Studying Help

[Mao]

Form study groups, help each other in understanding concepts, and if you can, teach others. This is the best way to gain a conceptual understanding, as you'll be seeing a concept from other perspectives. Often, the reason concepts don't stay is because they were delivered in a way you don't understand, not because they are too hard to understand. You just have to seek explanations that you do understand, eureka!

+1, in order to teach someone something, you have to understand it fully yourself, so it is a good test for yourself

Exactly. And also, teaching others forces you to have a logical structure for your understanding, so that you can explain to others in ways that make sense. It kinda acts as a mental defragmentation, putting pieces of information into the right place that you can easily access.

[mba]

Hello,
Firstly you must realise that everyone learns differently therefore there is no "perfect" way to study.
How ever, I have found a few things that have been able to help me maximise my study potential.
Over a two week period, set one hour blocks for each subject were you simply review the material you have
learnt in class over the prior period. E.g.: on Monday: Methods, Wednesday: Chem, Sat: English etc. It is
pretty easy to do as you are simply spending only ONE hour, which is not much time at all reviewing the
material you have all ready learnt. Don't set times though, just do it when you can. I find study "timetables"
to be quite pointless with exact timings silly as we all have busy lives and it can be hard to stick too. However,
a one hour time slot every few days should be managable. You could even do these in study
periods at school with a few mates from the same subject.

For maths subjects I have a small note book were I write down all the questions that I have trouble with.
You don't need to study material that you all ready understand in depth, so this book comes very handy in
the lead up to SACS and business time of the year in prep for exams. You know exactly what you need to
review and revise. Make sure you do all the questions from the text book too, sometimes my maths teacher
says to only do every second question. Repitition seems key for maths subjects to imbed the info in your head.

Apart from that, I just do the assigned homework and work that I don't finish off in time. I review my notes
from my work books in prep for SACS too.