Thus far, how to study in college has been one grand experiment. I have only had one exam, so I am not sure how well my strategies will serve me in the long term. I would say that I had good study skills in high school, but these skills were very limited in scope: they allowed me to memorize a lot of content for a short time, and then allowed the content disappear from my brain not long after the exam or the AP test. My main method for history, vocabulary, and math concepts was flashcards. I did not study them every day, unless the topic was particularly difficult, and mainly my studying was focused on a few days, or the day, before the test. This is not how I want to study in college; rather than simply striving for good grades, I want to
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This exam was on two chapters of psychology, one concerning the development of psychology as a field, and the other concerning research methods and ethics in psychology. One hundred percent of my grade in this class is based on my performance on exams, and the exams are exclusively multiple choice. This material is relatively simple and straightforward, so didn’t put much long-term effort toward studying it. One method I used was studying with Jade. We quizzed each other on the the material to solidify our knowledge. Group study is a method I used in high school, with great success for history and social science topics, and very limited success for math and chemistry. For more difficult topics in the future, I would like to try out the spaced repetition method of memorizing information, which is a scientifically-based, highly efficient way to review information so that it enters one’s long-term memory. In addition to this, for linguistics, I intend to use practice problems as one of my principal means of studying. Before my midterm exam, I want to have completed nearly every problem in my textbook at least once, so I am able to face what will come my way on the exam. This is a technique that I used extensively for math and science in high school, and I believe I have perfected
This exam was on two chapters of psychology, one concerning the development of psychology as a field, and the other concerning research methods and ethics in psychology. One hundred percent of my grade in this class is based on my performance on exams, and the exams are exclusively multiple choice. This material is relatively simple and straightforward, so didn’t put much long-term effort toward studying it. One method I used was studying with Jade. We quizzed each other on the the material to solidify our knowledge. Group study is a method I used in high school, with great success for history and social science topics, and very limited success for math and chemistry. For more difficult topics in the future, I would like to try out the spaced repetition method of memorizing information, which is a scientifically-based, highly efficient way to review information so that it enters one’s long-term memory. In addition to this, for linguistics, I intend to use practice problems as one of my principal means of studying. Before my midterm exam, I want to have completed nearly every problem in my textbook at least once, so I am able to face what will come my way on the exam. This is a technique that I used extensively for math and science in high school, and I believe I have perfected