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What is your best way/s of studying?

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K.Smithy:
For me, it depends on the subject and topic.
My absolute favourite way to study has to be when I'm studying brain anatomy or the nervous system for psychology

Method:
Diagrams!!!! ;D (yay! drawing! yay! colours!) I flipping love drawing diagrams and stuff for brain anatomy and the nervous system, I think I have ~6 brains that I have drawn and colour coded at the front of my psych book

Why:
1. It's fun. As much as I don't mind slaving away behind a textbook for hours on end just memorising, being able to draw and add colour and be creative just provides a break from my standard methods of studying
2. Diagrams are quicker to review when it comes to exam preparation than paragraphs of writing
3. I find it helps me really figure out where something is in relation to another thing (duh? ;D) - like you can read about brain anatomy and it will be all like "the amygdala is adjacent to this... and perpendicular to this...", but that doesn't click with my brain. Instead, I can just look at my diagram and see where exactly the amygdala is and what surrounds it

tigerclouds:

--- Quote from: J_Rho on December 05, 2019, 01:26:16 pm ---A thread to discuss ways of studying.
How do you study and why does it work for you??
I'll go first:
Method: Flashcards
Why: Because both making them and using them is great revision I find they work very well for Legal Studies

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Hi J_Rho, thank you so much for this thread! Can I ask, how do you make them for Legal Studies? Is it just for definitions? I really want to start using flashcards, I just want to avoid rote-learning the content.

J_Rho:

--- Quote from: tigerclouds on December 06, 2019, 12:24:47 am ---Hi J_Rho, thank you so much for this thread! Can I ask, how do you make them for Legal Studies? Is it just for definitions? I really want to start using flashcards, I just want to avoid rote-learning the content.

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I make them not only for definitions but also phrases or questions like "Identify 3 limitations of justice" or things like that as I personally have no issue with the way I write my answers so the thing I really focus on improving is my knowegde

yourfriendlyneighbourhoodghost:
method: Quizlet is probably what gave me so much confidence during VCE especially for psych and English.

why? quizlet had a nice and effective way to easily create flash cards and you could have as many as you wanted! You could then sort them into folders or areas of study then, so could study specific things that you lacked in, then, when revising the whole content for exams, chuck all the little flashcard groups into a folder for that subject and you can study all of them at the same time! I also found it nice to see when you mastered a term, it put it in a place that said you have learnt that term and that may have given me confidence because if it says I have learnt it, then it would be easy to recall during the exam. (:

Coolmate:
Hey Everyone, I have another!

Method:
Look, Cover, Write, Check(LCWC) method.

* Look at notes/ questions/ summary for the specific subject
* Cover what you have just written
* Write out what you remember (and even more information if you want too!)
* Check what you just wrote down with the actual notes/ questions/ summary as answers
Why:
By using this method of study, not only will you be able to learn content in a different way, but you will also continually engage in repetition, causing both your short term and long term memory to remember, store and hold more information. This is seen when you have to cover your work and try to write out what you remember. This is especially useful for exams!

Coolmate 8)

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