I have studied 18 years of my 25 year life. Nevertheless throughout all these years I never had a single hour of lecture or workshop on “how to study”. When I was about to graduate with my MBA degree I realised that I have learned so many things about “how to study” that if I knew when I was younger I would be learning so much more in less time and score so much more and meanwhile have a lot more fun in my studies. In this post and some more to come I would like to share some of that knowlege and I hope you can use it to learn more, learn better and have more fun while studying.

1. Study from variaty of resources (i.e. different books, different professors, CD, DVDs, websites etc.) Often times when you cannot grasp something throughly it is because of the approach of that author or instructor. Try learning from another source such as another book on the same topic or another professor in your faculty.
2. Use Leitner flashcard learning system for memorizing. Ever had trouble memorising defenitions, meanings of the words, or physics formulas? Then Leitner flashcard system can make your life much easier by automizing your studying and reviewing. You need a box with five sections and a number of flashcards. Basically you write on a flashcard, a question or one half of an equation and on the other side you write the answere. You put them in the first section of the box and review that a couple of times a day. On day two you check to see if you remember the cards, whichever you remembered is promoted to the second section otherwise it stays in section one. in 1 day,again you  check all your cards, and keep promoting them. You revise section 2 less times than section 1, and sections 3 less times than section 4 and so on. By the time  the cards gets into section 5 you have almost certainly memorized it by your longterm memory. Read more on this on here. Surprisingly there is not so much information on this in the web in English. I am going to write a post on this soon.
3. Memorize the things you do not understand. In my experience when you memorize things although you do not understand them at first, you start the process of understanding them. Memorize concenpts you do not understand and after sometime you will have gained insights on that topic. It gives you the chance to start and keep wresteling with the idea until you understand it. If you memorize something you can discuss it with others throughout the day.

There are many more items to come in the next posts. Please let me know if there are  thing you wish you would know when you were a student.