How do you study?

My study methods are as follows:

- Find out what you need to know exactly and only study those areas
- Make a plan
- Flashcards
- Brain storms
- Bullet pointed lists
- Read and re-read until it sinks in
- Study with a friend this way you can bounce ideas off each other etc.
- Set yourself mock questions, answer them and compare them to the evidence you are learning from.
- I always find using colour works well because I associate the colour with the revision I need.

Good Luck!
 
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Ms.Trick
Thanks for those advices :D
Thanks for all your advices guy, I will most definitely need it. I had my results today: 14 failures out of 27 subjects. Good news is that I have B's at all the exams I succedeed. Less good news is that I have to make at least a C at every subjects otherwise I will have to resit the whole year. Talk about pressure 😛
And I have an exam from First Grade that I have to resit, and if I fail it, even if I succeed all the rest, well, I'm still resitting my year.
Does anyone know how to study law? 😀
 
I go completely overboard when studying. First of all write up notes and do some additional reading, then I highlight key passages. After that I distil the highlighted stuff onto a mindmap and link things together with different colours, then I distil them even further and put them onto flash cards (which are often in pictorial form- I use smiley faces a lot). I then write up my own questions and answer them every day. If it's something that involves a lot of jargon, I make up a matching pairs game of different terms and their definitions. Once they're matched up I write them down. Then I stick post it notes around my room at places where I'll see them every day (like around my mirror when brushing my teeth). Lastly, I make a revision playlist of instrumental songs, with some more fast paced ones thrown in every once in a while to signal a break.

But yeah, that's how I've got by in school/college/uni. I've always been scared of failure so I over-do it a lot. I take a break on the weekend though.

It's always good to work in half an hour bursts and drink plenty of water. If you don't understand something, keep reading things about it and ask people until you get it. Motivation is key I think.
 
sisterofmercy said:
I go completely overboard when studying. First of all write up notes and do some additional reading, then I highlight key passages. After that I distil the highlighted stuff onto a mindmap and link things together with different colours, then I distil them even further and put them onto flash cards (which are often in pictorial form- I use smiley faces a lot). I then write up my own questions and answer them every day. If it's something that involves a lot of jargon, I make up a matching pairs game of different terms and their definitions. Once they're matched up I write them down. Then I stick post it notes around my room at places where I'll see them every day (like around my mirror when brushing my teeth). Lastly, I make a revision playlist of instrumental songs, with some more fast paced ones thrown in every once in a while to signal a break.

But yeah, that's how I've got by in school/college/uni. I've always been scared of failure so I over-do it a lot. I take a break on the weekend though.

It's always good to work in half an hour bursts and drink plenty of water. If you don't understand something, keep reading things about it and ask people until you get it. Motivation is key I think.
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That post actually made me want to study 😀 Lots of good ideas I could use too.
I understand about being afraid of failure. In high school, at those time of the trimester you receive your grades, I would always have nightmare where I had failed everything. It changed with university. I still have the nightmares, but I also have now huge anxiety crisis at times. Just for resits. Resits used to be like the ultimate shame for me. Now I'm even more anxious at the idea that I might fail my whole year. Believe me, it gives me motivation, a lot. It's a huge challenge, but I sometimes work much better when I'm that afraid to fail. And I think with some of the advices you just gave me, I won't just succeed, I will do GREAT (or so I hope 😀) Thanks a lot :heart:
 
Goby said:
I do! Let me know if I can help. 🙂
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So here's the thing. It's "an introduction" to law.
I've failed it three times (and I'm starting to get sick of it T.T)
At the exam, he always asks a few definitions, some numbers (how many judges in what Court and what kind of judge), some true or false (that are sometimes tricky in the way they are asked) and...the Big Bad: The Casus. The question on the more points, where he asks things like "In front of which institution do I have to go if I want to introduce a resort against a decision taken by the Cassation court in a affair concerning a murder caused by a problem of debt with an amount of 1680 euros?"

To be able to answer that (because sometimes the predicat is just wrong so none institution is good), you must think about:
- Where can I introduce a resort?
- Can I introduce a resort against a decision of the Cassation court?
- Is the Cassation court the one in charge for murder?
- Does the fact that it's about a debt change anything?
- If yes, does the amount of the debt change anything in that case?

Then you can answer the question. But if you answered any of the previous question wrong, the whole thing is wrong. It's always there I lose my points.
I already have done I don't know how many plans of who does want, who decides what, what the amount of money change in the affair...Everything. And I keep failing.
I've tried plans, summarizes, flash cards...And still, I still have to resit that goddamn exam.

Help? 😀
 
So I wondered, how do you guys study for exams for the uni?

I majored in english in college, so we didn't have many exams. Rather, we had to write long papers.

But for the exams I did have, like for math and core classes, I would study with flash cards, cramming the night before, and I've also found it helps to hand-write out things you need to remember. Summarize ideas.

Do you study different subjects everyday?

Yes. I found that studying too many subjects in one day confused me. Instead, I'd reserve one day for english, and one day for math, etc.

I also had a tutor for math which was very, very helpful.

Do you bother summarizing or do you study immediately?

Like I said, I find it useful to summarize complicated ideas. If you're writing a paper, you can summarize each source in your annotated bibliography. I've found that helps alot.

For an American lit class, I remember one of our assignment was to find a literary article on the reading and then write a one-page summary. Ir proved very useful.

How do you handle big subjects?

I take copius notes!

Do you make flash cards?

Yes, I have for science and math. But I've found that tactic doesn't work so well for more abstract subjects like philosophy. Yet, if there is a lot of terminology, for instance for an intro class, they certainly can't hurt.
 
Ms.Trick said:
So here's the thing. It's "an introduction" to law.
I've failed it three times (and I'm starting to get sick of it T.T)
At the exam, he always asks a few definitions, some numbers (how many judges in what Court and what kind of judge), some true or false (that are sometimes tricky in the way they are asked) and...the Big Bad: The Casus. The question on the more points, where he asks things like "In front of which institution do I have to go if I want to introduce a resort against a decision taken by the Cassation court in a affair concerning a murder caused by a problem of debt with an amount of 1680 euros?"

To be able to answer that (because sometimes the predicat is just wrong so none institution is good), you must think about:
- Where can I introduce a resort?
- Can I introduce a resort against a decision of the Cassation court?
- Is the Cassation court the one in charge for murder?
- Does the fact that it's about a debt change anything?
- If yes, does the amount of the debt change anything in that case?

Then you can answer the question. But if you answered any of the previous question wrong, the whole thing is wrong. It's always there I lose my points.
I already have done I don't know how many plans of who does want, who decides what, what the amount of money change in the affair...Everything. And I keep failing.
I've tried plans, summarizes, flash cards...And still, I still have to resit that goddamn exam.

Help? 😀
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Ok, later tonight (in about 5-6 hours) I shall tell you all my secrets on how to pass that goddamn exam 🙂
 
Ms.Trick said:
So here's the thing. It's "an introduction" to law.
I've failed it three times (and I'm starting to get sick of it T.T)
At the exam, he always asks a few definitions, some numbers (how many judges in what Court and what kind of judge), some true or false (that are sometimes tricky in the way they are asked) and...the Big Bad: The Casus. The question on the more points, where he asks things like "In front of which institution do I have to go if I want to introduce a resort against a decision taken by the Cassation court in a affair concerning a murder caused by a problem of debt with an amount of 1680 euros?"

To be able to answer that (because sometimes the predicat is just wrong so none institution is good), you must think about:
- Where can I introduce a resort?
- Can I introduce a resort against a decision of the Cassation court?
- Is the Cassation court the one in charge for murder?
- Does the fact that it's about a debt change anything?
- If yes, does the amount of the debt change anything in that case?

Then you can answer the question. But if you answered any of the previous question wrong, the whole thing is wrong. It's always there I lose my points.
I already have done I don't know how many plans of who does want, who decides what, what the amount of money change in the affair...Everything. And I keep failing.
I've tried plans, summarizes, flash cards...And still, I still have to resit that goddamn exam.

Help? 😀
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Ok, let me give this a try. Keep in mind that many of your terms are European, but I'll give it a shot...

In law school we have two types of questions.... multiple choice and essays. Multiple choice sounds fun... but it's not!! There are so tricky. The key is to do a million of them. I don't know if this is possible, but it is really the only way to master them.

It sounds like a few are simple questions that you will simply need to memorize, such as the number of judges on a certain court. But the rest you should practice lots of multiple choice questions.

Next is the Big Bad! I had to do about 12 hours of them in 2 days to pass the bar. Here is the secret.... you MUST MUST MUST outline the answer. In the US we have 3 hours for 3 questions..... and I would say that at least 15-20 minutes for each question was done reading and outlining the question.

Remember EVERY word is important. Read carefully. And then outline. It may be painful, especially if other write immediately, but you MUST outline.

BTW, I'm guessing you will never get "Joe walked into the room and shot Fred." It will always been something that can almost be argued both ways... that he was a little drunk, that he was cleaning his gun, that he didn't know Fred was in the room, etc....

Let me know if I'm close to answering your question. In law school outlining is the key... it MUST MUST MUST be done. Or else... 🙁

Ok... must eat!!
 
M
Ms.Trick
Thank you, it did help :D
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