List of Seven Different Study Methods to Try Out:
Morning Routine Method:
If you struggle with procrastination, this method is for you. Make studying for thirty minutes apart of your morning routine, something you must do daily before you leave the house. Make it something that has to be done while you are getting prepared in the morning for the upcoming day, and something you can’t leave the house without doing like brushing your teeth.
Flash Cards:
Used to study multiple small bits of information in a short period of time, made in advance to squeeze in study time while waiting between classes or in lines. Recommended for biology, anatomy, equations for physics, learning new words in a different language, memorizing pharmaceuticals, medical roots and terminology, types of organic chemistry reactions, and multiplication tables.
Can be taped or pin around your home for constant recall of specific lines of information such as “the mitochondria is the power house of the cell” along with diagrams, so that bigger chucks of information sticks better from being constantly seen in places such as the front of the refrigerator, the door to your room, the bathroom mirror, and the wall in-front of your toilet.
Pomodoro Technique:
Work in 25 minute intervals separated by 5-10 minute breaks.
Used for long sit down sessions. Recommended for reading chapters of text books to prevent auto-pilot reading (where you look over a paragraph, but don’t really read it).
Also recommended for working on projects and assignments if one has trouble starting on work before the day it’s due, due to feeling like it’s to much work to do at once.
Treating Method:
Place a gummy-bear or other small piece of candy that won’t mess up your text book, at the end of each paragraph to create a bit more motivation to go on to read the next paragraph with the prospect of an immediate reward at the end.
Works best if you only allow yourself these treats for studying.
Combine with practicing actively recalling the information without looking at it, at the end of each paragraph, and treat yourself if you got the information mostly correct. If not, re-read and try again.
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Course/Test Cheat Sheet Page:
Make a page of the most important information you need to pass a test or class full of rules, equations, theorems, or definitions, and keep a copy at your desk, in your car, on your kitchen table, on the couch, and in your bag.
The key here is figuring out the most important information you need, and making sure that you can pick it up and study during any slow period during your day.
Thwart Method:
To retain information learned in a class, ~80% can be saved if reviewed within 24 hours, review for ten minutes the information a day later, and for five minutes the following two weeks, to be able to recall the information within five minutes while studying for the exam later.
The method is based on this “Curve of Forgetting” graph from California State University based on the study by Thwart-
Teaching to Someone Else:
Put together a lesson plan to teach the information to someone else, make slides, write out your lecture and practice how you would explain it.
Tutor students a grade below or who are taking a class you already took, to retain the information better.
If you don’t want to teach the material to a friend who may also be in your class, and feel embarrassed to do it in front of somebody else, record yourself teaching the material and re-watch and edit it to make the video better. The video can be used to review the material later if you don’t want to re-read old notes.
