What is your study habit?

[rxforlife2004]

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Hi everyone,

I just wonder how your study habit is. I realize that my old study habit won't work this year for second year at pharmacy school because the amount of materials that we have now is twice/three times as much comparing to last year. Also, do you study in group?...Please share your study habit that you think to be most effective....Thanks... 🙂

 

[imperial frog]

Increasing my alcohol consumption seemed to help. At least it made it seem like it did.

 

[pinkyrx]

I have a goal for studying that I don't always keep up with, but for the most part I do and it REALLY helps! Of course, this is only for those really intense classes with tons and tons of material.

Every day or at least, every other day, I sit down with my lecture packets and rewrite all of the info into one of those 5 subject spiral bound notebooks. (each major exam gets its own spiral notebook) I try to narrow the information down to just the "test-worthy" material. I don't cut much out, but every little bit helps. As I'm rewriting, I try to put things in better order and outlines so that its easier to study with. I try to read through my notebook in little chunks, like if I get to class too early or even right before I go to bed at night. I think the mix of actually writing the stuff out and then rereading it on a regular basis really helps it stick. I can usually stay caught up with just an hour or so a day doing this.

A couple days before the exam I will go through my big notebook and transfer anything that needs to be directly memorized into a small single subject notebook. Its for doses, lists, charts etc, all those things that take some force-feeding to actually get my brain to retain them.

Of course, I don't use this method for all my classes, but this works wonders for things like Pharmacology.

 

[dgroulx]

During my second year, I made it a point not to get behind. For pharmacotherapy, I met with a group of students. We would discuss each case and what we came up with. I generally would start studying for an exam a couple of days beforehand.

Our exams are at 7pm. During my first year, I didn't study until that day. During year 3, I am once again studying the day of the exam. If I pay attention in lectures, I can recall it well enough for the exam. Our exams are fairly frequent this year, which limits the amount of material. In year two, there was way too much material on each exam. That's why it required an extra couple of days to study.

 

[npage148]

My study habits are rather poor. I take notes during class and then for about 3 days before an exam, ill study for maybe an hour on day 1 and 2 and the night before ill study for 2 hours or so on the exam material. Ill do the readings sometimes if i dont understand something from class and i do the assigned hw and case studies

I do pretty good retaining stuff in class and at work i scan clinical pharmacology's drug class summeries when i get free time

 

[OSURxgirl]

I am so over-extended with other things, that it always seems studying comes last and at the last-minute. I've honestly stopped caring. My class is super competitive and our tests are super detailed. I've found that I can bust tail and study every day and get a B+, or I can study at the last minute and get a low B. Getting an A in most classes has proven impossible. It seems at my school, grades aren't reflective of how much you know or how hard you work, but rather reflect if you can figure out all the tricks and traps and minute details that appear in the exams. My GPA isn't terrible, I'm sure it could be higher, but at least I'm not boring. We have soooo many people in our class who do not do anything besides study. Sure they may have 4.0's but these are the same people that get into our professional practice/compounding labs and do not have a clue what is going on when you actually have to apply things you've learned to a practical task.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

I used to care, but now that I'm burnt out of school, I generally wait until the night before, read the notes posted online, and get my C+/B- on the test the next day. I learn what I need to learn as far as aplication goes and I don't deal with the stupid minor details I'll forget within 2 weeks that I need to memorize to get an A. God I hate school.

 

[dgroulx]

I used to care, but now that I'm burnt out of school, I generally wait until the night before, read the notes posted online, and get my C+/B- on the test the next day. I learn what I need to learn as far as aplication goes and I don't deal with the stupid minor details I'll forget within 2 weeks that I need to memorize to get an A. God I hate school.

Spoken like a true 3rd year student. I think I say, "I hate school" at least once a day. I'm so sick of it.

 

[npage148]

Spoken like a true 3rd year student. I think I say, "I hate school" at least once a day. I'm so sick of it.

I second that, i feel the same way

 

[Crazy_Norwegian]

I've found that I can bust tail and study every day and get a B+, or I can study at the last minute and get a low B. Getting an A in most classes has proven impossible. It seems at my school, grades aren't reflective of how much you know or how hard you work, but rather reflect if you can figure out all the tricks and traps and minute details that appear in the exams. My GPA isn't terrible, I'm sure it could be higher, but at least I'm not boring. We have soooo many people in our class who do not do anything besides study. Sure they may have 4.0's but these are the same people that get into our professional practice/compounding labs and do not have a clue what is going on when you actually have to apply things you've learned to a practical task.

Are you sure you aren't talking about my school?
Seriously, it seems that every pharmacy school must be like this.
Choose to study all day and memorize inane, unusable, impractical minutiae...OR...take your B and have a life. I, for one, have decided to
choose the latter.
It really steams me that our pharmacy school places such importance on relating to the patients--and then they reward the antisocial library cave-dwellers. At least I'll be able to communicate like a normal person when I get out to clinicals as a P3 and P4.