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University exams usually require you to do more than just recall content; you will often be expected to:
To ensure that your studying methods are active and go beyond memorization and recall, try some of these suggestions.
Testing yourself using your own practice exam is one of the most effective ways to study because it provides feedback about what you know and do not know. Predicting questions and answering them will help you strengthen your ability to recall information during the exam.
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Distributive studying emphasizes short review sessions over a long period of time rather than a few long, intensive review sessions in a short amount of time. It’s an effective way to help your brain create contextual cues that will help you recall material in the future.
Distributive studying works in 4 phases:
The first step to distributive studying is your regular, everyday work in your course, when you are exposed to course material through lectures, textbook reading, problem sets, seminar discussions and other methods
You may not feel that you’re learning anything, but taking time between initial classwork and Step 3, Retrieval, gives us space to think about what we’ve learned.
After you’ve learned something in class and have taken some time away from it, test your recall. What do you remember? Can you write down key ideas? Recalling information is vital to solidifying the information in your brain.
In a later study session, try recalling more information. You will no doubt need to review information and relearn some of it. That is all part of the process of learning, understanding, and remembering. The process is repeated, and material is re-learned over several retrieval/study sessions.
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