some study tips from my psychology teacher š
cramming is good for the short term, such as just before a test (iām talking like an hour before), but shouldnāt be used as an effective study method. you only learn the information in the exact way you read it, so any practical application on your test wonāt be easy to answer. you also will struggle with answering the same questions you studied for, but asked differently.
the spacing effect is essentially the opposite of cramming. instead of doing a 4 hour study session, break it up into groups of 30 minutes. do 30 minutes, take a nice long break, go back for 30, and repeat. that break in between gives your brain time to encode and store the information. this can be done in either one day, or over the course of a few days before the test.
Mnemonic devices are your best friend when dealing with lists of information
any sort of rhyming scheme, letter association, acronyms, etc. is proven to help you. any american can say ROY G. BIV and know exactly what theyāre talking about, another example is HOMES for the great lakes. another major example is āPlease Excuse My Dear Aunt Sallyā/PEMDAS for the order of operations. this helps with lists, i use it all the time in biology for stuff like the Levels of Classification or Characteristics of Living things. for AP Euro i remember āDescartes with a Dā because he āDoubts and wrote Discorse on Methodā.
Hierarchy Organizing for Midterms and Finals
by breaking information down into a hierarchy, you can figure out how to study all your chapters at once. these are often called āgraphic organizersā and it takes the whole topic, then breaks it into subsections, then subsections of those subsections. hereās an example i found for my Memory unit
the whole unit is memory, the subtopics are sensory memory, short term, then long term. then comes the subdivisions of long term memory and so on. this is wonderful for study planning in regards to large information tests.
these are just some of the tips we talked about, and obviously they wonāt work for everybody, but itās really helped my studying process because itās literally how the brain processes information best for long term storage and retrieval.
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