How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less

The bigger problem here is that most students don’t even realize that they’re pseudo-working.

Next, put little check marks on your quizzes next to any questions that you had trouble answering.

need to construct a practice quiz for each chapter in your study guide.

Using the Quiz-and-Recall Method for Nontechnical Courses

• Ask questions during class.

If you can answer all the questions, then you understand all the big ideas.

Whether it’s philosophy or calculus, the most effective way to imprint a concept is to first review it and then try to explain it, unaided, in your own words.

hether it’s philosophy or calculus, the most effective way to imprint a concept is to first review it and then try to explain it, unaided, in your own words.

Don’t try to organize and study in the same day

1. Match the lecture to the problem set that covers the same material.

2. Copy sample problems from these lecture notes onto a blank sheet of paper. You don’t have to copy the steps or the answers, just the questions.

3. Label the blank sheet of paper with the date of the lecture. This will help you later figure out where these problems came from (and more important, where their answers can be found).

4. Fasten this sheet with a paper clip to the problem set you matched it to in step one