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<blockquote data-quote="Nikki2620" data-source="post: 13777846" data-attributes="member: 503687"><p>Maybe your friends are smarter than you but maybe they aren't THAT much smarter than you. Chances are your studying inefficiently. To me rewriting notes and highlighting (unless its only in moderation and happens to be the most critical information being highlighted) is a waste of time. The time you spend rewriting the notes which is probably several hours, isn't worth what you get out of it. Reading the notes and saying them out load seems more effective because your using two senes to learn, sight and hearing. Plus you'd be able to go through your notes several more times doing this method than your writing one. I actually had a friend ask me how I did so well on my A&P tests because she said she spent lots of time studying but couldn't make the same grades I did. She explained that she reviewed the notes and rewrote them. I told her that at least for me, writing the notes is a waste of time and you don't get much out of it and that all I did was review the notes over and over. The next time we had a test, she decided not to rewrite her notes to study and to just review them for the same amount of time she usually studies for and she got one of the highest grades in the class.</p><p></p><p>Also, a professor told me in my microbiology class (one of my hardest undergrad courses I had) that if your what they call a "highlighter freak" who has different colored highlighters and always highlights things that it probably wouldn't help us in his course because it required "real" studying. Idk if he was right about that or not but I rarely use them and if I do it's for the major points. To me highlighting can be effective but when people get highlighter crazy and start highlighting everything in their notes and not looking back at those important points, it loses its value.. </p><p></p><p>Again, I don't know how you study but these are things that may be wasting your valuable study time or decreasing the quality of studying your getting.</p><p></p><p>P.S. I by no means consider myself to be "smart," maybe above average. Just by reviewing and reviewing my notes so that they were embedded in my head and either youtubing or going to a tutor to explain any concepts I didn't understand, I have been able to recieve the highest test scores in some of the hardest classes with over 70+ students in them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nikki2620, post: 13777846, member: 503687"] Maybe your friends are smarter than you but maybe they aren't THAT much smarter than you. Chances are your studying inefficiently. To me rewriting notes and highlighting (unless its only in moderation and happens to be the most critical information being highlighted) is a waste of time. The time you spend rewriting the notes which is probably several hours, isn't worth what you get out of it. Reading the notes and saying them out load seems more effective because your using two senes to learn, sight and hearing. Plus you'd be able to go through your notes several more times doing this method than your writing one. I actually had a friend ask me how I did so well on my A&P tests because she said she spent lots of time studying but couldn't make the same grades I did. She explained that she reviewed the notes and rewrote them. I told her that at least for me, writing the notes is a waste of time and you don't get much out of it and that all I did was review the notes over and over. The next time we had a test, she decided not to rewrite her notes to study and to just review them for the same amount of time she usually studies for and she got one of the highest grades in the class. Also, a professor told me in my microbiology class (one of my hardest undergrad courses I had) that if your what they call a "highlighter freak" who has different colored highlighters and always highlights things that it probably wouldn't help us in his course because it required "real" studying. Idk if he was right about that or not but I rarely use them and if I do it's for the major points. To me highlighting can be effective but when people get highlighter crazy and start highlighting everything in their notes and not looking back at those important points, it loses its value.. Again, I don't know how you study but these are things that may be wasting your valuable study time or decreasing the quality of studying your getting. P.S. I by no means consider myself to be "smart," maybe above average. Just by reviewing and reviewing my notes so that they were embedded in my head and either youtubing or going to a tutor to explain any concepts I didn't understand, I have been able to recieve the highest test scores in some of the hardest classes with over 70+ students in them. [/QUOTE]
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