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⌈ Secret Post #2107 ⌋

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[gravity falls]

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[Kuroko no Basket]

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[World of Warcraft]

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[Batman: Arkham City]

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[Blake's 7]

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[Sherlock (2002)]

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[Beelzebub]

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[Kuroko no Basuke]

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[Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun]

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[Spec Ops: The Line]

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[Supernatural]

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[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]

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[Legend of Korra]

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[Community]

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[The Good Guy]

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[Journey Into Mystery 2011]

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[Journey]

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[South Park]

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Looking for advice from anyone in the sciences/anyone who went to school and had to do loads of memorization. How did you/do you study? Usually I just read stuff over and copy things and do the problems but I feel like there must be some other way to get everything to actually stick in my brain, because sometimes that just doesn't work.

If the material was fairly easy or straight forward, I would just reread my notes and skim the chapters we read in class.

For harder stuff, I liked being quizzed on the material and 'teaching' the material to study partners. For memorization stuff, I occasionally made flashcards or employed mnemonic memory tricks.

I am so confused as to when I should bring out the mnemonic memory tricks. Because I have to memorize entire chapters of material and I have no clue how to pick which ones to give games to.

I would reduce important concepts down to their most important elements and work from there. If you can remember the important details, then, hopefully the less important things with hang on in your memory as attachments to the bigger idea. Tbh, this may not work for everyone. I've been told my memory for certain things is unusually good. Sorry.

No, don't be sorry! I just feel stupid mostly because for the better part of my life my memory was so good I almost never had to study at all, and now I'm being bombarded with information and things to memorize from everywhere.

Mostly I'm just frustrated with my micro class because she basically lectures and then says 'you're on your own for the test' and the book emphasizes things way differently than she does and her tests are weirdly specific and all the information is new so mostly I just always feel a lot like I'm drowning.

/long ramble

Rote learning (copying and memorizing stuff) isn't always that effective.

Some random assorted tips:
Think positively when you study and don't compare yourselves with other students. Around exam time, avoid the people who are running around panicking.

Pick a place and a time to study and stick with it. This will turn it into a habit and it'll make it a lot easier. Choose somewhere quiet like a library.

Only bring the stuff you need, like textbooks, pens and paper - basically, don't bring stuff you can procrastinate with.

When you're writing down notes, use colours for certain concepts. Try to link concepts together. Make it eye candy for your brain, instead of just long lists of words. (Addendum: It's not the Mona Lisa, you don't have to spend 50 years colouring in.)

Try to find a study group or someone else who's a good studier and you can reinforce each other.

Don't try to study in a massive big block. Break it up into 1 hour or half an hour blocks with breaks in between.

When you find your mind drifting off-topic, don't panic and try to force yourself to concentrate. Just let your mind drift and go wherever it needs to, and then gently bring yourself back to what you were doing.

Set goals, and then reward yourself when you meet them. Positive reinforcement works best!

At the beginning of the course, find out what assignments you need to do, how much they're worth, and how long they are. Plan it out and put it in your timetable.

When you're in class, try to pay attention - if the lecturer emphasises something, it's probably important.

Get some sleep. Don't eat McDonald's everyday. (Cookies are a sometimes food.) Drink water. Take a break from studying and go for a walk or something.

When you're in class, try to pay attention - if the lecturer emphasises something, it's probably important.
excellent point. i tend to find that if the prof ever repeats the same thing twice, that's them giving you a big hint that the concept is going to be reappearing later.

I made a crap-load of flash cards over the years. I would even draw diagrams and maps and things on them.

Sometimes, I would make up mnemonics or give lists a little sing-song tune (like the way they have US schoolchildren memorize the 50 states in alphabetical order) or try to associate certain terms with random objects in my room or that I saw on the walk to class.

Unfortunately, I seem to remember things best when I hear someone say them out loud and then I write down what I hear. (I can read and even copy stuff off of a board and I won't remember any of it). This meant college lectures were the best thing ever (and it's why I side-eye people who insist students can't learn effectively that way) but it made solo-study difficult. I suppose it would have been a good idea to invest in a dictaphone and record all of my professors.

I'm a visual-kinestic learner so lectures were a drone. I'm best with interactive diagrams and key words that pop out in text.

No you're not: some teacher at your school got over-enthusiastic with a fad that briefly took over education, but has now been conclusively shown to be bunk.

Everyone learns best with a variety of "styles", nobody learns best if they only use one style. Nobody learns well from a droning lecturer: that's not because you're a "visual-kinesthetic learner", but because that's a boring way to impart information, and you were never taught how to turn the lecture into a proper learning tool.

A combination of bad lecturers and you having been primed to believe that's not how you learn have prevented you from using lectures as you should. A helpful teacher would have taught you how to turn the lecture into usable notes that help you learn, and emphasise the things you need to look up elsewhere. A helpful teacher would also not have planted the idea that you can only learn in one narrow "style" that requires someone to predigest the learning for you. Nobody is going to make "interactive diagrams" for everything you could ever want to learn, so if you want them you'll need to learn how to programme.

This still doesn't change that I don't remember spoken words well. Even with written notes I'd be a big blub of "whaaaaaaah?" if someone asked about specific ideas during lecture or things that happened minutes ago because I'd be remembering how the lecturer walked or symbols on slides instead. When I recall things, it's always pictures and movement without sound or words.

It doesn't matter if there are bad lecturers or good lecturers when I can't remember what the lecturer is lecturing. Why should I waste time in lectures when I can get the same information from a book or from a simulation? Why should I stick myself in a classroom, listening to someone talk when I can be doing field studies or experiments in a lab instead?

Because they can tell you things you won't hear elsewhere, and tailor the information to what you're actually going to need, and answer questions. My course included all sorts of information in lectures that simply isn't available in books or online, and certainly not put together and linked the way it was given to us. How will you know which topics you need to know, and what skills you need?

I doubt you communicate entirely in writing, so you are actually capable of spoken communication. Do you actually have "processing difficulties", sometimes lumped in with dyslexia? If not, then you just need to get over your specialness and learn the skills that your school should have taught you: how to take spoken communication and convert it into a memorable form.

If your current system of notes doesn't work, then you need to develop a different system of note-taking that does work. There is information in lectures that is simply not available to you elsewhere, so you need to get it down. If you can read a book, then you can read notes.

for concepts, it's good to reread it a good few times, until you can spit out stuff on command (good way to learn definitions and stuff). something that i find helps a lot is flash cards (that's what got me through trig, since memorization is REALLY HARD FOR ME). if you're still having problems memorizing, try using mnemonics to help you remember. hell, make fandom associations if you need to. doesnt matter if you remember something for a stupid reason, as long as you remember it!

for applied problems, it's a good idea to work as many as you can until you're comfortable not just solving specific problems, but to where you can easily read a problem, know what formula you're going to need, and how to apply it. do all the problems in your text book, redo your homework problems, rework old quiz material- just whatever you have at your disposal, use it to your advantage. if there's a specific problem that's giving you difficulties, work it more than once and make sure your answers match up each time. spend less time focusing on problems that come easily to you and really hone in on the stuff that makes you uncomfortable.

For memorising things, I used to write EVERYTHING in different coloured pens (ie. blue, black and red, or you could use green if you have one) and then highlight the main points with different coloured highlighters. Then, I would continuously re-summarise everything until each point was down to a few short sentences. Then you try to see how much you can build off of what you're left with.

Another technique which might be a little silly is to incorporate what you're trying to memorise into a fanfic (if you like to write). Write one paragraph of your fic, then type one point from your notes in the same word document, then another paragraph of fic, then another point, etc. until you reach the end of your notes. Or better yet... have your characters say each point! You'll remember it easily if your favourite character said it. Good luck! :)

Everything like every term? Or every concept? This system of different colors that people keep speaking of confuses me so Dx I see people use it all the time and I cannot figure out how to figure out which colors go where and they all blend and then I cannot read it.

/is doing life wrong

The fic thing is an adorable strategy though :D I would totally use that except for writing fiction takes me ages and also if I have the computer I go WHEEE INTERNET.

But thank you <3

Scary as it sounds, disconnect the internet. Or use a timer to give yourself predetermined internet-free time and predetermined internet time.

Sometimes I would type up my hand written notes from class or rewrite them (my university had a disabled student program where volunteers would give them a copy of their notes because they could not note take themselves. I have terrible handwriting, so usually I ended up rewriting them.) I would also read through them multiple times. I was terrible at note cards, but I knew people who had great success with them. I just found them too time consuming.

But the absolute most important thing I would NOT do is pull an all nighter, cramming. I would study until I was tired, get the amount of rest I needed to have my mind sharp, wake up the next morning, reread through all my notes and take the test. I ended up with a 3.7998 GPA and never pulled an all nighter.

I would also procrastinate studying one subject by doing homework/studying for another. I feel ridiculous for saying that but if you stare at something for too long, no amount of staring is going to help. Its best to take a break (so in my case, another subject) and then return to it.

I would also recommend studying where you feel comfortable. For me, it was in front of my computer, in my dorm room. For others it was in the library, computer labs, etc. Keep distractions to a minimum. I personally could not study with a tv on. (Luckily I had a roommate who operated the same way.)

Good luck!

When I had to memorize a lot of stuff, I usually started by writing down everything in my own words and in a condensed form (if possible) and then reading it over and over. I then read it out aloud to myself because although I'm more of a visual learner, it tends to stick better if I hear what I'm learning.

If you remember stuff better after you've heard it, you could maybe read out your notes and record it?

I also found that changing the place where you study can improve memorization - I can't tell you how many hours I spent going on walks and re-telling myself everything I had to learn!

Flash cards. Depending on how much you have to learn, they are quite a bit of work but writing stuff down already helped and if I repeated them until I knew the answers, well, it also calmed me down before the exams.

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