This post contains condensed notes made from Marty Lobdell’s 1 hour long lecture (link’s here), which features many effective study techniques and tips.
25-30 min of studying, followed by 5 min break (a.k.a. pomodoro technique). Once you get used to the load of studying, you can increase your time of one study session, just follow this rule:
“The moment you start to slide, you’re shovelling against the tide, what you need to do is what? Take a break.”
2. REWARD YOURSELF AFTER EVERY STUDY SESSION.
”Things that are reinforced, we tend to do more of. Things that are punished or ignored, we tend to do less of.”
To put it simply, rewarding yourself after every study session will make you more likely to study later.
3. GET A STUDY ENVIRONMENT.
Everybody has special rooms for sleeping, food making, bathing, etc., but who has a room for studying?? Not many. Well, obviously, not everyone can afford one, but there’re some tricks, which will help you to create a study environment.
Get a study lamp. ONLY turn it on while studying. DO NOT use it for other purposes.
If you’re studying in a room, which has bed (bedrooms, dorm rooms…), turn your desk away from your bed to face a blank wall.
The context provided by environmental cues largely determines your behavior, so create a study environment, which encourages you to study. Distracting cues’ examples: bedroom - sleeping cues (bed), kitchen - food cues, living room - TV, radio, people, etc. All these distractions prevent you from studying!!
4. KNOW THE CONCEPTS, NOT THE FACTS.
For example, it is like knowing the words of a song but not knowing what a song is about. FACTS = song lyrics, CONCEPT = song meaning.
Facts can easily be looked up if needed.
Or at least no highlighting after reading a text once.
Take notes during your class/lecture/etc.. After the class is finished, take out your notes the first free moment you’ve got and expand everything you’ve written. Give it some depth. If you do that like 2 (or more) hours after the class, you will have forgotten much of what you had written. So do this as soon as possible.
One study showed that best way of studying is to do 80% of reciting and 20% of reading. So, teach others what you’ve learnt or dialogue with empty chairs if you have no one to teach. What you can teach, that you understand.
9. STUDY TEXTBOOKS USING SQ3R METHOD
Survey - go through an entire chapter, look at the pictures, graphs, questions…
Question - While surveying, you might get some questions. If not, then ask yourself questions like: “What’s this?”, “What does this graph mean?”, etc. This will cause you to look for answers and “if you intend to find something, you find it.”
Read - (20% of time)
Recite - (80% of time)
Review - after some time has passed.
10. USE MNEMONICS FOR FACT MEMORIZATION.
Because sometimes concept learning is not enough. :( Make acronyms, coined sayings, or interacting image associations to help yourself remember the facts. The weirder, the better.
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