Doesn't Studying For Tests Suck?

I can never force myself to do it anytime other than cramming the night before.

I should have been studying for my Gen Bio test thats on Wed. tonight but I just couldn't for the life of me. Expecially since I can use a cheat sheet (what kind of college professor lets you use a cheat sheet?).

heh, well yeah, of course you can't bring yourself to study when you don't give a crap about what you're studying.  gotta jump through those hoops.

Doesn't failing a test suck more?

"heh, well yeah, of course you can't bring yourself to study when you don't give a crap about what you're studying.  gotta jump through those hoops.
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"Doesn't failing a test suck more?
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I don't think it sucks so much. Like Fr0Br0 pointed out, I'd much rather study than fail. Also, dude, I never study until the day before and I've always been pretty much a straight-A student.

The way I study for a teat is I drink energy drinks; it keeps my ass up;but, those energy drinks make me piss a lot.

"DOUBLESHOCK said:

"heh, well yeah, of course you can't bring yourself to study when you don't give a crap about what you're studying.  gotta jump through those hoops.
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Yeah I know, I hate those damn required prerequisites."

no, tests suck.

"TheGreatGuero said:

"I don't think it sucks so much. Like Fr0Br0 pointed out, I'd much rather study than fail. Also, dude, I never study until the day before and I've always been pretty much a straight-A student.
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I was a cram the day before guy, and like you, aced the tests.  

The one thing I did like doing was reading all of the important pieces of information onto a recording device and then play that back repeatedly, including whilst I slept.  What I did find though was that playing it back appeared unnecessary as the act of reading it out to the recorder was sufficient reinforcement for me to remember.  Studying days away was useless as the information was no longer fresh and likely to be patchy.  It worked for me - I never failed a test.

Good luck to anyone taking a test.

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I have done the same thing as oldschool as well and its a pretty good technique. But I dont think it substitutes for regular study.

I don't study for tests, and still get pretty good grades. I am in High School, of course, so this really doesn't matter. This "no study" since I can remember won't last much longer, though.

"gla55jAw said:

"DOUBLESHOCK said:

"heh, well yeah, of course you can't bring yourself to study when you don't give a crap about what you're studying.  gotta jump through those hoops.
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Yeah I know, I hate those damn required prerequisites."

Well eventually one of 3 things will happen:

1) eventually the class will be too hard to study overnight and you just fail out
2) eventually the advanced classes you take will require that you know about the prereq stuff which you are screwed since you never really learned that.
3). You find out in your 3rd year after all the prereq shit that your major isn't what you wanted to do since you would have developed an interest for the subject and devleoped a study habit now if you were interested.



Or, you just start finding the classes interesting enough for you to want to study.
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It does suck, however it usually takes me a single read to understand something, though I don't completely memorize it.

This is the only Bio class I will have to take because my major includes Criminal Justice classes, Computer Networking and Computer Forensics and the only reason I have to take it now is because during my time at community college for my Associates, I took Astronomy classes.

I usually do fine with Bs or As cramming the night before, but I'm trying to get into a better study habbit. Like everyone said, it's a lot easier to do with classes you enjoy/care about. Although this Bio class isn't that bad (learning about the environment and life is cool, I could just care less about cell structure.)
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 t (what kind of college professor lets you use a cheat sheet?)."

Exams were the only period I really enjoyed in school and University. It's the only time when it feels like things matter and the tension, particularly waiting before an exam, was amazing.

Of course it does. Always will for the rest of my life. Man I gotta get off GiantBomb.

studyinig is 4 noobs

Yes it really does suck and I think I would actually learn more if I was not pressured to preform well on tests.