according to a study by the University of East Anglia college students could only remember 40% of their high school studies by their first week of University and the longer between their a levels and their first week of college the less they remembered you can't rely solely on memorization so it's important that you learn new tools to help you study more effectively in the first part we covered four study tips from Professor Marty Lobdell and in this episode we'll cover four more study tips so you can study smarter not harder I wish I had enough time
to cover everything but I don't so I'm going to pick out kind of the most important things and make sure I get to those right off the bat according to Oregon State University there are two primary functions in taking notes in class firstly taking notes keeps you alert attend and accountable as you listen allowing you to pay attention to what the teacher is teaching on a deeper level secondly the notes themselves become a record of what was discussed in class and can later be used for studying and review according to the same study students who
took notes in class had stronger concentration and had an easier time recalling the information they took notes on helping them with exam performance taking notes so vital but most students who do it haven't learned a very simple rule the first moment you get after a class ideally right after the class you should sit down with your notes and expand on everything you jotted down give it depth flesh it out okay if you even wait to go home and do it a couple hours later you'll have forgotten some of your own notes well that's a wasted
note but if you take the moment right after class to flesh it out you now have a little more detail odds are at night you can still recollect it that will be a powerful addition with only about a 5 minute time investment per class that is a good tradeoff as for the importance of asking questions according to the National Library of Medicine the goal of asking and answering a question is not necessarily to probe a completely untouched area of science rather it should be a personal quest to resolve a curiosity and Gra with trying to
understand the answer teachers are very receptive to students asking questions and more likely than not you are probably not the only person with that question on their mind teachers want students to succeed sometimes it isn't perceived that way we want you to do well it makes us happy let's say you're trying to flesh out your notes it's like I remember they said it or he said it but I don't know what it was about look for a classmate they're usually hanging around go up to somebody and say hey what was that about they can tell
you you come to my office not just with I'm not getting anything but what was that about when you're talking about REM sleep you know and I started explaining that's what my life's about here okay we love it that's a legitimate thing or if you don't want to go to the instructor's office most of us start up a class any questions yeah yesterday I didn't quite understand this piece about ontogeny recapitulating pH okay we'll go through that quickly once again we like that we want you to be successful by taking an active part in your
own learning whether it be writing notes or asking questions you'll see how easily it helps you when it comes to your studying later while this may seem like a silly study technique compared to the others covered it actually has great potential to improve grades if used correctly it's a nice way of learning active recitation by the way one piece of research said 80% % of your study time is best spent reciting and only 20% reading active recitation is an act of repeating what you learn out loud similar to reading a paragraph out loud in class
according to a study published in Sage journals two experiments were conducted with a group of grade six students in the first experiment the teachers didn't use active recitation they instead just spoke about the topic with the students in the second experiment the teachers made sure to not only incorporate active recitation but also included asking a follow-up question related to the topic of study so that the students had to think about what they learned about the students who actively recited and answered the follow-up questions had an easier time recalling the information that they learned in comparison
to the students who did not have the recitation incorporated into their learning how many you know the best way to learn is to teach somebody else boy if you've got family members or roommates teach them geography psychology Anatomy they often love it it's powerful because it reinforces your learning plus it tells you if you really understood it CU if mom or dad says I don't quite get that and you go uh I don't understand it either then very quickly you have to go back and redo it now some of you may not have anybody at
home to teach or they are not interested too bad Teach an empty chair there's nothing wrong with talking out loud thinking is internal talking to a AR AG green now for some of you writing it out in your own words is a good thing I'm lazy I never like to do a lot of writing but I learned very quickly to look at it look away and do a little dialogue with myself because it told me if I really understood it or not very quickly let's be honest textbooks have always been one of the most brutal
aspects of studying they can be dry and hard to read although this may be the case it doesn't mean they don't have a place in in studying most students have not been taught how to use a textbook and yet it's such a powerful tool because they haven't been taught the power of the tool a large percentage don't even buy the book in part because they're getting so darn expensive but students don't know the effective way of using it how many of you know of sq3r survey that's the S question that's the Q then you have
three Rs read recite review according to Quest a college one of the best ways to tackle your assigned textbook readings is to formulate questions about the text and look for the answer looking for the answer in the textbook versus just reading the assigned text passively allows you to be more actively involved in your reading thus making it easier to study the pages in your textbook because we schedule tests most students don't start studying till shortly before an exam they put so much time all massed together and only study for about a half hour pull all
nighters so they don't get the good rest come in and do poorly you're undoing yourself if you start studying early and do some of the things I've talked about by the time you get to the test you're just reviewing at that point you've got to memorize facts how do you do that what you use pneumonics in my view they're quicker easier than rote memorization and I do use them neonics can help with memorization and recall important information in a simple and very easy to understand way according to UTEP extended University pneumonics help students learn Concepts
and break them down into a simple to recall limeric acronym or jingle how many of you have learned that you can take letters and form a word of it a using those letters to remember certain facts okay uh ones that come to my mind Roy G Biv how many you know about Roy G Biv those are the colors of the rainbow now if you're in an art class that could be important if you're taking physics and you're learning about the spectrum of light when it goes through a prism or you're breaking down light in anything
that refracts it out like a rainbow you know by utilizing these techniques you'll be able to study smarter not harder and Ace this school year if you missed it be sure to check out part one for four more powerful tips happy [Music] learning
