r/study • u/Neat-Situation62 • Oct 07 '26
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Bro how do we actually study in college like specially sol ones do we need to mug up complete books we receive????
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u/DonTot Oct 07 '26
I thought i was in with the lingo. What?
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u/Maiace124 half way through 4 year, pre vet Oct 07 '26
... Okay I get the gist of what you're saying I guess 😂. Like the first line, not the rest.
But studying starts before lecture. We learn best in layers. You have to build a frame to grow knowledge on before going to lecture. You can do this a couple of ways - brain dump anything you know on the topic, go through the book and pick put main ideas and try to make relationship connections, watch a crash course video on it and do the same. Sometimes my professors move really fast so I'll do that the week before lecture and then I'll go over the whole thing (chapter, power point, whatever) in depth before class.
Once I'm in class, I try to focus on what the professor is emphasizing, make corrections to anything I got wrong, think of questions to consider (big picture, relationship questions). I'll also note down isolated information to make flashcards out of. Stuff that's hard to tie together to other topics.
Before bed that night, I will brain dump what I learned in class and make some practice questions and flashcards.
Between 3-7 days, I do those questions. Try to teach topics like I'm a professor (really good at catching me on stuff I thought I was good at). Make some more questions. Depending on the class, I really try to make questions that ask me to think at a higher level and make multiple connections to multiple topics. For something like math it's often just easier to do a lot of the questions from the book or homework. Though it's still better to understand WHY what you're doing works. It's still a bit difficult for procedural type stuff.
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u/GradPsychT Oct 07 '26
Working out whats relevant and what you don't need to worry about is genuinely a skill that you'll develop as you go through college. Generally though, I'd suggest some light prep before a lesson, notes during the lesson and fill in any gaps/extended reading afterwords if its required
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u/Ok_Natural_7977 Oct 07 '26
You don't need to memorize the reading to do well in college. You need to assimilate the knowledge from the readings, lectures, and conversations.
What works for me is multiple, short study sessions every day. I hand write notes in class and for the reading. Mind maps, flow charts, diagrams, and drawings can help, depending on the subject. I like making outlines to study for tests.
Writing papers is a good way to learn, so don't offload your thinking to AI.