For those with excellent grades

[Dr.D-man]

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For those of you with excellent grades, could you explain your study habits and techniques? Thank you.

 

[ThrowdOffGyrl]

I wouldn't say my grades are excellent....but an important thing is time management. When I actually take the time to read and review a little before class, I don't have to focus so much of my attention on taking notes during class...instead, I can focus on understanding the concepts. Another thing that has helped is making flashcards, charts, my own outlines...pretty much anything that forces me to put the info. in my own words and learn it instead of just memorizing. Hope that helps... 😛

 

[DMBFan61]

just study a little each day. you wont get behind and wont have to cram come test time.

 

[rugirlie]

Personally, I'm a crammer. I do nothing all semester and come exam time, I study intensely for like 1-2 days before the exam. This is probably an awful study technique but I've found that when I study in advance, by the time the test comes around, I've forgotten everything. My best advice is to figure out what works best for you and stick with it. 🙂

 

[RangerD]

study constantly

 

[kmnfive]

Personally, I'm a crammer. I do nothing all semester and come exam time, I study intensely for like 1-2 days before the exam. This is probably an awful study technique but I've found that when I study in advance, by the time the test comes around, I've forgotten everything. My best advice is to figure out what works best for you and stick with it. 🙂

i do this exact same thing and its the only way i get any A's

otherwise its all C's and B+'s

 

[KiwiFruit]

Reviewing notes definitely helped me too! But in addition to that, I would take more condensed notes from my class notes and study from those before an exam...even in classes that didn't allow "cheat-sheets" (you know the page of notes the prof lets you use on the test)...and I would make cheat sheets anyway to study from. And for most chemistry/math--do lots of practice problems...don't memorize anything...understand the concept. For biology and biochem--I found discussions with my study group definitely helped...memorizing was necessary, but come up with little sayings or things to help...I still remember lots of those I came up with...dorky at first, but that's why you won't forget it! Oh yeah--get a study group...mine was such a supportive group and we're still friends and we all happened to be pre-med...but we helped each other instead of compete. Having a group that met reguarly definitely helped me stay on schedule with studying so that I wouldn't procrastinate. Review, review, review. and try to come up with your own test questions. GO to office hours! and the best thing for me to learn, was to try to explain it to someone else--ie. learn through teaching! Good luck! Happy studying.

 

[MizzouDrWannabe]

I cram as well and I have all A's. The only exception was second semester of Organic.

 

[every1blowz]

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[CanuckRazorback]

I usually procrastinate until the very last minute, sometimes an hour before the test, to start studying. I do go to every class though and for some reason I just seem to absorb the information and not forget it. Also, I use mnemonics. The crazier, the better!

About mnemonics... Have any of you ever notice that Kaplan spells them "pneumonics"? I almost lost it in front of my class when I noticed the mistake, which is used repeatedly through out the manual.

 

[MD Rapper]

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[45408]

I cram sometimes, and I study frequently other times. Depends on my moods and how well I understand the material.

 

[nabeel76]

I cram sometimes, and I study frequently other times. Depends on my moods and how well I understand the material.

That is exactly what I do! It all depends on my mood as well as how difficult I feel the material at hand is going to be. I tend to do just fine w/ this 'no plan system' of mine.

 

[UCLAstudent]

Discipline yourself to start studying early. The material will stay with you for a longer time period, and you won't have to stress out as much a few days before the exam.

 

[davidr]

Depends on the class. Generally, notes are more important than what you read. I type my notes and merge concepts that were mentioned but not explained from the book. I have guaranteed that I have reviewed material at least 2x before the test then. Once in class writing notes then summarizing/retyping. Then before tests I cram review the typed notes which are nice and short compared to flipping through scribbled info/books. I am quite fast at typing though.
Maths, physics and chem are all about solving as many problems as you possibly have time for. Of course, focus on problems similar to the ones presented in class.