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How does one develop good studying habits? Mine totally suck and need to improve them.

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

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.

Too much studying burns me out..........I find that I do worse if I study too much.

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

Unfortunalty, my town doesnt have a library and the school is all the way in Edmonton

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.

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.

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

i find that note cards and study groups work the best

photographic memory baby.

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?

You need to figure out how you learn and work from there.

I learn stuff by writing it down. So I rewrite my notes five minutes before the test and call it quits.

joe_canadian wrote:photographic memory baby.

hey me too, i remember most of what i write and read for at least 5 months afterward

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.

what are some of the questions?