Week 11 Blog
Great job with the study skills assignment we worked on in class this week! I hope you found at least a few new strategies that will help you in the future. For your blog this week, please answer the following questions. Please post your blog by Friday...I know I am posting it a little late this week so I will cut everyone some slack on the time it takes for you to respond. Please post by Friday evening if possible...so that you don't have to worry about it this weekend!
1. From the suggestions in class this week, which new study strategy will you try at least once this semester? Why do you think this strategy might work for you?
2. Do any of the study strategies that were suggested not work for you? Please explain why. Have you tried this idea before and it didn't work?
10 comments:
1. From the suggestions in class this week, which new study strategy will you try at least once this semester? Why do you think this strategy might work for you?
Im going to try to make a lot of flashcards especially for my puplic speaking class and for my math class, so that I have all the important points on it and can remember them better. And after I remember the important points I can start studying the details. That I way I always think about the details when I read or hear about one of the importent points on my flashcard.
Another way that I might try is to record the lecture in class, for example in my Retail and Wholesale classe, because the teacher goes over his notes always pretty fast and its difficult to take notes, but if i record it, I can listen to it latern and as often as I want to.
2. Do any of the study strategies that were suggested not work for you? Please explain why. Have you tried this idea before and it didn't work?
For me its not good to take breaks, because most of the time when I take a break, Im not going back to my work. Because then I think about how much other stuff I also have to do or how nice it would be to see my friends right now, or watch tv or anything. So if I study I always set myself a number of hours, which I study, and if Im not done in that time, I study as long as Im done.
Elisabeth Mucke
1. One study suggestion that I didn't think of trying is flash cards. Flash cards are such a great way to study for something for many reasons. First, by writing what you already studied down, you've just study the same thing twice. Once reading it, and another writing it down. Secondly, using flash cards are a great way to come back to something that you may have forgotten. You can look at them and remember the broad pictures of that certain text chapter/speech/etc. Last and final is that you can use them as a quick purge for a test. Right before the exam you can quickly go over them all and then you're even more prepared for the test! I will most likely use this strategy in the near futre. I plan on it!
2. Cramming is something I just can't do. It never works for me to just study all night the night before a test or speech. It's never worked! I always break things up into chunks and study ahead of time. Then before the test I do a quick look at the notes i took/book reviews and take the test. Its always worked well for me and i'm going to keep it that way.
A strategy I will try to use is writing things down twice, or studying right before going to sleep. About half the time or less I write things down and even if I do I tend to forget what they mean or just forget that it's there. If I write it twice or more, it will have a better chance of sticking in my head rather than foregetting the day of the test. Also the study before sleep would be nice because I'd study a bit and then sleep which is a fun activity. I also will try to not procrastinate. And I should find a better place to study and also attempt to study because I don't do much what is reffered to as "traditonal studying."
A strategy that I don't think will work well for me is doing flashcards. I don't really enjoy making them and I just get unorganized and I'd rather read what the whole thing is about rather than trying to match some words together. Cramming is another one that doesn't work well although it is the one I generally do. I go over what Im supposed to read the day of the test only and end up not fully understanding it because of being a procrastinator.
Tony V.
From all the suggestions we had, I believe that they were all good ideas. I think that there is only one new one im going to try because I have pretty much tried them all. The new suggestion im going to use is getting into study groups. I think this will help me because I can pull ideas off my peers and maybe hear something I usually wouldnt when Im studying a lone.
One study suggestion i dont think would work for me is flash cards. I have used this method numourous times and I always seem to do poorly on the test. I think its just because the way i learn things.
There were a lot of good suggestions we had in class on Wednesday.The one that really stuck out for me and made me want to try it is rewriting my notes several times. I think this strategy will work for me because I do do well with rereading my notes over and over again and have in some instances done well with flashcards. Since I'm a visual learner, I need to use these methods. Hopefully I will get way better results if I try and rewrite my notes, insteading of cramming them in my big noggin. Study groups could also be of help to me, particularly in me knowing how to study and what to study for the test.
Something that has not worked well for me in the past is taking breaks. Sometimes I would take breaks, watch tv, go online, and would end up spending more time having a break than studying. While taking breaks is a great thing, many of us just do not choose to take appropriate breaks. Perhaps if I ate something healthy, did some crunches or situps while taking a break, I might become more able to get through my studying and get it all done.
I wasn't in class this week because I was sick, so I don't know the study strategies that you went through. I have an idea now, from reading the other blogs for this week.
I will try to start making flashcards for some of my classes specially my western civilization class and public speaking. In Western Civ. you have so many dates, and important people. It's hard to memorize them all. Flashcards are easy to read and far more attractive than the actual book and it's easier to carry them around. When I was in school and I had a test the day after, I used to make them and study them while I was in spinning class or running on the threadmill. It sounds silly but it actually worked.
Now, in college, I haven't tried making flashcards but I will try it by starting with my public speaking class, I can learn my speech faster and undestand it, carrying a good order by numbering them.
As I was reading the other blogs I found the "record your class" strategy. I don't think this one will work for me. I have a visual memory, this is why it wouldn't work. I can hear, but it's hard to listen and pay attention, since my mind is always wondering around.
I tried recording my classes before, in highschool. But this was more like a toy for me. Trying to record smart and funny comments from the students. This is just a distraction.
What I do, is just take good notes in class and before the test I go through them and write in another page the summary of my notes.
1. The new study skill that I will be trying is to study in the right place and I believe that this will work for me because for the most part everywhere I go to study have been bad place’s with lots of distractions and has become more and more difficult to complete my work on time and with quality work so therefore I believe that studying in the right spot will work very well for me.
2. One of the study skill ideas was to listen to music while studying and I know for a fact that this study skill does not work for me because every time I have ever been studying and music gets turned on my brain stops paying attention to the work I am supposed to be doing and ends up getting super distracted.
Great job on your blogs this week. I'm glad you each have a pretty good idea of what will (or won't) work for you while you study!
Jen
1. From the suggestions in class this week, which new study strategy will you try at least once this semester? Why do you think this strategy might work for you?
This semester i am going to try a study group. i think this might help me because i am comfortable with my peers and if i have any questions i wont be affraid to ask. Especially in my business stats class becuase my peers can explain it to me in different ways.
2. Do any of the study strategies that were suggested not work for you? Please explain why. Have you tried this idea before and it didn't work?
Taking breaks doesn't work for me at all. whenever i take them its hard for me to get motivated to start studying again. Also, planning a reward doesn't help me either because i will be more concentrated on the reward and less on studying, and then i will want to quit studying.
Stephanie Ramstetter
1. A new strategy I will try is writing down my notes a couple times. This seems very resonable and I bet it makes a difference. I have tryed this before in physics in high school and I honestly don't know how well it worked. Physics was an extreamly hard class so no stratgies seemed to work. But for classes such as Psychology or Biology I bet this technique works very well. It's basically just repeating the info over and over in your mind, and repitition is a good way to retain information.
2. A strategy that I definatly know won't and doesn't work is notecards. All through out school, teachers had required using flashcard as a way of studying and it didnt do a thing for me. I know this for a fact because after using the cards I needed further studying to understand the material. Also, the auctual process of making the flashcards is not worth it in my mind.
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