Can any give pointers on how to study efficiently

I’m a cram studier, so can’t really offer much support from my perspective. Mostly I did my study in the final two hours before going into an exam at uni.

All I can suggest is tha you talk to the body you are studying through or some of the other unis round the tracks. They all have recommended books on study techniques that are quite good – provided you study them closely

Cheers,

Aceyducey

Hi Jaffasoft,

I, of all people cannot tell people to stay off the net, I’m an addict!

One really good study technique for exams was to learn how to use mnuemonics, I’m a self taught mneumonic (memory peg) fan. It’s an excellent way to study a concept just once, and never forget! I even makes studying fun as your making up stories in your head and attaching pictures to it. Yes there is a danger of going completely bonkers![lmao]

Liz Wilson

Mortgage Lender

Two very important things you need to remember when studying for long periods:

– Have regular breaks during study sessions. Keep active during the week.
– Eat healthy and keep a regular/balanced diet.

A healthy body is a healthy mind [thumbsup2]

Jaffasoft,

In the middle of a double mastesr degree and I have found for myself that the best way to get work done is to head out to the uni library. Give yourself an afternoon (3-4 hours or more) with definite goals you want to achieve by the end. Whether that being getting additional refernces, note taking off a reference, borrow books or whatever.

I am lucky (or unlucky, not sure which?), that I live by myself, so I don’t have the distraction of family or other people, but I tend to get side-tracked easily at home. (Law & Order junkee and with Foxtel, playing them everyday, I need to get out of the place, so I can function).

Being physically active, good diet and a balanced social life is what I have found to be also imperative.

All of that takes time to develop the
1. prioritisation between, work, study, exercise and friends/family
2.discipline to execute it repeatedly

You can put something in a diary but it doesn’t make you do it.

Chunking things down into smaller intervals worked for me as well. I initially, looked at a one week block of time and put down everything I needed to do. At the end of the week, I went back to confirm what I had and hadn’t done.

Number of items complete/number of items needed to complete. A simple KPI. I then was in competition with myself to better each week and then ultimately maintain.
(see, you are right, you do go a little stir crazy).

Good luck with it.

James

Hi Jaffa,

Late at night in my uni days I would watch bad late night TV like that guy who uses mneumonics… as I was poor I decided to figure it out myself rather then spend money on his videos! hee hee. My techniques are probably simpler but they work.

There IS something about pictures, WHY? Because our subconscious only works in pictures, and not words, anything we see goes into the subconscious, thats why changing concepts and information into pictures STICKS alot better then words.

Try to get some books at a library about it… you basically have to create an outlandish picture story in your mind, so that you can go through all the steps of the concept one by one where each has it’s own picture that connect to another picture through an action. The more it moves, and the crazier it is, the easier it is to remember, hence the fun part.

Try to create some memory pegs in your mind to.. these are where you can start the mneumonic stories… OK this is digressing… do you have AnY idea what I am saying? [blink]

Liz Wilson

Mortgage Lender

Hi Liz,

A educational researcher has identified eight (and rising) intelligences that various people use when learning.

Gardner (the researcher) advocates a multi-sensory approach to learning with individuals focussing on their strength areas.

Recommend a google search on ‘mulitple intelligences’ for anyone who is interested.

Derek
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Derek,

I agree, from a management background I have done a few courses on the ways different people learn. I’m a doer – I have to do it to learn, some people have to see someone else do it, and some have to read instructions carefully to understand, it’s interesting how different people are, and how much it helps to learn about how your collegues work.

Still I am resigned to the belief that ultimately our subconsious works with pictures, and they just seem to gel when we use them for helping our memory… see what I’m saying? Maybe it’s good for this, but ultimately we need to absorb the information to start with by audio, visual etc, whatever works for you. For storage purposes it’s alot easier to remember with pictures – trust me on this one if you havn’t discovered it yourself yet!

Jaffa – yes you’d get away with it [tongue] – what does this calculator calculate? (before I download [hmmm])

Um sort of on the peg thing. They are like permanent memory starting points. Like 1 is a bun, 2 is a shoe, 3 is a tree. You can always refer to the Bun to start off concept no. 1 that you were trying to remember… the bun is attached to the first picture somehow…

I did a search for “mnemonics” on google. I swear by google – what engine you using?

Liz Wilson

Mortgage Lender

Damn Melbear – your a smarty pants! Yes it is mnemonics, my google corrected me! I should have told Jaffa but too much of a blonde, didn’t make the connection.

hee hee

you should be a spy melbear[suave]

Liz Wilson

Mortgage Lender