Hi guys what's going on,

I have quite a problem with studying courses at university, it seems to be easier than high school(because there's less time wasted), but I still can't study effectively. It's not that I'm failing or anything, but I always feel like I am not as confident as I can be with my studies. This could mean either not sure about all the steps in the economic cycle, knowing what homogeneous matrices are, or even figuring the differences between procedures and functions. I looked at some tapes at nightingale.com and there's a lot of learning tapes (mega learning sounds intriguing) there but I'm kind of low on the financials so maybe you guys can give some advice or refer me to some cheap books on studying. Right now I just take notes daily, write up summary notes at the end of each week, and do math problems here and there, but I still feel a little uncertain in my knowledge/memory of the material.

Anyways, thanks for listening, I will stop blabbering, cya!

Sincerely,

Mike

No secrets that I'm aware of.

I believe it's simply a matter of understanding. Don't study, understand. That's all. Once you know the why, the how becomes obvious.

Daily notes or weekly summaries are only useful to help you organize your data and understand it, but nothing else.

I've been doing this all my life. I'm about to graduate in CS (I'm half the 10th semester and half my thesis away) and I think I've studied 45 minutes in total in these 5 years :) No, really, not studying is the only way to go to the university, teach in the university, have a full time job, an indie job, and a life (sort of). And, for the record, I haven't failed a single exam or partial test (I don't know what you call that). In short, not a single evaluation. And just 3 evaluations in high school. Not that any of this matters at all in the real world, I'm just trying to prove that what I say actually works.

or you can do it like me and the day before the exam ask for some notes, skim through them in 10 minutes, then go home, play some games and show up for the exam and pray you will know something.... worked for me for the time i was there :D

The most useful tip my physics teacher ever gave me was "Make it yours". Don't just read it out of a book and copy it down, but write it in your own words. It helps it stick one you understand it.

alright thanks guys! I think the consensus is that when one understands something, they're done studying. I'll just look and try to understand things, instead of writing so many notes.

I'm by no means a model student, but the system that worked well for me was asking lots of questions in class and engaging the profession in dialog about the topic. This often helped me understand the topic but also the process of verbalization ingrained it in my mind as well.

I never took notes, as my hand writing is terrible, by the last year of college I was so adept at learning this way that I no longer purchased the textbooks either. If there was an assignment or required reading (seldom) I would just copy a friends’.