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Time-Waster #1: Re-reading the chapter
This would seem like a good idea at first, but just wastes your time and leaves you feeling like you know lesser compare to when you started and most students fall into this trap at some point.
The problem here is that books are exhaustive, but tests are specific. Your teachers and professors do not care if you know everything in the book. They only care if you know the most important things and that is what lectures and your notes are for. Books are good to reference during an exam preparation, but you would lose time by re-learning all that info.
Time-Waster #2: Thinking about the material silently
Thinking is of the utmost importance. But keeping it in your head won’t help on the test.
Your test and/or exam is going to ask for those thoughts on paper. If you have never put them on paper, how can you say that you have studied?
Think outloud. Think in writing. Think in singing. Think in pictures. Think in charts. Think in timelines. Think in sentences. But don’t just think in thoughts. It feels like studying, but takes more time than its worth.
Time-Waster #3: Studying all the way up to the Test
At some point you have to stop studying. Make that point be before you walk into your class room.
You may be wondering as to how this is a time-waster and that shouldn’t studying right up to the test making the most of your time?
This is incorrect as your brain needs to decompress a little bit. Stressed-out students can’t access problem-solving skills as easily, thus they do not perform well in tests that should not be an issue. Test taking is often as much about knowing the material as it is about solving problems.
Study hard, then quit before getting to class. The best use of time is to shut down and relax.
Time-Waster #4: Reading someone else’s study guide
Even though this is not a bad thing to do, it is still not the best use of your time.
The problem with this is that the person/friend who made their study guide, made it for themselves keeping in mind specifics that would help them and be a useful aid for them to reference. However, you are a different student and that guide may not be as useful for you because it is not tailor to your needs as a student.
Making and reading your own study guide is infinitely more helpful than reading someone else’s. So, do not buy into the time-wasting hype of the class genius’s study guide.
