glossary terms

[ofcruz]

I need help in remembering the glossary terms. It seems if I just read and try to remember the terms they cant stick. Every week for client assessment we have anywhere from 70-100 terms to remember. Its overwhelming when you know you have a quiz over the terms plus last weeks content and you can barley remember the terms. I was thinking of making flash cards, and paraphrasing the definition.

[PghRN30]

Flash cards are a good way to study terms. Hand write them and even just the process of making them may help you remeber many of them. Definitly paraphrasing the deffinition and putting it into your own words will help too. Then you can always just carry a stack with you and look at some when you have time. Then any little chucks of time you can study.....waiting for an appt, anytime you are on the bus/a passenger in a car, between classes, whatever. Just go through what you can, once you have words down, you can pull them out out of your main pile and just go through the ones you dont quite have yet.

[ErinRN2B]

Flash cards are a good idea. I type up my flash cards, so that I can fit more info on each one and they're easier to read. Microsoft Word has a template for flash cards that's really easy to use. I personally learn more just from typing the flash cards out than I do from, say, studying another person's cards. If you don't feel like going to the trouble of making flash cards, maybe even re-typing some of the terms you're having trouble with and putting the definitions in your own words would help you remember them.

[Jonathank]

One thing that helps me is looking up the etymology of new terms. This makes them less "mysterious".