I know that in my last study took video I said that we all study differently and
so you can take the tips that you want and leave the tips that you don't but
this one you're gonna want to sit down for I feel like this is something that
everyone needs to absorb open book studying now this might sound a little
bit dumb because obviously you have to study with your books but I feel like
when it comes to doing practice problems very often people go into it with the
mindset of I've done my studying I've read through the material
now I must close this material open up my practice problems and if I don't know
how to do my practice problems well I just get the problem wrong and I move on
while this is fine and good all it does is tell you which type of problems you know
how to solve it doesn't help you solve the problems you don't know how to do
personally for an actuarial exam that I study four months for I probably stop
doing problems open book four days before the exam and I don't study the day
before the exam so I'm really using all my notes up until the end if you're
thinking something like how will I know if I know the material if I'm always
using my notes up until the end to that I would say if you're off notes three
weeks before you have to maintain that level of knowledge for three weeks
that's a lot of time to remember tiny details the way that I approach practice
problems is first I will try to do it without my notes if I can amazing
I can just solve the problem get practice check the solution move on if I
don't know what to do I will go to my textbook go to my study notes go to my
formula sheet and try to use materials that I have available to me to solve the
problem step three is if I can't find the solution in the notes which happens
sometimes then I'll look at the solution and try to do the problem with the
solution even if it's something like a short written answer I'll often read the
solution to the point where I understand it put it to the side and then try to
replicate it which you'll be surprised or you won't be, i'll read solutions be
like that makes perfect sense go to write it down and I can't write a single
thing I have to read it again give this video a thumbs up if you too - very often
read something under and then forget it 7 seconds later story
of my life you guys I think that the biggest advantage of this method is that
it forces you to skim through the material a ton of times like if your
go-to is I don't know how to do this problem
I'm gonna look at the solution then all you learn is how to solve that one
problem but when you're reading through the material skimming through the
material trying to find the solution you're not just reading the answer to
that question you have to figure out where things are in the text and at
first this could be really hard and you can't find anything but having skimmed
it 70,000 bajillion times you start to put things together your brain starts to
pick it up and it just makes things click a lot what I like to do is if I
come to a problem and I'm skimming for the solution I'm having a ton of trouble
finding it maybe not the first time but if I see this as a recurring theme and I
still can't find it what I'll do is I'll either highlight a key word in the text
to make it more visible to me or put the key word in the margin if you have
trouble finding the section in the text talking about bears eating honey then
once I find it in the margin I'll just write bears eating honey and then I can
read the whole paragraph the next time and it just makes it easier to find it
the next time like my goal is always to make next time skimming easier I just
want my brain to be able to find the material really fast another thing
that's really key is if you're doing math type problems which if you're watching
my channel you probably are have a formula sheet and if you come across a
problem with a formula that isn't on your formula sheet, add it if you use a
formula that's on your sheets but you use it wrong if I accidentally use a
plus instead of a minus I will go in and I will circle that minus. pay attention to
this if you're always forgetting the divide by whatever section highlight
that in your formula sheet tell your brain don't forget to do this because
that's what you gotta do I know that I learn the best by doing when I do a
million practice problems it helps me so much I mean that's not a
secret I didn't invent the idea of doing practice problems I'm
just trying to tell you guys do your practice problems let me know one of
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