Here are some study tips to supercharge your study skills to ace those finals!
The Pomodora Technique:
If you want to better your time management skills or need to get through a repetitive task:
*Have a timer on your phone for this one!
- Choose one topic/task to focus on, set your timer for 25-30 minutes, and get to work until your alarm rings!
- Take 2–3-minute break after you are done
- Repeat this cycle for four sessions.
- Take a long, well deserved break!
The Feynman technique:
If you want to build your confidence in the subject you are learning before you walk into the exam:
- Choose a subject/topic to study to teach to someone.
- Teach back what you studied to someone (ie. your roommate, a peer in class, your lamp, or an imaginary audience)
- As you teach and verbalize your knowledge, you will receive questions from your audience or even have one pop inside your mind as you grow awareness of any knowledge gaps you have about this subject.
- Go back and study again, but now with the knowledge gaps that you encountered during your teaching session.
- Now that you have grazed through your subject twice, you will have an advanced understanding to declutter any knowledge that is not relevant to the objective of the topic!
- Teach it to your audience AGAIN but simply now as if you are explaining to a 5 year old.
- Doing so will allow your to gain confidence that you have mastered the complexity of the subject enough to simplify it to others
Good luck, students! Happy studying from the UHP!
References
Collins, B. (2023, September 12). The Pomodoro Technique explained. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryancollinseurope/2020/03/03/the-pomodoro-technique/?sh=7b292dc23985
The Feynman technique. (2023, April 3). A&S Academic Advising and Coaching.https://www.colorado.edu/artssciences-advising/resource-library/life-skills/the-feynman-technique-in-academic-coaching
