| To precocious:
Haha, yeah looking at a huge packet of paper makes me tired too. That's why I always take all my notes first (I also take notes from the textbook separately and then combine both sets of notes together) and then do practice problems (all my classes involve quantitative reasoning), and then review everything. I just do it for midterms and finals, so I start about a week before for a midterm or two weeks before for a final. I don't really do much work until exams, to be honest. If you get stressed easily though (or if you have more motivation than me) then definitely do it all semester. I'm always worried about leaving important information, so after I go through everything on my own I study with friends and we quiz each other.
I do love my single-sheet study guides though. I keep it in front of me in other classes and study without missing too much (or without the professor seeing if it's a seminar). I first had the idea because a couple of my classes allowed a one-sheet study guide so I figured I'd cram every single thing in (it was for a statistics class so it was a lot of formulas, definitions, and theories). It's totally worth it. Even if you remember everything, why not have it there to check? Plus when I had my final I just whipped out my old midterm cheat sheet and some crucial formulas (that most people had forgotten about, including myself) were on it. SUCH a life-saver. |