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| Efficient Methods of Review | |||
| Short, frequent reviews and end-of-week reviews are effective for most biology courses. The goal of review is to be able to recall information, make connections with existing knowledge, and see relationships among information. Simply memorizing isolated facts will not allow you to reach this goal. Memorizing is temporary - you need to push information from short-term to long-term memory. Experts suggest students spend six to ten hours per week on each science course alone. How best to spend this time? Efficient methods of review are:
SPACE REVIEWS Review at least every other night. By spacing reviews, students force themselves to use the information repeatedly, which increases chances of remembering the material. MAKE THE REVIEW ACTIVE The more ways you can enter the information into memory, the better your chances of recalling it on exams or during classroom activities. Try combining reading and writing, reading and speaking aloud, writing and listening to tapes, or reading and listening to tapes. RECOPY AND REORGANIZE LECTURE NOTES A good way to review new material is to recopy and reorganize lecture notes. Refer to the Notetaking section of the General-Purpose Learning Strategies Main Stack for more information. REVIEW LECTURE NOTES Read over lecture notes, highlighting or underlining important information. If the Cornell or two-column format of notetaking is used, write key words in the recall column while reviewing the notes. REVIEW THE BOOK Read and review material in the text that relates to the lecture notes. Look at and answer the review questions at the end of each chapter. WORK IN GROUPS Use a study partner or a study group at least occasionally. Why? For one thing, talking about what you need to learn reinforces learning. In addition, other students may be able to explain things about which you are unclear. Other students may have effective memory strategies or organizational strategies to share. END-OF-WEEK REVIEWS End-of-week reviews may include a number of activities. Work on flash cards that weren't completed during the week. Make up and answer questions for self-testing. Develop and apply memory and organizational strategies. Read through lecture notes from the past week; then read all notes since the last test. Source:
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