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runningwithcolours
runningwithcolours aka Beno is a 24.85 year old boy, has been a member since September 15, 2005, has scored 19653 submissions, giving an average score of 2.51.
  Nov 02 '06 by runningwithcolours        28 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   
whats your studying technique?
ive got a massive exam on monday which requires me to memorise a ridiculous number of lists. lists of causes, effects, factors, strategies etc etc....anyone got any good list techniques haha?

myspacetom
myspacetom on Nov 02 '06 at 5:41am
well, it's been said if you go over something for 7 minutes it stays in your brain. but i figure that can only be a limited amount of stuff. so go over each part of the list over and over for 7 minutes each and you'll be set. i think.

my personal technique is to never, ever study. just pay attention in class, and if it's a test on things you've never gone over in class, you cheat. it's worked so far.
i carnt spel
i carnt spel on Nov 02 '06 at 5:44am
no exams in design... just folio

noe doez, V and red bull work for me but in your case i would right visual indicators on my hand as starting points

i dunno cheat somehow hehe... although it's not really cheating...

i could live with that
runningwithcolours
runningwithcolours on Nov 02 '06 at 5:48am
haha cheers guys...i love all the cheating alternatives
ecky_ducky
ecky_ducky on Nov 02 '06 at 5:49am
Semantic encoding is the best, so you need to find the meaning in the lists, not just learn them by rote.

So think about the cause, visualise it, draw it, draw a flow chart to the effect, write a song about it...

My study technique is such:
1. Open Word document and get out hand-written notes.
2. Go on Threadless for a bit.
3. Type a heading in Word.
4. Check three email accounts. Twice.
5. Look at notes. Think 'huh.'
6. Go on Threadless.
7. Realise that exam is tomorrow, worth 100%, and you've missed a lot of lectures.
8. Panic.
9. Back to Threadless.
10. Check emails.
11. Close browers, cram until 4.30 am.
12. Lie in bed until 7 am unable to sleep, not due to stress, but due to nothing at all.
13. Get up.
14. Go on Threadless.
15. Check out that AWESOME youtube video someone mentioned.
16. Check email.
17. Cram a bit more.
18. Go to exam.
oshin
oshin on Nov 02 '06 at 5:50am
i write most of the info on my leg.

"i got an itch" is the best excuse.
runningwithcolours
runningwithcolours on Nov 02 '06 at 5:51am
wow ecky ducky...that is almost identical to mine! haha...i've spent the last three days doing pretty much that
Obergeist
Obergeist on Nov 02 '06 at 5:52am
Tap your pen for 2 hours straight then say "I need a break". Rinse and repeat.
myspacetom
myspacetom on Nov 02 '06 at 6:01am
ecky ducky is now my favorite person on these blogs
i carnt spel
i carnt spel on Nov 02 '06 at 6:04am
haha ecky ususe the chaos theory to... we should start a club!
i carnt spel
i carnt spel on Nov 02 '06 at 6:04am
*uses
i carnt spel
i carnt spel on Nov 02 '06 at 6:05am
see i'm on threadless again.... fuuuuuuuuuuuuck what am i doing?
runningwithcolours
runningwithcolours on Nov 02 '06 at 6:08am
the scary thing is that ive got my notes done a couple of days out from the exam...i'm usually rushing and shitting myself and finishing them just before it...so ive got this all this time i have to use effectively..
ecky_ducky
ecky_ducky on Nov 02 '06 at 6:11am
Running, I just finished second semester Arts/Law exams. I did most of my notes the night/morning of. I'm so organised.
runningwithcolours
runningwithcolours on Nov 02 '06 at 6:13am
ahh man i wish i was finished...we're still in swotvac...what uni are you at?
ecky_ducky
ecky_ducky on Nov 02 '06 at 6:14am
Monash, in Victoria.
emmy.withwings
emmy.withwings on Nov 02 '06 at 6:14am
it involves a lot of food, paperclip sculptures and pacman.
ecky_ducky
ecky_ducky on Nov 02 '06 at 6:15am
You know what the second best thing in the world is? Notes with coloured index tabs in em. Oh, how I love those tabs.

I actually made paperclips with animals on them. To separate my notes while studying. It was really important.....
runningwithcolours
runningwithcolours on Nov 02 '06 at 6:17am
ah monash...i was once in melbourne visiting a mate graduating from the australian ballet school and that weekend i had an online stats exam and i went around to all the unis trying to pawn the use of a computer, but they all told me to piss off...that was rmit and uni of vic though...that was fun
runningwithcolours
runningwithcolours on Nov 02 '06 at 6:18am
ah colour coding...i wish i did that...it makes you look really smart
ecky_ducky
ecky_ducky on Nov 02 '06 at 6:20am
It really does. And it freaks everyone else out. They feel so inferior.
deboraborialis
deboraborialis on Nov 02 '06 at 6:20am
mnemonics.
runningwithcolours
runningwithcolours on Nov 02 '06 at 6:21am
hmm like a pretty girl with reading glasses...powerful stuff
ecky_ducky
ecky_ducky on Nov 02 '06 at 6:22am
Mneemnemenemenemenemenemenonics!
runningwithcolours
runningwithcolours on Nov 02 '06 at 6:25am
johnny mnemonic?
deboraborialis
deboraborialis on Nov 02 '06 at 6:25am
Even thinking of Keanu reeves will make you dumber. Don't do it!
runningwithcolours
runningwithcolours on Nov 02 '06 at 6:26am
haha yeah good point...
i carnt spel
i carnt spel on Nov 02 '06 at 6:33am
ECKY... LAW at Monash? what campus... caulfield?

my girlfreind finished a double degree in arts law at melbourne last year and is doing her articles now... poor little button has to sleep with all the lights on while i work my ass off and make heaps of noise...
runningwithcolours
runningwithcolours on Nov 02 '06 at 6:38am
what are you going to do with arts/law ecky? it seems like a pretty interesting combination...(crosses fingers, hopefully not a politician)
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