MOTIVATION: Studying together can be much more motivating than studying alone. Setting targets and working towards them together can help keep you focused on completing your assignments. Often study done together is more active and engaging than studying alone and this is much better for retention.
 
DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING:  Discussing with a friend, bouncing ideas off each other, asking each other questions – all of these will help strengthen your neural networks and deepen your understanding of what you are learning. This can help to develop our higher order thinking skills.
 
DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES: Sometimes we don’t realise we are looking at things in one particular way and there are different and diverse viewpoints to ours. Learning with a friend can put things in a different perspective, helping you see things differently. This can help develop our critical thinking skills. 
 
BUILD TEAMWORK SKILLS: Learning to cooperate, negotiate and problem solve with others is a great skill to have in later life. By learning with other students, you have opportunities to learn to participate more actively in group work and also develop communication and leadership skills.

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