How to study effectively with exercises
Hiii , how’s everyone doing?
Today I’m going to give some really good advice on how to study effectively using exercises! Everybody knows that exercises are a great way to study, so it would be excellently if we could Improve it even more, right? These are very simple steps, but trust me, they’ve helped me a LOT!
• First of all, you should write a title with the exercise topic, just to make it easier to find later.
• Then do a legend in the side, maybe in a post it or something. Why? Well, you will mark each question with the colors on the legend. For example mine is something like this: In the left side i make circles in different colors.
Green: My answer is right.
Pink: My answer is right, but I had some difficulty answering.
Blue: My answer was wrong, but I saw the mistake by myself and I corrected my answer.
Turquoise: (It’s purple here because there is no turquoise here ._.) My answer was wrong, and i couldn’t identify the mistake alone. However, after looking for a explanation or the answer online, I understood why it was wrong.
Red: My answer is wrong, and even after looking for the answer or explanation online I still didn’t understand why it was wrong.
•After doing that, I will start answering the questions. Something I like to do when I’m using multiple exercises resources(Example: textbook, past papers, online exercises lists and so on) is putting a subtitle for each one, like dividing in sections.
• After answering each question, i will make or a circle, a heart, I don’t know, with the appropriate color.
• Next, I will make *simple* percentages and statistics, so I can see how many I’m getting wrong or right.
• I will do all this steps with each exercise list, while I’m studying the subject( Example: One after my first contact with the subject, one for after I finish the theoretical part of the subject, one for revising, etc.)
This way, I’m able to see where most of my mistakes are coming from, if it’s from distractions(silly mistakes) or if I’m having difficulties with it, and if I’m improving on it.
I know, it’s pretty basic and simple, but it helped me so much, and my actual learning(not only for the grades) improved a lot, including long term memory. I hope it can help you guys too, and I may edit this later if I find something better or if I discover something new to address. Bye, lots of love ❤️