Successful students are effective at focusing their attention and maintaining a high level of concentration. Practicing techniques for focusing attention and maintaining concentration helps the student implement effective learning strategies. Information Processing and Selecting Main Ideas Students with good information processing skills know how to add meaning and organization to what they are trying to learn and how to select important information. There are numerous methods to assist the student improve their information processing and selecting main idea skills. Students need to understand the importance of self testing and reviewing and the fact that there are specific methods to review material and to monitor comprehension.
Successful students know how to prepare for tests and characteristics of different types of tests.