Study Techniques (for uni students)

[methodsman]

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[shinny]

Cram.

[Cthulhu]

Cram like you've never crammed before then cram some more.

[TrueLight]

cram

[mark_alec]

Work consistently throughout the semester; ensure you are always on top of the work covered and understand it fully. During revision, re-read all notes and do as many questions as possible (from past exams, tutorials etc.)

[Cthulhu]

Work consistently throughout the semester; ensure you are always on top of the work covered and understand it fully. During revision, re-read all notes and do as many questions as possible (from past exams, tutorials etc.)

This is also a good way to do things.

[QuantumJG]

For all my subjects except for calculus 2 I was really crap with revision. With calculus 2 everything just came to me and keeping on top of stuff was easy. If only I could somehow transfer this to my other subjects (mainly breadth).

With exams I usually cramed like mad (except for calculus 2).

Oh well, I'll see what this year brings (something tells me I might have a calc 2 moment with vector calculus).

[Glockmeister]

Work consistently throughout the semester; ensure you are always on top of the work covered and understand it fully. During revision, re-read all notes and do as many questions as possible (from past exams, tutorials etc.)

This is also a good way to do things.

Still.

Cram.

[Toothpaste]

Cram.

cram

Cram.

Cram.

... and don't turn up to optional classes. Hell yeah.

[ninwa]

Work consistently throughout the semester; ensure you are always on top of the work covered and understand it fully. During revision, re-read all notes and do as many questions as possible (from past exams, tutorials etc.)

Definitely do this. There's nothing like consistent reinforcement of knowledge to ensure optimal retrieval of information while in a stressful situation such as in an exam.

...

but almost nobody really can be bothered doing that past the first few weeks of "omg I'm in uni I'm going to try my best" jaffy-isms, so:

Cram.

Cram like you've never crammed before then cram some more.

cram

cramed like mad

Cram.

Cram.

[Fyrefly]

Work consistently throughout the semester; ensure you are always on top of the work covered and understand it fully. During revision, re-read all notes and do as many questions as possible (from past exams, tutorials etc.)

Definitely do this. There's nothing like consistent reinforcement of knowledge to ensure optimal retrieval of information while in a stressful situation such as in an exam.

...

but almost nobody really can be bothered doing that past the first few weeks of "omg I'm in uni I'm going to try my best" jaffy-isms, so:

Cram.

Cram like you've never crammed before then cram some more.

cram

cramed like mad

Cram.

Cram.

This... I think you get it by now.

[wingwong]

Wing it.

[Fyrefly]

Wing it.

I did this once actually, with my Jap 1 exam.

I had macro in the morning and Jap in the arvo on the same day, and I was in danger of failing macro because the exam was worth so much.
On the other hand, Jap written exam was only worth 40% and out of the 60% that had already been assessed, I'd gotten about 58%.
Since there was no hurdle requirement, I had passed Jap without even walking into the exam.

I planned to study briefly in the break between exams while I ate my lunch, but I grew ill and had sharp pains in my stomach (in hindsight, the ham I had in my sandwich for breakfast probably wasn't as fresh as it should have been). I had neurofen with me, and it kicked in in time for my Jap exam, but I hadn't studied.

I ended up getting about 94% for the exam, and an overall 95% unit result.

[Toothpaste]

PROTIP: No-Doz

[TrueLight]

u can miss more lectures and still get hd and d
u dont have to be consistant and you can still get hd and d
u dont have to do 1hr a day and u can still get hd and d
u can go out a lot and still get hd and d

as i said before and everyone else said
all u got to do to get hd and d is cram cram cram

and also do all your assessments

lol