| I will respectfully disagree with the assertion that most who are reading this will over study anyway. I suspect that a significant percentage have never really had to study in the organized, focused way that they should master in college. (One wise college admissions counselor once told me that students who got Bs in highschool were often better students in college than their 4.0 HS counterparts for this reason.)
So, consider the idea of reviewing your notes every night. Rewrite, condense and organize your notes: they will make more sense come exam time, the process requires that you understand what you are organizing and you will know right away where the problems are (that's when you check the book or go to office hours) instead of discovering that you don't understand something the night before the test.
Also, actually outline your required reading (you've heard about it all through high school, never had to do it...now's the time). This helps you actively interact with the material you are reading, and means you will have FAR less to study when exam time comes. |