<p>I’m planning on what to study for my semester exams, and I have a few subjects that need more study. I’m thinking of spending maybe 30 minutes each per day on the two subjects that I need a good exam grade on (during the week). I haven’t found a way that works; last year, I found myself cramming the day before each exam. Do you all have advice or suggestions?</p>
<p>My exams are December 15-19.</p>
<p>That seems like a good idea, 30 mins each day per subject. But I would recommend you study (at least a little bit) even for the subjects you don’t think you need a good grade in. </p>
<p>The night before each exam, study, but don’t go crazy. Don’t cram! Get enough sleep. </p>
<p>If you have a few minutes before each exam (whether you get to school early or you have half an hour in between exams), do a little review. But don’t go crazy! If you didn’t know it yesterday, you won’t know it for today’s exam. This should just be to refresh your memory.</p>
<p>If it’s a math or science class, make a review sheet with all the equations you need; if it’s a foreign language class, make a vocab sheet with important vocab, etc.</p>
<p>As soon as possible. I actually review (that is, redo) periodically any quizzes or tests I’ve gotten, just to keep whatever it is I learned in my head.</p>
<p>i don’t study, i retain.
exception: history (not taking science)</p>
<p>I leave the “easier” subjects for the night before - e.g. geometry and calculus. I can review a semester’s worth of info in a night with those subjects because the whole semester has been practice. Spanish falls under here too. It’s probably the easiest of any of my core classes.</p>
<p>Science, history, and english I study farther in advance (1 weekish?). I find it harder to cram for these subjects.</p>
<p>Theology is 100% brute memorization. Moreso than any other class, probably because the final consists of ~10 essay questions that each require 1-2 pages of writing. I make the study guide the weekend before, and then spend like 4 hours memorizing my answers for the essays the night before.</p>
<p>How about 20 minutes a day/subject, but divide it into 10 minute increments. You’ll remember more.</p>
<p>Review the weekend before. Then cram the night before. We only have 2 finals a day over a course of 3 days though…</p>
<p>The weekend and night before usually do it for me.</p>
<p>I only study for a final if it really matters, and usually i don’t study until the last few days.</p>
<p>For the past three years, I depended on craming the night before, not even the weekend before (this includes U.S. History AP and Chemistry AP). And this explains why I don’t usually do so well on the final exams. Well, I really feel like I should change this year, but I have trouble to make myself to study for something that is a week later. Sigh… But I have my finals after winter break in January, so not much worries yet.</p>
<p>I don’t study for tests</p>
<p>If you’re going to study at all, it should be before the exam. Otherwise, it doesn’t do much good.</p>
<p>^ Wait… is that sarcasm? o.O</p>
<p>Seriously? I usually study for maybe two of my (7, really 6 since I usually don’t do one for orchestra) exams. I always study for the ones in the stupid required classes because those are all rote memorization and the classes are too pointless for me to retain the information. And I usually study a bit for math. Outside of that, I only study if I really respect the teacher and want to impress him/her with an especially high score (but I can usually do that without studying except for say 30 minutes the night before). </p>
<p>For the exams that are rote mem., I just cram. I’m an excellent memorizer, and I have no interest in knowing any of the information after I’m down with the course (these courses are unbelievably dull).</p>
<p>For math courses, I usually start about a week and a half before. I review tests, I might go into the teacher for help, I redo problems from the book, I try not to freak out right before I take it.</p>
<p>Just don’t rely on cramming! Otherwise, it’s what works for you.</p>
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Oh, you would be surprised…</p>
<p>^Funny, I only remember saying that line once.</p>