Study Tips

Hurricane-Dean

Ok so I have an exam @ 9.30am and I have been studying all day, only problem is nothing is sticking!! Anyone got any good tips to help? (yes I know I should be studying and not on boards but what can ye do?)

Chad ghostal

Get some sleep ya feckin eejit

DeVille

Go to bed now and get some sleep, then get up early at like 06:30, make a big breakfast and then you'll be back in bed by 07:30 or 07:45

Hurricane-Dean

Chad ghostal wrote: »

Get some sleep ya feckin eejit

I'm wide awake :eek: I need to get this material into my head!!

AnonoBoy

MDMA - it's brain food but for your nervous system!

Desire to Aspire

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

I'm wide awake :eek: I need to get this material into my head!!

You'll forget it if you don't get a decent sleep. You would be better off getting up early instead.

Hurricane-Dean

Ah come on guys I seriously need some ideas

smk89

If you have past papers go over them in relation to the notes.

Desire to Aspire

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

Ah come on guys I seriously need some ideas

What type of a test is it, college? What subject?

OPENROAD

Make one line, max two line bullet points.

Substitute the points into the melody of your favorite songs. and sing over and over again

Geansai Rua

that is the best idea!!
get some sleep. maybe get up at 6 and read over it.

Its your problem if you choose not to listen..

I finished exams last week! Wahey!

starlit

Jot down key points and memorise them, might help you in your exam tomorrow to have them fresh in your mind! When it come to the exam, you know your key points just a matter of expanding them! Its worth looking over past exam papers they really do help. Good luck OP.

ismiseuisce

I find that I learn best by transcribing notes repeatedly. It's very boring and time consuming but it works...

Hurricane-Dean

Desire to Aspire wrote: »

What type of a test is it, college? What subject?

College, Manufacturing Management

Geansai Rua wrote: »

that is the best idea!!
get some sleep. maybe get up at 6 and read over it.

Its your problem if you choose not to listen..

I finished exams last week! Wahey!

I did listen, this subject is ridiculously hard with a high failure rate!:mad:

Glico Man

Read everything for one topic for about 10 minutes. Get out a piece of paper and write down everything you remember. For everything A4 page you remember, fap. For everything you forget, write it down 5 more times. Repeat until the exam

If your wrist is too weak to write, you've done well...too bad you won't be able to write it down the answers though

AnonoBoy

Seriously man.

Coffee or MDMA.

Hurricane-Dean

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Seriously man.

Coffee or MDMA.

The only thing available to me, I know they say a good sleep and up early but I have to get up at 7.30 just to get in on time :eek: so studying and getting a bit of sleep is my best option

tommyhaas

Desire to Aspire wrote: »

You'll forget it if you don't get a decent sleep. You would be better off getting up early instead.

Dont agree with that, when I was in college I used to say up half the night prior to an exam. Im sure a good night's sleep is benefical, however if your fcuked for an exam, a good nights sleep wont help, you need to stay up and keep revising. As a previous poster mentioned, use bullet points. Keep reciting them until you can write them out off by heart. Use any method you can to learn, personally I used to make strange sentences out of the first word from each bullet point as a trigger to remember the point, the strangere the sentence, the easier it was to remember

EDIT: Either that or cheat, and later admit cheating on boards only to see your revelation make the national newspapers

starlit

If you have a photographic memory might help too but not bullet proof and not at all reliable like short/long term memory. Review and re-read what bit of notes you have written and bullet points you write down going through the key points. Remembering important info for the exam is your best bet. Good idea to get a good night sleep, you be more refreshed by morning. Re-writing notes might also be something you could do will help with your memory a lot when it comes to remembering the material while answering the exam questions. Have you done any pre-prepared answers for possible questions?

Can you write down these key points off by heart without the notes/book? It will show how much you know, stuff you know inside out you don't have to keep going over it and spend the time on the tougher areas of the subject.

Hurricane-Dean

tommyhaas wrote: »

personally I used to make strange sentences out of the first word from each bullet point as a trigger to remember the point, the strangere the sentence, the easier it was to remember

Yeah sounds good, I can do that for the likes of the definitions but there are a few crafty graphs in there!

Hurricane-Dean

snuggles285 wrote: »

If you have a photographic memory might help too but not bullet proof and not at all reliable like short/long term memory. Review and re-read what bit of notes you have written and bullet points you write down going through the key points. Remembering important info for the exam is your best bet. Good idea to get a good night sleep, you be more refreshed by morning. Re-writing notes might also be something you could do will help with your memory a lot when it comes to remembering the material while answering the exam questions. Have you done any pre-prepared answers for possible questions?

Yeah I wrote down all the possible definitions to be asked, there are a few graph questions that I have answered, it's just that there are so many things to know and the worst is for the amount of work required for each question or part the marks given are actually shocking!!

tommyhaas

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

Yeah sounds good, I can do that for the likes of the definitions but there are a few crafty graphs in there!

Well stop fcuking posting here and start drawing them out until you remember them. Also good luck, would hate to be back in college

Hurricane-Dean

Right I got a few good ideas so I'm off to put them in place, thanks boardsies

Chad ghostal

If you are planning on staying up half the night, then I'd suggest staying away from coffee or any of those types of stimulants, you'll just end up crashing tomorrow morning or having a panic attack or something.

You'd better off with some vitamin B, light eating and a small bit of exercise (walk to college?)

Don't forget to come back tomorrow and tell us how you got on

starlit

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

Yeah I wrote down all the possible definitions to be asked, there are a few graph questions that I have answered, it's just that there are so many things to know and the worst is for the amount of work required for each question or part the marks given are actually shocking!!

Keep going through that stuff you mentioned above like graphs and definitions which are very important, if you don't know them you will be in trouble you will go blank!...:eek: I think if you knew the most important ones well enough you should pass ok. Its remembering the key things that will pass you. The lecturer or examiner will have a set of model answers already and will either mark you against that model answer they have or mark you against the material studied which include the key points once they are mentioned you will get marks for them. Whether you have to recite from a book/notes/in your own words depending on what the lecturer wants of how the material is repoduced/presented while answering the questions is another matter. Keep going over as much of the material you have already learnt until it sticks as well as the tougher parts of the material have that much well done if you can at all. Key information is what the examiner/lecturer will be looking for! That's from experience while I were in college.

Once the info sticks go to sleep! You be a lot better for it. Good luck with exam tomorrow. The fact you studied it at all even though you might not think it has stuck it might be that you need to give your memory time. All you can do is do your best ok. Don't worry too much about it. You be grand.

Hurricane-Dean

Chad ghostal wrote: »

If you are planning on staying up half the night, then I'd suggest staying away from coffee or any of those types of stimulants, you'll just end up crashing tomorrow morning or having a panic attack or something.

You'd better off with some vitamin B, light eating and a small bit of exercise (walk to college?)

Don't forget to come back tomorrow and tell us how you got on

Right final post thanks for that, nah it would take me 2 hours to walk to college, don't worry I will have a post up on how I did (asking for advice on repeats)

suicide_circus

Fap. Fap like the wind.

Hurricane-Dean

snuggles285 wrote: »

Keep going through that stuff you mentioned above like graphs and definitions which are very important, if you don't know them you will be in trouble you will go blank!...:eek: I think if you knew the most important ones well enough you should pass ok. Its remembering the key things that will pass you. The lecturer or examiner will have a set of model answers already and will either mark you against that model answer they have or mark you against the material studied which include the key points once they are mentioned you will get marks for them. Whether you have to recite from a book/notes/in your own words depending on what the lecturer wants of how the material is repoduced/presented while answering the questions is another matter. Keep going over as much of the material you have already learnt until it sticks as well as the tougher parts of the material have that much well done if you can at all. Key information is what the examiner/lecturer will be looking for! That's from experience while I were in college.

Once the info sticks go to sleep! You be a lot better for it. Good luck with exam tomorrow. The fact you studied it at all even though you might not think it has stuck it might be that you need to give your memory time. All you can do is do your best ok. Don't worry too much about it. You be grand.

Ok definitely last post, cheers for the info

tommyhaas

Chad ghostal wrote: »

If you are planning on staying up half the night, then I'd suggest staying away from coffee or any of those types of stimulants, you'll just end up crashing tomorrow morning or having a panic attack or something.

You'd better off with some vitamin B, light eating and a small bit of exercise (walk to college?)

Don't forget to come back tomorrow and tell us how you got on

I used to stay up till 3/4 in the morning studying, even did a few all nighters before some exams. Problem was when I did decide to go to bed, I could never sleep because of all the coffe, I would end up reciting notes in bed

Adriatic

Sleep is everything and I remember things by making an image in my head of what it is I'm trying to remember or even how it looked on the page I read it from, even making a story that can be associated with whatever I'm trying to learn. Alternatively just repetitively reading and trying to say it off by heart.

jackiebaron

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

Ok so I have an exam @ 9.30am and I have been studying all day, only problem is nothing is sticking!! Anyone got any good tips to help? (yes I know I should be studying and not on boards but what can ye do?)

What's the subject?
Also....never waste your time with books if it's a college exam. You will ONLY be tested on the lectures.

jackiebaron

tommyhaas wrote: »

Dont agree with that, when I was in college I used to say up half the night prior to an exam. Im sure a good night's sleep is benefical, however if your fcuked for an exam, a good nights sleep wont help, you need to stay up and keep revising. As a previous poster mentioned, use bullet points. Keep reciting them until you can write them out off by heart. Use any method you can to learn, personally I used to make strange sentences out of the first word from each bullet point as a trigger to remember the point, the strangere the sentence, the easier it was to remember

EDIT: Either that or cheat, and later admit cheating on boards only to see your revelation make the national newspapers

And if the exam is Mathematics, Physics, App Maths, Chemistry, where many of the questions will be best tackled with a ripe mind? Then what? A person who's had a good night's sleep or a bleary-eyed sap with nausea from Maxwell House and JP Blue?

I spent, almost 30 hours studying for my final Mathematics degree exam in Trinity, puked my guts up before the exam, sat the exam....went home ....and FAILED.

Sat the supplemental in August and passed snugly after a a few days of sane studying and a good night's sleep.

Cram all you want, but from experience, all the **** you cram will not even show up on the test and if you do pass, you'll pass on that that you've absorbed naturally.

garv123

suicide_circus wrote: »

Fap. Fap like the wind.

27 posts before someone actually decided to give a serious answer.
Shameful.

Cook my sock

heres one, get off the internet.

fakearms123

Anyone else think that this lad is half asleep, bewildered and extremely on edge in his exam right now?

Andy-Pandy

I've my last exam at 3.30. Woot Woot woo!!!!!

Wompa1

There goes our little boy off into the big world, Oh Martha isn't he wonderful?

Yes dear you're right, he gets the procrastinating from me and my lazy sperm

tommyhaas

jackiebaron wrote: »

And if the exam is Mathematics, Physics, App Maths, Chemistry, where many of the questions will be best tackled with a ripe mind? Then what? A person who's had a good night's sleep or a bleary-eyed sap with nausea from Maxwell House and JP Blue?

I spent, almost 30 hours studying for my final Mathematics degree exam in Trinity, puked my guts up before the exam, sat the exam....went home ....and FAILED.

Sat the supplemental in August and passed snugly after a a few days of sane studying and a good night's sleep.

Cram all you want, but from experience, all the **** you cram will not even show up on the test and if you do pass, you'll pass on that that you've absorbed naturally.

Im not disputing the benefits of a good nights sleep, my point is that when it comes to the night before the exam, and you have fcuk all revision done, its better to go into the exam tired after a night of studying then it is to go in nice and refreshed but without a clue about the examination

Desire to Aspire

How did you get on?

Shryke

Masturbate before hand to clear your head, and afterward as a reward.

starlit

There is a reason why you study over time and build up the study gradually and have learnt all the necessary info that sticks! There is a reason why studying last minute can prove not to be the best option. It might work for some people who can rely on short term memory those who rely on long term are snookered if they haven't some level of study done.
Studying last minute will get the better of anyone whether you studied all year or just nearer to the end or whether or not you are a bright or average student doesn't matter.

Hope you got on ok OP. At least you tried your best. You have studied though so if you have to repeate might be a good thing you be more prepared next time but hey if you pass great that's all you need is a pass.
Hope all goes well for you.

TeddyTedson

Wonder how the young lad got on..

General Zod

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Wonder how the young lad got on..

test results are back, it's the clap.

Hurricane-Dean

Just home from my exam there and I have to say it went great! The 4 main topics I covered came up in the form of 3 questions, not bad when I had to answer 5. Thanks to all those for the advice it really helped, I have one more exam left on Friday but I will be okay for tips on that because it is my best subject
Thanks again guys

BOHtox

Does anyone else give themselves 'study breaks' even though you've done no work at all.

Carl Sagan

BOHtox wrote: »

Does anyone else give themselves 'study breaks' even though you've done no work at all.

Yeah but I'm getting better at actually studying now.

Spunge

BOHtox wrote: »

Does anyone else give themselves 'study breaks' even though you've done no work at all.

My entire time in college is one big study break.

starlit

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

Just home from my exam there and I have to say it went great! The 4 main topics I covered came up in the form of 3 questions, not bad when I had to answer 5. Thanks to all those for the advice it really helped, I have one more exam left on Friday but I will be okay for tips on that because it is my best subject
Thanks again guys

Great. Congrats. If you can manange 3 or 4 questions out of 5 you be doing well. There is such a thing as being able to cut out a few things if you can unless the lecturer stated everything could turn up or depending what tips they gave you for the exam. I say if you cut out one or two chapters it wouldn't be a big deal but if its the type of subject anything could come up then well you need to cover as much of the material as you can. Great that your last subject is your best one. Think its a good thing as you can give it your all then! Good look with it OP.

BOHtox wrote: »

Does anyone else give themselves 'study breaks' even though you've done no work at all.

Ya I often took study breaks but for like only a couple of minutes here and there or just to have a quick nap. I'd study over a long period of time and just short breaks in between my subjects. I would be studying for the whole day like so that I could finish up earlyish at night, relax for a short while and get a decent nights kip worked wonders. So just a matter of refreshing the memory for a quick review the next morning/afternoon before the exam.

Lemsiper

Ritalin or Adderall will give you a distinct advantage when studying.

TeddyTedson

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

Just home from my exam there and I have to say it went great! The 4 main topics I covered came up in the form of 3 questions, not bad when I had to answer 5. Thanks to all those for the advice it really helped, I have one more exam left on Friday but I will be okay for tips on that because it is my best subject
Thanks again guys

Well done there little buddy!

Hurricane-Dean

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Well done there little buddy!

How old does everyone think I am?

I'm 22