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help for a girl with bad study habits
14/F
i have horiable study habits.
i pay attention and take noted in class. but i lose some of them. so the night before a test, i have my friends fax me over the ones i lost. then i have trouble paying attention to those! so i just read over each a couple of times, and get a C on every test!
im extra bad at diagrams. somtimes i dont even bother drawing them. they just dont click in my head.
im pretty sure i dont have a learning disability because i get straight As in my other classes (Bs somtimes) but im still not great at tests. usually i get B+ or A-. except math.
math and science are my main problems.
im starting high school next year, and i want to be able to get straight As. any advice? please help!
thanks so much
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Hi,
I was always horrible at math. Like you I didn't do well with studying and a lot of it just didn't makes sense.Also just looking at the diagram meant nothing to me. What I did though to help was I made flash cards. For formulas that I couldn't remember and I made flash cards for them. Not only did I get practice writing them out. But I tested my self on how fast I could say which formula was which. If I didn't get it right then I put it to the bottom of the deck and go through the stack again. I also had my friends test me. I did diagrams too. I made the diagram on one side and put the name of it on the other. I'd study how each one looked for a few minutes and then I test my self to see if I did the names. For biology one time when I had a midterm. I had to identify a lot of words. I remember the word was mitochandria. I had been studying with my mom (with flash cards.) and I just couldn't get that word. So my mom made up a tune to go with it. The tune stuck really well so when I got to the test I hummed it in my mind and I got the question right. To this day i still remember that definition. : ) Also another things that works is trivia. You can either do this by yourself with a parent or with a group of friends for a study group. Make a board with categories of different subjects make them for different points and then get in teams and play. Have a parent ask the questions or maybe the other team. My teacher did this in history and I had fun and learned at the same time. If these don't work. Try a tutor or someone in your family or group of friends who's really good at math.
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Math is all about practice, really. Redo questions that you had for homework, then check your answers. Change the values in the question and try it again. Find equations online. Practice practice practice and it will be easier.
I've found that when I have trouble concentrating on notes, taking notes from my notes, or from my text book, is a huge help. It makes me really focus on what I'm reading, and writing it down helps get it into me head. It also helps me understand concepts better because I try and rephrase my notes and condense them. If I think about how to say something a different way, I'm forced to really examine how it works.
Mnemonics are also helpful sometimes. They're things that help you remember--like rhymes, for instance. You know, "in 1892, Columbus sailed the ocean blue . . ." that kind of thing. A google search for mnemonics should give you more information.
Best of luck. I think it's a good sign that you're concerned, because it means you're motivated to improve. That's really important.
-Daimeera, 21/female
Edit: Ha! You're so right, it is 1492. I got it mixed up with my own mnemonic--in 1892, the APA was formed--woohoo! Long story behind that--studying for a psych test. But yes, don't I feel silly now!
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I would check out www.math.com and www.science.gov
They have some cool things you could check out over the summer.
If possible try keeping all your notes in there own notebook or just one big "notes" book.
Hope this helps
~loverocks~
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