How do you study?

boobar

salonfire wrote: »

Despite all my years in school, I don't think anybody has taught me how to study or study techniques.

I plan to hit the books this weekend, but I know that I will probably be browsing boards or wikipedia within an hour.

Has anyone else noticed how fascinating random articles are on wikipedia when you are supposed to be studying??


So, my question to the eggheads out there, how do you study and retain infomation?

Any doctors/pharmacists/PHD grads that frequent AH care to share your secrets?

When I was in school many years ago, I had a technique of reading something e.g. a chapter 3 times. Something would go in, I'd tell myself.

I now that's a crappy technique.

Now, I focus on understanding the subject matter. One read and then look at questions relating to the subject. Works well for me.

starlit

Everyone is different, they learn in different ways, go with a method that works for you. Some people have short term memories more than long term ones when it comes to learning information and reproducing it on paper in an exam. Often or not the rate at which people absorb information can vary from person to person and how much they can retain each time after learning something but generally going back over and over it again is the key. Some people might only takes one or two attempts others could take more maybe at least 3-5 times to go over others could be a lot more in order to absorb and retain information.

But I do think learning over a longer space of time gradually is better than learning something in big chunks in a short space of time. As I said everyone is different they either rely on short term or long term memory.

I often have heard some people can be in a lecture, never study and be able to reproduce what they heard in a lecture in an exam.

There are different types of intelligences too as another poster mentioned previously so in that way everyone learns differently and what ever works for them will help them learn and be able to put all that in paper in an exam naturally.

stovelid

Conor108 wrote: »

I have an add-on for Firefox (Leechblock I think) that you can block certain domains like facebook, boards, priestchat for however long you need. So yeah just do that

I've an inbuilt one in my brain that makes me not go to those sites when I need to do something.

HAAA! HAAA!

Buy a dictaphone - record yourself reading the chapter.
Stick the content on your mp3.
Stick the mp3 to your head.
Walk to the shops.
Repeat.