hello! it's seo from tbhstudying and today, i'm here to talk about studying! what a surprise! my
channel is literally called tbhstudying! woohoo! but today, i specifically want to talk about
my friends out there who are studying really hard and working really long hours on their homework
and things like that but aren't getting the right grades or the right outcome that you want to see
from your work. and this is totally relatable! my freshman year, i used to study like 10-12
hours a day and try really hard but i wouldn't get perfect A's in all of my classes and that
would really stress me out, so today, i just want to talk about some tips and tricks to improve your
studying and make sure you get the grades and the outcomes that you really want from your work. i
think the first thing that's the easiest thing to address is to really think about the ways in which
you are spending your time studying. all-nighters and studying for like 15 hours a day isn't going
to automatically guarantee you a good grade. like, the amount of time you spend on your studying
isn't actually indicative of the grade you get. what matters is how effective your studying is.
are you using study methods like active recall or flashcards or blurting? or are you just passively
reading through your notes and highlighting in your textbook and skimming through things?
by actively engaging with the material and really emphasizing effectiveness of your studying
over the amount of the time you spend on it or how pretty everything looks,
you can really improve your studying and make sure you have that information in your brain and get
that better grade. i would suggest re-evaluating your study methods and figuring out what times
in the day work best for you to study and really customize your study routine to match yourself.
of course, i offer a lot of my own study tips and share with you guys my own study routine
but that doesn't mean my methods and my tricks work for you, so my best advice is to take this
advice with a grain of salt and really adapt it to your own lifestyle and the way you learn best.
the second tip is sorta along the lines of the first one but i still think it's really
important to say. try to study in order to understand, not in order to memorize.
even though memorization is useful for studying, especially when it comes to vocabulary or grammar
rules for learning languages, i find that in most cases, rote memorization isn't actually
yielding a better understanding of the subject. pure memorization alone isn't enough to get you
through difficult exams. you need to learn how to apply the concepts that you learned to the
questions that you're answering and you need to understand how to look at a new question
and really understand what concepts they're trying to get at. when you recall information,
do you remember exactly how the textbook or the lecturer described it or can you apply the
concept to a new situation or come up with a new example of the concept you're trying to describe?
i think these ideas and these lines of questions are really important to frame the way you study.
focus on how the topics connect to each other and how concepts line up in the big picture of things
and make sure you really understand how the topics intersect with each other, what the
big picture looks like, and what the entire subject is really about rather than memorizing
the textbook chapters and memorizing whatever your lecturer says in class. a third problem
that i often see people with when they're trying to study really hard and get good grades is that
they're trying to do too much in too little time. your brain needs a lot of time and a lot
of repetition with the material in order to store it into your long-term memory,
so i would suggest really look at your calendar, look at your planner, whatever you use to plan
out your time and try to map out a study schedule for yourself before the exam date or before your
presentation so that you have enough time to actually put things into your long-term memory.
cramming the night before isn't really going to help you with getting the grades that you want,
so make sure you actually have enough time to rehearse the information and really lock it
into your long-term memory rather than keeping it floating around in your short-term memory.
another reason why i see a lot of people not really getting the grades they want is that they
get bad test anxiety and i totally relate to that! it can be really stressful to take an important
exam or do an important speech or presentation, so i would highly suggest you practice, prepare,
and study in the conditions that you have to do it in. for testing, i would highly recommend
you study within test conditions, so don't have any music playing, sit at a desk, have only the
materials that you need out in front of you, and really simulate that testing environment.
that's what i do when i take practice MCAT exams. i make sure i have a mask on, and i try
to make my study area exactly like the testing center, and sorta replicate testing conditions
to the best of my ability. when it comes to presentations, really practice and rehearse
in the place that you're going to present so you don't have to fiddle around with the projector,
sharing screen, or fumbling over your words. so, preparing with these conditions in mind can help
that test anxiety and i also find that breathing techniques really help me when i get anxious.
i'm not really a meditation gal. meditation has never really worked for me, but something that's
really helped me is slowing down my breathing and really making sure that i get a deep breath in
and a deep breath out. a tip one of my therapists told me in regards to breathing is to breathe in
through one nostril and to breathe out through the other because this sorta helps regulate your
breathing and makes sure you're concentrating on yourself and loosening up your body.
even if meditation doesn't work for you and if this sounds kinda woo-woo, i would highly
recommend you try at least one or two breathing tricks before you go into the testing environment.
and finally, i think one important thing to really keep in mind is to go into the test or
the project with a positive attitude. again, this sounds like very woo-woo hippie stuff,
but i promise you, the positive attitude that you come in with really sets you up for success. by
visualizing yourself succeeding and by visualizing yourself in a more positive headspace, this can
improve the way you think and can improve the performance on the test, in the class,
wherever it may be. i hope these tips helped in terms of helping you get back on track with your
studying and really focusing in on what you need to work on. thank you so much watching! if you'd
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