Study tips

[TrumaJunkie]

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So I suck at studying. I don't have the right habits, I don't know how to put the information together, and when I see a whole bunch of information I freak out. I also have a short attention span.
I'm a senior in high school and its crucial that I get good study habits NOW since a couple of the classes I'm taking will count on my pre-medical GPA.
Is there a straight A student out there who was like me and had a hard time focusing and didn't know how to study? What did you do that helped?

Thank you 🙂

 

[Richardh]

to trumajunkie-studying for high school classes and studying for college classes are totally different. during high school by the time i was a senior i continued to study like the way i did during frosh/soph/and junior years. i did the homework assignment that my teacher assigned to me and read over the textbook. worked on extra problems in the textbook that my professor didn't assign (but made sure that i was able to check my answers by doing the problems which the book provided answers at the back) (this usually was the case for general chemistry and math like pre-calc and calculus). (for history, economics, and english or language arts, etc. i studied by mainly reading over the textbook and took notes on my own for important dates, individuals, charts/graphs,). if any of these methods didn't work out i studied in a group with my friends and got help 🙂

 

[Richardh]

(now this might be irrelevant to you right now but when i got into college which started not too long ago my studying habits dramatically changed. i started not reading the text book, doing extra problems, etc. i realized that the exams that professors give are most of the time based on his/her lectures. so studying exclusively every slide of the lecture notes helped me alot!)

good luck trumajunkie 👍

 

[indya]

flash cards are my life.

 

[wristbandMD]

This is me in high school. Haha. I could never bring myself to sit down and study for more than ten minutes. In college, I've come up with a process that works well for me:

Sit down in a quiet area. If I need sound, I put on the TV, not the radio. It's easier to ignore imo.

I begin by reading the chapter and when I find important points I take note of them. (My notes are neat and divided appropriately.) Do it paragraph by paragraph. Don't read too much at once.

Take breaks. Chapters are generally broken into sections. Make a goal for yourself as to how much you will read. Start short at first, only studying one small subsection at once, then jump to sections, then full chapters. When you need a break, exercise. Exercising is GREAT for studying.

Pretty easy, obvious tips, but hopefully they'll help a bit.

 

[blueberrybaby]

I used to be the biggest procrastinator in middle school. I was not a good student.... but when I got to high school I took tripple science and higher math, and to just survive in those class you had to get disciplined.

To start with...the key is to get organized.... I sugest you get a folder for each subject and label them according to subject. Then make a list of topics you need to know in your syllabus and make sure you have some notes summarizing the topics in your folder to read through before your test. I usually made those notes during the year as we learned each topic (notes I made from books/class lectures) ...then i just put them together in the folder to have a complete set before the exam. This works for sciences and humanities.

For math I just practiced and practiced until I got it. I had an A4 fat exercise book and I tried to finish all the chapters pretty much. Also I made a short computer typed notebook with all the formulas and an example of each major type of sum. It really helps to look over that just before an exam. Esp useful for statistics, trigonometry, graphs