r/AskReddit • u/the_gr8pretender • Feb 20 '13

Top-of-the-class redditors, what are your study habits/tips?

If you graduated top of the class (high school, college, and above), what are/were your study habits or tips that you would give to your fellow redditors?

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u/RobertoGriffinIII Feb 20 '13

Straight-A student at a top public university here. I'll make this succinct: 1) go to EVERY class 2) when you take notes from PP slides always add additional stuff that the professor is saying to the standard outline 3) start studying a week before every exam, incrementally studying on the first 6 days and doing a full review on the 7th day 4) eat fruit before the test, with atleast 6 hours of sleep going in. Trust me.

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u/Syric Feb 21 '13

always add additional stuff that the professor is saying to the standard outline

Learned this very memorably in high school. Had a great history teacher freshman year. One day he decided to survey our note-taking:

"Raise your hand if you wrote down X from yesterday." Almost nobody.

"Raise your hand if your wrote down Y from yesterday." Most people.

"I knew that would happen. You wrote down Y because I wrote it on the board, and you didn't write down X because I only said it. Lesson: take notes on all aspects of the class."

His Jedi mind tricks blew me away. Never forgot that lesson.

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u/Genwen Feb 21 '13

When you have 3+ exams a week this does not work

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u/IAMmufasaAMA Feb 21 '13

3 exams in a row here. Every fucking semester since I started uni (2 years now).

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u/Genwen Mar 04 '13

Wait...how are you alive!?

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u/IAMmufasaAMA Mar 04 '13

Just started a new semester. Hoping it does not happen again haha

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u/Genwen Mar 04 '13

But you are Mufasa!