Alcibiades
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Basically, I went to a free intro. seminar this past week and they had a preview of a the full course they give (12 hrs, 3 hrs a week for 4 weeks).
I can't find much info on them online, but they gave themselves the name Educational Research and Learning Centers.
They claim that taking the course will help my reading and study tremendously because they go over the best techniques, and that it will even help with technical material.
I have a buddy that took the class and he claims it helped him bigtime (he's a freshman and I'm a senior though, so he probably heard some of the techniques for the first time, whereas I've been to a few free study sessions help by other groups/teachers where I hear some of the same advice.)
The difference is that this center will give you pre and post tests and they guarantee that you will increase your reading speed and notetaking ability, and one you pay once, you'll be a lifetime member and can go back later semesters (I know I'll be graduating at the earliest sometime in '06).
I am usually very weary of things like this, but I've heard from some people that it really works, and my buddy really thinks I should do it.
I guess I have an idea what I will be hearing (though not all of it), but feel that actually paying for a class and having someone there helping (they are very small classes and a lot of one-on-one) would probably work better than trying to apply some of these things myself.
At the first session, they even ask that we take our regular textbooks and they'll start helping us with those right away.
while this place has no website, I'm sure they are somewhat affiliated with this website, because some of the instructors overlap:
http://www.effectivereading.com/
Has anybody here ever done any of these things and actually have it help.
It's really expensive, and I'd definitely take a huge hit on it, but I'll get $10 off for leaving a deposit and $15 off for paying cash, but I don't know if they charge tax yet.
I can't find much info on them online, but they gave themselves the name Educational Research and Learning Centers.
They claim that taking the course will help my reading and study tremendously because they go over the best techniques, and that it will even help with technical material.
I have a buddy that took the class and he claims it helped him bigtime (he's a freshman and I'm a senior though, so he probably heard some of the techniques for the first time, whereas I've been to a few free study sessions help by other groups/teachers where I hear some of the same advice.)
The difference is that this center will give you pre and post tests and they guarantee that you will increase your reading speed and notetaking ability, and one you pay once, you'll be a lifetime member and can go back later semesters (I know I'll be graduating at the earliest sometime in '06).
I am usually very weary of things like this, but I've heard from some people that it really works, and my buddy really thinks I should do it.
I guess I have an idea what I will be hearing (though not all of it), but feel that actually paying for a class and having someone there helping (they are very small classes and a lot of one-on-one) would probably work better than trying to apply some of these things myself.
At the first session, they even ask that we take our regular textbooks and they'll start helping us with those right away.
while this place has no website, I'm sure they are somewhat affiliated with this website, because some of the instructors overlap:
http://www.effectivereading.com/
Has anybody here ever done any of these things and actually have it help.
It's really expensive, and I'd definitely take a huge hit on it, but I'll get $10 off for leaving a deposit and $15 off for paying cash, but I don't know if they charge tax yet.
