What is the best way to study for finals in high school?

Question

I have a freind in 9th grade who's finals aer coming up in January. She stresses aboput grades, and she doesn't know how to study for her math, language arts, spanish, american history on film, and earth and space science finals. Help plz.

Answer 1

ok. i get All A's and A-'s and ace all my tests, BECAUSE i know how to study well. I have ALL A's THIS TERM, we just took our finals and my teachers told us our grades. (my school has trimesters, not semesters)

here is what i do. MAKE FLASHCARDS. buy 4 packs of the 100 notecards, and go thru ur classes and make flashcards. most teachers give you a sheet saying what is gonna be on the final, so go thru ur notes/txtbook and make flashcards of everything: authors, plot summaries, math properties, vocab words, history dates

this is an excellent technique, good luck for your friend!

Answer 2

First of all each final is going to be different. The best way to start off is to go to each teacher and find out exactly what is on each final and their formats. The classes where you have the most borderline grades are the classes to focus most on. For math classes the best way to study is simple to do a lot of practice problems, especially retaking tests, because normally the final will be written by the same teacher that wrote the tests throughout the year.
Any history or social science classes are simply a matter of time spent reviewing the material. The most practical thing to do would be to reread all the text but that is very unlikely to happen. So if you took notes from the actual text and class lectures, review that material. Again, retake and study previous tests because that is the most help full resource. And as a previous high school student I found that most of my finals were multiple and matching. So make sure you know all of the vocabulary in English and foreign language classes.
In classes such as math and science that you need to know specific formulas and equations make sure you know these very well by either memorizing or if the class allows to have a cheat sheet on the final, make sure to spend a lot of time making a valuable and useful sheet. The ting i found is that making the cheat sheet is a very effective way of studying and you end up not using the sheet as much as you intend to, but it is still important to have an effective one so you know how to easily find the information if you need to during the test.
For time management it depends on the person, if you are a person that likes to sit down ad master something you should just take a day or weekend for a subject and master it completely by spend all day mastering the material. Then sometimes it is better to learn the material over a long period of time. So make sure before finals begin you make a calendar that has a detailed study plan, that has the days of the exams and then the classes you need to do the best on. The classes you need to do the best on are the classes you need to focus the most on to master the material before entering the exam.

Answer 3

The best way is that you have to plan from the beginning of the school year. Always review the old ones before you jump to the one(s) you just learned. It sound too much at first, but when you get into the routine, you don't have study harder when the finals come close, and the best thing is you never forget what you learned for years to come.

Answer 4

Play for at least one hour each day. It really clears up the mind.
Sleep for eight hours each day.
Study regularly. Each day go through the books and review what you studied in addition to doing the homework if any.
Assuming all that is done and even if otherwise because the exams are due in Jan now its time for a different strategy.
Scoring wells in exams is an art. Mere knowledge is not enough.
Practice helps a lot.
Get your hands on sample test papers or papers of the previous years on the same subjects. Get as many as you can.
Take each test on near actual conditions.
Review the answers and see what went wrong. Identify the topics you need help on. Study those topics again and make sure you know better now.
Take more tests and keep doing this.
-->You will know you have become good when your mock tests give you good results.

Also:
Make flash notes in some small flash/cue cards or paper for all sorts of one line questions and answers you forget to remember. Practice on the flash notes whenever you can.

Answer 5

1. Get clear from the professor what the exams will cover. Ask in person, 'what's the best way to prepare', might give here some extra insight.

2. Study with friends, or in a group. The support is great and can ease the stress.

I think studying is an art in itself! Each subject is of course different and working day by day is the best way to conquer it all. No amount of cramming is going to really make a dent if one has not been paying attention all along though.....

best of luck to here, with a friend like you she's in good hands already!

Answer 6

No cramming! Cramming doesn't help, I promise. A lot of the time, it just makes it so that you get confused by the so-called "information overload," and in my experience you're more likely to mix things around and royally screw things up.

Instead of cramming, study parts of what you have every night (starting quite a while before the test); that way, you can keep things better organized in your head, and make connections as you come across them.

Finally (this one can be hard), don't just study some information because you need to know it for the test; if it isn't interesting, find some way to make it interesting, and you'll remember it for a long time even after the test. (And take my word for it, some of that stuff can come in handy.) Make every effort to understand what you're learning to the best of your ability; memorization only lasts as long as you need it to, but it's hard to forget something that you understand very well, as well has how it fits in with the rest of what you know.

Answer 7

I'm actually gearing up for finals myself, and a lot of the same techniques that I use, I learned when I was in highschool. Furst I make sure to find a clean(tidy/neat)enviornment with all the books, pens/pencils and any other needed materials. I always like to keep a dictionary and a thesaurus on hand just in case. Mkae sure your study area has minimal sound or other distractions. Study for 1hr-2hr incriments and take 15min. breaks in between to use the facilities and grab a snack. If studying alone doesn't appeal to you, you can always find some people in your class(es) to start a small study group. Ask your instructor(s) if you can stay after class or after school and use the class room as your study space, plus if you have any questions the instructor is right there to answer them. If you go the study group route one idea is to assign outlines or chapters for each person to read and then report back to the group with main points. Antoher tip that usually works is asking the instructor for some one on one study time, that way you can ask your questions in depth, and discuss ideas or concepts which you want or need more information about.

Answer 8

As a graduate of high school I have had finals many times before. The thing is you want to relax. Study each subject for a little bit and take a break. It causes stress if you study for hours on end. I learned this from personal expereince. With math just do the problems at the end of the chapter that is what i always did. But with any class just review your notes, review the key points in the books. It is best to study with a friend.

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Answer 10

Go back through all the work that you have done, and read old information that you learned, but possibly forgot. You may want to study from old tests as well, because the questions are usually on the exam, although some teachers don't use them as a reference when writing it. If you paid attention in class and have gotten a good grade so far, you will most likely do fine on the exam, although it helps to make sure that you have everything covered in your mind, so that when you take the exam, you are prepared and not nervous.

Answer 11

To study for finals in high schools?
This question has lot of depth. If a high school student is asking this
question, I will have to ask the student, what part of the world are you in?
and what kind of school you go to.?
Because though today media is making communication very fast and similar all over the world it is still cultural religious and politics of the country and how the education system works makes a big difference.
A high school student coming from a home where mother goes to full time work has a different effect on the studies of the high school student.

Here, I will say a high school student who has been available to learn
positively all year, teachers knows very well students ability to grasp,
to do his work with extensive details or just to fill in the blanks. Teacher
even knows his future goals and teacher even understands the students current life style. Keeping all that in mind when the same teacher checks your finals, he/she has a picutre of your performance and will give you the benefit of the doubt, in case you did not do good in the finals.
So, mere passing the high school is very eay for any full time student.
But those who are looking for Achievements in this field, get honors, or
be on the top, there is competition and you need to learn and revise every thing before exam so there is no chance to loose your goal.
This kind of success is not achieved in one day , you will have to work hard through out the year and pass the mid terms in the same position you are looking forward to get at the finals.
Writing your goals, analyzing them and keeping track of your goals and
off course doing your home work and class work with merit and being punctual at school and positive to all the teacher every thing counts.

Above is the case in United States and other countries who have similar
education system.

Asia and Europe, some countries high schools final exams are held by their Board of Education, and needs much more intensive study and hard
work than just a school exam, as competition to get the merit is in between few hundred schools.

So, as I said before it all depends where you are globally. If you want to
know more let me know your location and email me back .

I hope this helps.
Fran