<p>Which one is more beneficial?
What is trend in your college?
IS group one way is best always?
Thanks</p>
<p>Depends. Group study is amazing when other people are at roughly the same level you are in that particular area. Also depends on whether or not you get sidetracked at all. </p>
<p>I tend to go with individual study to cover the basics, then group study to help get it down.</p>
<p>It really just depends on you. I know people who love group study, but I've found that it never benefits me at all. It's all about figuring out what works for you.</p>
<p>independent study is much better unless you can find someone thats a lot higher than you...</p>
<p>Thank you for your help.</p>
<p>Group study is the best, unless ya'll get distracted and don't focus on the task at hand. Talking and explaining is the best way to learn new things in my opinion. I feel that as long as one person keeps everyone focused you are good, because when I individual study there is no one to keep me from getting distracted.</p>
<p>Individual study because you don't want to help someone do good in a class. Then you're stuck with someone having a higher GPA than you, thus lowering your rank.</p>
<p>Individual, but only because a huge part of my study style is repetition and it wouldn't make sense with other people. Group reviews are good for last minute questions and stuff, but for me to actually learn (or memorize, depending on the class and test) the material, I need to be able to just zone everything out and pound it into my brain multiple times. Any diversions, including talking, make me start to worry that everything I've just pounded in will leak out lest I don't keep focusing on it and only it. The worrying is usually pointless, but still. Don't like diversions.</p>
<p>group study is useless. you remember things much much better if you can learn to figure it out on your own. this is especially true for math/science courses. may be for humanities courses you might want a group to get a peer revision, but besides that individual is the way to go.</p>
<p>Group study is great. Especially if you are leading it. Studying with a partner is also good although with a larger group you get more input from others.</p>
<p>One of the best things to discuss is a class lecture. Chances are you all interpreted it differently. This way you can sort things out. Also if your textbook isn't that easy you can discuss that too.</p>
<p>And from a personal standpoint, I'm not a fan of being isolated in a room hunched over a book. I have to actually talk about the stuff to learn it.</p>
<p>I've led group study sessions--if you lead make up some worksheets to put on an overhead and hand out to people. Also make sure you have the knowledge or materials available to answer questions. And bring some chips and pop because studying wears people out.</p>
<p>Well, it depends on what you are studying. If it is something directly out of the book, then solitary studying would be best because all you need is in the book. Biology is an example. Contrary, if something involves a lot of thinking and formation of ideas, then group studying is best for that so you'll get different perspectives on one issue. One example is government or any social sciences. But, it all depends on how well you absorb the material in different settings and what kind learning style you have, auditory, visual, kinesthetic, etc.</p>