How to Study Effectively: 8 Advanced Tips - College Info Geek

                                       

                                                                                                                    huge portion of the study tips to get from professors and other people who want you to be better in school and maybe the you'll find here on YouTube are really facing class scan your textbooks instead of reading every single chapter bring your cat to class to reduce stress and so you get to meet the nice Folks at animal control and these tips you know whether they're good they're really really useful they are basic and maybe you're like me and want to get to know really Advanced tips ways to sort of pack my learning things that usually don't come up when you get your basic study tips So to that end maybe you're like me and want to get some Advanced tips and I am happy to oblige and it is video me to give you eight of those Advanced study tips so let's get started the first is to use the technique when askin Playmobil shaking I just don't get this when you can pinpoint that you're going to impress your professor with your preparation in the amount of effort you put into the problem so you get some brownie points there but you're also working to practice the art of recognizing confusion and and following it down to its actual source and this will help you immensely in all of your learning going forward studying things at increasingly bigger and bigger intervals of time and it's a very efficient way to study but it's also takes advantage of the way your brain works and basically space repetition is a system where you'll study something and if you know that individual Factory well and the way that you are at the closest time possible to when you were about to forget it so your brain x-ray has to work as hard as it possibly can to recall this information and it includes it better so it's more efficient and you can actually learn a lot faster than the best way to take advantage of this is to use an SRS or spaced repetition software to do your studying for you instead of using index cards or something Japanese and I will be doing this again soon I used one called SRS or you can actually buyg professors for help now Dale Corson was the eighth president of Cornell University yes the same Cornell University that spawned the famous Cornell note-taking system and use also a chemistry professor he said that students in chemistry and math problems who wants you as they go through their textbooks or problem sets but sometimes eventually you get to a point where you just can't crack the problem on your own and you need to ask for help so you professor and what Dale Corson wants me to think about before you actually talk to Professor is pause and ask yourself what is it that I don't understand like truly what is it that I don't understand and what do you want to get away from is this thing that a lot of students do where they go to the professor and with a general wave of the hand as he says I don't understand what I'm looking like this is just confusing and find it on key SRS. Net where you can actually create your own card sets for any type of data that you think you would want to study with SRS or you can actually find shared card decks from people who have already made things so definitely check that out I think the preparation aspect of making your own card decks is very useful but simply going through and studying them using spaced repetition is usually going to be more efficient than using just typical linear flashcard study methods on paper Playhouse the method of loci goes back to the Greek and Roman times and is a memory memorization technique rather that has been used by memory champs for a long time and it essentially takes advantage of your brain's ability to remember spatial information very well it's all about visualization in the classic way to do it is to associate certain sets of the finger the set of data you're trying to memorize certain groups of that with different rooms of a house how many Give an example this is the kanji for ping in Japanese and the pronunciation the way that you say King in Japanese is all and all is kind of a really simple of pronunciation that doesn't lend itself to weld to mnemonics which is a shame because numonics is a great way to learn kanji now what if I wanted to adapt to the method of loci to learning this kanji along with lots of others what is a king sit on a throne or as we could say the toilet and I am not averse to using five-year-old humor here and what do you say when you smell the toilet with me for King kind of looks like a towel rack so I can associate King with the bathroom and if I really wanted to make this I would go into the bathroom and I would put up cards on the walls in my house naked usually you're going to be better off of SRS or numonics if you have a smaller set of data but if you got a lot to work with and nothing else is working for you it's something that you can try dinner is too hectic crazy episode of Frasier is a term that has been written about for centuries and it goes back to Plato and it's essentially a lack of command over oneself and there's another even in short means that we tend to procrastinate and do sort of fun things that don't really align with our values in the short-term and we avoid doing things that really do line up with our values because the reward is delayed so the way you can hack akrasia or sort of avoid becoming a victim to it is to fold one use a commitment device bind yourself to get in your task done on time the way I do this is by using a app called beeminder which I talked about before I absolutely love beeminder and I've been using it to ensure that I published three things a week for quite a while now and if you look at Minecraft here until throw up you can see that I have actually been publishing much much much more frequently than I was before and it's largely because I use a commitment device to buy myself to do this know another way that you can sort of hack akrasia the second part of the Bold is to add a shorter-term reward to completing a task in the sick way you probably seen this image before is to put Gummy Bears on your textbook in that is Yuri paragraphs you allow yourself to eat them but you can do all sorts of other things let yourself watch an episode of Game of Thrones when she finish an assignment or maybe use it to like habitrpg and give yourself some experience and gold when you finish the sudden problem set her something just find a way to make sure that the only reward isn't that far off delayed one that causes akrasia to improve the Pomodoro Technique and you may have heard of the Pomodoro Technique everyone talks about it but it keeps you haven't it's simply a technique where you set a timer for about 25 minutes classically and then you work only on one task during that 25 minutes session and think a lot of people do this and it's very useful but there are some areas for improvement that I don't think a lot of people take advantage of so let me just rapid-fire give them to you so number one and I talked about how much I'm going can of the beeminder app the B minor blog is also a good resource for productivity techniques and experiments and one of the things that they talk about is this thing they do called talks well I talk is essentially a Pomodoro session except for they use about 45 minutes and then take 15 minute breaks instead of be classic 25 minutes 5 minute break structure so the tip here is to experiment with the time intervals don't just set yourself to 25 minutes and assume that that's the only potential interval that you can study at find what works for you and the other one is to put a piece of paper next to you during your home aduro section and whenever anything comes up that distracts you maybe a phone call or the urge to check Facebook or something write it down now to do two things 1 you can take care of it