With finals just around the corner, students, especially freshmen, should be getting comfortable with the plethora of tests in the following days.
With that in mind, there are some very constructive and easy ways to start preparing for those tests.
Academictips.org offers two main components that will help insure the studying counts: Memory and repetition.
Memory, according to academictips.org, is split into the short-term memory and long term memory.
If paying attention, things learned will be committed to short term memory. Only after processing and adapting the information correctly will it be stored in long-term memory.
The goal of learning is to get information into the long-term memory where it is more or less permanent.
One of the easiest ways to process and adapt that information is through repetition.
Before starting the process of repetition, academictips.org says everyone should find out what his or her learning type is. The two more tradition-learning types are auditory and visual, and a more new version is haptic.
Visual learners should study through transcribing their own notes again while drawing graphs and charts as often as possible.
Auditory learners should study through discussion with others and, if others are not available, read material and notes out loud.
Haptic learners are those who have trouble sitting still while learning. Academiatips.org describes haptic learners as those who “must have music or a television playing in the background and are almost constantly finding themselves distracted.”
Despite the perceived set backs, haptics should just adapt to their learning style, according to academiatips.org. Make studying a more physical effort by pacing around the room, reading on an exercise bike or simply chewing gum,
Whichever works best, it’s time to start taking these studying habits into consideration.
