Procrastinate all semester until you only have a day or two left to study. Then work yourself into an anxious frenzy about what will happen if you fail. Use that feeling to immerse yourself in study, all day, only taking 10 minute breaks.

Shit works like a charm.

>>7710532
Sounds preety edgy bro, i'll take your word for it but.

This is more for those who are slight planning inclined.

Take nootropics

>>7710532

I do this in god mode, by taking 2 or 3 adderall about 4-12 hours before an exam or a project is due, then finish it all without taking any breaks.

>>7710514

I record most of my lectures and replay them when I exercise. I also put maths equations as my background and have made a screen saver which requires me to work out an equation before I can remove it(This goes off every ten minutes I'm away from the keyboard

depends on what you have to learn. most of the time, tests don't really cover all that much so it's not like you have to memorize very much. but in general: organize topics by subject and break the studying down into more reasonable parts. study by reading the material, and then writing a brief summary of all the important facts that you can review later. if you find that it's difficult to do the summary, you probably don't know the material well and need to reread so you get a bit of feedback. once you're done, stuff off your notes for the most part with occassional reference to the book to clarify any new pionts you think of

>>7710591
> 4-12 hours
underage or you call pokemon a study

depends on the subject.
In general to understand concepts better: imagine you would explain them to someone, or actually do.
For formulas: grind. Do lots of rather easy problems until you do them almost automatically.

i remember posting a topic like this a few months ago, and i got shit replies like "go fuck yourself" and "lol i havent studied in 10 years, you newfag"

but

hilight 2-3 sentences on a page,reread again but only hilighted sentences,hilight more,reread again.
recopy class notes
formulas on notecards
define vocabulary
memorize dates and people/places
organize notes
do sample problems
find a tutor for important classes/those shitty science classes

drink coffee/energy drinks
take a nap when you get tired

>>7710615
12 hours would be pretty easy for a reasonable number of undergraduate classes, especially if the professor sends out powerpoints of their lectures for you to study off of.

I'm heavily dyslexic, I can't read text books well and sometimes at all. On my bad days text will cause me to experience serious migraines. I study by doing a lot of work, I'm in computer science so I just do a lot of maths and write out a lot of algorithms.

I'm pretty much fucked over this chemistry course I'm currently taking, and it's just analytical chem. Fuck

I was a history major so I didn't study, I just read piles of journal articles shat out papers like a 15 year old mexican girl shits out babies.

[spoiler] stanford mother fuckers [/spoiler]

The day before any exam, study all day from early morning, have a 5 hour nap. Study while it gets dark, have any early night.

Sleep helps memory.

For Chemistry and Math I have a 42x23 inch whiteboard in my room. I lay out my notes, the periodic table, the formulas I have to memorize for that week, etc and find some example questions in the book.

I then work them out in full detail(labeling what every number corresponds with if needed), explaining it to myself as I go along. I check my answer with the book's and if they're right I move on and make a mental note if of what I a problem with.

If I was WRONG, I redo it until I get it right, working backwards if I have to, then writing in full what rule or detail I missed in the on an empty sheet of notebook paper so I know what to concentrate on.


For Biology or shit like American Government that require memorization I make notecards: Question on from answer on back and just review them in my downtime. after about the 2nd or 3rd run through I place the questions I couldn't get in a separate pile and copy them down to a sheet of paper so that it stands out in my memory from having written it twice then put the cards back in a pile and have another go the next day or so.

>>7710514
ritalin

beeempen for more study assistance

>make a mental note if of what I a problem with
>note if of what I a problem
>if of what I a

>>7710592

how could I make myself such a screensaver?
in b4 "if you have to ask, you couldn't do it"

I have not actually studied once in my entire life. And surprisingly, I get by pretty good.

>>7711000
Same here. I went through all of school without studying, then had to take the bar exam. Studied for over a month in order to get that shit down cold. It was an interesting experience because for a while, I think I felt like a normal person does before a test (the whole...oh shit this is a lot of info can I really learn this all in time feeling)

big blocks of studyng don't work. Best thing to do is study half an hour, play games for an hour and repeat. Each activity never gets boring then, and whilst you're playing games you have time to reflect on what you've just learnt

bamp because high school was too easy and i never learned to study and now college is fucking hard!

the only thing that seems to help me is writing out the definitions to words verbatim from the text that you know you're later going to be quizzed on (and if you get the exact definition wrong you're fucked!) at least once on a piece of paper. if you need more, type them up, too.

>>7711102
two things which may help you. first, repetition is the key. make study sheets and read over them. then take a break and do something else. come back in a little bit and do it again. it takes time for things to go into long term memory.

second, make an effort to distinguish between similar and related concepts. if you are able to make yourself understand the differences between things, you'll also understand each of the things individually a bit better. plus, even if you don't, college profs generally like it when you can compare/contrast concepts so knowing that stuff will probably help you get a good grade

cheers for the help brobots

lawfag here. I don't know how I do it. It seems like something I just naturally have since I went to a shit school and was never taught good study habits.

I can sit down and study for 10 hours without even going for a drink/bathroom break/food.

Here is the list, in order of retention:

Reading < Hearing < Writing < Writing & Re-reading < Gaining Context < Teaching

Gaining context means reading about the history of the concepts you're studying. If you learn about Newton and Leibniz, and the history of their discoveries, the order of them, etc., you're going to remember the parts of calculus that they created far better. The single best way to learn a subject is to tutor it for someone else - if you can find a study buddy who's a class A dumbass and try to teach it to them, you will know everything backwards and forwards by the end of it. They may not, but you will.

when reading: make believe you are teaching somebody the topic. if you can't after reading a page or two, stop and go back. summarize your topic and move on.

learn in short bursts and learn how to put pressure on yourself.

Confucius quote: I read, I forget; I see, I remember; I do, I understand.

yeah, hs was laughably easy. i learned because i was in class and listened. professors at college are not the best teachers in the world.

i have never been in one, but study groups sound like good ideas.

>>7711000
>>7711024

Confirmed for underageb&/highschoolfags. Seriously. In b4 you're very special and clever.

>>7711370
THIS.

I'm someone who doesn't "study" but learns well and usually comes out "above average". I don't understand studying or why it should take so long. But on the other hand, I take notes about everything and research on my own almost obsessively and I can say that Anon and the Confucius quote are right on.

I can't make notes without having heaps of colors and pictures. Walls of monotone text are uninviting and uninspiring. Brainstorm webs are also pretty good for college lectures. Taking word-for-word notes is just silly, since you'll probably forget all of it when the class is done.

WHEN YOU TRULY UNDERSTAND YOU DO NOT NEED TO MEMORISE, AS ANY INFORMATION IS DERIVABLE FROM AN UNDERSTANDING

INSIGHTS ARE NEVER FORGOTTEN

>>7711024
I was just like this until 9th grade. I got amazing grades until 8th grade, because I slowly thought that just because I didn't have to study to get good grades meant that I didn't have to do homework. Fucking failed hard.

This applies if you're in college/university

before the lecture, I usually skim the relevant chapter, underlining in PENCIL what I think is important. During the lecture I take notes or the notes are given to us by our professor. After this I re-read the notebook and concentrate on the topics covered in the lecture and write out what's in the text book in a notebook.

I also have a "general study" notebook. This is just a cheap $5 small black notebook that fits in my pocket. Each page = 1 day for about 3 months (length of semester in Australia), then I leave some room at the back for "questions" and "assignments".

Each day I sit down and see what I need to do (ie, homework, what text to read etc), I write this down and any question I come across during this time that I cannot answer by myself get written in the back of the notebook. After studying is done, I send off an email to my professor asking for guidence on what I couldn't understand.

Shit works.

>>7711566
>After this i re-read the TEXTBOOK
should say that

>>7710514
I just redo all the work that was assigned and re-read the chapter. Seems to work pretty well.

I feel like I can't write essays anymore since I've had a gap year before going to university. How do I get better?


What kind of exams are given at university?

>>7711477
How do you gain 'insight' from the American Reconstruction period of the South?
No, I refuse to go to one of those silly reenactments of the war.

bumping - writing many of these down

Cornell Method for note taking. Learn it bitches. Watch your marks improve. Easy to do, and very, very effective.

But there is no substitute for sitting the fuck down and reading, processing and memorizing shit.

any other things?

^ what this guy asked

These are the steps i follow when doing school assignments etc.
1. Get assignment/project
2. Have visions of grandeur of your project
3. Promise yourself that you will start working on it today!
4. Start working tomorrow instead
5. Actually the day after that
6. Start working on the last evening
7. Return a mediocre piece
8. Repeat the mistakes you made in the next assignments.

I had to categorize everything, all of my notes, everything I studied. I never understood those students who sat there and just read through all the garbage they wrote down for half the semester, all in one sitting. Say it's Bio class, and it's plants - I'd break things into gymnosperms and angiosperms, and maybe divide them even further.

That categorization/simplifying method also worked for writing papers. I'd label subsections on a couple of blank sheets and take notes on the subject under those subsections, then write my paper accordingly.

For tests, if you can get a study sheet, write out answers as if you were already taking the test. I swear I couldn't remember shit during tests if I just read my notes, but if I wrote out practice answers I could remember entire sentences. I had history tests where I didn't even have to read the entire question and didn't have to think about my answer.

For me it all comes down to reducing distractions.

I turn off my cell phone, turn off all the clocks, take off my watch, close and lock door, put on noise canceling headphones, etc.

In addition this my study room only has school related things in it, so no T.V, computer or anything else.

Basically I cut myself off from everything and everyone and get to work.

Question time:

How do you make yourself study/do work for things you just don't give a fuck about? I'm in my last semester of uni, and though I don't give a shit about my major anymore, I'd still like to be able to get out in good enough shape that I can apply for grad/professional school once I get myself back together.

Also--the fuck is up with you people that do shitty ass essays with seventy fucking outlines and drafts? I just sit down and write the fucker, top to bottom, then re-read it once for sentence fluency/word choice.

Never gotten less than an A on an essay. Ever.

>>7717534
>the fuck is up with you people that do shitty ass essays with seventy fucking outlines and drafts? I just sit down and write the fucker, top to bottom, then re-read it once for sentence fluency/word choice.

>Never gotten less than an A on an essay. Ever.

Some people are just bad with transcribing their thoughts to paper. Personally, I'm quite the opposite, and have trouble speaking (thus doing terribly on oral finals), but am the same as you when it comes to written essays.

>>7717564

I'm an excellent speaker and writer--I can do essays and presentations on the fly with no preparation and get continual As.

The shit I suck at is the day to day--reading pop quizzes, when teachers break down essays into 7-9 graded parts (proposal, thesis, bibliography, outline, first draft, final draft, so on), discussing specific concepts from articles. This is because I don't fucking do shit daily. I do it when it suits me, and then I just skim and pick out the obvious main ideas and extrapolate on my own from there. It's because I don't copy the info given to me that I get the "creative" and "thinks outside the box" label.

The problem is I just can't make myself sit down and learn the asinine little details that will never come up except during the day to day for shit because it just. Doesn't. Matter.

I guess what I'm asking is how do I man up and make myself do all this banal shit without flying into fits of rage/falling asleep on top of it.

>>7717648
Challenge yourself? Think if some dickwad from class came up to you and started asking you about shit from class, wouldn't you want to look like you know everything?

bump

Relevant to my interests

>>7717064
OH GOD, OH GOD THIS!

I did exactly the same shit, from the time I started university. My god, you have practically read my mind. Fuck, I'm surprised that I still have decent grades right now, and I'm in my junior year in college.

At least this knows I'm not the only one who does this shit.

>>7710514
Best thing to do??

Get of /r9k/