What you are going to study?

Do you ever feel like boring when you’re studying? Does studying make you literally want to cry? Do you even know how to study? If you have any of the questions in your mind, then this article is for you. This article will give you 100% success rate in how to study effectively.

It what’s up you guys, its Rohit welcome back to my blog. In today’s articles I’m going to be talking all about everyone’s favorite subject studying. Honestly studying is never something that I did a lot of until I got to college in high school. I felt like personally I was able to do well without studying, so that really didn’t set me up well for college, because when I first got to college and I took my first exam. I thought that I could kind of roll with the same no studying mentality.

How started study effectively?

I’m pretty sure that the grade that I got on my first ever college exam is the worst exam grade I have ever received, so once I got that grade I was like, I need to learn how to study effectively? I’m going to be talking to you guys all about. Basically my process for studying to begin. I kind of want to go back a bit and just talk about the way that I personally view studying and just my thoughts on how to do it productively.

 In my opinion studying isn’t something that you just do trying to effectively.  Study without considering the proceeding factors that are going into basically. What I’m trying to say is that studying is like an onion it has layers and in order to be able to study effectively in my opinion you have to know certain things about yourself.

That’s really, where I’m going with this entire article. Study is more than just sitting down before an exam and looking over your notes. There are so many things that you need to know about I need to do.

1. Know about yourself

The number one thing that I think a lot of people don’t think about, I keep alluding to this idea of like knowing things about yourself and whatever before you can study effectively. So what I mean by that is you need to know what type of learner you are. Like I mean we’re going all the way back. This is something that you need to understand before you even can sit in class and listen to the professor and try and remember information.

You need to know what kind of learner you are. I don’t even remember how old I was and we talked about this in school but we learned about the four different types of learners. Like the different categories that people could be in for how they learn best. I have them written down so there’s a visual auditory reading / writing and kinaesthetic. So you need to know which of these four is where you fit in.

I think that’s so important, because if you don’t know what kind of learner you are and how you learn best and the techniques that you like to employ to retain in formation it’s going to be really hard for you to sit in a classroom and listen to a professor and try and take note of what they’re saying effectively. Everybody is different, obviously everybody has different ways that they learn things whatever. Knowing what kind of learner you are is integral. It is literally the foundation for everything else I’m going to talk about.

2. Pay attention in classroom

After you know what kind of learner you are, go to class and pay attention. I’m not going to act like its easy all the time. I know that there are some classes that you have to take and they’re boring but whether you want to take the class or it’s required and you don’t really want to take it. It’s going to affect your GPA the same way so try your best to get to class is. If you’re not in class, you can’t be a part of the discussion but they’re having you’re not going to be able to pick up information the same way.

I know some professors and I’m speaking more towards college students right now, because I am in college but I mean the same thing goes for high school. I pay attention in class if a professor posts see lectures or the PowerPoint slides or whatever from the lecture online, it’s not the same as being. There sometimes, I would skip class. Then I would try and review the PowerPoints from the class and I’m like I don’t want to do this like I feel like I’ve just learned better when I’m physically there.

For example I am a reading / writing type of learner, so I learn best physically writing things down. For that reason I cannot type notes on my laptop. I can’t do it because I feel like typing and typing and writing are obviously not the same thing I feel like if I’m not handwriting my notes. I do not retain them and I know that because I have identified what kind of learner I am. So when I go to class the way I take notes directly correlates to the type of learner that I am and the ways that I learn best.

3. Make beautiful notes

This is getting into like the third part. Once you know what type of learner you are and you go to class and you pay attention. The next crucial step is taking good notes. You are going to have a very hard time studying your notes if you don’t take notes or if you don’t take good notes. It’s not going to help you if you’re not taking good notes you might as well not take notes at all because notes are for you to study from.

So do yourself a favour and take the notes in class. Another thing about how you take notes and like just being in class and paying attention is, I feel like it’s important to connect what the professors are saying to your own life experiences. It helped me to remember it better I think that’s just another tip when you’re in class and like taking notes and stuff you don’t have to write your notes. You don’t have to type your notes. You can literally draw your notes and can do whatever the hell you want.

If you are actively retaining information in class, you are learning it. It’s not like the night before the exam you’re trying to reteach yourself everything. The professor has talked about thus far that’s what you don’t want to do and I feel like that’s what so many people do the whole like all-nighters thing in college, is something that people like to talk about doing.

I can tell you that I am a junior in college. I have never once pulled an all-nighter and don’t like to have to teach myself all the material the night before, in situations like that your stress levels just go way through the roof and that impedes your ability to retain information.

How to study effectively

Now let’s get into the second part of this article which is my actual studying techniques. When it comes time to actually study so this is now getting into you’re sitting down. You have an exam coming up and you’re about to start studying. What do you do? So for me personally, these are just the things that I do pretty much every time. First I find what works and then I stick to it, because if it’s not broken why would I fix it. So there’s a few factors from me that I take into account when I’m studying.

First is the time of day that I’m studying. I personally study at night because when I try during the daytime I can’t. Don’t know why? it’s probably because I have the attention span of like a squirrel but I have recognized in myself that I cannot study during the day. I feel like my brain is just wandering too much and I can’t stay focused. So therefore I study at night pretty much right before I go to bed that just works better for me.

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Another thing that is super important and I’m taking about is the atmosphere of wherever I am. The ambiance and the vibes in my room are very important. Like if my room for example is messy. I’m not relaxed and that’s just all the time like it’s not even when I’m trying to study. But like if I’m in my room and there’s everywhere on the floor and like it’s just a mess it like bothers me and cannot completely relaxed with messy room.

I will literally clean my room until I feel like it is adequately clean. So that I can start study effectively . Besides that you know that I love candles and have an obsession with candles. I think that lighting a candle completely transformed the vibe of a room when I’m studying. I obviously have to have a candle burning and also if it’s at night I like to have candles.

My story of taking notes

How I actually study the act of studying what I do. Like I said I am a reading writing type of learner so this kind of ties in with that but I bought a separate notebook. I go through my school notebook and I just have one five-star notebook. Now I will take the notes that I took in class and kind of summarize them in my study notebook. This is where I’d get creative with note-taking so this is what my study notebook looks like. Because I use colors in my study notebook, I feel like a way that I like to keep myself engaged while I’m studying.

Honestly let’s be real, studying is a snooze fest period basically the way that I keep myself focused and involved is by setting up a system for how I want to display the information. I will draw pictures. I will do boxes for the main points and then I’ll have like arrows pointing off and then circle.

 As I’m writing the notes and stuff I’ll go through and I will haul our code stuff. I feel like for me it’s really about study effectively. If I’m just sitting and reading my notes from class, I feel like it’s so easy for me to become disengaged from studying. Then I’m like bored and I’m thinking about everything else on the planet. But if I am actually writing my notes again highlighting like physically doing that it keeps me more engaged.

It’s kind of like if you’ve ever seen a mind map but it has like the main idea of something and then coming off of it. They’re like branches and it like you know and then I will set up like a color key. I have these colored pastel highlighters that I bought from Amazon. I will link this below they were literally five dollars.

conclusion

When I’m more engaged, I’m able to retain the information better so obviously what I just ran through. With you guys is my personal mechanisms for studying but I kind of wanted to present this article as like a guide almost. So that you could kind of follow along, but do things in your own way like however you feel like. It’ll work for you.

I’m not saying that what I do is going to work for everybody but I think that’s it and I really hope this article was helpful. I know that this isn’t like a typical how to study effecitvely tips article or blog. I just feel like I wanted to share my perspective and hopefully it helped at least one person reading this. That is all I have for today’s article.

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