TIP NUMBER ONE:
I wish I thought of this earlier.. sigh... now I must find an alternative to study for finals.
1. At the very beginning of the course; whether it be the semester or the year, make a box (or find one) large enough to hold little snippets of paper, one for each subject that requires lots of memorization or calculations.
2. When you're assigned homework questions, copy down the ones that you had trouble with onto a piece of scrap paper. You can even put in definitions!
3. Locate the answer (text book, teacher) and make sure that it is 100% correct. Write it on the back of the question.
4. Fold and put it in the corresponding box.
5. When you're getting close to the exam date, randomly draw out questions from the box. Since most of these questions are questions that you've had trouble with in the past, they are probably the best questions to study from, to make sure that you still remember and understand how to do them. Also since you've collected them throughout the entire year (or term, whatever time frame fits best for you), you'll have a variety of questions, ranging from easy, medium to hard! To ensure you have a good mixture of easy, medium and hard questions, put in ANY and ALL questions that you either got wrong on the first try, or had trouble with! =) Remember, the exam will not just have hard questions, so don't neglect the "easy" ones, or they won't be so easy on the exam!
TIP NUMBER TWO:
1. Make a cheat sheet for each chapter or section of the book that you would bring into the test for that section/unit if you could. This will help you to remember important and neglected things from that chapter, formulas, and refresh your memory. Also, writing it down on paper helps you to learn/remember in two ways: sight, and motor memory!
2. Either enlarge and hang it on your wall, or somewhere you look at often - so that you'll commit these images to memory, and if you have a good spatial sense, that'll be your "photographic memory". Unless you actually do have photographic memory, then this should help! I remember most charts, graphs, and patterns by remembering exactly where things were on a poster, hand out, or chalkboard, especially if I've seen it more than once.
I wish I thought of this earlier.. sigh... now I must find an alternative to study for finals.
1. At the very beginning of the course; whether it be the semester or the year, make a box (or find one) large enough to hold little snippets of paper, one for each subject that requires lots of memorization or calculations.
2. When you're assigned homework questions, copy down the ones that you had trouble with onto a piece of scrap paper. You can even put in definitions!
3. Locate the answer (text book, teacher) and make sure that it is 100% correct. Write it on the back of the question.
4. Fold and put it in the corresponding box.
5. When you're getting close to the exam date, randomly draw out questions from the box. Since most of these questions are questions that you've had trouble with in the past, they are probably the best questions to study from, to make sure that you still remember and understand how to do them. Also since you've collected them throughout the entire year (or term, whatever time frame fits best for you), you'll have a variety of questions, ranging from easy, medium to hard! To ensure you have a good mixture of easy, medium and hard questions, put in ANY and ALL questions that you either got wrong on the first try, or had trouble with! =) Remember, the exam will not just have hard questions, so don't neglect the "easy" ones, or they won't be so easy on the exam!
TIP NUMBER TWO:
1. Make a cheat sheet for each chapter or section of the book that you would bring into the test for that section/unit if you could. This will help you to remember important and neglected things from that chapter, formulas, and refresh your memory. Also, writing it down on paper helps you to learn/remember in two ways: sight, and motor memory!
2. Either enlarge and hang it on your wall, or somewhere you look at often - so that you'll commit these images to memory, and if you have a good spatial sense, that'll be your "photographic memory". Unless you actually do have photographic memory, then this should help! I remember most charts, graphs, and patterns by remembering exactly where things were on a poster, hand out, or chalkboard, especially if I've seen it more than once.
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