[Need Advice] Fast studying suggestions

1) Attend Classes regularly and also take notes properly. When you open the textbook, keep your notes beside the textbook and start studying. You will learn at least 50% faster. If you don't know how to take good notes, find someone and take pics of their notes or borrow notes from them. It is better to take your own notes and write things in your own words so that you can remember them well.

2) Essays: First brainstorm for ideas. Open a word doc or notebook and write down everything you have inside your mind regarding the topic. It doesn't matter whether it is right or wrong. Write down keywords or phrases or sentences whatever comes to your mind. Once you run out of ideas, prepare a skeleton essay which is very basic. Just join the ideas sentence after sentence to get a skeleton.

Now start working your way through this skeleton and develop it into a nice essay. For every idea, support it with an example or analogy or research study and expand the each idea properly until it gets polished. It is a step by step process.

If you don't start anything, you will be wondering how to start the essay. That's why creating a skeleton makes it much easier to work on it.

3) Study every weekend and revise your concepts for 3-4 hours. You don't even need to study every day. Just a review from time to time helps you to solidify concepts in your mind.

4) Note taking - Never note down definitions or standard information when taking notes. Write them partially or leave them. All the standard stuff will be there in textbooks. Only note down things like analogies or examples given by your professor in the class which you cannot find in textbooks. This would immensely ease your understanding.

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