<p>I've got an anatomy test coming up on tuesday that's going to be covering multiple chapters (about 90 pages of information)</p>
<p>What do you guys do in these situations? Just keep reading the information till it sticks? Notes? Cramming the night before?</p>
<p>consistent note taking and studying every night</p>
<p>Cramming the night before has worked for me so far.
But it's definently not healthy and you may end up learning nothing, especially because you have 90 pages to study.
I would do what sempitern said.
Highlighting info, reading everything..etc.</p>
<p>read and reread (rinse then repeat)</p>
<p>i usually read and make an outline of all of the material and then just memorize all of the information on the outline. This makes it so that I know all of the information necessary for the test. The only problem with this method is that with 90 pages I might have an outline that is near 20 pages which would take me at least a week to memorize.</p>
<p>My school's Honors Biology final is badly made. Only about seven people combined, out of the three classes of about twenty each, passed it last year...On the last day of class last year, my teacher passed out many large packets on information we'd never covered...This was mainly what was on the final, so we were pretty much screwed...It was absolutely inane...Practically every Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and species...We had to know virtually everything...It was ludicrous...</p>
<p>Flash cards..</p>
<p>*I usually use a program called Cuecard, which is free for download.</p>
<p>I don't do anything. I just tend to remember trivial details easily. It's a non-lifeskill that's useful only for school and crossword puzzles.
It helps, though, to make sure all the information is organised in your head. Nobody can easily remember 300 random bits of information; but if you connect them all together somehow in your head so that you're only remembering 6 groups of information with 50 sub-facts each, then it's much easier, because you just have to jog your memory with one thing in each group and then the rest just follows. It's like stapling sheets together so you don't lose them, only in your head.</p>
<p>ughhh dont cram it in!
I had my chem test today and I had to cram everything we've done so far in my head last nigt in 3hrs. When I took the test, I couldnt remember anything.. (well some but not everyhting).
Cramming works if you got heaps of time - like half the day.
I like to make little study notes while I read my notes.</p>
<p>ha ha, notes of notes of notes</p>
<p>yeah. I've been reading and sticky noting in the book. Thanks for that cue card program, I'll try it to test myself.</p>
<p>cue cards I've found take too long to make, instead I prefer word documents, the upside of this is that you can exchange notes with your study group</p>
<p>I often have to cram large amounts of info for Science League. I think that writing things down helps me. So I go through the packets read, and write down important stuff, and then re-read the stuff I wrote down.</p>
<p>To memorize information on diagrams and pictures (maps, etc.--I figure this is relevant to anatomy) as well as lists, I make up songs. Don't just put the words to a pre-existing tune--make your own tune! Use a tape recorder to preserve what you make up as you go. For what it's worth, I still remember where all the South American countries are (learned it six years ago) and all the French verbs that take etre in the passe compose (I can rattle them off at lightning speed even though I learned them four years ago) all because of doing songs.</p>
<p>I'm a very good memorizer, so I don't tend to have this problem, but I would honestly break it down. 90 pages seems like a horrendous amount, but if you break it down into segments, and allow short (5-10 minute breaks) I find I can tackle even huge testing material</p>
<p>just read it through, don't even try to comprehend what you're reading, then look at the chapter review or something... then you try to recall, u'll be surprised what you'll remember...</p>
<p>heya celebrian back after hiatus huh?</p>
<p>ahhhh I feel missed :) It was spring break, so I wanted to break from anything even remotely stressful, and cc itself isn't stressful, but it reminds me of things that are, so I decided to completely break off for about a week. I'm back though! :p You didn't think I could ever stop coming to cc did you!</p>
<p>not quite, but then again, i'm posting on spring break... haha</p>
<p>i've been so stressed out, I needed to just relax for a week, I feel re-energized though, so I'm glad I didn't do much of anything</p>
<p>The best method:</p>
<p>screw the book
skim it. 30 pages a night. 3 nights
that's it. know the TERMs</p>
<p>then,
outlines, notes, websites, study guides
whatever.
Study that stuff carefully
but u still have to skim the book</p>