hey my dudes its Kaitlyn and today we are going to be doing another study with
me and this time I'm gonna try and give you more tips tricks than usual so these
are all the things that I use and you can find more information in the
description and some study videos that have helped me
so first I use notability for anything from annotating textbooks to taking
in-class lecture notes where my zoom lecture notes now that everything is
online this is more for my sloppy handwriting whether it's in class notes
or studying or textbook annotating anything like that then I use good notes
for the final draft of my notes because I do recopy some of my notes so this is
my animal behavior textbook we will be writing in this today with all that
being said let's get into the video so the first thing that I'm doing is taking
some lecture notes I had lecture yesterday and attended like a fourth of
it but then didn't feel good so I didn't attend the rest of it and luckily he
posts the recorded lectures online so I was taking the notes as if it was a real
time lecture just to catch up this is my last set of notes that I have to take
for exam two so I want to get this all out of the way so I can finish studying
for my exam next week
so once I'm finished with my lecture notes I start recopying my final
draft of my lecture notes that I print out usually I do this a couple days
later to retain the information in my brain look up anything that I didn't
understand and things like that but today I didn't really have a choice but
to rewrite it today so this usually isn't my system but I wanted to get this
out of the way so that I could start studying for my exam - when I take these
notes I use an outline format so there's usually a header and then sub headers
and then topics under that and then if there's other topics
it gets indented so the information under the topic is indented underneath
it if that makes sense you can look up the outline method I didn't really know
is the method this is just what I naturally do but I think it really works
well for me
next we're moving on to something new for me which is an active recall
spreadsheet so now that I finished taking the notes I'm going to finish my
active recall spreadsheet and study it so I'm gonna explain to you how to use
the spreadsheet in a little bit but what I'm doing right now is I am adding the
rest of the questions from the lecture that I just took so I have it completed
for exam two what I'm doing is I'm asking myself a question from the
material that I wrote down and then I'm answering the question next to that
so now that I finished all of the new questions I'm going to practice them and
how I do this is you have to change the text to white and then you question
yourself answer it change the text to black to see how correct you were and
then based on your correctness if you are wrong change it to red if you were
sort of right change it to yellow or if you were completely right change it to
green and then I'm going through and doing this with all of my new questions
this is a method that I got from Janice Studies and she got it from another
youtuber I'll link both of those videos below in the description in case you
guys want to do this too and want to see how they use the system it's called
active recall and you combine this with spatial learning to engrave the material
in your brain so this is my second day studying most of this material like not
the new questions but the older ones and it's been working out really well for me
so far so I'm gonna put the data in that I studied and then I changed all the
answers to white so I can start studying them for a second time as you can see a
lot of the ones that I was unsure about turned to green and a lot of the ones
that I got completely wrong turned to yellow so it's obviously working pretty
well already on day two and I'll tell you guys how this works after I use it
over the next week for my exam that's next week on Wednesday
so once I finished this is how it looked as you can see you can tell which
sections I need a lot more practice on and which ones pretty good on so this is
my checklist I made the other day and I still have to do some stuff from it so
what I'm going to start with is annotating and highlighting chapter 12
so you guys always ask me how to know what highlight it's sort of a learned
practice I try to highlight as little as possible I highlight what I'm going to
write down and what I know I need to write down so this will be conclusions
from a study it'll be the main titles for three factors of something if that
makes sense I'm really picky about what I highlight and when you see me
highlighting more it's because it's stuff we went over in class and I know
we'll have to remember how I do it is i annotate my textbook after the class I
know a lot of people do before but I do it after so I know what material is
gonna be the most important that's covered this helps me decide what I'm
going to highlight because the things that we did cover in class I'm gonna
highlight more of than things that I think are relevant compared to what we
went over in class
after I finished highlighting I usually use split screen for this but today I
wanted to give you guys the full screen to see me taking notes so I just pulled
up my synced notes on the computer from notability and started taking the notes
and good notes what I'm usually do is I usually take notes on the summary of the
chapters since I already read it and I don't want to be taking a ton of notes
from the reading but today there were a lot of topics that we covered in class
that I was unsure about so I took notes on a lot of the things that I actually
highlighted throughout the chapter and it took me a little bit longer than
usual but I know that this will be beneficial because we did go over these
things in class and I was really iffy about a couple of these topics
oh this is what the finished notes look like I don't do it super neat because
it's just reading notes I only do the stuff that I'm printing really neat so I
was gonna move on to other things but I decided to make a study plan for the
rest of the week for animal behavior because I do have an exam in 8 days so
what I did was I used a template that's just in good notes and it's like a
weekly schedule and I used this to plan the maximum amount of stuff I could
study each day obviously this is a lot of stuff especially the first few days
so I'm not gonna do every single thing probably but the goal is to try to get
as much of this done as possible so I'm as prepared as possible for the exam
that's next Wednesday
once I finished the schedule I decided to print it out and hang it up so I
always see it to have motivation to get all this stuff done because I do want to
try to get everything done and then I hung that above my desk so I have to
look at it every day until the exam and then I crossed the things off that I did
I got a lot done today actually so I was really proud of myself and then I also
printed a picture I made yesterday and procreate it's just a little digital
drawing of some mushrooms and I was really happy about that and then I
air-dropped myself the practice exam because I sort of forgot that it was a
thing until I made the schedule so luckily I made the schedule and realized
that and then I decided to go through part of the practice exam I didn't go
through the whole thing but I just wanted to go through it a little bit and
I do this blindly I didn't use any resources to go through it the questions
that have question marks next to them I'm pretty sure as material that's not
on the exam so I'm gonna go double-check that ok guys thank you so so much for
watching I hope that you guys enjoy the study with me videos I'm gonna try to
give you more tips in upcoming months like this one because I want you guys to
learn how to study with me I'm trying to improve my skills as well and with all
that being said I will see you guys next week in another video peace out guys