College: Your Best Study Tips/Suggestions?

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College: Your Best Study Tips/Suggestions?

Answer 1

study on friday and saturday......

and enjoy on sunday....

rest days invest on girls.....

and yes

on increase ur concentration use bear or cigarretes

Answer 2

Don't procrastinate... best hands-down study tip ever. If you do everything at the last minute, your professor will know because of the poor quality.

Something simple that really works for me is using flashcards. When you need to do lots of memorization, that's what works well.

Before a test ... if your prof. gives you a practice test to go off of, DO IT! And if your prof. has an "optional" review day, don't skip out - go - that's when they answer questions about the test. (And often, they'll give out bonus points for being there! [at least in my experience.])

If you need help, ask. Use a professor's office hours. Students rarely do, but sometimes it can really make a difference.

Hope that helped!

Answer 3

Break up your homework into manageable chunks. For instance, if I had papers due, I would use my lunch hours and study breaks to review my notes and start writing out my outline, first one theme, then another. I would think about my themes while driving to and from school, and jot down notes when I arrived at my destinations. The better my outline, the better my papers turned out. I found that teachers appreciated my using some of their lecture in my thesis. And I worked on them well before their due date, an hour or 2 here or there a day or week, so when it came time to edit and type it up, I only needed my first draft as good to go. My papers were always on time as a result.

I also tried to review using the real thing - for instance, when I was taking plant identification and had to memorize up to 15 plants plus Latin names plus usage in the landscape plus growth habits, and recognize them only by leaf, I took myself to the garden center at Lowe's and Home Depot and looked at the actual plants, then tried to find them in my neighborhood as I walked the dogs (stuck in my head - Rhaphiolepis indica, Indian Hawthorn, has bright red leaves in spring and bright pink flowers, grows 6-8 ft with 6-8 ft spread, used as border shrub, screen, for the flowers and background. It was on my very first list!)

When it came to math, I did the same thing. Algebra became easier when I turned a,b, and c into coin or dollar denominations: 3a + 1b + 3c= 38. solve for each. I stared at my change and suddenly I saw it happening - 3 dimes + 1 nickel + 3 pennies did equal 38 cents.

From then on, studies were a snap. I take good notes. I attend every class. I participate in extra credit activities, and I try to really enjoy what I am learning. I mean, really, how could I possibly fail small engine repair, even when my lab partner and I blew up our first engine we rebuilt? (I replaced it with 3 donated Briggs and Stratton 2-cycle engines from some old lawnmowers someone was throwing away) Who is the person who ditches Equipment Safety when that's the day we drive the front-end loader and the John Deere? (Not me, not only did I have perfect attendance, but I got to dig big holes with a front-end loader in class - how cool is that?)

Which reminds me, I should get off the computer now and do my homework for my Landscape Design class - term identification, such as setback, site plan, berm, did all that in my basic construction techniques class. Hey, it's community college, what more can I say?

Answer 4

My lecture on day one, next week.  Always read the assigned reading before you come to class. Take good notes.  (do a web search on the Cornell system of note taking...there is skill in this).  If you don't understand something in lecture/class ASK.  If you still don't understand see the prof (that's what office hours are for).  Review your notes after lecture.  If you don't understand what you wrote down, go to your text, and supplement your notes.  If you have practice tests at the end of a chapter, do them immediately after reading one section of the chapter, don't wait until the end.  See if you really understand what you read by talking to yourself, explain it to yourself, in your own words.  Study everyday.  The rule of thumb is for a 4 credit class, spend 6 hours each week outside of class reading/studying.  If you have a project due in two months, begin today.  Don't wait until the last minute it doesn't work.  Go to class.  Good luck to you, and remember to have fun!  (college psych professor)