Hey everyone! Today I will be sharing with you my top 5 study tips.
One thing I do want to say is that I won't be going over things like
"You should go to lecture, pay attention in class,
don't procrastinate, don't leave things until last minute." Things like that.
I think those are just basic student responsibilities and it's been said like
a million times. So today's tips are very specific to
things that I have done and have learned throughout the years
Tip #1 is to to create summary sheets and I can't stress how important this is to me and
it's something that I've been doing since at least grade 11.
Basically what I do is, before each test
if there's going to be five chapters on the midterm,
I'm going to make 5 summary sheets. One page per chapter.
Basically, if you have to summarize an entire chapter onto just one page,
it'll force you to think about the most important concepts
and that way you'll understand what exactly you're learning
and you're not just mindlessly memorizing different facts
And it doesn't matter whether your course is more memorization based or math based.
I've used this technique for all my different courses.
So I dug up old notes and I'll show you guys 3 examples.
The 1st one is from my virology course.
I had a lot of different viruses I had to memorize, and a lot of details and diagrams.
I use a few different colours and I keep this consistent across all my subjects.
Black marker is for the title. Red is for any list that I make.
so I'll number everything in red. Green is for any dates, years, or measurements.
So here I have nanometers written in green.
I'll use blue for just regular notes, and then pencil for examples and diagrams.
By doing this, if you ever need to find something, you can quickly locate it on your sheet of paper.
What I find really helpful about these summary sheets is that sometimes on the final exam
you don't want to go back and look at a million different lecture slides and reread the entire
chapter or your notes. So if you have these summary sheets for the things that were taught
earlier in the semester, you can just quickly glance at it.
Because a lot of the times, final exams don't even test you about the things
about the things earlier on in that much detail.
And maybe you just need to understand the main concept .
By having a summary sheet, you can save yourself a lot of time at the end of the course.
The second example I have is for one of my introductory physics courses that I took in university.
I essentially just made myself a summary equation sheet and I separated it by different sections.
So here I have kinematics, and I just wrote a few equations down.
Basically at the end of the course you just want to ask yourself, what each equation is for and
when it's used. The 3rd example I have is something from our organic chemistry course.
If you asked any life science student what they think of organic chemistry,
Most people would be like, "oh my god it's like the most difficult course ever. It's my worst nightmare". But,
it was actually one of my favourite courses, and I actually did really well in the course and I
think I owe it to the summary sheet that I made.
So basically this is not really a summary sheet, but more of a flow chart.
And what I did was, at the end of the course course,
I've summarized all the different reactions and mechanisms that were taught
and I made this massive flowchart.
This flowchart isn't really something that I would really look back at and try to learn the concepts again.
Rather, I think this was helpful because the process of making it is what helped me
gather all the different concepts that I've learned throughout the semester
and to summarize it onto one page.
Tip #2 has to do with notebooks. This is my to-do list.
So I know a lot of people like to make to-do lists that just outline what they should do for the day.
But I don't like doing that. I like to write out every single thing I have ongoing from each different subject.
I'll write all the subjects on the left side and then each assignment,
homework, or chapter after read on the right side.
By doing that, I know exactly how much stuff I have on hand that I have to do.
How I prioritize is: I'll use a yellow highlighter for the things that I want to do today.
Orange for things that I want to do tomorrow, and then pink, if necessary, for the 3rd day.
By doing that, I can have an idea how much I can accomplish in three days.
On the bottom left part of the page, I would usually write stuff that has to do with my extracurriculars.
So I run a non-profit and there's a lot of things I have to do
such as updating the website, which I have to do pretty often
and sometimes if you're so focused on school and deadlines, you will not remember
these kind of small little things that you have to do and it'll just slip your mind.
The most important part of my to-do list is to write out each time frame for each item in pencil
So I'll write out what time I need to wake up at.
So if it's 6:00am, I'll write wake up = 6am
and then breakfast and then
I'll put chapter 1, if I need to spend like 60 minutes, then I'll write 7-8am.
I'll write all the little times for that.
If I need to go, I'll allocate 1 - 1.5hr for it.
I'll write in dinner time, and I'll even include shower time and when I'm going to sleep.
I usually like to do the scheduling the night before,
because if I know I have so much stuff to do the next day,
and I already scheduled all the different time slots for it, I will feel obligated to wake up
on time instead of clicking the snooze button for like two hours and it's
totally okay if you don't follow your timeline exactly.
That's exactly why I write everything in pencil, because if I do need to make adjustments I can easily just erase it.
Tip #3 is really important to me because my professor has actually complimented me on this method.
Basically, if I have any questions while I'm doing readings or doing homework,
I'll write down on a piece of paper in pen. I'll save up the questions from a few days before I go to the professor.
When you're done asking, you can use pencil and write the answer down in your own words.
By rephrasing what the professor just said, it reinforces the idea in your head and that helps you memorize
how he explained it. At the end of the semester when you're studying for
the exam, or even just a day or two later when you're revisiting the material,
if you don't understand it again & you're like "Omg what. How did the professor explain it?"
You might not remember. Then now, you have to go back to the office and ask again.
It's not only a waste of your time, it's also a waste of
the professor's time and there's a million other students waiting to ask questions.
Tip #4. Basically in grade 9-10, my math grades were not the best.
It was actually one of my weakest subject and I
was really frustrated because I just felt really dumb. I was like
"Why is everyone else getting this, and I'm just having such a hard time
wrapping my head around the concept?"
My mom suggested me to go see a tutor, and
at that time I had this whole impression that if I see a tutor, that means that I'm not as smart as other people
But it was honestly the best decision
because seeing a tutor doesn't mean that you're dumb. In fact,
it's the complete opposite. It means that you're willing to
utilize the resources you have around you to get the grade that you want.
I just signed up for one tutoring lesson. I just went on Kijiji and found some random
retired math teacher and we met up at the public library and
he explained it in a way that I was never exposed to.
It helped me understand it just like that.
One tutoring lesson was honestly all that I needed. From gr10 to gr11,
my math grades went from low 80s to high 90s and I was just having such a great time in math class.
I ended up graduating high school with the math department award and I got one of
the highest marks in the grade and honestly,
that taught me is that you shouldn't be ashamed of going tutoring.
What you need to understand the material might be different from your classmates.
Tip #5 has to do with an agenda.
I use a monthly format agenda and there's a lot of colours here as you can see.
Basically what I suggest you guys do is to mark down all the most important
school dates at the beginning of your school year.
So in September, look at your school's website and mark down
reading week, Christmas break, when the semester starts and ends.
It takes 10 minutes in the beginning of the school year but it'll save you a lot of time in the long run.
I've met so many people who accidentally showed up on campus in the lecture hall
they texted me, they're like "Oh why is there no one here"
I'm like "It's a public holiday or it's reading week. What are you doing?"
They just wasted an hour commuting to school, just to find out that class is cancelled.
And another thing that I like to do is also colour coding, of course.
Anything that's marked in yellow are things related to school (eg. assignment, midterm).
Pink is for extracurricular activities.
Orange is for appointments, whether they're doctor's appts
or appts with professors, I will mark them down in orange.
Any random things that I need to do, for example if it's my
friend's birthday coming up and I need to get them a gift, I'll write it in pencil on the day.
So those are my 5 tips. I hope you guys found it helpful and if you do give it a try
and notice you know any improvement in your grades, do let me know
and I would be happy to film more study videos in the future.
I'll talk to you guys next time. Bye!
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