I Put The Stud In Study

A studyblr from a languages aficionada. | 25yo | Languages Nerd |

[thechekhov]

Edit: This comic was originally made with Hozier’s ‘Nina Cried Power’ lyrics, which I didn’t realize was a song very specific to the Civil Rights movement. In retrospect, overlaying a comic of white lgbtq characters with these lyrics wasn’t a tactful decision. 

I’ve changed the lyrics to Hozier’s ‘ From Eden’ now, and I want to ask you guys to reblog this version instead. Thank you!

[goosetooths]

🫪 from page 19 of this aziracrow fix it :') see you soon. Hopefully

[twilightarcade]

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[official-time-loop-posts]

Official Time Loop Post

[spicy-apple-pie]

Part 14

I drew this sick so if it looks funky no it doesn’t

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[icarusdiesatdawn]

There should be an equivalent to asking "how's the wife and kids?" that's like "so how's that fictional man of yours doing?"

[malisvaart]

I assure you, brother, the sun will shine on us again. AU; Thor and Loki rebuilds Asgard and rule as Allfather and Allmother. Their children; Balder, Frigga, Vale, Tyr, Idunn and Freyja.

[coffeeniastudies]

I hope everyone is doing well in their exams and good luck! I believe in you

[study-habit]

• Today was very productive day for me. Can’t wait for tomorrow ! Don’t forget that rest is important as well as work 💆🏻Hope you all have a great day ! Good night ☄️ •

[academedical]

19.02.18 8.26pm Today marked my very first day of med lectures! Just finished a long day of readings, here’s a photo of my pharmacology readings I did this evening.

[studystory]

QUICK REMINDER: as a studyblr you don’t have to be taking the hardest classes ever. I’m taking college algebra and am allowed to struggle as much as I want!! This community is about personal success, and that means different things for different people :) so keep on going friends 🌻 we’ve got this!!

[thebusistudent]

24/09/2017

I made something wooo Holidays have finally arrived which means lots of practise exams + studying, but also a lot of time for mental health. Also, my 17th birthday in 6 days? Wow?

[nealc25]

20.9.17// writing in a nice coffee shop around my place. I’ve almost hit the 1000 words and it’s feeling soo good! 

[buspir-deactivated20230127]

“anyone of any origin can be a studyblr”, where each word has its own image and each image has a different person.

This is important to say. No matter where you’re from, you are allowed to be a part of the Studyblr community. We will accept you. If not others, know that I will.

[sumastudies]

forever reblog

[sleepy-minimalist-deactivated20]

How to study for different exams:

Basics:

Find out how the module is assessed during the first lecture! 

Find out what assessment will cover what content e.g. coursework based on semester 1 and an exam based on semester 2

Look online or on your schools intranet for practice papers right at the start of the year! You won’t understand the content, but looking through it will give you a really good idea of the type of questions you will get

Choose the most appropriate study method for the end result 

(obviously exams may contain a combination of these … so choose/combine the most appropriate)

1. Multiple choice exams -

Make Detailed Notes from lecture slides 

Minimal extra reading necessary

Focus on definitions / theories / processes with different stages / lists of similar items … things that are likely to be made into MCQs

Don’t waste time memorising everything by heart, as you will be prompted in the question - you need to be able to connect theories but not recite them 

The ‘match’ function on Quizlet is brilliant for this as it replicates a multiple choice exam but is a more fun way to study and isn’t stressful or overwhelming

Study in 10/20 minute blocks regularly throughout the year

2. ‘Regular’ Exam - (some short answer questions and short essay style answers)

Make detailed notes from lecture slides 

Make flashcards after every class and review them regularly (ideally daily at the same time e.g. on the bus)

Taking notes on a computer is useful for this because you can copy and paste them onto the Quizlet website rather than writing or typing everything out twice …. it makes the process a lot quicker

Re-writing notes is not a good study method for this type of exam as it doesn’t test your recall and is very time consuming for limited results 

Ask lecturers whether you will be tested on lecture material only, or also on readings etc.

3.  Maths / some science / accounting exams - (exams with calculation questions or that involve actually doing something)

Make basic notes 

Don’t bother trying to memorise the written methods - the only way to learn them successfully is through doing it and you will learn the theory as you go along

Do all practice questions and homework you are given as you go along

Do it multiple times if possible 

Keep all of your solutions and workings out (even messy ones) in a notebook to refer to during revision if you forget how to work answers out

Do extra questions in textbooks

Revise by doing practice papers

Practice under timed conditions as you might be taking longer to work out answers than you think

Lesson: Don’t make the same mistake as I did in first year - I memorised my basic accounting module notes by heart but didn’t do any of the practical exercises and then freaked out in the exam and only just passed with around 45/100 (thankfully this didn’t count towards my degree grade). Last year I followed the above strategy in another accounting module and got 86/100. Studying hard does not automatically mean that you will do well!

4. Essay Exam -

2 parts:

1. Throughout the year

Attend your lectures, especially in the lead up to the exam!!! Your lecturer is likely to hint or even tell you the topic(s) that will come up, they often don’t expect you to memorise the entire course 

You may also have a choice of questions e.g. choose 3 from 9 possible questions - if this is the case you can be smart and not revise your entire course … but make sure you always have back up choices incase the question is hard or a certain topic isn’t available (if you know you have to choose 3 topics from a choice of 9, then learning 5/6 topics would be safe)

Make detailed notes from lectures

Make sure you understand the material

Do all the extra readings and add to your notes 

Write down potential quotes to use, and memorise the citations (i.e. author and year published)

2. Revision season:  (hand written notes are better for this section)

Make mind maps on topics - throw as much relevant information onto the page as possible and make connections between concepts 

When your mind map is complete … start to structure into sections that may make paragraphs 

Make an essay structure using bullet point lists

Memorise the structure using flash cards  

Predict possible questions and how you might use the information to answer them

Rewriting notes may be useful for this type of exam as you will start to learn the exact phrasing - especially useful for quotes 

You might want to write timed practice essays although I never did this - I focused on memorising the information

[stemcellee]

Staying healthy during the academic year is VERY important!! I’m on the quarter system at UCLA which leaves NO time for students to get sick and miss class. Thankfully I haven’t had any medical issues that have kept me from missing weeks of class, but prevention is key!

Here are some tips I followed last year to feel my best for schoooooool.

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[yhbgk-blog]

How to Study Like a Harvard Student

Taken from Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, daughter of the Tiger Mother

Preliminary Steps 1. Choose classes that interest you. That way studying doesn’t feel like slave labor. If you don’t want to learn, then I can’t help you. 2. Make some friends. See steps 12, 13, 23, 24. General Principles 3. Study less, but study better. 4. Avoid Autopilot Brain at all costs. 5. Vague is bad. Vague is a waste of your time. 6. Write it down. 7. Suck it up, buckle down, get it done. Plan of Attack Phase I: Class 8. Show up. Everything will make a lot more sense that way, and you will save yourself a lot of time in the long run. 9. Take notes by hand. I don’t know the science behind it, but doing anything by hand is a way of carving it into your memory. Also, if you get bored you will doodle, which is still a thousand times better than ending up on stumbleupon or something. Phase II: Study Time 10. Get out of the library. The sheer fact of being in a library doesn’t fill you with knowledge. Eight hours of Facebooking in the library is still eight hours of Facebooking. Also, people who bring food and blankets to the library and just stay there during finals week start to smell weird. Go home and bathe. You can quiz yourself while you wash your hair. 11. Do a little every day, but don’t let it be your whole day. “This afternoon, I will read a chapter of something and do half a problem set. Then, I will watch an episode of South Park and go to the gym” ALWAYS BEATS “Starting right now, I am going to read as much as I possibly can…oh wow, now it’s midnight, I’m on page five, and my room reeks of ramen and dysfunction.” 12. Give yourself incentive. There’s nothing worse than a gaping abyss of study time. If you know you’re going out in six hours, you’re more likely to get something done. 13. Allow friends to confiscate your phone when they catch you playing Angry Birds. Oh and if you think you need a break, you probably don’t. Phase III: Assignments 14. Stop highlighting. Underlining is supposed to keep you focused, but it’s actually a one-way ticket to Autopilot Brain. You zone out, look down, and suddenly you have five pages of neon green that you don’t remember reading. Write notes in the margins instead. 15. Do all your own work. You get nothing out of copying a problem set. It’s also shady. 16. Read as much as you can. No way around it. Stop trying to cheat with Sparknotes. 17. Be a smart reader, not a robot (lol). Ask yourself: What is the author trying to prove? What is the logical progression of the argument? You can usually answer these questions by reading the introduction and conclusion of every chapter. Then, pick any two examples/anecdotes and commit them to memory (write them down). They will help you reconstruct the author’s argument later on. 18. Don’t read everything, but understand everything that you read. Better to have a deep understanding of a limited amount of material, than to have a vague understanding of an entire course. Once again: Vague is bad. Vague is a waste of your time. 19. Bullet points. For essays, summarizing, everything. Phase IV: Reading Period (Review Week) 20. Once again: do not move into the library. Eat, sleep, and bathe. 21. If you don’t understand it, it will definitely be on the exam. Solution: textbooks; the internet. 22. Do all the practice problems. This one is totally tiger mom. 23. People are often contemptuous of rote learning. Newsflash: even at great intellectual bastions like Harvard, you will be required to memorize formulas, names and dates. To memorize effectively: stop reading your list over and over again. It doesn’t work. Say it out loud, write it down. Remember how you made friends? Have them quiz you, then return the favor. 24. Again with the friends: ask them to listen while you explain a difficult concept to them. This forces you to articulate your understanding. Remember, vague is bad. 25. Go for the big picture. Try to figure out where a specific concept fits into the course as a whole. This will help you tap into Big Themes – every class has Big Themes – which will streamline what you need to know. You can learn a million facts, but until you understand how they fit together, you’re missing the point. Phase V: Exam Day 26. Crush exam. Get A.

[studycandles]

Hello! I decided during the school year to compile all the resources I used while writing essays as well as other posts I’ve found on tumblr. I’m just posting this now… This shows how awesome I am at procrastinating. Just in time for the new school year, here are some of my favorite essay writing resources!

Editing

Grammar Girl’s Editing Checklist by @anomalously-written [literally one of the only editing checklists you’ll ever need]

Readability Score [tells you what level of education someone would need to read your paper, more helpful than it sounds!]

Word Counter [gives you a ton of statistics about what you’ve written]

Proofreading Checklist for the Basic Essay [another great editing checklist]

Title Capitalization [for whenever you’re unsure of what to capitalize in your title]

Grammarly [my favorite spellcheck/grammar check]

Words

Tip of my Tongue [helps you find what word you’re looking for based on letters and meaning]

Transition Words for Your Essays by @soniastudyblr

Descriptive Words by @studyyoassoff

Informal vs. Formal

Adjective Pairs [commonly confused adjectives]

Instead of Very

Tips

This Post by @peanut-caravan

These Beautiful Tips by @ohstudyhun

15 Shocking Student Fails [mistakes to avoid]

How to Write Essays Like Pros

10 Tips to Write an Essay and Actually Enjoy It

The 7 “Fear Nots” of Every Writing Project [excuses to stop making]

How To

How to Structure Essays by @rewritign [awesome awesome resource!]

Ten Steps to Writing an Essay by @sciencescribbles [feat. super cute doodles!]

How to Write Conclusions by @rewritign

How to Write College Level Essays by @caesarstudies

How to Write a Research Essay with Limited Time by @studyspire [great for when you don’t know where to start]

Essay Hooks [helpful for creating your first sentence]

How to Write a Kickass Essay with ½ the Stress

Titles [for when you have an essay but no idea what to title it]

There you have it! Hope these help in your future writing endeavors!