5:28 pm

Thanks a lot. It helped alot to my 12th board students. Followed all steps of hard working given in this article and they all have lightened up a room of SUCCESS in their chapter of studies. Once again Thanks.

November 27, 2018 at 1:36 am

Thanks a lot Daniel. These tips definitely work and I must confess it was worth reading this article.

Keep up the good work!

December 3, 2018 at 2:14 pm

Really very happy to say, your post is very interesting to read. I never stop myself to say something about it. You’re doing a great job. Keep it up.

December 4, 2018 at 10:52 am

Thank you so much! I am a straight a student too. Thank to these tips!!!!

December 4, 2018 at 5:48 pm

Thanks my appreciation

December 5, 2018 at 7:14 pm

Fantastic tips, will make sure to utilize these for my January exams!

December 10, 2018 at 6:11 pm

Daniel rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

December 14, 2018 at 12:14 am

I’m an adult doing a home study course for Master Herbalist. I seek out information every day of my life and I love learning. But what really exacerbates me is how I tend to lose the details sometimes. I want to know how to retain the highest amount of information that I can. I read a lot of stuff and sometimes I feel like it’s a waste if I can’t retain all or at least most of it. Sometimes information really sticks with me and once I’ve read it once, I know I’ll remember it forever. Other times I’ll forget key details. I found your article in my pursuit o try to figure out how to retain it all!

I agree about the mnemonic devices, what a powerful way to remember! I actually remembered stalactite and stalagmite that way from way back in middle school (the ‘c’ in stalactite was for ‘ceiling’ in my case, and the ‘g’ in stalagmite for ‘ground’ as well..). If there were just such clear cut ways to do this in everything we attempt to learn!

December 14, 2018 at 11:44 pm

Thanks for this write up, I am really struggling academically and I am sure your tips will put me through.

December 15, 2018 at 4:56 pm

I am improving my knowledge everyday with your articles

December 18, 2018 at 2:51 am

great tips i really appreciate!!!

December 18, 2018 at 2:24 pm

This is insanely awesome!

December 26, 2018 at 6:58 pm

This is really good,Iam sure my grades will highly improve when I act them!

December 27, 2018 at 7:48 pm

Daniel, I found this article extremely helpful. I’m doing search on ways to learn faster. The fact that I haven’t been meeting my expectations in college bewilders me . Especially considering the fact that I have put in the necessary work needed. From reading this article, I realized that I have been doing a lot of things wrong. Especially the little things. It’s often easy to forget that the little things are those that matters the most. Thanks for this article. I hope other find it as useful as I have come to.

December 30, 2018 at 1:24 pm

Thank you so much sir. I found it very useful.After six months I am gonna sit for my final exam. Hope to get good results.

December 31, 2018 at 2:33 am

That is great!

January 8, 2019 at 3:15 pm

hey that’s great idea Good article keep your work up

January 10, 2019 at 2:03 am

How much time do I need to sleep before 2 months left for final exam

January 12, 2019 at 12:19 am

After reading this article i’ve realized how many and which things i was doing wrong,i will try to put some of the tips into practice. As for me the main enemy is procrastination.I try to fight it so hard,all the time,but usually i lose that battle,mainly the reason is having a job apart from studying ,that takes away alotta time that i could dedicate to studying.Sometimes i seek for assistance from online tutoring,like this https://homework-lab.com/ , when i’m totally out of time. I guess i already got used to work in squezzed time frames. Thanks for the article!

January 28, 2019 at 8:11 pm

Thanks so much from his i get idea to study

January 31, 2019 at 2:05 am

You have provided the best tips I’ve ever seen. Well, I still have issues with not sleeping when reading for a very long time. Any help?

February 7, 2019 at 10:44 pm

THANKS…

February 8, 2019 at 7:10 pm

Thanks a lot for this write up. It is really motivating.

February 9, 2019 at 10:03 pm

Thank you so much for this precious information Daniel! Now, I’m sure i can improve myself 😊

February 13, 2019 at 4:43 am

Thank you so much Daniel. I have my final high school exam in a few months this has really helped.

February 18, 2019 at 11:27 pm

thank you very much this is much much better…..

February 20, 2019 at 3:17 am

What is more beneficial? Note making or re-reading a text again & again? ? I found that I was wasting lots of my time in notes consolidation

February 26, 2019 at 9:18 am

Thank you so much… I loved the ways the are very effective.

March 5, 2019 at 12:22 am

thanks man. Hope this will really help me.

March 16, 2019 at 1:11 am

Thank you Daniel, may the God of Israel continue to blessed you for your work done.

March 18, 2019 at 3:29 pm

Thank you very much I wish you to give us more guidance

March 20, 2019 at 10:51 pm

This is best guidance for the exams I heard. Thanks much for this and keep going.

March 25, 2019 at 12:18 am

This article is very helpful and should be followed by most of students I think.

March 26, 2019 at 1:02 pm

Thank you so much

April 2, 2019 at 3:18 am

Thank you for this piece. ❤

April 6, 2019 at 9:58 am

Thnx….it was worth reading☺

April 9, 2019 at 9:59 pm

Thanks for sharing this detailed information! Amazing!

April 10, 2019 at 11:53 pm

Thank you very much Mr.D.Wong. This information is just priceless.

April 16, 2019 at 7:42 pm

smart work builds up you

April 19, 2019 at 3:48 am

Thanks dani, it’s Awesome.

April 23, 2019 at 2:29 am

thanks a lot, Daniel for all the tips

April 24, 2019 at 12:40 am

Amazing, Thank you for the tips I really needed them

April 28, 2019 at 11:30 pm

thanks dear .. its really good tips for better understanding and study… God bless you.

May 4, 2019 at 8:08 pm

Thanks a lot

May 12, 2019 at 11:05 pm

Hi Daniel. This article is fantastic and I’ve learnt many useful tips. I’m a first year Biomedical Science Student and I work part time and also workout. My days are usually packed and I feel as if I don’t have organised times to be able to cover all the week’s content and I find myself falling behind easily. I was wondering if you had any advice on how I could organise my time for both revisiting old content, learning new content and writing my own notes (this takes ages and I become very mentally passive). Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you!

June 9, 2019 at 6:47 pm

Thank you Daniel for Such a useful information.

May 14, 2019 at 2:13 am

Best article sir I am always in search of study time table tips and some motivation this is best article I ever read thanks and God bless you.

May 15, 2019 at 2:02 pm

I seriously love your articles. It’s helping me get through school. You’re amazing and thanks for helping us by sharing your knowledge. Xo!

May 26, 2019 at 10:01 pm

Thanks sir… I am tryibg to give the competitive exams… But I didn’t started it’s preparation… Some times I think that will I would be able to crack the exams… But this article helped me much…

But please sir help how to remain motivated during the preparation…. Please sir please…

June 14, 2019 at 4:58 am

It is just awesome sir .No better study tips i had found anywhere than this.Sir can i use idea to make my youtube videos on how to study smart in way …………………………………………. Plz reply me sir

June 14, 2019 at 10:44 am

You’re welcome, Bishal. For your YouTube videos, it would be ok if you share 1 or 2 tips from my list, but not more than that please. And for those 1 or 2 tips, can you please credit this blog post? Thank you!

June 15, 2019 at 5:42 pm

Thank you ,sir!.But I think i will use upto 5 tips from this blog could it be okk.I will share the link of your blog in my video description part…………………..

June 17, 2019 at 11:54 am

You’re welcome. How about a maximum of 3 tips from my post?

November 10, 2019 at 9:12 pm

I think this would go a long way to help… Though my problem is putting to action whatever new thing I learn… But I hope to get better..

June 18, 2019 at 4:47 am

i hope this will help me a lot.God bless u.

June 18, 2019 at 4:52 am

i’m actually studying my o’level but i’m getting trouble with maths,physics and chemistry so i need a extra help

June 28, 2019 at 11:58 am

This is excellent sir

June 29, 2019 at 12:39 pm

June 30, 2019 at 2:52 pm

July 4, 2019 at 6:49 am

Wow! Daniel I must confession, this article really change my life, I read this article last week but after I applyied all above mentioned tips I noticed that I have make a positive change academically, with the help of this your great article, bro I so much appreciate.

July 8, 2019 at 2:30 am

Thanks for this great article, I surely add these tips in my study schedule. Loved reading it.

July 8, 2019 at 12:15 pm

thanks for this Daniel but make an article on how to focus on studies I can’t focus on studies

July 9, 2019 at 12:14 am

Top notch ❤️ Daniel

August 21, 2019 at 4:04 pm

such a great advice

August 31, 2019 at 10:58 am

wow! I really like the article. Thanks Dan.

September 3, 2019 at 4:50 pm

JUST WOW…. NOW THAT I LEARNED A SMARTER WAY TO STUDY,I AM VERY CONFIDENT THAT MY COMING EXAM RESULT SHOULD BE A HUGE IMPROVEMENT THAN THE USSUAL. THANKS DANIEL, I SALUTE YOU’RE SUGGESTIONS ON STUDYING SMART AND NOT HARD,(SMART IS SMART AND HARD IS HARD ) SO TRUE. WELL THEN I SHOULD START THIS NEW RELIABLE STUDY METHOD,

September 26, 2019 at 5:04 pm

You did marvelously well But I really find it difficult in studying my chemistry and physics But very easy in mathematics I need to figure out the problem Hope you’ll help me

October 7, 2019 at 3:39 pm

oh my god im a student as well and this article helps me so much it’s the best article i’ve read thank you for creating this!

October 7, 2019 at 10:16 pm

Very useful information. Where have been this article when i was a schoolboy… Thanks.

December 27, 2019 at 3:57 pm

ThanQ so much sir😇

October 10, 2019 at 9:26 pm

Dany very nice tips. It is good to get more marks. I really love this. It’s really working. Thank u so much

October 14, 2019 at 1:42 am

thanks mr for this awesome advice i think it is helpfully to everyone who want to study smartly and have a continuing the learning goals not performarce goals

October 14, 2019 at 6:51 pm

Hi, can u share some smart tips on studying in poly?

October 29, 2019 at 3:15 am

Wow! this is interesting, thanks Daniel i hope it will be helpful.

October 30, 2019 at 12:08 am

Thank you this is really helpful .

November 10, 2019 at 12:31 pm

I really appreciate this tips.. tnx a lot God Bless…

November 19, 2019 at 11:42 pm

Thank you so much sir. This is really crucial and helpful.

November 20, 2019 at 12:21 pm

Thank you so much for the help Daniel!

November 20, 2019 at 10:32 pm

Thanks alot Daniel may God bless you. please how can i learn four subject within three month and get high grades in my upcoming exams.

November 25, 2019 at 10:43 pm

Thank you so much!!!

November 26, 2019 at 8:39 pm

it was just marvellous .. I was very distracted but u helped me a lot Danial thanks a lot

December 20, 2019 at 6:43 am

These are really great study tips to help improve the effectiveness of your efforts which is so important since everyone is working on limited amounts of time. Studying smarter is so much better than studying harder or longer:)

December 28, 2019 at 5:32 am

By the way this article is Awesome!Thank you a lot!!!

December 29, 2019 at 10:33 pm

Thanks for sharing this article I was having very much pressure for the exams but now I think it helps thanks for sharing this, Keep doing!!

January 1, 2020 at 7:55 pm

thank you so much I have got crucial information from this.

January 19, 2020 at 2:06 am

thank you for your tips. I think I can be BETTER than before. I don’t like studying this motivates me.

January 29, 2020 at 12:21 pm

Thanks Daniel sir. I am studying for my final exams and your tips are helping me a lot.

February 15, 2020 at 6:39 pm

Thanks so much Daniel , all the tips that you mention above really helped me very well, the fact is that I personally applied this tips and it helped me a lot, Thanks once Again.

February 17, 2020 at 6:13 pm

This is very helpful thanks

March 2, 2020 at 7:25 am

Thanks Daniel that was really superb and helpful. You got a great way of explaining things to people . Thanks a lot it was really helpful

March 8, 2020 at 10:22 am

its good to read this because creates my mind to study various subjects day by day at a regular interval thank you so much .

March 10, 2020 at 12:14 pm

Hi Daniel, I really liked your tips and it was really inspiring! I also have a question, Is it scientifically proven that front row people have the best marks or hearing and why?

March 12, 2020 at 9:34 pm

Thank you very much Daniel, I believe this will really boost my performance.

April 3, 2020 at 7:16 am

Many thanks to you Daniel. Actually am already motivated with this tips, cuz I have been looking sth like this for a long time and I believe that with this information that I will be performing well in my academics. GOD BLESS YOU.

April 3, 2020 at 4:32 pm

Thanks alot, this article has really helped me out

April 17, 2020 at 7:20 am

Really great post here. I can see the effort and time you put into this… and I love the approach you took to lay it all out. Thank you

April 23, 2020 at 2:21 am

May 3, 2020 at 2:18 pm

Thank you so much, it helped a lot to focus more and to set my learning goals.

May 3, 2020 at 2:41 pm

Thank you Daniel for the tips.These tips has helped me in improving my score average.May God bless you so much.

May 12, 2020 at 4:28 pm

Thank you daniel i appreciate ur efforts n time to help with this tips i will surely improve better; buh,sleepn for 8 hrs is a little any way i can extend that time. Once again tnk u sir

May 12, 2020 at 5:11 pm

Thanks Alot For The Tips Sir.

May 13, 2020 at 10:56 pm

Nice article Wong. Great going, keep writing. Keep sharing your wonderful thoughts.

May 28, 2020 at 9:44 am

How to be consistent at studies. ? Some time I study a lot and give break for few days and I forget what I learnt. Please suggest on how to be consistent and avoid negative thoughts and procrastination

June 3, 2020 at 12:49 am

This has really been helpful thank you 😊

June 4, 2020 at 3:53 pm

That’s great tip

June 12, 2020 at 1:15 am

June 13, 2020 at 8:44 pm

sir I was a bright student according to people who can discourage what can I do to get back to the topper I am a science student

June 13, 2020 at 11:07 pm

It is very helpful for me. I was already finding the way to learn faster. and I got ur report. It’s awesum. Give sum more tips if u find it appropriate for us.

June 15, 2020 at 12:55 am

Many thanks Daniel

June 17, 2020 at 7:47 pm

June 20, 2020 at 12:54 am

I am really improving thanks a lot this is really awesome:)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I really do not know how to thank you:)!!!!!! U ARE MY ROLE MODEL.

July 5, 2020 at 12:04 pm

Wow am stupendously electrified. I learnt alot and also correct my mistakes

July 6, 2020 at 7:27 am

Thank you Daniel . I just searched for it but am sure it will be of great help😁😁

July 8, 2020 at 7:06 pm

Thanks for this great article Daniel.

Daniel, pls, what would you recommend for quicker understanding and fast reading of text?

July 9, 2020 at 6:22 am

Thanks this really helped me

July 16, 2020 at 7:44 am

This is definitely amazing 😍 I have done most of the things mentioned and it does work thank you I will study my hard topics just before bedtime. I am one of the 8 hours sleeper but still manages medical school

July 23, 2020 at 4:07 am

Thank you very much it helped me a lot. ……

July 28, 2020 at 7:13 pm

Wow this article is the best I’ve seen. Thanks again Daniel,your the best.

August 4, 2020 at 1:32 am

Thanks for giving helpful tips

August 18, 2020 at 3:21 pm

Daniel, I really love this post it’s a great and significant contribution to my straight A’s result

September 11, 2020 at 3:34 pm

Thanks alot for sharing these tips. I really appreciate your efforts. I am going to really implement these in my life.

Thank you 😊

October 8, 2020 at 10:50 am

I sat in the last row and scored 94%. And the guy who was the topper was from the last bench as well!

October 31, 2020 at 1:31 am

You can still sit at the last bench and still get excellent grades, it’s all about determination.

October 11, 2020 at 2:12 pm

Very important Daniel…..Thank you so much🙏🏻

December 5, 2020 at 4:21 pm

Thank you Daniel

January 3, 2021 at 3:47 am

Thanks for the tips Mr Daniel ☺️

January 15, 2021 at 6:24 pm

I was so worried for my exams. I was actually finding the ways for good studies . I am a 9th grade student and thank you Daniel For such a Brilliant article

January 25, 2021 at 1:06 pm

Hello! Thank you so much for this amazing article, I will implement one tip each day, I will try to do that. Also, anyone who reads this, I am rooting for you, you can do whatever you are trying to do for some good cause. YOU CAN DO IT! We all are here to support you.

February 9, 2021 at 11:17 pm

Thanks so much for this really appreciate.

February 10, 2021 at 5:46 am

Hi Daniel Wong i was having trouble studying but i’ll give your tips a try — great article by the way

February 27, 2021 at 3:46 pm

Thank you so much for these essential tips sir!

February 27, 2021 at 5:41 pm

During exams, when reading, I find it hard to summarize or remember what I’ve read. Sometimes when it is time for the exam, I will get a headache.

February 28, 2021 at 2:50 am

I am Priscilla, PROF Daniel, I am encouraged by yours today and I have great assurance in you, thank you. I am in the 9th class (junior high school) in Ghana, West Africa. I am optimistic that I will be victorious in tomorrow’s exams. God richly bless you!

March 1, 2021 at 12:28 am

You have helped a lot and this has made so much of changes in my daily routine. Thank you for your help and support.👍👍👍👍

March 11, 2021 at 9:07 pm

Hope this is going to help

March 21, 2021 at 6:05 pm

I pray this will help

March 21, 2021 at 11:05 pm

thank you very much

April 12, 2021 at 1:36 am

Thank you so much Daniel it was nice reading your article I am a Nigerian and i am writing jamb this year and your article was all just I needed.

April 13, 2021 at 9:09 pm

I will be back here in August with my june results😌🙌

April 14, 2021 at 1:45 pm

I don’t eat eggs.

April 16, 2021 at 1:25 pm

wow..these tips are amazing..it is really useful….these tips make us smart learners

April 20, 2021 at 6:21 pm

The article is really nice,thank you very much,but I have a big issue when it comes to reading before I sleep,once I open my books I sleep off,but I can read from four in the morning,it’s just that the timing is not usually enough to study before going for lectures around six in the morning.

April 23, 2021 at 5:49 pm

wow… this is awesome!

April 25, 2021 at 3:10 am

Thank you Daniel, I can work with this.

May 2, 2021 at 6:25 am

Thanks Daniel. Already I used all tips except 2. Thanks again for the 2 & proving rest.

May 4, 2021 at 7:48 pm

Really Amazing Thanks alot

May 22, 2021 at 7:55 pm

Whoa. I did not know a lot of these. I hope they work because I have a load of work to do and all of it is due so soon…

“… One bite at a time.”

June 9, 2021 at 9:35 pm

Really awesome and so helpful thank u so much for this its so beautifully written that i understood instantly thanks again🤗

June 15, 2021 at 5:13 pm

Amazing article. Loved it, Thanku so much..

December 3, 2021 at 10:26 am

Thanks a lot !! this really helped me

November 24, 2022 at 9:35 pm

This is great

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i love your tips and i hope i will apply them to my studys

February 4, 2023 at 7:27 pm

I WILL DEFINETLEY TRY THESE AND BTW SO MOTIVATING

February 16, 2023 at 8:44 pm

I am vegetarian

March 30, 2023 at 11:40 pm

Thank you! this was so inspiring!

October 31, 2023 at 4:22 am

Thanks for this amazing article, it will really help a lot…

November 10, 2023 at 2:47 am

Thanks for this steps, it has really helped me alot.

January 5, 2024 at 2:47 am

Thanks a ton for this. In case of procastination,just get determined and if not working,deprive yourself of something when you fail to do what you procastinated for.You’d gradually get rid of the habit

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