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“The Smart Study Success System” There are certainly additional explanations and references in the complete video, but this set of notes is designed to give you a super fast review of the content that you can use as prestudy material or to consolidate what you learned in the video. Revision Questions: The winner’s attitude. Taken from the six point system of the ‘Police Mindset’. Additional point to consider. Gratitude. The ability to keep a positive context. Questions on Police Selection, Police Fitness and Police Exams are covered in detail in the Police Entrance Exam Preparation resources which are available here at this link: http://policeprep.com.au/trainingproducts/ ! A"tude of a Winner ! Never1ending Improvement ! Analy8cal Perspec8ve ! Restrained Responsibility ! Smart Stereotyping ! Empathe8c (not sympathe8c)
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“The  Smart  Study  Success  System”    

There  are  certainly  additional  explanations  and  references  in  the  complete  video,  but  this  set  of  notes  is  designed  to  give  you  a  super  fast  review  of  the  content  that  you  can  use  as  pre-­‐study  material  or  to  consolidate  what  you  learned  in  the  video.    Revision  Questions:    The  winner’s  attitude.  Taken  from  the  six  point  system  of  the  ‘Police  Mindset’.    

   Additional  point  to  consider.  Gratitude.  The  ability  to  keep  a  positive  context.      Questions  on  Police  Selection,  Police  Fitness  and  Police  Exams  are  covered  in  detail  in  the  Police  Entrance  Exam  Preparation  resources  which  are  available  here  at  this  link:  http://policeprep.com.au/training-­‐products/        

! A"tude'of'a'Winner'

! Never1ending'Improvement'

! Analy8cal'Perspec8ve'

! Restrained'Responsibility'

! Smart'Stereotyping'

! Empathe8c'(not'sympathe8c)'

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The  Smart  Success  Study  System    Practical  tools  to  implement  in  recruit  study  to  make  the  most  of  the  little  time  available  to  study.  How  to  learn  and  how  learn  quickly.    Pre-­‐study  should  be  completed,  yet  this  is  not  usually  provided.  Be  careful  of  making  your  own  decisions  on  what  you  study  in  advanced.  Otherwise  you  may  learn  the  wrong  material  which  may  make  things  confusing  at  the  academy.  Consider  making  a  clean-­‐slate  approach.    The  benefits  of  implementing  this  system  include  making  a  fantastic  first  impression  on  graduation  when  your  knowledge  is  tested  under  the  supervision  of  more  senior  officers.  Do  you  know  your  stuff  or  not?    There  are  four  steps  to  the  Smart  Study  Success  System.      

       

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1.  Identify  your  reasons  for  studying.    

-­‐  Reasons  always  come  first.  If  you  have  a  strong  enough  reason  you  can  do  anything.    

-­‐  Break  down  your  personal  inspiration  for  each  topic.  What  is  the  relevance?  If  the  instructors  aren’t  giving  it  to  you,  then  make  an  effort  to  ask  the  context  so  you  can  make  it  fit  your  motivations.    2.  Determine  your  learning  style.    

-­‐  You  might  not  be  able  to  choose  the  format  of  lessons  but  you  can  certainly  choose  the  format  of  your  own  study.    

-­‐  Go  through  the  pre-­‐study  planning  tool  in  order  to  identify  what  worked  in  the  past,  what  didn’t  work.  Then  look  at  the  current  circumstances  and  how  this  might  affect  applying  your  previous  successful  models.  

 -­‐  For  example,  the  time  of  day  you  studied  in  the  past  may  not  

be  appropriate  in  your  current  schedule.    -­‐  Next  is  to  evaluate  your  resources  available  to  study.  

Materials,  locations,  time  and  environment.    

-­‐  Finally,  review  the  topic  of  study  AFTER  you’ve  completed  a  module  to  conduct  the  after  action  review  of  how  to  improve  your  study  process  in  the  next  module.    

-­‐  All  parts  in  Step  2  are  listed  in  the  pre-­‐study  planning  tool.    3.    Schedule  it.    

-­‐  When  you  talk  about  it,  is  possible,  envision  it,  now  your  closer,  but  schedule  it  and  make  it  real.         -­‐  Lock  it  in  the  calendar.       -­‐  Review  how  much  time  each  week  is  actually  spent  in  study.  How  does  this  compare  to  how  much  time  is  allocated  elsewhere?  Does  your  allocation  of  time  reflect  your  values  and  what  is  important?  

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4.  Take  Action.       -­‐  Follow  through  on  the  schedule.  You’re  about  to  be  living  on  one,  so  get  used  to  this!  It  is  actually  quite  freeing.       -­‐  Importance  of  taking  action  on  these  steps.    

-­‐ How  to  avoid  procrastination.  The  Emergency  Study  Help  Tool    

o Step  One:  Get  Perspective  (what  is  at  stake?  What  is  up  for  gain  and  what  is  a  risk  of  losing?)    

o Step  Two:  Evaluation  your  position  (step  back  and  look  at  where  you  are  in  your  study  plan.  If  you  don’t  have  one,  then  write  one  right  now  in  this  step.)  

 o Step  Three:  Identify  your  obstacles  (what  is  your  current  distraction?  Eliminate  or  delay.  Choose  one  and  take  action  on  the  distraction.)  

 o Step  Four:  Set  your  immediate  goal  (One  achievement  to  be  made  in  THIS  study  session.  Basically  chunk  it  down  to  smaller  pieces  that  you  can  manage.  Avoid  overwhelm  and  deal  with  one  thing  at  a  time)  

 o Step  Five:  Take  immediate  action.  What  is  one  small  step  step  and  one  BIG  step  you  can  take  right  now,  today  to  get  yourself  moving.  This  is  all  about  momentum.  Just  do  something,  no  matter  how  small,  and  you  will  soon  be  on  track  in  study.  

     

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Study  Success  Techniques    

-­‐  Some  specific  techniques  I  used  that  suited  my  learning  style.    -­‐  Study  results  are  more  to  do  with  efficiency  and  not  duration.  

How  much  you  retain  is  more  related  to  HOW  you  study  than  how  LONG  you  study.  

 

   

1.  Note  taking.         -­‐  Is  it  worth  taking  notes?  What  if  the  notes  are  given  to  you  before  hand?       -­‐  The  action  of  writing  things  down  assist  most  people  to  retain  information.  It  activates  the  Reticular  Activating  System.  It  tells  your  brain  that  ‘this  is  important’.       -­‐  You  may  choose  to  take  notes  before,  during  or  after  or  any  combination  of  this.  It  comes  back  to  identifying  your  particular  learning  style.  If  you  can  only  remember  a  portion  of  the  information,  keep  notes  in  order  of  priority.      

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2. Memory  Hooks:    [This  section  really  requires  the  video  aid  to  truly  make  sense  –  but  if  you’re  using  this  as  revision,  here  are  some  notes  on  this  

section]    

-­‐  Visualising  Pictures.    -­‐  What  if  you  don’t  visualise?  Well  we  all  do  it.    Are  you  harsh  

on  yourself  on  your  standards  of  visualising?  Can  you  close  your  eyes  and  remember  the  colour  of  one  object  around  you?  If  so,  then  you  can  visualise.    

-­‐  The  crazy  story  system  of  each  one  relating  to  the  next.  Recently  heard  this  called  the  pure  link  system.    

 -­‐  Using  a  NON-­‐POLICE  example  so  I  don’t  confuse  you  with  the  

exact  requirements  of  your  course.  But  what  I’m  doing  here  you  can  apply  to  something  as  abstract  as  police  study.    Example  List  that  makes  little  sense  and  so  is  therefore  hard  to  remember.    Imagine  a  spaceship  captain  has  to  remember  10  things  before  taking  off  in  his  spaceship    Check  frost  on  the  outside  of  the  plane  Pull  all  the  rocks  out  of  the  exhaust  ports  Clean  the  hyper  drive  outlet  Give  each  passenger  1  Banana  and  Two  cherries  Call  the  control  tower  to  request  permission  to  take  off  Put  on  his  spacesuit  Get  in  the  cockpit  Check  all  the  instruments  Turn  on  the  music  system  Read  the  navigation  instructions        

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We  talk  about  how  this  study  of  ridiculous  stories  can  truly  help  remember.  Now  to  take  this  to  another  level,  try  this  out  on  that  list  of  words  I  sent  you  earlier.    Sausage  Key  Golf  Cloud  Water  Police  Officer  Car  Wall  Baby  Submarine    The  more  structured  approach  to  this.    1,  2,  3,  4,  5  Lighthouse,  Glasses,  Stool,  Window,  Hand    The  key  to  take  away  is  that  the  more  visual  and  outlandish  and  emotive  you  make  your  memory  hooks,  the  more  likely  they  are  to  stick.        

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Memory  Hooks  (Continued)    Acronyms    Finally,  there  is  the  acronym  method,  which  we  used  in  the  process  of  remembering  the  six  points  of  the  Police  Mindset.    Some  of  you  may  have  used  this  before  even  without  realizing.  If  I  asked  you  to  think  of  the  colours  of  a  rainbow,  in  order.  It  is  likely  that  those  of  you  who  know,  the  first  thing  that  pops  into  your  head  is  the  word  ROY-­‐G-­‐BIV    So  this  can  be  a  fantastic  method  for  wrote  learning  of  lists.  Particularly  if  not  required  in  order,  you  can  reorder  a  list  to  make  more  sense  to  you  to  use  this  technique.    You  can  also  do  it  five  letters  that  are  all  the  same.  For  example,  if  you  had  to  remember  the  different  reasons  for  using  handcuffs  and  the  list  was:    To  effect  an  arrest  To  protect  others  To  protect  the  person  To  prevent  escape  To  prevent  further  offence    You  might  decide  to  remember  it  as  the  “Arresting  four  ‘p’s”  So  it  would  automatically  trigger  the  first  ‘arrest’  point  and  then  you  would  simply  have  to  remember  the  four  p’s  which  you  could  remember  as  divided  into  two  protects  and  two  prevents.      Now  I’m  not  saying  these  are  THE  reasons  for  using  handcuffs.  I’m  very  wary  of  using  police  examples  here  because  I  don’t  want  to  confuse  you  on  the  actual  content  and  formal  training  you  will  get  at  the  academy.  I’m  simply  demonstrating  a  point  on  acronyms!        

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Police  Testing  –  Free  bonus  download  and  we  discussed  why  it  will  help  in  both  the  selection  exams  AND  also  at  the  academy.    3.  Final  Technique:  Pre-­‐reading.    

-­‐  The  effect  of  spiral  learning.  The  benefit  of  pre-­‐reading  and  why  it  boosts  retention.    

-­‐  If  you  boost  retention  you  massively  reduce  the  post-­‐lesson  study  requirements.  If  you  learn  it  in  the  first  place!  i.e.  Using  this  correctly  translates  to  LESS  time  spent  in  study.  

 -­‐  Pre-­‐reading  is  the  number  one  tool  to  boost  actual  efficiency  

of  study.  In  other  words  –  retain  more  information  with  LESS  time  study.    How  does  this  apply  to  LEGAL  STUDY?  Example  given  in  video  sequence.  


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