Study technique

2015/16 seminar notes

  • VARK
    • Visual
      • icons by your notes
      • color pens
      • mind maps
    • Auditive
    • Read/write
    • Kinesthetic
      • Move while learning
      • Flashcards in a sequence, learn the flow
  • Develop my weak sides?
  • Ordlista
    • empty wikinodes for everything
    • Speciellt okända/nya begrepp
      • What's the point of the new concept?
      • Avgränsa!
    • Choose the subject to read about & decide a duration
      • Diana's "x pages left tonight"
  • Jot down where each note is from
  • Substantiv
    • the brain hooks upon them
  • Good system for your notes
  • Left-right principle
  • Plan for a part of the course
  • Review how your plans went
  • TDT: Choose to live in the world where I succeed tenta or fail it
  • 20 minutes context-switching
  • Working memory
    • is a shared resource
      • Long-term memory
      • Focus
      • Language
    • Bad working memory? Revise more, prepare more.
  • When behind others, think positive thoughts also
  • The importance of skimming
    • Hooks for relevance
    • substantiv
    • kursiva ord
    • diagram
  • Lectures give you the key to understanding
    • no need to prepare 100%
    • just familiarize, get confused, then go to lecture
    • prep lightens the load on working memory
  • Plan to use a given reading method "now I will skim"
  • Tell your inner voice it's bullshitting
    • not black and white, you're not an all good or all bad student
  • Ask questions to your book
    • experienced readers do this automatically
    • predictor +
    • criticize
    • Don't read something you've read before
      • you don't notice that you're wasting time, much like you can reread a wikipedia article
  • Read old summaries of yours before reading new material
  • Forgetting curve
    • revise notes at once!
    • every study occasion
  • SP3R
  • ARMS
  • Keywords in the margins
  • SQ3R
    • Survey: skim
      • Evaluate the book, who wrote it? What is it? Why?
      • The style, the structure, the cursives
      • Chapter by chapter
      • Difficulty
      • Links
    • Question: formulate questions
      • Those you got from skimming
      • Write headers as questions
      • Different perspectives on the text
        • To remember
        • To compare
        • To sum up
        • To discuss
    • Read
      • Carefully, aiming for understanding, based on your questions
      • Flexible reading speed
      • Don't read too much at once
    • Recite: lay clear the meanings
      • Your own words
      • Can you answer your questions?
      • Some summary for use in review
    • Review: reread/flashcards
  • ARMS
    • Anticipate
    • Read
    • Map
    • Summarize
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