What are reaaally good studying techniques?

Question

I've been really stressed lately and I want to keep my good grades, but I've been slacking a little lately. Help?

Answer 1

Go into a room alone to study.

Coach

Answer 2

First, pay attention in class. That sounds obvious, but a lot of people get so bogged down in taking notes that they don't comprehend what's being communicated. Try this - instead of taking notes during a lecture, sit back and listen. Follow what's being said, and try to understand the meaning. After class, take notes from memory. Compare them to someone else's notes - yours may actually be better, and you'll probably have a much better understanding of the lecture.

The most important thing is to find a way to get interested in the subject. You can remember anything if it really interests you. Think about the last episode of your favorite tv show. You can probably recite 95% of what happened, given a willing audience, without any studying. Try to translate that interest to the subject at hand.

How are your note taking skills? I learned a process years ago that I found really helpful. Take a regular lined sheet of paper. Block off a couple of inches at the top. Now block off a couple of inches on the left side of the lower section. You'll have three sections on your page - a small section at the top, a small section at the left, and a larger section on the right.

Take your notes in the large section on the right. When you review the notes later, make condensed notes in the left column. Just pick out the key information and write it on the left side, in line with it's position on the right. Now go back through the left side and write an even more brief summary, in your own words, at the top of the page.

This has several benefits. First, you are essentially going over the same material three times. The first time you're not really processing it - you're just recording. The second time you process the information, and by the third time, you're understanding it and making it your own. Also, when you need to go back and review your notes later, you go through it all in reverse order. First you read the top of the page, to jog your memory a bit. then you read down the left side of the page for more information. Finally, you read the bulk of the notes to fill in the details.

Don't just use this method when you're taking notes during a lecture. Try taking notes when you're reading an assignment. It helps you to organize your thoughts.

Answer 3

There's a group of us here at college. We never study more than twenty minutes for anything. We simply make acronyms for all the answers. We had to memorize the name and location of every country on the globe and we only had a 45 minute period to complete each map. So in Africa, when things got tough, we made acronyms. I don't know how to illustrate, but we all made a's on the blasted thing. Good luck!

Answer 4

Reading aloud really helps!
You might think.. Oo well i don't know about that, but when you read aloud like your Anatomy Homework or w/e you start to repeat things that you don't quickly catch on to and then its all like magic.

Something that will make you slack is smoking marijuana, so I suggest you not smoke because you will surely is screwwed over.
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Answer 5

outline your chapters. writing down what you learned will help you to retain it. or type it whatever you do faster.

Answer 6

writing helped me