Studying

[Sheep]

For those of you in school, how often do you study? If you're no longer in school, did you study a lot when you were still there? Were you the type to study last minute.. or maybe not at all?

 

[Delta Crowned Sword]

I am neither in school, nor had stopped studying. I still study because I had bachelor's only. I consider myself as studious kind-of kid.


I study daily, with 2+2+2+2+2 pattern. With number denoting hours in a sitting, with plus denoting breaks in between.


I don't prepare for anything at last minute, unless it is desperate situation. I well plan ahead for every tasks I carry out.

 

[_confused_piplup_]

Currently not studying because I have nothing to study for. I am more of a "study for what's needed" kind of person. During high school I studied the bare minimum which was anyway some hours a day, while during uni I mainly studied at the last moment, but the fact that one can refuse the grade if it's not good enough is of course a great strategy. I tried and still try to have a better pattern while I study, but I often end up being super productive only at the end, near the deadlines. I am trying to improve though, because honestly at times it feels like it's much more stressful to do things like I do, but I also noticed that I work with sudden bursts of energy rather than having a distributed pace.

 

[Catgirl Rika]

I didn't really need to study besides in college which I didn't do.. lol

 

[Nah]

I never really studied much during my school days and I did fine grade-wise. Some of it was that back then I had a pretty good memory so it was easy enough to regurgitate the required answers for tests and homework and such, as the American education has for decades not really been about education.

There were some instances of basically just getting lucky too though. Some examples I can think of being stuff like: not having to do an end-of-year project in high school that I really did not want to do that may have impacted my grade in that class, not failing this one course in college because I got the teacher to let me do some extra work to pass the class, how since that year was the very first year the university I went to was doing field study for geology the professor was rather lenient on grading because I think he was just glad that the worst thing that happened was that I got way too drunk one night, and how I somehow didn't fail any of my college math courses when I was never very good at higher-level math at all.

 

[Corrin]

I didn't study much and suffered for it in high school. Pulled my socks up in college though because the teachers would make fun of me for being autistic so I wanted to prove to them that I could accomplish just as much.

 

[Zeostar]

It's subject dependent. I need to study extra lengthy sessions for math, but I can breeze through something like psychology credit courses.

I actually struggle enough in math that I had to schedule meetings with my professor to get through the basic courses. I also had a friend on campus who helped me study in the lounge (but soon found out the place was too loud and felt like a high school cafeteria .-.)

I got through math at the cost of some lower self esteem. I'm unforgivably unintelligent at the subject.

 

[ReKoil]

I only studied enough to get a passing grade when I was in school. High grades don't really matter all that much, so why bother.
The more time I could route towards actual fun things to do the better =3

There were a couple courses where I didn't have to study at all to get passing grades. Unfortunately there were also a couple that required far more attention than others just to score a passing grade.

Didn't really help that I disliked school and anything related to it =P

 

[PoryKid575]

I don't study very often, I have a great memory, so usually I can get As with just the instruction given in class.

 

[Setsuna]

I feel the same as Zeostar, it's subject dependent. If it's something I found easy or was personally interested in, I'd usually be okay just keeping everything in memory and would know most of the test answers without studying, but some of the harder or more boring stuff were things I had to go out of my way for. When I took Law in high school I actually requested the option to bring my textbook when I took tests and be able to reference it directly at the cost of losing some marks. I did well in that class, but I think I could've failed without that.

I'm also someone who never really had any pressure about grades in high school, from myself or other people, so I usually scored a B in classes and was perfectly satisfied with it.

 

[Devalue]

In high school, one or two days before the test, as well as some the day of. Found something like History more necessary because of a lot of dates. Had plenty of homework as-is. Hammered in concepts pretty well between that and paying attention in class to write notes. (Practically needs to write notes. Spaces out very quickly otherwise.) Did not need much more.

In college, maybe 2-3 days. Viewed the practice exam as the main form of studying. Reviewed notes too. Remembers studying way earlier for (at least) one Organic Chemistry exam. Expected you to memorize 20 amino acids. (Maybe only something like 14?) Probably had to draw the structure. Demanded some extra attention.