study less study smart

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I decided to share my notes taken from this amazing 1 hour Youtube lecture by Marty Lobdell. i really liked him and his tips, i think they are super effective and cover a lot of situations! i highly recommend it!!!!! wow

but here are the tips and examples Marty mentions, so if you don’t have the time to go through the full hour, you can just scroll down. hope this helps somebody!

• Break your study time in chunks with breaks
• most students lose focus at 25 minutes
• it’s a mistake to keep going once you do, since you won’t actually learn anything and you’ll hate every minute of it
• so when you start losing focus take a 5 minute break
• do something nice like talking to someone or listening to music
• it’s something you practice so with time you’ll be able to work for more time without losing focus
• in the end of the study session have a big reward you look forward to
• Create
  a study area
• environment highly affects the way you act. Bedrooms are for sleeping, kitchens for eating: you’ll feel sleepy in your bedroom and hungry in the kitchen. So if you have a study area, it’ll be easier to start studying and staying focused.
• study in a specific room like an office or school library if you can
• if you have to study in your bedroom use a specific object you only use for studying: a lamp/desk. Make it a no-distraction, away from your bed, blank walls area.
•  The
  more active the learning, the better
• 80% active learning 20% passive
• ask yourself: is
  it a concept or a fact?
• learning a concept: understand/grasp/know it
• put it into your own words
• really think about the meaning of it
• relate it with something you already
  know
• teach somebody else. Recapitulate
  what you’ve learned. Talk out loud even if you don’t have anyone to teach – talk alone. Or at anyone that listens.
• learning a fact: memorize it
• use mnemonics
• Acronyms
  (e.g. colours of the rainbow RoyGBiv – red orange yellow green blue indigo
  violet)
•  Coined
  sayings – anything popular or sayings you’ve heard since you were a child.
• Interacting
  images – work even better if they’re weird. Creative associations make you
  never forget specific details. (e.g. 1 gram of fat has 9 calories: picture a
  fat cat – each cat has 9 lives)
• any time 2 things are highly similar
  but not the same you will get maximal interference!! USE mnemonics!! (e.g. afferent vs efferent neurons:
  SAME – Sensory Afferent Motor Efferent)
• Be a part of  study
  groups
• others can help you in ways you never thought before
• Recognizing VS remembering
• never confuse the two
• while reviewing a chapter you may recognize concepts but not actually know them
• and when you get to the test you won’t be able to remember any of it
• so quiz yourself without looking at it
• or stop in a page of your notes/textbook and ask yourself what is the concept immediately after and before it
• Get your REM
  Sleep 
• get ~8 hours so you don’t undo your studying
• this is how your brain stores permanent
  memories
• without it you’re ability to remember seriously decreases
• most people don’t even begin to take the advice but it’s simple: sleep better. Do better.
• There’s
  162 hours in a week. There is time.
• reflect on what you are doing with your time and what activities you have to prioritize to succed as a student
• Taking
  notes is vital.
• right after the class take 5 minutes to expand everything you’ve jotted down,
  give it depth.
• NOT hours later. You won’t remember half the things you wrote down.
• Ask your questions to class mates and teachers.
• teachers want you to succeed and it’s more than ok to ask your question in the teacher’s office or in the next class
• How to use a textbook: SQ3R technique
• Survey Question Read Recite Review
• Survey:
  skim through the entire chapter in a couple of minutes.
• Raise questions: e.g. what
  is osmosis? What is this graphic about? What is a prototype?
• it
  causes you to look for answers and you’ll find the information better once you actually study it after. If you intend
  to find something you learn it better.
• Start
  studying for tests early.
• don’t undo yourself. You should only be reviewing the days before the test. don’t leave it till the last minute!

(don’t just scroll through this!!!! really think about these methods and how you can actually implement them so you can benefit from them!!! these actually work but only if you put them into practice boo good luck!)