Sometimes, if students have a study guide, I'll tape it to the front of my Trapper Keeper, so if students have any extra time, students can glance at it.
For girls, when you study, have a scent in the room, preferably a perfume or something. Then when you take the test, wear that perfume. It can help you remember what you study because you relate the scent to the information. Of course you have to use a scent that you wouldn't normally smell.
Listen to soothing, but invigorating music. students usually listen to Beethoven while students do mindless homework like math, French, or science assignments. It gets your brain pumping and flowing, and keeps you alert and awake.
While studying, keep peppermint in your mouth... it clears your nasal passage for fresh air. More fresh air means more oxygen to the brain. Trust me, this really helps with memorizing and studying for school.
When having a test or quiz on your notes (which happens quite frequently), take your notebook to your computer, and type all of your notes pertaining to that chapter in that particular section of your notebook. By typing the notes you need to know for your test, a lot of the information is displayed from your short-term memory to your long-term memory. After typing your notes out, look them over and study in-depth... This always helps.
Definitely listen in class, you won't have to study so hard if you actually know some of the information beforehand (from class).
Be careful about wearing too much perfume or sitting near someone who does. The chemicals in some perfumes may affect your power to concentrate and remember information.
Depending on the type of class, taking notes on a PowerBook computer has helped students immensely.
•It makes my notes readable & printable.
•My notes are saved in a retrievable place for the class and to use as citations for papers in other classes-(make sure you date your notes for this purpose).
•Professors and other students think you are smarter and more attuned to learning, just because you have a PowerBook in front of you, and will pay more attention to your questions. Other students will want to share their notes because they can read yours.
•The process of recording lecture notes onto a word processing document makes you consciously categorize topics as you type. Example: putting terms in bold type, putting concepts in italic, putting key ideas in underlined form, and preceding subtopics with a bullet •. This process organizes the ideas in your mind as you are doing it. The PowerBook is not helpful in Math classes, nor is it helpful in classes involving a lot of discussion.
Read over the notes a couple of times and then summarize it in your own words. Writing it down might help store it into the long-term memory.
students are recently starting year 12, students are trying to get organized, students found your Tips very helpful. Though there are many other useful techniques, one of the best is teaching others what you have learned. students found when students helped others with questions students would gain a better knowledge of what students learned. students have also learned from my experience from year 11, that just studying a couple days before is not really studying but cramming. Therefore to gain better marks you have to study months before. Using flow charts, making notes simples, that's what summaries are supposed to be. My friend also gave students a study hint, though yet to be proven, she said the color yellow helps you remember things better, she always uses yellow paper for studying.
students have a TIP for you. Students should try to study as much as they can during daytime hours. When students study, students usually try to study during daytime, From my personal experience, study during the day time is much better than study during night time. students remember things better during daytime and students tend to not to slack off as much during daytime. Sometimes, there are less distraction for students during the daytime and students found myself more awake, even if students feel sleepy, take a 20~30 minute nap to recharge your energy. You should only study everything at night only if it's absolutely necessary, (i.e., due to work, after school activities,...etc.) besides, study as much as possible would usually reduce yourself from getting stress out at night time. Best of all, it would prevent you from staying up all night!
students am currently half way through my year 12, but students have talked to many students who have finished year twelve as well as teachers for study hints. The things that students have already put into practice, and have gotten very good results from is to write out my own study guide from the syllabus (this makes you understand the concepts you are summarizing, as well as putting the information into your long-term memory.) students have also found doing as many past papers with a time restriction extremely helpful, as many exams have similar types of questions to previous years, and after doing the questions a few times, you get so used to them, that the hard questions seem basic, because you are used to the style of question.
students have found through personal experience that by separating all of my different classes from one another by using different notebooks for each (different colors works good for me), students am not only more organized but more likely not to wander away from that subject when studying. A friend told students it's my subconscious. That students associate the notebook with that class and it helps students to concentrate on it alone. No matter what the reason is, it helped students boost my grades tremendously and learn a whole lot more then students had been before.
Keycards are great study aids. You summarize your notes for the subject by each topic then you summarize the summary so that you have the key ideas and points for each topic. These you write down on cards under each topic heading. Put them in a small ringbinder and carry them with you. Then you can flip through them while waiting in a queue or waiting at your desk for a class to start. These quick flip-throughs of all the major points keep facts alive in your memory ready for recall in the exam.
This is especially for my geography class because there is a lot of writing involved!
I've found that writing notes in shorthand (e.g. people=ppl) and going home that night while it is still fresh in the memory and typing it out longhand on the computer helps to memorize or keep the info in the brain because for people that constantly look up at the screen are rereading what they have typed. students don't know if this is a good study method but it works for me! Diane
Always have plenty of lined paper around. Lines help you to write your notes properly and neatly. students know it - it helps me! Valerie, a student from Singapore.
Don't play sport or tire yourself before doing anything that requires thinking, memory etc. such as a test, or study period. Make sure you are fully rested and relaxed. students made the mistake, and took students three exams to figure it out.
When summarizing a chapter of a subject, students type the information out in question format (e.g. instead of simply typing alveolstudents are thin in shape which results in fast diffusion of substances... students type Discuss the structure of alveoli. How does their structure aid them in their primary role?), then students type in the answer and, when the chapter summary is completed, print a copy. A family member or friend then asks students the questions and students give the answer. That way students are not just making a summary once, but completing the equivalent whenever students can nag anyone into helping me. It also prepares students for exams in which they generally expect to you use your knowledge and apply it to answer questions.
An approach to reading that works best for students is both annotating and the Cornell Method. In annotating students can mark and highlight important information, key ideas, unknown words, and interesting facts while reading. Using the Cornell Method, students can then organize the marked text into a better, arranged, understandable form. These methods both save students time and keep students actively involved. Taking notes during class is very important, and reviewing them when you get home...and it is not just the way you study but it is in the attitude you display...as long as you're a determined and a hard working student, getting good grades wouldn't be difficult for you at all. A very helpful studying TIP is to rewrite your notes the same day you wrote them, if its possible right after class. If you do not rewrite them right away, maybe in the future you will not understand what you wrote. Writing your notes a second time is also a way to understand the class lecture better. students have been using this TIP for a long time, and it has helped students to memorize information and organize my work.