9 study tips I would have killed to know. I've been gatekeeping these for years, but you're a real one, so I'll let you in on this secret. Make sure to stay tuned till the end where I'll let you know my coolest study tip, okay?
I've got my bowl of pomegranates, make sure to grab a snack and get a notepad to take some notes. Number one, have a big motivation. No, it's not cliche. If you think it's cliche, then you clearly don't have a big enough motivation. It could literally be, I want to be better than this person, for example.
If it fuels you to get to the top of every homework and exam, then it works. Number two, less is more. Before every single exam, you'll usually receive a mock test.
Usually we get a packet that we can take home. So as soon as you get that packet, get your homework. For the days until your exam, focus all your energy into that one packet since that's what's really gonna prepare you for the test.
Sometimes the teacher will also give you page numbers to do in a textbook. Don't do all of them! It's better to get a general feel of the subject than master at only one point, right? So what I do for math tests is I'll usually just do the first and this last number of every single page.
Remember, hard work doesn't always pay off. I'm not telling you to be lazy. I'm just telling you to be smart. So if you're really studying last minute, remember to only choose the hardest numbers to study.
Number three, for very important exams, I'm talking about finals and tests that make an enormous amount of your grade, find the same exam or the same teacher or like the same subject online. That way you'll know what to expect from the test or you'll know what style your teacher likes to ask questions. Again, remember to study smart. All teachers are different so you have to think in their shoes.
Look through your notes and ask yourself what you would ask if you were the teacher for example. Number four, flashcards are really good but to take it a step further you can make your friends make their own and then try out theirs. Number five, stress.
Stress is actually good. What? When you take the test, you're gonna be stressed, right? So you must be able to think clearly under the stress. You can practice that by making your friends quiz you on a subject.
So the day before the test, me and my friends will randomly pop quiz each other throughout the day. Who knows? Maybe they'll catch something you missed. Number six, shout out to my fellow YouTuber, Evelyn.
If you're one of those people that need complete silence to focus, you can put on white... noise in the background for like 10 minutes and then you're gonna pause it then your world is gonna be so silent you're gonna go into peak focus mode number seven favorites you associate something you need to memorize with something that you like for example the periodic table has seven periods i'll learn that by making a link to something i love for me i love bts and bts has seven members period and that's how i remember it number eight this is the method i started using this year is using a ugly highlighter basically what you're gonna do is you're gonna pick a highlighter that you don't usually use for any of your other notes. Here's mine.
Any question that pops up or any word you don't know, just highlight it. And then if you have any questions or anything, you can write it in pencil and then just highlight it. So what you're gonna do when your teacher asks, does anyone have any questions? It's gonna be super easy because you don't need to flip through your notebook looking for circles.
You only need to look for that one ugly color. Lastly, number nine, method of loci. I actually don't know how to pronounce it, but here's the pronunciation. In my opinion, this one is the coolest of them all.
Basically what you do is you associate key points of the thing you need to memorize to key rooms in your house. Let's say I'm trying to memorize protons, neutrons, and electrons for example. I'll say my room's a proton, my bathroom's an electron, and then all you gotta do is you're gonna walk through your house to memorize them, and after walking through your house a few times, you can mentally walk through them during recall.
So did any of these tips help you? Go let me know down below! Thank you for spending your time here. See you next Sunday.
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