[High School - General] Study Tips

[tsugomaru]

Re: [High School - General] Study Tips

I'm assuming 1 = first year of English in High School.

H means Honors, which is basically supposed to be a faster and more advanced class compared to English 1. You go through material faster, that's all.

~Tsugomaru

[MMShadow]

Re: [High School - General] Study Tips

Wait....your asking how to study for your finals....that leads me to belive you did not pay attention at all ( because if you did you would not have to study) and that you are screwed, why has no one said that?

[Reach]

Re: [High School - General] Study Tips

Reach: It often helps, but it really depends on your learning style. People access information in their brains differently. Learning while testing yourself and other engaging methods creates more (in some cases just different) connections to the same information that's in the brain already. "Passive" studying, as you put it, gets the information in your head just as well, there are just different connections to that information from other parts of your brain.

This is the same reason why different people learn better by speaking, reading, writing, hearing, even full-body activity when possible, etc. So yes, there is truth in your post, but I just felt I needed to add on to it.

People might access it differently but active studying helps with everyone. Studies have consistently shown active studying is far superior to passively studying in everyone >_> Passive study does not develop the ability to recall information properly. It will often work for recognition tests but not recall tests.

I mean, there are a *LOT* of details I'm not going to get into...along with various rather simple memory demonstrations that can be performed to show that they work, but if they really want to know they can pick up some cognitive psychology literature.

tudying with "friends" generally isn't the best way to go. It's going to be fun, but not productive.

I'm assuming your friends are ready and willing to be productive. Maybe this is a maturity issue but I have several friends I can sit down with and study very seriously. Either way, any one can be your study partner. For that matter, you can type explanations to people you don't even know on the internet. The goal is simply to express and recall the information actively.


The absolute worst thing you can do is simply sit down and read the material and then forget about it for the rest of the day. This *can* work, in particular if you are already familiar with the material, but if you are not then you've wasted your time. Also, copying notes from the text is an utter waste of time. Jot notes of key points can be appropriate, especially for testing your recall, but specifically copying portions of the text as I've seen people do is the biggest waste of time ever.

If anything I can attest memorizing massive portions of my Neuroscience text and acing the class (which had an incredibly low average grade!) to spending approximately 20 minutes power studying and then playing guitar hero, and then testing my recall after. Anything I got wrong I put on my review list, and everything else I was solid on I'd forget about until right before the exam where I ran over everything. The key is really to just start doing this long before your tests/exams. Most people start studying too late. The only time last minute studying works is in classes like math or physics, where you should really already know the material, and if you don't well then you're screwed either way.

Listen to music you hate. Country, classical, and obnoxious electronic music is always good. Make sure it's not catchy. You can hate catchy music, but it's still catchy. You'll focus to drown out the music by studying.

This is really personal preference. In many people music (and sounds in general) decrease ability to recall. However, for some people this may work.

[tsugomaru]

Re: [High School - General] Study Tips

That's why I said generally.

I didn't make myself clear earlier. I meant he should have taken notes while he was studying the material in class when they were covering it. As in, while reading the literature book, take notes on it. Not take notes on it before the final. I know that doesn't work too well and can be a waste of time.

~Tsugomaru

[madmatt621]

Re: [High School - General] Study Tips

The way I study is know what you're going to be tested on specifically.

If you are given a study guise for the exam, complete the study guide. Then write down the question and the answer from the study guide two or three times for it to stay in your head.

[tsugomaru]

Re: [High School - General] Study Tips

Assuming that you get a study guide at all. He may or may not.

~Tsugomaru

[Windscarredfaith]

Re: [High School - General] Study Tips

Lol. My English class in 9th grade was called "Communications" which had absolutely nothing to do with the name of the class at all.