<p>Take friday nights off..enjoy life. I plan to study for a few hours on saturday and sunday. Not saturday night though.</p>
<p>I think it is cool to take Friday off from studying. Just to be able to decompress after five straight days of classes, studying, and working is nice. </p>
<p>On Friday, you can make a realistic to do list for what studying you need to do on Saturday and Sunday.</p>
<p>Friday off is a must, also take classes that u enjoy, im a math and science person but aced psyscholy because it was an interesting subject to me. </p>
<p>Moreover, one should make action plans for each type of class
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Math and Science- Do alot of problem sets, and memorise the steps.</p>
<p>Humanities- Organise vast amount of information, use mnumonics to remember stuff for the test.</p>
<p>another tip even though I cant even follow it, start review early,</p>
<p>This is a really really bad thing to do, however, I never payed attention in any of my classes, skipped a few near the end of the year and didn't study for any of them until a week or two before the test. Why am I giving you this bad advice? Because maybe it will work for some of you.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if every university does this but where I go we have this thing called webassign. It is an online homework website. Teachers post their assignments and you complete it online and it is graded by the website instantaneously. You will get more than enough practice through webassign for classes that deal with the sciences and math(calculus, organic chemistry, biology, general chemistry). Humanities involves a lot of memorization.</p>
<p>Also, the BEST way to study for math classes is to just do problems. Plain and simple. How many is enough? You will find that out once you know how in-depth your teachers test are.</p>
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<p>So great students don't care about learning at all, just grades?</p>
<p>Unforseen where do you go to college!?</p>
<p>I am at North Carolina State University. Don't get me wrong, engineering is pretty hard. However, you will find out what you can slack off in and what you have to work hard in.</p>
<p>I was reading "what smart students know" and the author said not to highlight... although it will make my book sell for alot more I will definitely highlight if there were benefits to it.. I'm just concerned highlighting will make me never read the unhighlighted possibly important things over again...What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Help please?</p>
<p>^ That's a good point! I had that problem because I'd highlight important things and skip over other details that would turn out to be important, or I'd end up highlighting most of the page and not knowing what was what. </p>
<p>So I would suggest: have a system. Use different color highlighters, like yellow for general important points, a different color for examples, definitions, counterarguments, dates, names, whatever. You could also use colored pens to circle or underline or just jot notes in the margins. It makes things much more organized! Although the book wouldn't be in pristine shape if you're looking to sell it later ;)</p>
<p>I usually read the text and make notes in an outline...Then I go back and add anything I might have missed.
In high school, I reviewed basically every day, which helped a lot =)</p>
<p>I will not higlight like he said in the book...but not because his suggestion but more personal reasons. Highlighting just doesn't help me one bit. It does not work for me like it does for others. And I perfer to write everything in my own words anyways.</p>
<p>When I was a student, I had to learn how to learn. The methods I came up with for myself were not necessarily the ones used by most scholars. Some were of no value. Others were valuable. I developed a computer program for applying them and a theory behind it (I am a social psychological researcher). You must like to visualize your knowledge in mindmaps and work synthetically, that is work from scratch and slowly but surely distil what you need and how you need it. For study purposes alone, you can get a free license. (The lifelong-learning version is not free). Personal</a> Memory Manager homepage</p>
<p>I open up Microsoft Word and make relatively organized notes on the material I'm studying (most of the time just science stuff that requires extensive memorization). Then I print it out and look it over multiple times. </p>
<p>Then go over questions from the book or practice material and see how much I can apply from the stuff I studied. </p>
<p>Generally a good technique for me but some classes it doesn't work too well.</p>