Study Tips
The following points are all questions that are aimed at ensuring that you
are properly prepared to get the most out of your study time. Read through all
of the points and make sure that you can confidently answer "Yes" to each and
every one of them.
Study Checklist
- When do you study best?
- Where do you study best?
- Do you study best alone all of the time/some of the time?
- Have you organised a day by day study timetable?
- Have you organised a hour by hour timetable?
- Have you specified exactly what you will do each hour?
- Do you alter your programme if you have not completed a particular task?
- Do you have exam questions alongside the particular section you are
studying?
- Do you close your book/lecture notes and do some of those questions?
- Are you making broad mindmaps for the major headings, sub-headings,
etc.?
- When you are walking, running, on the taxi, etc. . Are you running what
you studied through your head?
- Where there are difficult terms to remember to you make up rhymes,
associations to help you remember them e.g. fibrinogen
- Are you going through multiple choice questions with your learning
material so that you have an actual understanding about why a) is more
correct than b) etc.?
- Do you 'walk away' if it really is not working for you at that
particular moment?
- Are you having enough sleep before a test?
- Do you get to the exam room at least 15 mins. before the time?
- Have you checked the venue of the exam prior to the time?
- Have you timed how you need to work through the exam paper?
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