<p>Hiii all! Just joined the site and loving it so far. I'm a Junior at a high school in Cali and am determined to get into a great college. My grades are so-so right now so i'm trying to improve them!!</p>
<p>So I had a question for all you guyss: what are your best studying resources when you're at home or school? I've noticed that I like YouTube to learn things, the textbook usually doesn't help me very much. What do you guys use??</p>
<p>Thx~!! -Katherine</p>
<p>Crash Course on Youtube is great. They have Biology, Chemistry, Ecology, US History and World History.</p>
<p>I will YouTube a lot, but I use it as a supplement to the textbooks I use in school. If you only use YouTube you will miss things that are in the book, read your textbook and then watch some videos as well. Personally I use Khan Academy and Crash Course.</p>
<p>I only use it, or rather it has only been helpful to me, for specific stuff I don’t understand I can sometimes look up the concept on Youtube.</p>
<p>Specifically, Biology and Crash Course Biology it was a major help.</p>
<p>khan academy and patrickjmt are pretty good for math. I don’t think KA is on youtube though.</p>
<p>khanacademy is too long and wordy for me. He explains the “intuition” for a concept for five minutes, the actual formula for one minute, and examples for the rest twenty something minutes. Other times, he has a series of videos on one concept, and you usually need to go to the second or fourth one of the series to find the actual formula. He would be OK for leisurely watching at dinner or something, but most teenagers would rather just get on with their lives without watching twenty minutes of background info.
This only really applies to his math and science videos, but his history videos are pretty short and informative.</p>
<p>That being said, I like patrickjmt a lot because he understands most teenagers and goes straight to the point with relatively short videos in which he introduces the concept in the first minute or so. Also, brightstorm2 is pretty good but they don’t have examples.</p>
<p>I like Khan Academy, and I think mathematical intuition is really important, is really important (just learning a formula is not learning!), but I don’t like how he literally repeats the same phrase, repeats the same phrase all the time.
I also like MIT Open Courseware, though a lot of the material goes over my head. It’s nice when I want to challenge myself, I guess. And a lot of the lectures correspond with AP course material, which is nice.
The problem with sites like Khan Academy and videos that aren’t college lectures is that they tend to miss stuff. The textbook goes into more depth. I tend to watch the videos first to get a general idea of what’s going on, and then I read the textbook.
Also, I have insomnia and I’ve found that listening to lectures at night makes me fall asleep very quickly. :D</p>
<p>Wait, people use YouTube productively?</p>
<p>^I see another threadkiller has stepped up in my absence.</p>
<p>IMO patrickjmt explains things better, but KA’s videos look better and his voice is easier to pay attention to :D</p>