<p>Everyone I know pretty much crams his/her homework at 2 in the morning and self-studies for his/her AP tests about a month before...our teachers are a joke.</p>
<p>Not really. But if it’s something like a vocabulary test the next day, I’ll study the words and definitions the night before. That’s about it for me.</p>
<p>I think it just depends on what school you go to/how competitive you are/what natural gifts you were given. I mean, most of the big name colleges are now saying they DON’T want kids with good grades, but kids with passion and promise. So, I don’t really study but get good grades because I guess I have a gift, and I pay attention in class, and I’m not worried about getting good grades, so I’m a really good test taker.</p>
<p>I study but that’s for really important stuff like math competitions and the like. For a quiz or a test, I usually procrastinate to like the day before the actual test or quiz to study. I know it’s horrible, but I’m trying to develop better study habits throughout the year.</p>
<p>Things I study for: Spanish vocab quizzes, Apush tests, Calc tests and some quizzes.</p>
<p>Things I don’t study for: Everything else.</p>
<p>Since I pay attention in class I don’t have to study too much. I pull pretty good grades too.</p>
<p>I have to study ALL the time. Information will only stick unless I go over work months before tests. It’s a drag, but I get the grades I want.</p>
<p>I don’t study for HS classes - the teacher’s lectures are usually plenty reinforcement. Self-study APs usually represent about 20 hours of studying each (maybe 30-40 for a more difficult one, like AP physics C). I do study a bit for my grad/professional school classes though - usually I dedicate then night before tests to the material.</p>
<p>I have to study, the school I go to is really competitive, so the classes are actually hard. It’s unfair now, but I guess I’ll be more prepared when college starts.</p>
<p>I, unlike what at times seems like the majority of HSL posters, am not blessed with photographic memory or weird retention abilities or whatever. So, yeah, I study for everything except English. Sometimes I don’t study for chem tests, depending on what the material is.
I don’t study as much as I should, really- I usually put it off until one or two days before I have a test and just stay up really late.</p>
<p>I hardly ever study, but I don’t get good grades (Read: A’s) in anything except for English and history.</p>
<p>I’m only motivated by what I like to do; it’s a problem.</p>
<p>I didn’t start studying, like real studying, until second semester of Junior year. The studying really paid off, I got high A’s in all of my classes. Now that it’s my senior year, I’ve been studying every day. Today I did homework from 4-6, and studied from 6-9 (with breaks of course. lol I had to stop to watch my favorite show…Jeopardy. 
) for my finals next week. I’m not blessed with a photographic memory either, but if I read something over and over enough, I’ll remember it. That’s what I have to do to get an A in my Government class; read the chapter twice, go online and do practice questions, do the practice essay questions. And I do this every week. I used to never study before, ever. I got my grades through just listening in class, but I got really motivated last year and started actually working for my grade. My teachers really suck too, so in class, I’m studying instead of actually listening sometimes, ie: government class. When people ask me how I get A’s on a test and I tell them my studying schedule, they freak out. lol</p>
<p>My studying is flipping through my notes during band the morning of the test. For some AP tests (Euro, Gov-I fully or partially self-studied), I’ve studied, others (Psych, Music Theory), I’ve just shown up and winged it. I studied for my Math SAT II, but didn’t study for the ACT or my other subject tests. </p>
<p>If I feel like I need to, I study. But I’m blessed with an incredible memory, so I often have no reason to, especially for subjects I do well in.</p>
<p>To be honest, most people (normal people) have to study to get the kind of grades they want. Hard work is the key to getting good grades, I know some people say you don’t have to study to get good grades, but in most cases (real life) that’s not true. At the end of the day paying attention is not going to be enough, you have to reinforce that knowledge by doing practice problems, practice tests and the like to be able to pass the exams you want to pass. So, even though the people on here are saying that they have incredible memories, incredible this and that (how do you know its true?) Sure, somebody may not study for the SAT or ap classes and get incredible scores, but that’s only a tiny minority of people. So in essence, don’t get intimidated, because in real life, everybody has to work for what they want in life. Whether its for math competitions, to pass extremely hard exams or to simply learn a new complex thing that may be beneficial to you.</p>
<p>Good grades is a relative term. In my AP Bio class, which I study my butt off for for tests and quizzes (which is really all we do besides notes) a kid was bragging that he got a 83. I got a 95. I only missed two questions. I think I got a good grade. He thought he did. Personally, I’m not happy unless I have a high A (95+) preferably as close to 100 as I can. </p>
<p>On the actual topic though, here are my usual study habits
Chemistry (I do my own notes, not from the board, so i read the chapter and listen to lecture and reread the chapter two or three times the night before a test)
Algebra II (Homework usually suffices. I need to study for a test tomorrow but I forgot my book…stupid me)
English (Joke class. Crazy teacher. Hurts to talk about it. I just read the stories she assigns)
French (Study for vocab and conjugations, but that’s about it )
World Civ (Take notes and study for daily/weekly quizzes and of course read the chapter before the test)
AP Bio (We have daily reading checks so I read the whole chapter by the end of the notes, and then read the chapter again before the test, do the study guide, and do the online practice test)
Latin (No comment)</p>
<p>Study for:
Spanish Vocab
SAT</p>
<p>Anything else I do not study. If I don’t pay attention I will get and B on the next test. If I pay attention and get 50% of the material, I will get an A-
I study for nothing really, I might arrive to class a couple minutes early to skim through vocab or some packets for english or history or something. I only take notes in classes where the teacher makes it a point to say how he or she hates it when people don’t take notes.</p>
<p>"I hardly ever study, but I don’t get good grades (Read: A’s) in anything except for English and history.</p>
<p>I’m only motivated by what I like to do; it’s a problem."</p>
<p>Same!! Although, I do study for math, where I also get A’s.</p>
<p>Civics is the only course I study a lot for (read: hours at a time). Governmental & political issues bore me to tears. I don’t usually study for chemistry, same with English (we don’t do anything in English). I use the SQ3R method for biology, and that takes ~1 hour per book section. Spanish… ugh. I memorize vocab over the course of a few days; I don’t know how long it takes me. Health… meh. & I always have to go over my math notes a few days before a test/quiz.</p>
<p>I study for just about everything now.</p>
<p>I definately study for every subject. If I didn’t, I could pull off low 90s, but studying allows me to get 96+ on almost every test I take. In my opinion, that’s worth the effort.</p>
<p>I’m terrible at studying. I rarely study at home, but I will cram at school the morning of a test. </p>
<p>However, I always listen in class, do my homework, and speak with teachers afterwards about things I don’t understand, so that usually prepares me. If it doesn’t, I figure that studying won’t make much of a difference anyways.</p>