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Make Sure You Really Understand
Identify the core concepts and make sure you can explain them without looking at the material. If you really don’t get something, go back and forth between the explanation in the textbook and your own understanding until you do.
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Beat Anxiety by Simulating the Exam First
Simulate your exam by doing mock exams (or if you lack those, with other problems) under the same time constraints and conditions as the actual exam.
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What Kinds of Practice to Do
Always prioritize higher-quality problem sets. Mock exams are best, followed by in-class problems and then writing prompts from big ideas or concepts discussed.
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When to Study and How Much
Keep your study schedule evenly spaced out, with only a slight bump right before the test (if at all). Try to practice each piece of info five times from when you first learned it, until your exam.
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What to Study and How to Do It
After your first time learning the material, the majority of subsequent studying should be in the form of retrieval practice—trying to reproduce the information, solve a problem or explain an idea—without looking at the source.
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Make Sure You Really Understand
Passing and failing rest on whether you understood some important ideas.
Your top priority should be to understand the core concepts. Identify the core concepts and make sure you can explain them without looking at the material.
Identify The Gaps In Your Explanation
The areas where you are struggling to explain the points in simple terms or forget something important are where you have some gaps in your understanding.
Now that you know your gaps, go back to the source material. Look up definitions. Augment with other sources. When you ...
Interleaving
Once you have a basic understanding of what you are trying to learn, practice jumping back and forth between problems that require different techniques. This will solidify your understanding of the concepts by learning how to choose to apply them in various situations.
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