Anyone using this crazy studuying technique?

[NorweiganFjord]

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1. Getting a really good condensed book.
2. Reading through a chapter, underlining things as you go by, and then review it directly afterwards.

No notetaking. No nothing.
I am thinking about giving this a try, feels like it is so crazy that it might actually work. I know you learn a lot
by writing things down "in your own words" but I also find that this takes hours upon hours to do, and
while it may be prudent sometimes it feels like a lot of time wasting since most of the things
are rather simple and you just have to learn it through route memorization anyway.

I think 100% of my time spent on studying should be spent on LEARNING.
But what I, and my classmates do, is to spend like 50% of the time WRITING, LISTENING, HAVING BREAKS etc.etc.

What do you think?

 

[mcloaf]

So your "crazy study technique" is reading things twice...?

 

[gregoryhouse]

I was expecting some new novel study technique.

I am disappoint

 

[001100010010011]

Is this some kind of joke? Here's a crazier technique. Read it once and do questions. Read it again later to brush up.

 

[notbobtrustme]

Is this some kind of joke? Here's a crazier technique. Read it once and do questions. Read it again later to brush up.

 

[Jay K]

1) Your new method of study was my primary study method.
2) After two decades of primarily using this method, I'm adamant that this is a very ****ty method.

 

[chronicidal]

I read this thread title and was like, Ooh, perhaps something related to spaced repetition.

Then I read the original post and was like

 

[StoicJosher]

Best method for multiple choice questions. Recognition over recall.

 

[NorweiganFjord]

Well, maybe I didn't explain it well.
I meant a technique where you never use a pen an paper. Never a computer. Just the book.
The only time you deviate from this is when you need to, in your own words, formulate something
especially complicated and hard to understand. Maybe I'm the only one who've never used this method.

 

[ulikedaggers]

Well, maybe I didn't explain it well.
I meant a technique where you never use a pen an paper. Never a computer. Just the book.
The only time you deviate from this is when you need to, in your own words, formulate something
especially complicated and hard to understand. Maybe I'm the only one who've never used this method.

How do you underline stuff without a pen?

 

[NorweiganFjord]

How do you underline stuff without a pen?

octopus ink

 

[Anastomoses]

Well, maybe I didn't explain it well.
I meant a technique where you never use a pen an paper. Never a computer. Just the book.
The only time you deviate from this is when you need to, in your own words, formulate something
especially complicated and hard to understand. Maybe I'm the only one who've never used this method.

I use books for 90% of my studying. Maybe 5% internet searches and 5% lectures.

I take your study technique to the next level - I don't underline. I just read, process, visualize. Repeat. Sometimes I even explain things to myself aloud or compare a mechanism to something in life -- but I refuse to highlight or underline, let alone write.

 

[NorweiganFjord]

I use books for 90% of my studying. Maybe 5% internet searches and 5% lectures.

I take your study technique to the next level - I don't underline. I just read, process, visualize. Repeat. Sometimes I even explain things to myself aloud or compare a mechanism to something in life -- but I refuse to highlight or underline, let alone write.

How is that working out for you? How long have you used that technique?
How do you combat the urge to just skim w/o really understanding it?

 

[Anastomoses]

How is that working out for you? How long have you used that technique?
How do you combat the urge to just skim w/o really understanding it?

I think you're making everyone laugh but since I think you're serious...

It's working out great for me. I've used it intermittently throughout my life.
I can't imagine a bigger waste of my time than skimming and I guess my brain knows that. If I didn't pick up information in a paragraph, I have no reason to go to the next paragraph. At this juncture either I'm too tired to keep picking up new info and I should go for a walk or grab a bite or take a nap. Or I'm distracted and I need to go back and figure out what the paragraph was trying to express to me. I don't think I ever leave a page of a book without asking myself "what's the take away message from this page" or "what's something new I can now explain from this page".

Also, there are two levels of understanding. 1. Oh, I see. 2. Now let me explain how this works based on the info I have.

 

[NorweiganFjord]

I'm dead serious. I've grown increasingly tired of plowing thru books like a machine.
"I have to read this chapter tonight" etc. etc.
Instead of reading books on the heart I want to learn from step 1:
The heart. Hmm... where is it? *looks up anatomy*
What makes it beat? *skims through chapter*
And from as you go along you explain aloud to yourself:
Ah so it is in the mediastinum and these sacs x,y seem to be really important. There seem to be both sympathetic and parasympathetic inntervation etc.