How To Study Effectively

Got an exam coming up and want some pointers on some best ways to study effectively for it? Of course, the best way to prepare is to follow good study habits every day. Do this and studying for an exam won't present a problem. If you didn't do that, you've got a rough row to hoe! The first rule for studying is to forget about cramming. How many times have teachers and others told you that if you do it that way, you are only hurting yourself. It's true. Stuffing lots of last minute info into your short-term memory can be somewhat effective on the exam itself, but once it's over, all the effort will be for naught. You will forget practically everything! Comes the final and you'll have to cover all that ground over again. So here's the fundamental strategy: give yourself plenty of time, say a week in advance. Then follow the 80/20 rule. That means you start with the hardest material, get comfortable with it, and only then move on to the rest. Spend 20% of your time learning 80% of the material.

The strategy, then, is to complete your course work each day without procrastination. Do any assigned reading and work any assigned problems. Now let's turn to the tactics, which comprise a methodolgy for organizing and completing your course work. We're talking study habiits here.

Tactic one is for humanities courses. By that I mean the Liberal Arts curricula such as Political Science, English, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology; courses like that. These are based on opinion. The course is thus structured as an argument that supports the presenter's point of view. As in an extended essay, which is what any humanities text is, after all, you will find a thesis statement(s) followed by supporting evidence or arguments. Taken as a whole, the purpose is to convince someone that the thesis is correct. So imagine yourself as the professsor in front of your or giving a lecture where you must explain a certain topic. You will need to have your materials structured logically and persuasively, and have them firmly in mind. You must be able to frame your thesis statement clearly and support it wtih relevent evidence. Sit down at somewhere and create a bruef outline of the course content. Do this frrom memory. Jot down the main points first, then elaborate with subtopics and supporting statementsas necessary. Keep doing this until you can produce a concise and cogent outline, again, from memory. When you can do that, you've mastered the material. Bring on the exam!

Tactic two we use in science courses such as math, chemistry, physics, statistics, and the like. Here the approach is about testing hypotheses about the physical world, relying primarily on quantitative language to express these relationships. Course content will involve working problems in the respective discipline; You are not asked to present an opinion, but to come up with the right answer. So each day you study by working practice problems. The key is that you work as many as you can. Not just those the teacher assigned. If you can get hold of a Schaum Outline, or other outline series, for your subject matter, work all the problems contained in them, also. The object here is to cover every base and every angle. This way you avoid an sudden, big surprises you we take an exam. Since you've already worked all the problems likely to be on the test.They should all be familiar to you and easy to handle.

To sum up, the ways to study effectively don't rest on any gimmickry. They rest upon hard, consistent work and the reward is a superior command of the course content that will remain in your set of life skills for a long time. Good luck!

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