/sci/ - Science & Math

>Go to the lectures
>Listen to them live while recording them and taking notes
>Listen to them while reading the notes until I feel I've sufficiently prepared for the tests
>80%+ in all of my courses

>Do homework immediately when it is assigned
>do homework during lecture if possible
>????
>Profit!

Read the material and attempt most of homework before the lecture on the corresponding material.

Doing this, you will better absorb your lecture and the knowledge will actually stick to something already there.

Best advice I have experienced;

Read textbook (all of it, not just stuff covered in class) and do the practice problems as you go along. Read corresponding chapter before going to lecture, so the info is only reinforced.

Guaranteed A if you understand the material.

>>4141552
Isn't this like doing the same thing twice. You could just repeat your notes after the lesson instead.

Study whenever possible, cut down on being social (Not that you are anyway) and internet. Especially playing games. If you want to pass do not play any video games ever until the semester is up, I learned this the hard way.

Basically just study, eat, sleep fuck everything else. If you get stressed drink some green tea, get a blowjob from your GF and go back to preparing to be a brilliant researcher advancing humanity.

Also I find I learn much better by reading the books you are supplied. I lecturer/ teacher usually just regurgitates the info in the book along with their own little nick nacks and analogies which you don't need unless you can't understand the book.

>>4141579

Yea, it's like doing the material twice on two different days.

I like it because I suck at understanding lectures. I could understand much more from reading the book first. If there's something I don't understand, I'll just wait for the prof to discuss it in lecture the next day, then finish whatever homework I didn't the previous day.

It's how you're meant to do work... You're supposed to read the material before lecture hence the phrase:

"So did anyone read the chapter before coming to class?"

It's not even more effort to do... You just shift homeworks back one day...

>>4141552
>>4141577
These. Lectures are often so fast-paced that you can't absorb the information if it's the first time you're trying to learn it. It's like a fast replay. In the past I thought lectures are useless or 'not for me' because it seemed reading books was more efficient, but then I tried this and bam. Straight A's.

>take notes in class
>pay attention in class
>don't ever look at notes for tests
>don't study at all
>got As on all of my tests, never lower (I haven't gotten a B on a test since I was in 8th grade, and I've just graduated high school)

>Listen in lectures
>Do work
>Revise from time to time as you go along.. not only the month before

>>4141647

my best advice to OP is not to listen to highschool boy

and my best advice for highschool boy is to change, because college != highschool

Even if it feels easy at first, you will, at one point, get passed the point you can just breeze through exams/material.

>>4141647
That was the same as me, except I stopped doing the homework as well, and so my ~90 average dropped to ~80 in harder subjects like calculus and ~85% in courses like History, philosophy, English, etc. The reason why I chose CS as my major was because my average stayed over 95% over 3 years without much effort.

>>4141669
My laziness caught up with me in other words, and I didn't get scholarships as a result.

>>4141637

>>4141647 here. I'm from a different country so I don't know if you even have A's in higher levels than high school, but I meant that for university/college students, who have to endure the minimal educational value of mass lectures AND the much more challenging& abstract study-material. I got also top grades in high school (or whatever) studying much less than people in average, but it's totally different in higher levels.

>>4141653
>>4141647
>>4141545

These.

How do I tell myself to think the way I think on the eve of a deadline?

Like the day before something is due I'll be working so fucking hard when really I should have been doing all that work 2 or 3 weeks prior. Worst thing is I tell myself every time I narrowly make a submission date that I won't let it happen again, yet it always does.... How?? :(

>ephedrine
>caffeine
>take them together

>>4141966
aww hell yeah. I second this. It also makes one very happy and confident.

I think my advice will be useful to you since I've completed undergrad, finished a masters degree with 2 years of coursework, and began a PhD at a different institution.

Here are my tips:

In class, take notes not only from the board, but also from the professor. If you can't do both at the same time, buy a voice recorder and put it on his desk / near his podium. About a week before the exam, review all your material, and note areas in which you lack understanding. Approach the professor with your questions early on not only to get answers, but to demonstrate an interest in the class as well and build a personal relationship with him. If it's open book, open notes, tape inserts into the book or binder, and familiarize yourself with their location. You may also make no more than a one page index if you don't like to use inserts. If it's closed book, make a condensed equation sheet.

In both cases, do practice problems if available. Read all the material again and divide it into sections on paper. Understand the point of, and difference between each section. For example, in my scattered notes for Groundwater Hydrology, I make sections for unconfined and confined flow, leaky and non-leaky aquifers, radial flow and advective transport, saturated and unsaturated conditions, 1-D to 3-D control volumes...etc.

More to come....

My studying goes as follows:

1.) Read and understand the book
2.) Read and understand the notes
3.) Ask professor to explain poorly-understood points
4.) Understand all practice problems
5.) Make an equation sheet and outline of covered material
6.) Break the material into sections and make an new, more ordered outline.
7.) Read the notes again, study the practice problems again, and read the ordered outline several times
8.) Try to understand the connection between sections, differences in problem approaches between sections.

In graduate classes, I have an additional suggestion.

Make friends with the Asian students in the class, especially the Chinese. Not because of anything to do with some perceived superiority people think they possess, but because many times the graduating students pass their old materials to incoming students. Try to collect as many old exams as possible, bartering with other students for theirs. Asian students are usually quiet in study groups, and they're fine with me explaining the material to them. It helps to explain it to someone because you learn new things in the process, and their questions may help you as well.

If your field is best learned by rote memorization from flash cards, you're in the wrong field.

>>4142045
Sounds like a great plan, BUT... who has time for that kind of studying lol? I never found I had that much time..

>>4142062

>introductory chemistry
>implying chemistry is OP's chosen field

>>4142062
what the fuck is that picture..

>>4142066
I forget that as graduates, we basically have no life :P Also, we take 2-3 courses max, as opposed to 5 typical for undergrad.

>>4142062
>ask for. That's all I have to say is that I fuckin you guys.


wat

>drink all through the semester
>only listen to what they're talking about in class and sorta go on that for tests and projects
>straight A's all classes

Read it
>Read everything at least once
Understand it
>Connect the material to something you already know. Often times, the information will either build upon old rules made or be an introduction to something new. Categorize and remember said information. At the end of the chapter use all the little things to build a great general idea of how whatever it is works.
Test yourself
>Use book problems but more importantly use any practice work that the teacher gives out.

>>4142085
>>4142187
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/omaha-gunman-suicide-notes

>>4142218
The fuck has this got to do with study techniques?

>>4142232
Suck my cock.

>>4142237
Idiot.

>>4142218
>>4142232
>>4142237
>>4142239
wat
wasn't he just answering some people's question with that link?

>>4142242
Yeah he answered and then the more pertinent follow up question was given an inane response. Don't make me out to be the bad guy.

>>4142239
Faggot.

>>4142244
were you trying to start a meme or something. maybe you hoped more responses to threads could be "that's all I have to say I fuckin you guys" the same way people remember the phrases like "i accidentally the whole"??

herp

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bump

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attend every class
take notes in class - use a 4 color ink pen, use all 4 colors when possible to make different aspects stand out
when reading in your book do the following:
convert every bold section title into a question - answer the question
make a flash card for every bold term in the text or major formula in text
follow every derivation in the text
do all homework assigned, do all labs assigned, attend study groups with assignments completed, answer group questions when they come up
if you dont understand something, talk to the instructor or TA or other student you know will explain it

a lot of classes are so full of information, things won't set in until next quarter or semester in some other class

The fact of the matter is, the best study methods are personalized. Everyone is different, and everyone will get a different amount of value out of certain strategies. I learned (too late) that simply studying in the library instead of in my bedroom increased my mark by a solid 10%!

But here's what I do, write down the notes in my notebook in lectures, leaving wide margins so I can make notes later or add in something that the prof said but didn't write on the blackboard. I generally did my assignments the night before, unless there were two due the next day and then I'd do one two days before. When finals came I gave myself a few days to redo all of my assignments, then I'd learn which mistakes I made the first time and see if I did them properly this time around, if not I would look at my notes, and if I still didn't get it I would read my notes and find similar questions and do them.

Was this method good? Meh. I graduated a Bachelor of Mathematics (yeah, it exists), with a 75% average. If I put in a real effort then maybe some of those .65 courses would have been .75 courses, and the .75 courses would have been .90, but to be honest, the amount of effort I would have had to put in wouldn't have been worth it honestly. I never planned on doing anything with my marks, and I feel confident in my abilities regardless.

headmagnet.com

why cant i hold all this As

not kidding though it allows you to make flash cards and keeps track of how well you know each category