>>12661986truthfully, most people just don't know how to study.
They'll do the thing where they'll read a question, not really know the answer, peak at the answer/notes, and got "oh yeah, now I know it" and move on.
Which is not learning at all.
You have to be able to reproduce, from memory alone, the answer, or better yet the answer and the context around it, since that creates memory-links. If you don't know it, peaking at cues in your notes to "remind" yourself is doing you no favors in remembering it.
Instead, if you can't recall something from memory, mark it wrong/you didn't know it, and read/study the passage, then close the notes, and write down from memory what you just learned/read. If you can't, re-read it, conceptualize it, and try again, until you can easily reproduce it from memory along, 0 cues, 0 notes.
Better yet, learn to write out the concepts as if you are teaching them to someone. By having to fully explain everything, without notes, "out-loud", you immediately find out what you do and don't know.
College was EZ mode for me because I was good at studying. I'd see people "study" in the most ineffective way possible (spending hours on making "good notes", and using very little of the time to study effectively, just staring at the notes and thinking "oh yeah I remember that, that makes sense" and then wondering why they can't recall shit during a test")
