Study practice has always
been a bit of a tricky subject for me.
I understand the need to study but the method by which I do has been an
ever shifting and evolving process as I struggle to determine what manner of
studying is truly effective for myself.
Initially for the longest time I didn’t even understand the concept of
studying, it was like a foreign idea to me, a strange alternate occurrence that
only happened to other people. I
just couldn’t wrap my head around the process. It wasn’t until I was studying at a community college level
that I finally clicked into understanding the process of it, the idea of
repetition and even then I found simply reading, and re-reading, and re-reading
material really wasn’t that conducive to my learning and applying the subject
matter in an actual test setting.
When I came to CSUMB I eventually found what helped me most in studying
was mock quizzes and worksheets, large lists of problems I could attempt as
many times as I needed to understand the process behind getting an answer to a
question rather than simply memorizing the information. I feel that’s something not emphasized
enough when it comes to studying, that the important thing to learn is the
process more than just the random nuggets of knowledge, after all learning the
process makes something universally applicable as opposed to something that can
only help you in the brief instance of a test or quiz and becomes locked into a
very limited and specific scenario.
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