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hi guys in today's video I'm going to be
talking about my top 10 studying
techniques since a lot of us are
currently preparing for final exams
number 10 take notes from the textbook
keep in mind that the main purpose of
notes is to summarize the information so
that you don't have to read the entire
textbook when you want to study however
this can be an effective study technique
if you're reading actively so summarize
the information and put it in your own
words analyze the concepts identify key
ideas make connections between topics or
to your own life these are all examples
of active reading reorganize your class
notes class notes tend to be rushed and
all the information is written together
in a big jumble you can restructure this
information in a logical order or put it
into charts and diagrams this will help
you identify what's important and
organize the information in your head
and make connections between the
information in the topic it's also a
great way to make your notes easier to
understand for when you're studying
later number eight correct your previous
papers or exams go through all the
papers that you hopefully have organized
somewhere and check the wrong answers
that you got on tests and quizzes or
comments on papers that you've written
this way you can kind of review the
material by looking over a bit and you
can focus on patching up the mistakes
that you made before
number seven make a study guide with a
study guide you'll be looking over all
of the material and you identify what's
important this also helps you connect
topics to each other and connect
information within a topic looking over
the material isn't quite as effective as
active learning techniques what I'll be
talking about in the next couple of tips
method number five is to use flashcards
this is considered active learning
because you're practicing remembering
the information because that's what
you're going to be doing on tests you'll
be prompted to remember the information
not just look at the information and
think that you know it I recommend using
flashcards only for vocabulary words
number four which kind of goes along
with flashcards and that is to use
spaced repetition research shows that we
tend to forget information in certain
increments of time as shown in this
curve of forgetting so in order to reset
the curves of forgetting to cement the
information into your long-term memory
you'll want to study the information at
certain intervals software's like donkey
or doing your own manual spaced
repetition system are really helpful for
this I'll link more about that in the
description method number four use
practice quizzes like flashcards this is
another method for practicing retrieval
practice quizzes are also comprehensive
so they'll identify what you don't know
and what you need to work on you can
find practice quizzes in your textbook
in those review sections at the end of
chapters or sections or you can Google
online for your subject practice
questions
number three front your own practice
quizzes kind of like making a study
guide this also encourages you to look
over the information and identify what's
the most important
I recommend waiting a day or two between
when you write the test and when you
take the test that way you'll be
retrieving the information from your
long-term memory not your short-term
memory method number two do practice
quizzes with friends everyone should
write their own quiz and then you guys
can pull the questions together because
everyone will write different questions
because you have different views on
what's important and this means that
pretty much everything in the material
will be covered it's also a lot more fun
to work with friends just be careful of
procrastinating and wasting time one
really fun way to do this is with Kahoot
or with online jeopardy or gameshow
softwares
and lastly my number one method also
known as the Fineman technique is to
teach other people just like the other
five tips I'm sure I sound like a broken
record by now but this is a great way to
practice retrieval this also helps you
identify what you don't know because the
other person will be asking questions
you also have to really organize the
information into a lesson structure and
you have to truly understand the
information in order to teach another
person especially if they don't
understand it as well as you do it's
best to teach an actual person since
they can ask you questions back but if
you don't have anyone available you can
always make a fake lesson and teach it
to your pillow or a wall I hope you
found this video helpful and good luck
with any exams that you're taking I
upload new videos every Monday and
Friday and I post pictures of my
studying on my Tumblr and Instagram
which I'll link in the description see
you next time
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