Friday, January 20, 2006
Do you know that studying is not about doing long hours of revision. Some study really hard while others seem not to do that hard. However, their results differ. It is not about studying hard, it is about studying smart and these are my strategy to getting my grades.......
1) Concentrate on the lecturer and tutor. This might be hard to many as most of us immediately doze off after seeing them. However, this is very vital. I always listen and concentrate on the lecturer and tutor as you do not know which is important which is not. The tutor and lecturer will guide you and aid you and it is your responsibility to absorb what they had said even though it might be dry and boring. Absorb everything they said as you might miss out something if you do not absorb that particular part.
2) Never ever prioritise listening to your friends first then your lecturer or tutor. Always listen to the lecturer or tutor then your friends. Many of us, including me sometimes, do this. It is important as your friend might have doubts and might want to ask you but it is important that you know everything so as to explain.
3) Do tutorials and read lecture notes before lessons. Although some of us think it is useless but as for me, when I read the notes and do these tutorials, I would know what I do not know and, lecture and tutorial sessions is where I clarify all my doubts and ask questions. It is important to know what you do not know and not knowing what you do not know is pathetic.
4) Always believe in the power of self studying and through that, you are actually revising yourselves and have a different view towards the topic. Sometimes, you might miss out certain key points and through self studying, you are actually helping yourselves to spot the missing key points that you had not revise.
5) If you think that you could not study, do not, I repeat, try to study. It only make things worse. Just relax yourselves, giving yourselves 5minutes to 30 minutes of break to relax, read newspaper or watch TV so that your mind is relaxed and at ease.
6) It is important to have breaks after an intense concentration of self studying. Unwind youselves and give yourselves a break for up to 15minutes. Get back to work immediately so to pick off what you have left off.
7) Treat every subject like your interests. You study for the fun of it. It is important to study at your leisure rather than when you are tensed up. This way, you can study better, at least for me. If I hate that subject, I will try my best to get myself interested and when I get myself interested, I want to know more and hence, study better.
This is the 7 strategies that I had figured out over the past years and with more talks of studying strategies, I am ablt to come out with this 7 steps which made me learnt more and do better.
1) Concentrate on the lecturer and tutor. This might be hard to many as most of us immediately doze off after seeing them. However, this is very vital. I always listen and concentrate on the lecturer and tutor as you do not know which is important which is not. The tutor and lecturer will guide you and aid you and it is your responsibility to absorb what they had said even though it might be dry and boring. Absorb everything they said as you might miss out something if you do not absorb that particular part.
2) Never ever prioritise listening to your friends first then your lecturer or tutor. Always listen to the lecturer or tutor then your friends. Many of us, including me sometimes, do this. It is important as your friend might have doubts and might want to ask you but it is important that you know everything so as to explain.
3) Do tutorials and read lecture notes before lessons. Although some of us think it is useless but as for me, when I read the notes and do these tutorials, I would know what I do not know and, lecture and tutorial sessions is where I clarify all my doubts and ask questions. It is important to know what you do not know and not knowing what you do not know is pathetic.
4) Always believe in the power of self studying and through that, you are actually revising yourselves and have a different view towards the topic. Sometimes, you might miss out certain key points and through self studying, you are actually helping yourselves to spot the missing key points that you had not revise.
5) If you think that you could not study, do not, I repeat, try to study. It only make things worse. Just relax yourselves, giving yourselves 5minutes to 30 minutes of break to relax, read newspaper or watch TV so that your mind is relaxed and at ease.
6) It is important to have breaks after an intense concentration of self studying. Unwind youselves and give yourselves a break for up to 15minutes. Get back to work immediately so to pick off what you have left off.
7) Treat every subject like your interests. You study for the fun of it. It is important to study at your leisure rather than when you are tensed up. This way, you can study better, at least for me. If I hate that subject, I will try my best to get myself interested and when I get myself interested, I want to know more and hence, study better.
This is the 7 strategies that I had figured out over the past years and with more talks of studying strategies, I am ablt to come out with this 7 steps which made me learnt more and do better.
what we could have been, 7:58 PM.
