Your best studying tips?

Question

What's your best tip for studying alot of detailed information that has to be retained in a class that will be an intense course of six eight hour days for five weeks and all tests have to be passed with a ninety percent although I'd like to strive for one hundred percent all the way through?

Answer 1

count :
1- Use your pen !
2- Make summaries
3- rehearse
4-study for short periods with high concentration , days before exams and repeat .
5- write affirmations
6- compete with others , set a target .
7- at spare time rehearse
8- make trees and drawings

Good luck

Answer 2

I usually will do the reading before the class, so that I know what the teacher is going to be talking about, and then the lectures stay with me better.

I will also do mind mapping. There are some pretty good books out there on this subject, and I think you can also find the basics on the net. This a way of representing the material visually and that helps you to see connections between things.

If I have to memorize a lot, I will also use flashcards. You have to be careful with flashcards though. It works for short term memory, but not long term. You have to assign some kind of meaning to the information in order to be able to keep it for a long time.

Answer 3

Here are my tips, or at least what has always worked well for me.

--Listen carefully to lectures, and take notes. Most good lecturers speak in a way that lends itself to note taking in outline form. If your lecturer does not, go back each evening and organize your notes into an outline. Go for big ideas and examples in your outline; you don't have to include every single word the teacher said.

--Read all the assigned materials, and use a highlighter when you read to mark key points. This will help you when you review. Also, keep notes as you read, either in the margins, or on note cards.

--Actively participate in class discussions. Ask questions about points you don't understand, and pay attention to what the others in the class have to say, as that is sometimes as important to understanding the material as anything else.

--At the end of every few days or at the end of a week, take your outline from your lecture notes, and your reading materials, and make a master outline of all you have learned from both. This is a good time to add notes to your outline that include more specific examples that will help you understand the material, such as citations about case studies or experiments. Keep this master outline up to date, as it will be your friend when it is time to study.

--If there is anything you don't understand, make a list and at the end of a study session, research it. It could be as simple as looking up the meaning of a word you are unfamiliar with, or doing some basic research on Mendel and his genetics experiments. You just need to make sure you understand everything completely, and make notes about problem areas or concepts you are having trouble mastering.

--If part of the course involves learning new vocabulary or terms, pay special attention to those. Usually, courses that are language intensive, such as anatomy courses, have workbooks or exercises to help you master the new words. Be sure to do those and make sure you memorize both the spellings and the meanings of each one carefully.

--Periodically review your master outline (which should be up to date), and make sure you understand all the concepts in it. Go back and make sure you do the work to master stuff as you go, because if you leave it until the end, you are in serious trouble.

--If there is a final test, start studying for it about 10 days before it is given. Review your master outline, and re-read key passages from the reading material, which you should already have highlighted. Pay attention to memorizing things like formulas, vocabulary, dates, proper names, and any large movements or trends in the area you are studying. Continue reviewing nightly up to the time for the big exam. That way you don't have to try and cram a bunch of stuff in your head at the last moment. You can simply re-read your master outline the morning of the test, or the night before, and everything should already be tucked neatly in your head; your master outline will just help you see how everything fits together.

--Study sessions can be long, but they need to be broken up with breaks if that is the case. It's perfectly okay to study for four hours if you get up every 30 minutes and go dink around, or take a short walk, or just get away from the material in some way. It's just to hard to concentrate intensely for really long periods of time.

Well, that's it. It sounds terrible, and it is kind of a labor intensive process, but it's the best way of studying I know. I tend to do well on exams without much study, so the classes where I really needed to focus were the ones where I did my best studying. It was reflected in my grades, as the harder the class, the better my grade was. The easier classes were the ones I didn't do as well in.

Good luck!

Answer 4

I usually do good with flashcards. Just writing out the cards helps to get the information in your head. It is good that you want to do better than the minimum expected of you, but don't be unrealistic. If you don't get one hundred percent on one of the tests, don't let that stop you from trying that hard on the rest of them.

Answer 5

When I was taking my most difficult courses: Calculus and Physics (with a Calculus background), I found it extremely useful to do EVERY problem at the end of each chapter even when not assigned.

Answer 6

1) Scan through the chapter material to get a general idea of what is being learned/taught.

2) Read the chapter fully, highlighting if necessary

3) Re-read and take notes if necessary

Answer 7

Read (highlight & make notes in book)
Write (flashcards or summary notes)
Recite...(talk it outloud...tell it to a friend)

and take notes in color! It works for me..

Answer 8

"PLANNING N TIME MANAGEMENT"
"concentration"
"HARD WORK"
these tree factors automatically crop up skilled studying tips
(but nothing 2 an overdose !)
trust me
these really work (certainly in my case they did work)

Answer 9

I smoke the nuggs.