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School is a full-time job
If you assume that
your education is a full-time job, then you should spend about 40
hours/week on it. Figure that 1 academic credit equals about 1
hour. So, if you're taking 15 credits, then you're spending about 15
hours in class. Subtracting that from 40 gives you 25 hours that you
should be spending studying at home (or in the library).
- This seems excessive. - on 2008-11-10
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- Good studying at home begins with good notes taken in class
- write down as much as possible
- Should you concentrate on taking notes or should you concentrate on
  understanding what you are learning? Paradoxically, I'd err on the
  side of taking notes, not understanding! Understanding can come later,
  when you review your notes.
  But if you have incomplete notes, it will be
  hard for you to learn what you didn't take notes on.
- Taking complete notes will require you to write fairly quickly and, as a
  consequence, to use abbreviations
- you don't have to be
  neat; you only have to be legible enough to be able to read
  your notes a few hours (or, at most, a few days) later
- If you have a question or something comes to mind as you're taking notes,
  you have two choices: You can contribute to the class discussion by
  asking your question or making your comment. Or you can jot your question
  or comment down in your notes. I suggest always doing the latter, but
  also doing the former as often as possible
- if you have a question, especially if you need clarification
  of something that the teacher said or wrote (possibly because it was
  inaudible or illegible), ask it! Do not be embarrassed about
  asking it!
- Notice that this section is titled "Take Notes in Class & Rewrite
  Them at
  Home"; the title was not "Take Notes in Class & Study Them
  at Home". Of course you should study your class notes at home; but just
  (re-)reading them is too passive. One of the themes of this guide
  is that studying must be active. It is all too easy when
  just reading passively to have your mind wander or even to fall
  asleep
- What I suggest is that you study your notes by re-writing them.
  For each class, buy a separate notebook from the one you take your notes in.
  I recommend a "composition" or spiral notebook, not a looseleaf
  notebook, for your "permanent" (i.e., re-written) notes. Then, as soon as
  possible after class (preferably that evening or the next), copy your
  notes into your permanent notebook.
- the very act of copying them is
  one of the best ways of studying them!
- Make a note of your
  question and ask it in class next time
- I do not recommend taking class notes on a laptop
  computer
- Study hard subjects first. Each night (or day) when studying or doing your
  homework, do those subjects first for which you need to be alert and
  energetic. Leave the easier, or more fun, subjects to later.
- Study in a quiet place, with as few distractions as possible. Do
  not listen to music or TV: It is virtually impossible to do two
  things at once if one of them is studying.
- If you read without thinking, I guarantee that
  your mind will eventually wander off, your eyes will eventually glaze
  over, and you will fall asleep
- turn the
  inert medium of text on paper to an interactive medium, in which you have
  a "conversation" with the text, as you might if you could be talking to
  the author.
- actively think about each sentence you read
  before you go on to read the next one
  - Sometimes, you can only understand a sentence in the context of what comes after it. So if you don't understand it, reading the next sentence or two may help. - on 2008-11-10
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- highlight a passage by drawing a vertical
  line in the margin
- when you re-read the text
  (note that I said 'when', not 'if' :-), you can then use a different
  highlighting technique (e.g., underlining) to highlight more important
  passages. Sometimes, I use double brackets in the margin for this second
  round of highlighting: ]]
  and underlining for a third round. (If you must, you could use yellow
  highlighter for a fourth round.)
- In addition to (or instead of) highlighting a
  passage, copy it—verbatim—into your notebook. Be sure to begin
  your notebook with a full
  citation to the text for use in a bibliography, and
  be sure to write down the page numbers of each passage that you copy.
  Then, write down—at length and in detail—your comments on the passage.
  (I sometimes like to use a pen for the text and a pencil for my
  commentary.)
- number your notes
- For subjects in which you will be expected to write essays, either
  "psych out" the teacher and make up some plausible essay questions, or
  get copies of old exams that have real essay questions on them. Then
  write sample essays.
- during the exam of not having to create an essay
  answer from scratch but being able to merely recall
  the main ideas from a
  sample
- For any subject, you can make a set of "flash cards". But I suggest
  using regular 8 1/2" x 11" paper, not index cards. Divide each page in
  half, vertically. On the left, write a "question" that requires an
  "answer", e.g., the name of a theorem, a term to be defined, the
  statement of a theorem, etc. On the right, write the answer, e.g., the
  statement of the theorem named on the left, the definition of the term on
  the left, the proof of the theorem stated on the left, etc. (This could
  even be your study outline.)
  
  Then memorize the questions and answers—but do not
  simply recite them by heart. Instead, write down the answers:
  Cover the right-hand side (the answers) with a blank sheet of paper, and
  write down the answers. When you finish a page, check your work
  and repeat writing the answers to the questions you missed
  until you get them all correct.
- You should stop only
  when you get to the point that you feel confident
  and ready for whatever will be on the exam—when you're actually eager to
  see the exam to find out if you guessed its contents correctly.
- For an essay question, do a "mind dump": Write down, on
  scrap paper, brief reminders (keywords) of everything that you remember
  about the topic of the question. Then
  develop an outline of your answer.
  Then write the essay. (With luck, much of the essay can be "copied from
  memory" from the sample essays you wrote when studying.)
- in the long run,
  there's no quick and easy road to studying. It is hard work and
  should take a lot of time
- So, do you really have to do all
  of this? Yes (or things very much like them)—if you want to
  really learn the material (and get good grades).
- Thinking about the subject
  matter—often catalyzed by discussion with others—before delving into
  it was my key to success. After giving it some thought, I wrote out a
  series of logical, fundamental questions which I sought to answer that
  would clarify the subject matter

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