After a brief and successful battle with hysteria ten minutes before Criminal Justice, I came to my senses and decided that I'd just Muddle Through With Typical British Reserve
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-- according to my psych book, chewing gum while studying helps increase memory retention (combination of muscle activation and extra glucose) -- don't eat too much while studying; it makes you sleepy and diverts blood from the brain to the stomach -- highlight/underline key stuff: don't highlight everything because then it becomes useless -- get sleep. I know it sounds counterproductive but sleep helps a lot. During deep sleep a lot of processing goes on and commits stuff to memory. Plus, you want to be alert for the test anyway. -- if you have enough time, at the end quickly skim through again and write out notes/bullet points and read those before the test -- if you have enough time, spread it out over several days and make sure to review what you learned the previous day AGAIN. Repetition really does help and reinforces it (again, courtesy of my psych book :P)
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Dunno how well this works but some suggestions:
-- according to my psych book, chewing gum while studying helps increase memory retention (combination of muscle activation and extra glucose)
-- don't eat too much while studying; it makes you sleepy and diverts blood from the brain to the stomach
-- highlight/underline key stuff: don't highlight everything because then it becomes useless
-- get sleep. I know it sounds counterproductive but sleep helps a lot. During deep sleep a lot of processing goes on and commits stuff to memory. Plus, you want to be alert for the test anyway.
-- if you have enough time, at the end quickly skim through again and write out notes/bullet points and read those before the test
-- if you have enough time, spread it out over several days and make sure to review what you learned the previous day AGAIN. Repetition really does help and reinforces it (again, courtesy of my psych book :P)
GL! :)
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The rope would be used towards completely different ends.
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