Dr.J needs some assistance!
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Johnny
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Dr.J needs some assistance!
How does one develop good studying habits? Mine totally suck and need to improve them.
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starseed_10
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for me it's just necessity
i really have no study habbits, but i can never let myself go into anything unprepared.
....so i put in some time the night before and just dont sleep till i'm confident.
i don't sleep much but it gets the job done. Hell, it's 2am right now and i'm doing an assignment given two weeks ago, do tomorrow. wee
i really have no study habbits, but i can never let myself go into anything unprepared.
....so i put in some time the night before and just dont sleep till i'm confident.
i don't sleep much but it gets the job done. Hell, it's 2am right now and i'm doing an assignment given two weeks ago, do tomorrow. wee
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starseed_10 wrote:for me it's just necessity
i really have no study habbits, but i can never let myself go into anything unprepared.
....so i put in some time the night before and just dont sleep till i'm confident.
i don't sleep much but it gets the job done. Hell, it's 2am right now and i'm doing an assignment given two weeks ago, do tomorrow. wee
I'm pretty much the same way; I'll cram the night before until I'm confident enough to stop; cuz if I'm not confident enough to stop, I can't go to sleep anyways for worrying, so I always get enough studying in.
Plus I'm 'effin brilliant, so that helps.
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.
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heh, i didn't study .. ever. i could sit down and read a book for hours .. but when it came to studying i couldn't do it .. i figured if i didn't know the stuff going into it, cramming the night before wouldn't help me either ..
i was a highlighter freak though .. anything of importance would be highlighted .. then i'd try to read my notes over at least once and focus on the highlighted parts .. plus it made my notes pretty. i also used to write my notes over from that day .. i hated messy notes .. they had to be perfect so writing things over helped me remember stuff too.
try studying away from distraction .. don't sit in your room where there's a computer and music etc .. go to the school or something and pick a quiet spot in the library so you have nothing to do but study
i was a highlighter freak though .. anything of importance would be highlighted .. then i'd try to read my notes over at least once and focus on the highlighted parts .. plus it made my notes pretty. i also used to write my notes over from that day .. i hated messy notes .. they had to be perfect so writing things over helped me remember stuff too.
try studying away from distraction .. don't sit in your room where there's a computer and music etc .. go to the school or something and pick a quiet spot in the library so you have nothing to do but study
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I have to set goals for myself. I'll tell myself that if I study for an hour straight then I can take a 10 or 15 minute break and go online or something like that. Or if I get to chapter 8 only then can I get up and have a snack.
If it's nice outside and this doesn't distract you, try going outside, just in the backyard or to a park etc. for a relaxed, quitet environment.
If you have time, I would sit down and outline the major ideas of each chapter that you have to read, to make going back over it easier.
I've heard from my phsych-major roomates that it helps your memory to do something like eat a chocolate bar while studying and then bring one to the test, just really anything that can be associated like that, it doesn't have to be chocolate-writing your notes in green pen and then writing the test in green pen for example (if it's allowed). I don't know if this actually works but it sounds intriguing.
If it's nice outside and this doesn't distract you, try going outside, just in the backyard or to a park etc. for a relaxed, quitet environment.
If you have time, I would sit down and outline the major ideas of each chapter that you have to read, to make going back over it easier.
I've heard from my phsych-major roomates that it helps your memory to do something like eat a chocolate bar while studying and then bring one to the test, just really anything that can be associated like that, it doesn't have to be chocolate-writing your notes in green pen and then writing the test in green pen for example (if it's allowed). I don't know if this actually works but it sounds intriguing.
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Yeah, I learned about that in Psych this last semester (got finals in there tomorrow, actually). Apparently, you associate the chocolate bar (or green pen) with the study session; therefore helping bring the stuff back more coherently.
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.
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I used to do that with music.
listen to a certain CD while studing and then sing it in my head.
it only helped me remember the lyrics though...hummm
listen to a certain CD while studing and then sing it in my head.
it only helped me remember the lyrics though...hummm
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Goodbye you liar,
Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything
Then you think you will inspire
Take apart your head
(and I wish I could inspire)
Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
Goodbye you liar,
Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything
Then you think you will inspire
Take apart your head
(and I wish I could inspire)
Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
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Random Name wrote:I used to do that with music.
listen to a certain CD while studing and then sing it in my head.
it only helped me remember the lyrics though...hummm
been there; maybe our mind's work backwards? 
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.
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making a cheat sheet, forcing yourself to cram as much as possible by pretending that's what you're going to bring into the test. If you tell your brain you're actually going to be able to cheat off of it, it'll be easier to get the most important stuff.
I also read somewhere that learns more and more if you listen to someone explain it to you, write it down, and the best is to try to teach it to someone else.
I also read somewhere that learns more and more if you listen to someone explain it to you, write it down, and the best is to try to teach it to someone else.
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