The best way to study is to do what works for you. Do what facilitates learning and memory for YOU, because everyone is different and music may help one person study while another person ends up going to a club instead. Some of these tips are not going to help, some will- but try them and find out- you’ll never know what works and what doesn’t unless you genuinely give it a chance.
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Review for a test, again and again.
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GET THE REVIEW
The class that you really don’t want to miss is the one in which they review for the exam!!! Sometimes your instructor/professor will be cool and just tell you what to focus your studies on. Sometimes they do this anyways, you just have to look for their cues. They are just people too, and they give away what they find important in their tone of voice and body language. Professors/instructors will speak louder and clearer when they are talking about what they feel is important. They will also repeat themselves, sometimes they’ll flat out say, “…and this is really important” – if they find the info important, then you need to as well! Imagine yourself writing a test, are you going to include information you find important? The correct answer is yes.
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TAKE GOOD NOTES
The same advice in the previous paragraph applies here: be sure to write down what your professor or instructor finds important. On the same day that you went to class and took the notes, go home and re-write or review them while it’s still fresh on your mind.
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MEET WITH A STUDY GROUP
Different perspectives on one topic are always helpful. What you might miss, another person in your study group may have written down. If good grades are important to you, then meet with a study group. It doesn’t have to be very formal either- just a few classmates at a coffee shop comparing notes and quizzing each other. Also, if you miss a day, you now have a few people to get notes from!!
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SCAN THE TEXT AGAIN
The night before and in the days leading up to the test skim through the chapters that are to be covered. Read the first few paragraphs, the last few and the highlighted sections. When you do your first read of the textbook, highlight important concepts so that you can just read those before the test. That’s why the bookstores sell all those highlighters!!
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USE MUSIC
Music can help you recall information, so if you can focus while listening to music, I’d recommend listening to something different for each subject or class. Then when you are taking the test, imagine that music and hopefully your brain will also pull up the material you studied while listening to it.
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SCENT- Scent is linked to memory. Smell has been linked to memory in many studies, which you can use to help you recall information for a test. Burn a scented candle for each subject, or use incense sticks or oils. For example, use lavender-scented candles while you are studying Psychology, and sandalwood for Math, etc.
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COLOR
Use a different color highlighter for each topic. While you are taking the test, close your eyes and imagine that color to help recall the information. This is sort of like the scent/memory concept, except color and memory hasn’t necessarily been linked. But try it- maybe it’ll help and you can do research on it, write a book and make a million bucks!
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FLASHCARDS
Study with flash cards. Here’s a proven technique- write a word on one side of the flashcard, and the definition or concept on the other. Quiz yourself again and again until you know it well. This really does work, by the way.
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MNEMONICS
Using mnemonic is another proven study method. There are many ways to do this, but the basic idea is to make acronyms out of the words and concepts you are trying to recall. For instance, if you were trying to memorize this article, I would take each step and use one word to represent the concept like this: Review, Notes, Group, Text, Music, Scent, Color, Flashcards, Mnemonics. Then you can make an acronym out of this and create a sentence with the first letter of each word, or a rhyme, or song or whatever. The acronym for this article could be RNGTMSCFM — which really doesn’t spell out anything. But you can make it mean something to you to help you remember these concepts. There’s almost limitless ways to use mnemonics to recall information for tests, or anything you must remember. Check out the resources and try Google-ing “mnemonics” for more ways to study for a test. Good luck!!
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GOOD LUCK ON THE TEST!!!
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