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[adelinestudiess]

Hey so, I decided to do another masterpost. This time on exams. Some tips for studying at the very last minute if you are like me, disclaimer: I am not in any way supporting cramming but this is just to help you through if you are left with no choice other than cramming.

Cramming

Cramming tips that actually work by @optomstudies

The night before the exam

What to do the night before an exam by @beautifullearning

The night before your exam by @tiny-personal-university-thing

The night before exam and I didn’t study guide by @renaistudying

The night before test and I haven’t started studying by @getstudyblr

Revision methods

Revision methods that actually work by @alimastudies

The 5 Best Revision Methods by @bstudies

Study tips

More unconventional study tips by @minimaliststudy

A stash of tiny study tips by @justestjarchives

College study tips that actually help by @samsstudygram

Five tips for study marathons by @booksavolonte

General study tips by @plantednotes

More study tips

My study tips by @anatomyandcappuccini

My study tips

Personal study tips

Quickfire study tips by @annabaestudying

Quick study tip by @studyspiratiom-coffee

Rare study tips by @studybllog

Scientifically proven study tips by @swankiegrades

Secret study tips I wish someone would have told me by @fearlessroadtomd

Some rare study tips by @organisedorgana

Top 5 study tips by @studyign

Weird study tip by @artemissstudies

101 study tips by @study-early

Study tips by @howtohighschool

Study tips from someone who has already been there by @haylstudies

Study tips straight from my professor by @just-refuse-to-be-stopped

Study tips that helped me get back on my feet by @sillydaisies

Study tips that aren’t bullshit by @thebitchwhomadeit

Tips for effective study by @kimtented

How I write revision summaries by @athenastudying

Ways to study for exams that are actually productive

10 mistakes when studying by @howtostudyquick

Memorising information

How to memorise information by @monetstudy

How to memorise information faster by @qxzu

Memorization tips by @aescademic

Memorization tips by @determinationandcaffeine

Memorization tips by @studyquill

Exam tips

How to cope with exams by @uk-studying

How to revise for exams by @a-pro-s-studyblr

Studying for exams by @orangeblossomstudies

Tips for doing well on your exams by @aboysstudyblr

Tips for doing well on your exams by @thepeachystudies

Exam tips by @studywithmaggie

Exam guides

Finals: study guide for the brave by @educatier

Pennyfynotes guide to exam season by @pennyfynotes

Quick guide to doing the finals by @inkskinned

Test taking tips

How I revise for exams + tests

How to study for a test by @tbhstudying

My test taking tips by @55studies

Test taking tips

Exam preparation

How to make a stress free exam plan by @marias-studyblr

How to mentally prep yourself for a test by @eruditicn

Procrastination

How to beat procrastination by @eintsein

Types of procrastination and how to deal with them by @emmastudies

Time management

Time management by @academiceve

Time management tips for busy students

Motivation

My motivation tag

Other masterposts by me

Notetaking masterpost

College advice masterpost

Apps for students masterpost

Icon credits to @rhubarbstudies

[studyallday2]

Study session in a local coffee shop with @studyrelief

[studyfulltime]

my life is equal parts beauty and beast…

[ssehuns-deactivated20250424]

Taking textbook notes is a chore. It’s tedious and boring and sometimes challenging, but hopefully these tips will help you improve your skill and shorten the time it takes you to do textbook notes!

Give yourself time: Realistically, you can’t knock out 30 pages of notes in 20 minutes. Take your time with textbook notes so they’re a good studying tool in the future. The general rule is to take how many pages you have to do and multiply it by 5: that’s how many minutes it’ll take you to do the notes.

Also, divide you notes up into manageable chunks to increase your productivity. I am personally a huge fan of using pomodoro timers, and I adjust the intervals for however long I need to.

Skim before you start taking notes: If time is an issue, don’t read your 40 page in depth before even picking up a pen, but make sure you know what you’re reading about by skimming a bit ahead of your notes. Read over section titles, and look at charts, maps, or graphs. Writing and highlighting as you read the chapter for the first time isn’t effective because you don’t know if a sentence will be important or not, so make sure you’re reading a paragraph or section in advance before writing.

Use the format they give you in the book to help take your notes: In a lot of textbooks, there will be a mini outline before the chapter itself that shows all the headings and subheadings. Those will be your guidelines! I find this super helpful because long chapters can be daunting to go into without any structure. If you don’t have one of those, use the headings and subheadings provided for you. If you haven’t already been doing this, it will help you so much.

Read actively: It’s so easy to “read” a textbook without digesting any information, but that is the last thing you want to do. Not only does it make taking notes a million times harder, but you’ll be lost in class discussions because you didn’t understand the reading. To keep from passively reading, highlight, underline, star any important information in the book itself.

Have a color coding system for highlighting or underlining and write down a key somewhere (here’s a few that you can adjust for your needs: x,x)

Use sticky notes or tabs to mark any questions or important points to come back to

Summarize important information and paraphrase: When taking the actual notes, don’t copy down full sentences word for word. Not only does writing full sentences waste a lot of time, it’s not an effective way to learn. If you can paraphrase the information, then you understand it. It’s also easier to study notes which are in your own words instead of textbook academia writing.

Be selective: You shouldn’t be writing down every fact that comes up in your textbook. If a fact ties into the bigger topic and provides evidence, then it’s probably something to keep, but you don’t need every piece of supplemental information (but do make sure you always write down the vocab). Learn your teacher’s testing style to help you decide what to write down. Could this be on the quiz/test? If the answer is yes, make sure you write it down.

Learn to abbreviate: Just like writing full sentences, writing out full words will waste time. Implement some shortenings (make sure to use ones that you’ll understand later!) into your notes. Some common ones are: b/c=because, gov=government, w/o=without, and here’s a great list of a ton of examples of abbreviations and shortenings.

Answer margin and review questions: A lot of textbooks have margin questions on every page or so that sum up what’s really important about that information. Make sure not to skip them because they’re really helpful for understanding. Write them down and answer them clearly in your notes. Most textbooks also have review questions after the chapter that check for reading comprehension, so make sure to answer those because they’ll show you if you really understood the chapter.

Don’t skip over visual sources: Maps, diagrams, illustrations, charts, and any other visuals in textbooks are so helpful. If you’re a visual learner, these things will be so essential to you and how you understand what you’re reading. Charts, tables, and diagrams sometimes also summarize information, so if you’re a visual learner it might benefit you to copy those down instead of writing it out.

Add visuals if it’ll help you: As said above, copying down charts, tables, illustrations, or diagrams can be super helpful for visual learners. They’re clear and concise, so pay attention to them.

Write your notes in a way that’s effective and makes sense to you: Mindmaps, Cornell notes, or plain outline notes are all really good forms of notetaking. Find which one works best for you to understand them and which one is most effective for your class, and use it (stuff on mindmaps and cornell notes).

Combine your class and textbook notes: If you rewrite your class notes, add in information you think is relevant from your textbook notes. Mark anything both your book and teacher said were important–you don’t want to forget any of that. If you don’t rewrite class notes, then put stars next to anything repeated.

[whatsabujo]

• july 2017 overview •

[minyardy]

“I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”

(spontaneous archive moodboard for @jawnkeets)

[seduloustudy]

Week 15 & 16 Spreads! 🌞

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve literally just been chillin and taking it easy - but I know that’s not going to be the case starting next weekend.. it’s the last stretch so here’s to hopefully not procrastinating! 🍻

[dbttiger]

Building Positive Experiences

In order to improve your emotional state, you need to work hard to build positive experiences into your life.  Once you do this, you will increase the amount of positive emotions that you feel. 

These experiences could be things you do on your own time, like hobbies, or they could be done in a group, like just having a good laugh with friends. 

They can be short-term, which means doing positive/pleasant things now.  Think of things you like to do that you enjoy that you could do in the immediate future.  They could be things like reading, watching TV, smelling your favorite candle, taking pictures, meeting up with friends, drinking coffee, singing, dancing, etc. 

They can also be long-term, which means making choices and changes right now in your life that will ensure that positive experiences will happen more often in your future.  Make a list of goals you want to achieve and see what you have to do now in order to achieve them.

Important points to consider when trying to build positive experiences are:

-Attending to Relationships: Repair old relationships and make new ones

-Avoid Avoiding: Don’t avoid painful emotions now, feel them and let go, and that will enable you to be able to feel positive emotions faster.  Don’t avoid doing things you don’t want to do.

-Be Mindful of Positive Experiences: Focus your attention on positive things that are happening

-Unmindfulness of Worries: Don’t focus on when the positive experience will end, whether you deserve it,  or how much is expected of you now

[cinnamonelizastudies-blog]

4/22/18

✨Days 15-21/100 Days of Productivity Challenge✨

Spring break was me doing math hw, sketching, watching YouTube videos, and attempting not to bore myself to death. 🤷🏻‍♀️😅

[thelawgraduate]

EXAM SEASON PSA!!!

YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST YOUR GRADES

YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST YOUR GRADES

YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST YOUR GRADES

YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST YOUR GRADES

YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST YOUR GRADES

YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST YOUR GRADES

YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST YOUR GRADES

YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST YOUR GRADES

YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST YOUR GRADES

YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST YOUR GRADES

[engineersthoughts]

A good sleep is everything. 😁

[laenotes]

these are notes from last quarter! this was one of my favorite pages but i think i forgot to post it. currently reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and loving it! seems like a very wholesome and quick read so far :) have a great day!

[oikawastudies]

old spread but i keep forgetting to post on tumblr lol!! i hope you all are doing well and good luck to those who are in their exam periods, remember ur grades don’t define u as a person!!! i know it’s super hard to believe but it’s honestly so true

materials for this spread!!!

- notebook is moleskine large squared

- tombow dual brush pen 192

- muji gel pen 0.5mm

- pigma micron pen 1.0mm

- mt washi tape

[stillstudies]

Mom jeans + philosophy papers + journaling + project planning. The end of this semester is coming so fast and I’m trying to make every moment count! Also, starting to plan outfits for my summer trip… any guesses to where I’m off to? It’s in Europe!

Now Playing:

Shelter- Dermont Kennedy

First Burn- (Hamilton) Ari Afsar, Julia Harriman, Lexi Lawson, Rachelle Ann Go, and Shoba Narayan

[corirella]

Wow, thank you for 20k! I haven’t been posting much on tumblr, but I hope to be more regular like my instagram (@studyrella)

In celebration of Avengers Infinity War (watched it, cried, and ugh I’m still crying), here are some of my posts featuring Marvel merch and art! 💗

[corirella]

This month in notes ✨ been trying to keep on track with note taking, and I’m definitely ahead for more modules this sem than the last!

IG | studyrella

[kaiilattes]

10.07.17 // my sense of time is so messed, I typed 10.06.10 instead of 10.07.17

ig: kaiistudies (I’ve been more active here due to school so do check it out!!)