How do you study?

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Well, i've got a massive test tomorrow (yes, my test is on a SATURDAY MORNING), and it's 1:09am now, the test is at 9:30am. I usually start my assignments around now (if it was due in tomorrow), and hand it in by the morning, but with tests i have to be fresh and stuff.
What i don't understand is the people that study in advance, the kids (god bless them), that study from day 1, as little as an hour a night yet they don't need to cram it all in at the end.
Today's been a day like any other friday night, went out for lunch with a friend, did some shopping, played spit (a card game) with my sister, went out, acting as if tomorrow will be like any other saturday, Everytime i tried to study, i'll just get sidetracked and end up doing something else (i do have ADD). ANything to deter me from studying. Now it's 1:14 in the morning, and i'm thinking of going to bed and studying an hour prior to the test.
For the midsemseter test for this same subject, i only did my studies in a 30minute bus trip to school. I somehow ended up getting the 2nd highest mark in the class, which really pissed off one of my mates because he prepared for the test a week or two in advance.

I generally cram it in in the end, but how does everyone else study? Problem is, i don't stress (AT ALL), worst case scenerio, i fail... it doesn't mean that the world is over.

With test's and exam i generally study the night before, or that morning, and i still manage to get decent marks. With assignments i just spin bullshit and pull an all nighter. Throw in a few buzz words and make it seem like i know what i'm talking about, and i end up getting a high mark for it. As long as you can back up everything you say with a journal or article then things seem to be all sweet. Throw in a few quotes and your laughing.

Anyway sorry for making this long, i think i'll go to bed. This is probably the earliest i've gone to bed in a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG while.

Anyway the questions are:
How do you generally complete your assignments?
how do you study for tests?

and if you can answer this one, how do people study in advance? really, i just can't do it, so i just don't understand it and I don't see the point.
 
well, I basically always start too late with my praparation and end up, just like you, with a sleepless night before the test. Most of the time I manage somehow to make it through, sometimes I fail due to lack of preparation. I wish I could study in advance cause the stress sometimes is killin me, but it just doesn't work for me.
 
im like most of you as well who leave it to the last minute to study. i usually begin 2 days before the exam by summarising the whole content of the exam whether it be a whole subject or just a topic. i then read over and over again, and then delete or remove what i already know. i continually reduce and reduce the amount of notes i have, then on the day of the exam i just carry a few pages around on the train trying to cram the rest in.

good luck with the exam
 
I begin like the night before or not at all.

Assignments and all-nighters sound terribly familiar.
 
The_One said:
Anyway the questions are:
How do you generally complete your assignments?
how do you study for tests?
As for assignments, I usually start them a week before so I have an idea of how much time I'll need to do it, then finish the night before it's due.

As for studying, I don't. I can remember just about everything I learn the first time, so I just glance over everything to keep it in the front of my mind.
 
I do assignments at night, at around 9. I study the night before for about 20 minutes, but rarely since I don't need to study in this whack ass school.
 
I try not to study all the information in one day, I take in moderation so on the day before the test my mind is fresh for it. I just took a test a week ago that was three hours & thirty minutes and I finished it in like two hours, because the information so fresh & my mind so focus I was able to rush thru it.
 
I leave everything to the last minute and stay up all night working on assignments and finally finish them at (*Rukas looks at his watch), 11AM. Off to uni i go to hand it up. Yes, it is a saturday.

Good luck in your test Salami!
 
lol @ salami, i haven't heard that since primary school. Yes i got teased.

I planned to get up earlier and study for the test, which didn't really work, i woke up at 5 played xbox till 7, started getting ready for uni, found all my notes, by the time i was organised for the test i had to rush out and catch a bus. My plan was then to study in the bus, but my best mate caught the bus with me so we were just talking bullshit the whole way there. Get to uni, and i just accepted the fact that i was going to fail.
Anyway, i just got back from the test and i killed it, absolutely awesome. The test was 3 hours and 3 parts. Multiple choice (which i believe is easy, how hard can multiple choice possibily be... the answer is in front of you for fucks sake), short answer which i killed 2, guessed one and wrote "i have no idea, and it's too early for me to bullshit".
and then there's a case study in which i have to write 4 essays on, which has to total to 2000-2500 words. (500 each) which i did exactly what i said, bullshitted and justified my bullshit. I should at least get a credit for it, but i expect a distinction or a high distinction. Oh, and i took a 10 minute nap half way through my test. I have an attention spam of a bullet to the brain, i end up just tuning out halfway, so i thought a nap would be nice.
 
i didnt want to read all of that. but what i do is.

study at the last minute. (preferably before you go to sleep)

Note: Not much rest is needed.

Then, when u wake up, think of what u studied and see what u still know. (like your own pretest) than review the study guide and u will know what u forgot.
Test comes. and u know about 90% of it.
works for me all the time
and by studying, try putting the questions and answers in your own words.
 

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