Share what methods work best for you and how you STUDY.
i can do all the readings in the world.
for me the problem is that i just cannot get myself to go back and make the effort to review that stuff again and again.
id rather go back to reading more n getting ahead of schedule. but there isn’t much learning happening.
share your ideas : D
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review , review and review is the secret to success in any test/exam.
reading over a paragraph again n again helps a lot too... once you've read over it several times, try to learn it then... once you've learned it, move onto something else, a new paragraph a new section etc,... after about an hour or so, come back to that original paragraph and see if u remember it... this helps A LOT! ... trying to remember something u learned a short while ago... u will know exactly which parts ur forgetting and you'll focus on memorising them.. so u won't really forget anything in the exam..
The bottom line though, is to SIT DOWN AND STUDY! When I get a bad result, I don't blame anyone else but myself... no matter how long the questions were, no matter how much less time you had, no matter how difficult the topics were, at the end of the day if someone is to blame for the bad results... thats the student her/himself... doesn't matter how crappy the lecturer is... Its your responsibility to study and get the topic into your head..
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^true and i like the..focus on one paragraph at a time rather than getting it all done at once!
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I find that when i re-write the material I remember it better...sure it wastes paper....but that's what recycling is for! And sometimes i make up acronyms or phrases to help memorize certain points...its surprisingly effective! But for more detailed stuff I find explaining the theory to someone else, or saying it out loud really helps me remember!!
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^yea i always rewrite, helps A LOT !
do notecards help? and how?
i thikn its a waste: S
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Some people like study groups, where you get together with a bunch of classmates and teach/test each other. I personally could never revise with others.
Review the material extensively.
If past papers are available, then try doing them.
I used to find flash cards to be useful as well; short nuggets of "starter info" that would lead me to remember things related to that.
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My revising ways always change. But what I’ve never done is work in a group or use cue cards. Gah they suck so much.
Usually I just read and then rewrite it into short notes. The reading helps me learn it and then writing it in my own words helps me to understand it.
Gimme a paper and pen any day 
oh and some loud music.
Although, these days loud music isn’t cutting it for me. :no:
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^oh yea i cant work in groups like u ppl either!
not for me...i need my own space.
tho groups wud def help clear up things, but its not worth it.
im gonna try note cards!
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yeah, at times when i'm not understanding i do wish i had someone to explain it to me, but i tend to just work at it until i can figure it out myself so that way i wouldn't forget again. /=
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I can't study in groups either...they distract me too much..and we always end up off topic someway :P I tried notecards once...and it took a while to make them...but as i was making them i was reviewing at the same time...and i used diffrent colors...and then when i remembered the definition, that color would pop into my head...and i would remember the defintion! I'm weird like that...
very well informed opinion sweet.i.f 
I’ve tried cue cards on multiple occassions, but they’re not for me. I stick to writing my summaries and key take-aways on normal lined paper and try to review it twice after writing the stuff down.
Group studying on the other hand does wonders for me when I do it right. There’s a process behind it…
i) you need to have at least gone over the material on your own… sometimes when group members haven’t done this, we have a timeout for reviewing the next couple of chapters before meeting up again and discussing.
ii) the group discussion needs to be focused:
One way to do this is to ask different group members to prepare challenging questions on different chapters/topics. This does two things: One, it gets everyone motivated to prepare questions, and while doing so, they study those chapters really well. Second, for the others who’re going to respond to questions, the challenging questions will probably make them pay more attention to detail that they might have missed.
The other method for achieving focus is to allocate tasks to group members to prepare summaries of specific chapters and provide them to the rest of the group. Again, the person preparing the summaries gets well versed with the material in those chapters, while others avail the opportunity to complement their own review with the summaries that were prepared for them. Also, the summaries can be used as wireframe to discuss more details about the topic. Concept maps/Mind maps can also be used in place of summaries or in addition to them to help drive the discussion process further.
The point about focus in group discussions is where I think people go wrong… they come together without an agenda, and end up wasting time in chit-chat and/or doing only a cursory review.
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^yeah exactly, mostly in group meetings people just show up and think all the studying is gonna be done in those 2-3 hours. which is impossible!!
^yeah exactly, mostly in group meetings people just show up and think all the studying is gonna be done in those 2-3 hours. which is impossible!!
it's such a waste of time to meet without any prior review or an agenda for the group session. I've been in situations where I've been the culprit in not being able to do any pre-session review, but rather than wasting my own as well as everyone else's time, I used to tell the group upfront, and either excuse myself, or come back to the group after a partial review of the material to be able to contribute constructively.