Best Way To Study

Worried about how best to study effectively for an exam? If you have applied yourself correctly in the weeks preceding, any concern should be a minor one. But if you have not been keeping up with the work, you're faced with the prospect of an all night session of cramming. No one will argue that cramming is not the worst way to prepare. You squeeze tons of information into your short term memory, hold it there till test time by dint of caffeine and nervous excitement. You take the test, and with the relief that comes, there goes all that hard-earned knowledge. If you had to take the same exam twenty minutes later, you'd probably fail. Which is the same situation you'll be in for the final to come.

So that's the fundamental strategy: do you work every day, completing all your assignments without putting anything off for later. This way, when exam time arrives, you will already be prepared; any additional study will be "no sweat."

Here goes with the first tactic. This one applies to courses in the liberal arts. Courses like political science, philosophy, languages, literature, sociology, and psychology. These deal mostly with all forms of human interaction. At bottom they are prescriptive of how someone believes things are, or should be. So the content is largely subjective, subject to the interpretation, or opinion, of the presenter. It is the nature of sociological phenomena. As such the course content becomes an extended effort to convince the listener of the reasonableness of its argument. So we set up to play professor.Sit down at your desk and write out an outline of the course content from memory. Put down the main points first, then flush it out with subtopics and statements that contain supporting evidence. Then refer to your notes or text to verify your outline, making additions and corrections as necessary. Keep doing this until you can produce a concise and cogent outline, again, from memory.When you can do that, you've mastered the material and are ready for any exam!

We use a different approach to the hard sciences such as mathematics, chemistry, physics, statistics, astronomy, to some extent biology, and others. Here the focus is on producing the correct solution to a specific, quantitatively framed problem. We seek the right answer, not an opinion. Tests usually require applying quantitative analysis, in the form of formulas, to data in order to test an hypothesis. A discrete result is what we're after, which then either squares with facts and known observations, or it doesn't. If it does not, the scientist needs to tweak his hypothesis. The best way to study for a science course is exam is, obviously, to practice what we'll be asked to do---solve problems. So work as many problems as you can, (not just the ones assigned). Get hold of an outline series, such as Schaum, and do the ones they provide, too. When the exam rolls around, there won't be any problems you haven't already worked. You will be completely conversant in the practical application of the subject matter.

That's it. Doing things the good old fashioned way. No fancy gimmickry, no abracadabra; Just plain old focus and hard work. Good luck and "get cracking!


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