It is extremely important to study, and to practice, hand-solving
problems, on a regular basis
Consistency of your efforts, will improve your problem-solving
skills.
In
the Live Tutoring Classes, you will undergo, a rapid growth process.
The
more regular and consistently that you study, the better, and faster
this growth process will be.
You
will see better results, if you
study, in small
study-sessions which
are regularly spaced, rather than in large
study sessions which are
randomly spaced.
When
you
study in small
study-sessions which are regularly spaced, every
study session will build, on the previous session.
Your
mind will retain technical information, in short-term memory, for a
24 to 48 hour period.
After 48 hours, if you dont build on it, the information decays
rapidly.
So,
try not to have more than a 2 day spacing, in between your
study
sessions.
If
your
study intervals are more than 2 days, you will start to forget,
and you will end up duplicating some of your efforts from your last
study session.
So,
by keeping your
study intervals less than 2 days, your mind will
automatically transfer the information from short-term memory to
long-term memory.
You
will be able to build up your skills much faster, your
studying will
be much more efficient, you will learn more, with less efforts.
Ideally,
studying a little bit, everyday, is the best
study
schedule.
New,
Live Tutoring Class users, always report to us, with amazement, how
fast they grow, in their problem-solving skills.
With
every problem which you solve, your skills, problem-solving speed,
and confidence, will grow incrementally.
Engineering material, can be very complex,and overwhelming.
The
worst way to
study this complex material, is to try to take in too
much information in a
study session, and then compromise your
retention, with large intervals in between
studying.
When
you take in too much information, your mind will not be able to
process, and retain the information.
When
you have large intervals beween
study sessions, you allow the
information to decay rapidly.
In
the Live Tutoring Classes, you follow, the 3 fundamental laws of
learning technical material.
1.
you absorb a limited amount of information, spending around 2 hours
per tutoring session.
2.
you keep your intervals between sessions, short, less than 2 days.
3.
in the tutoring session, you work the problems yourself, only after you
are given very efficient, problem-solving procedures.
Your
tutoring sessions are structured this way.
You
are first given a short mini-lecture, which discusses a very
efficient, problem solving procedure.
Because the mini lecture is short, you stay alert, and you absorb
the information.
All
your senses are engaged, you view the mini lecture on the screen,
you listen to information, and at the same time, you have to hand
copy the procedure sheet.
Your vision. hearing. tactile senses, are all engaged.
After the mini lecture, you are assigned a simple, one star
difficulty-level problem.
In
this first problem, you only mimic the problem-solving procedure,
this gives you confidence, and you start to become familiar with the
equations.
After you have hand solved the problem, you get instant feedback,
when we discuss the problem.
Because you just practiced with the information, you will be
focused, when we discuss the problem, and in this ideal learning
window, when you are highly focused, we introduce another packet of
information.
You
are then assigned more problems.
Each problem is stepped up in dificulty level, incrementally.
After you hand solve each problem, we present the solution, and we
introduce another packet of information.
This cycle continues, for 5 to 10 problems per problem type, then we
continue with the next mini lecture, where we discuss the next
logical problem type.