Horrible study skills

[shippoRN]

How do you do it? Ive seen a million threads on people who have these fine tuned study habits, that are soooo awsome and also time consuming as well.

While i'm doing better than expected, i recently had an exam that gave me a rude awaking. My study habits are awful and I'll be the first to admit it. I guess i'm just frustrated with myself.

thoughts?

[Roberta88]

I am still perfecting my study habits. But I have discovered that the best way for me to learn something is to tell my boyfriend it. He is a business major and aside from taking basic chem and bio in college for his GE years ago, doesn't know much about it. So I explain it to him so that he understands. Sometimes he will ask me questions about what I am teaching him so that I will have to go and look it up. I also come up with little sayings to help me remember things. One of my favorites, if you are trying to remember whether it is veins or arteries that brings blood to the heart, I came up with "ART you go! Veiiiiiin you go!" ... get it? makes me happy everytime I say it. Then yesterday my boyfriend and I passed someone with a goiter and I told my boyfriend "looks like someone didn't eat his mcdonalds." My bf asked why and I explained that the US puts iodine in their salt and thats why not many people here have them. By constantly using the information I read from books with him I am able to retain it a lot easier. Not only that, but it makes learning all of this fun too.

[SarahLovesNovember, BSN, RN]

I am right there with you. It takes everything within me to sit down and actually study and read. Luckily I've been getting great grades until this last exam which bothered me a bit. I really need to just crack open those books and start with reading. Baby steps if it's not within your normal habit to do.

[MermiesGreatGig]

Notecards work much better when you make them yourself. Not only do you have something to review, but when you are writing it down you are also learning. If I were to use store-bought notecards they wouldn't have worked for me either. I found that even if I never reviewed the notecards, making them helped me retain the information better - I just had the added benefit of being able to review them later on!

Nope, thanks for the suggestion, but I also tried homemade cards for Anatomy...just didn't work for ME. Probably works for most of you, but not ME.

[onyx77]

Nope, thanks for the suggestion, but I also tried homemade cards for Anatomy...just didn't work for ME. Probably works for most of you, but not ME.

Not everything works for everyone. I hope you've found a way that suits your learning style. It took me awhile to find what REALLY works. And what sucks is that not every study habit works for every class! :wink2:

I found that going over the review questions at the end of each chapter works as well. there are also different websites that offer practice questions and tests. I don't remember what sites they were, but use google to search for them under the topic you're looking for and you should be able to find them.

Good Luck with your studies!