What are some strategies to make studying fun?

Answer 1

One teacher assigned the book Word Power to build our vocabularies. Talk about a sleeping pill! But I put the Reader's Digest, which I enjoy, on the desk, and read two pages alternatively in each--back and forth, back and forth, to break up the boredom. After several study periods I was done, and got 100 on the test. The next highest grade was 37.

On the other hand, what's wrong with Americans that they think academic subjects have to be made into a game? Studying is work. So is sweeping street, picking strawberries, hoeing potatoes and so forth. I've learned several languages just by resigning myself to the fact that some things are worth doing even if they aren't as exciting as a video game. Language learning is a good example. Everyone is looking for an easy way, such as "going to the country where it's spoken." Well, I live in a country where Russian and Ukrainian are spoken, and I only get better when I study them. Otherwise I stay at whatever plateau I stopped at.

But setting a goal or deadline, and graphing your progress, at least gives you a challenge to work toward, because otherwise one of Parkinson's Laws applies: Work expands to fill the time available.

Answer 2

Make flash cards that you can flick through when travelling or just bumming around, or to play memory game with friends studying the same thing.
Write quotes and formula up on paper in big colourful writing and put them up where you'll see then often.
Make up mnemonics (a word where each letter stands for something, eg, SIFT [Study Is Fun Today]. I know, poor example, it was all I could think of just now).
Keep the end in sight!

Answer 3

Study with friends....

Answer 4

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