[liljewelz]

Hey all, I started this topic on Friday, but it was lost, so I thought I'd start this thread again so people can share study tips that have helped them.

I'll start:

Making flashcards helps b/c then I can have other people test me on the material.

[noneother]

i like to make summaries of the chapters immediately after reading them. any questions ask the lecturer asap

[<3LeeDongWook]

^ i agree. i also think that writing in your own words of those summaries is a good learning process.

[akira53]

I write my notes in class and then type/organize them later on my laptop...it helps me to refresh what we covered in class.

[Trungy]

For those rare classes that I know will be an important subject in my career, I buy practice books and go through it pages to page, even highlighting and sticky tabbing the primary textbook. The four electric circuit textbooks I purchased has so many highlights that it looks like someone threw up on it.

To make sure I know what I'm learning, I try to recite what I'm doing step by step, just as if I was tutoring someone.

And lastly.. since I'm an engineering major, I like to describe the who's, what's, when's, where's, why's, and how's of the circuits. Who is this circuit (or for grammatical correctness, what is this circuit), what does this circuit do, when is this circuit used, where is this circuit implemented, why use this circuit (and why not the other circuit), and how is this circuit implemented?

It is too tough to do this for every class, so I only use these steps for those classes that I know will be put into good use in the future, whether that be a future career or a class I'll be taking later in the curriculum.

[cpopbaby19]

^lols i kinda do what u do... i highlight almost everything in my books/handouts and write the important stuff on the margins of the page.. and when the test comes i review it by wrting an essay or summary about what i read.

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it seems to be effective.. ^^

[losborrachos]

do your homework in order that it's due... no matter how much more fun one homework is than the other... this used to be a problem for me cos i always wanted to do film homeworks first, resulting in my homework for other classes not done when they were due...
and bring your reading EVERYWHERE (and actually read them of course)... read when you're waiting for the bus, read when you're waiting for the movie to start, read when you're waiting for a parking spot, read when you're waiting for your boy/girlfriend to come... don't care when your friends call you a nerd, tell them, "at least i have a 4.0 to show for it" hah!