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I'm sure there are gentlemen here who have spent many years in a college or university.Lets ohave a thread about effective study habits.

In definition and concept heavy courses such as biology or chem I would read the textbook and then write down the Important information in a bullied list. Sometimes the notes get pretty extensive but it's pretty fucking worth it when the test rolls around and you know your gonna bend it over and dry fuck it.
Also the notes are excellent for future reference when that concept or idea is eluding you.
So how do you study /sci/?

>> No.5607798

>Gather enough food and drinks to last couple of days
>Bring it all into or near your bed
>Combine with books and other study material
>Lay in bed
>Dislocate knees
>Enjoy your free week of undisturbed studying

>> No.5607799

oh look this thread for the 3rd day in a row

>> No.5607808

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

Heard about this in a previous studying thread. Has anyone ever experienced such a thing?

>> No.5607809

I use multiple colours for my notes, like, i do important points in red and any headers/formulas in blue. sometimes stuff is in purple.

Before lecture, I make notes on the textbook section (not super detailed), then supplement them with the lecture stuff while thinking about it, so I have more time to absorb info. into my head instead of onto a page. This takes more work though.

For very complex math/physics problems, I make model solutions where I put an 1 line desc. of each step beside the step. VEEERYYY useful 1 yr down the road or if you forget something before the test.

For commuters, watch khanacademy vids on the bus with headphones in on subjects you are learning, haveing multiple perspectives helped me.

That's all I can think of bruv

>> No.5607814

>>5607799
We should add a studying section to the /sci/ guide.

>> No.5607812

>>5607799
I read that as:
>i have been on this board fro only three days

>> No.5607816

>>5607814
Doesn't only one guy run it?

>> No.5607819

>>5607808
I'd recommend against it tbh, after reading this:

http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/12/23/flow-is-the-opiate-of-the-medicore-advice-on-getting-better-from-an-accomplished-piano-player/

>> No.5607855

What i find that works for me is making an scheme of the system/subjetct, defining very accurately the relationships betwen the concepts, the concepts themselves and then visualizing every concept in detail, when i do this the right way i can recall the visualizations easly and have no trouble remebering the concepts.

>> No.5607962

Op here.
I've been saving everyone's strategies. Gonna post them as soon as I find a suitable wikia or something.

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>>5608617
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>> No.5608640

You And Your Research Richard Hammond
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

Roman Room Method
http://www.academictips.org/memory/romanrom.html

Productivity Experiments Applied To Knowledge Work
http://lunar.lostgarden.com/Rules%20of%20Productivity.pdf

>> No.5608662

>>5607790
>biology or chem
>concept heavy

From what I know from my friends, I know that it's almost purely memorization or something like that. I would have no idea, I only took one chem course and as a Mechanical Engineering student I haven't had to take a single Bio course. Studying for ME and AE is largely learning the concept and doing practice problems until your eyes and fingers fucking bleed. Formulas are fairly simple, it's just the method of solving the problems. If my teacher doesn't teach the material good enough I'll read the textbook but other than that the textbook is just a source for problems to solve. Again, this is for engineering students in mechanical and aerospace, I know nothing of other majors.

tl;dr sit down with the textbook and do practice problems until you are physically incapable of doing so

>> No.5608667

Pay a little bit of attention in discussion, do the practice exams they have prepared before the tests googling all of the answers or using the solution key also provided, use memory to strategize how I would do a problem relative to the one on the practice exam.

>> No.5608724

>>5607808
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
I experience this when I'm reading wikipedia or surfing through the internet, even if I have a watch in my hand I can never keep track of time, even if I feel like shit afterwards, it's a bliss while I'm doing it.

>> No.5608740

>>5607808
only when playing music games

>> No.5608773

Law Student preparing the bar exam for 7 months

What I do is study for short intervals of an hour each, with 30 mins of rest inbetween each. Because law is a lot of easy concepts and a lot of memory all I do is read, understand and memorize, all while connecting the dots and imagining real life cases, this helps to make it a more interesting read and the concepts stick.

>> No.5608776

>>5607808

yes, while programming.

the task at hand must be difficult enough to not be menial yet easy enough to not require too much research (i.e. i need to be able to write the code consistently, without taking pauses to understand something)

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Just associate as much abstract information as possible with images, stories, sounds... Anything
More connections is better memory.

And when I can't remember something I don't insist on the memory precisely.
I think about where I learned it. I think about who was there. I try to remember the voice who said it. I think of associated ideas, like other formulas, or exercises I did. And then I remember what I was looking for. Because the brain is all connections. And the more you excite associated memories, the more you can find what you seek.

Of course I have no facts to back that up.

>> No.5608864

>>5607790

I find I study best when I piss around a lot more. Trying to force it is ineffective.