Study Habbits

>>8623366

Stay at school.

I cannot work at home, too many distractions
no self control.
-vidya
-alcohol
-weed
-sex
-bed
-sleep
-4chan

Staying at school is what actually works for me.

>>8623366
Just stayed up all night cramming for an exam.
In between I
- Masturbated furiously
- Smoked
- Ate things
- shitposted on 4chan
It's fucking awful. I'm going to my exam in 2 hours completely brain fried.
Don't cram niggas.

>>8623373
this

>>8623375
what kind of exam are you going to?

That online course "learning how to learn" is pretty good.

>>8623383
An introductory course to biological dynamics.

>>8623375
You poor fool.

>>8623366

U: the desire to complete the task
E: the expectation of success
V: the value of completion
I: the immediacy of task
D: the personal sensitivity to delay

U = E x V / I x D

Step 1: Is it math? no? forget about it

Step 2: Become frustrated at your own inability to understand coherent sheaves

Step 3: Contemplate suicidal contemplation

>>8623366
Plan ahead. I usually spend the week before the exams redoing exercises or finals from previous years, either solo or with friends.

I revise everything the day before the exam 'til I have to leave home to take the exam. Hasn't failed me yet.

>>8623383
prostate exam

The ideology I started using when I got to college is stop studying just for the test, but to study to actually understand the information. For example if I'm given a formula I try to rationalize that formula and what it actually means before I start to apply it. Surprisingly, it turns out you do better on tests when you actually understand the information than when you cram for a test to immediately forget about it when it's over.

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>>8625712

> I try to rationalize that formula

You're making him proud.

/r/ cheese anon

>>8623366
Actual study method that works best for me, for a big class:
- Draft synthesis myself
- Sum-up every idea using the Feynman method
- Reexplain everything on a white board following the plan of the course material (if you don't have it make one).

Rule of thumb:
- Memorization in the morning
- Reading and less demanding tasks in the afternoon.

>>8625743
But also Fuck yeah that one...

>>8625744
>- Sum-up every idea using the Feynman method
You meant Scott "Conman" Young's method. Fuck that guy. Using Feynman's name like that.

>>8623366
Really you just need to reach the point where studying is the most interesting thing you could possibly do.

Like, whatever you're studying, find some side of it that's genuinely fascinating. If you can't find anything, you're not looking hard enough

>>8623366
>Use modafinil
>Profit

>>8625670
You can literally re-arrange the letters in any way you want to.

>>8623373
>sex
What's that, anon

>>8623373
same, I just enclose myself in a library with no laptop of my own, just books and notes.
luckily I'm not addicted to cellphone shit.

>>8623366
reading text books while lying on my bed did not work for me.

some days i study better than others. there's no real pattern to it.

1. used to procrastinate and wait till the last few days to study, obviously retarded so I stopped and keep up with classes

2. Studying off the book is a waste of time if the class is lecture based, unless the professor says something in the book won't be in lecture but on the exam. If I don't get something I just go to office hours.

3. do all the fucking problems the professor assigns, supplemental or not

4. always ALWAYS study off practice/previous exams professor posts up

>>8623366
take notes while reading

sounds distracting but i'm easily bored and it gives me structure + makes stuff easier to memorize

>what hasn't worked
taking notes on your laptop
not going to lectures
jerking off to traps

>>8627288

what if you can't take good notes?

>>8627297
How the fuck can you not take good notes? Just write down everything you hear that seems important. It's not complicated.

If the prof says something might be on the exam, you bet your fucking ass it's going to be on the exam.

>>8627310

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia