Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: J I 6 D C II A Fig. 5.—Graph showing progress of sixty-four students in field artillery materiel, based on objective scale: a. Grades obtained in first test, end of one-third of quarter; b. Grades obtained in second test, end of two-thirds of quarter; c. Grades obtained in final test, end of quarter. grade D, which is barely passing in the University, with eight conditioned and eleven failures. The change in the median is noticeable, as is the final grouping toward high marks. Evidently the university students were well able to learn materiel and to understand its uses. (2) The presentation of successive graphs to the class added considerable interest to the tests and to the work. APPENDIXES APPENDIX A. STUDY HELPS [From suggestions to University High School Students] Good work habits are quite as important as subject-matter. Your aim should be to do the job in less time and do it better. 1. Form a time and place habit by studying the lesson in the same subject in the same place, at the same time each day. Don't study immediately after a heavy meal. 2. Have proper study conditions and equipment—a quiet room not too warm, good light on the left, a straight chair and table, the necessary books, tools, and materials. 3. Study independently. Do your own work and use your own judgment, asking for help only wh/en you cannot proceed without it, thus developing ability to think for yourself, and the will-power and self-reliance essential to success. 4. Arrange your tasks economically; study those requiring fresh attention first; those in which concentration is easier, like written work, later. 5. Sit straight and go at the work vigorously, with confidence and determination, without lounging or waste of time. When actually tired, exercise a moment, open...