I am a bad student

[trinityvixen]

I have many bad-student issues. I'm a procrastinator. I never learned to skim textbooks, I always have to plod through them, reading everything start-to-finish. I make lousy review notes. I never really cottoned on to writing papers with an outline; except for the odd research paper, everything was sort of free form following from a thesis. I always have to work/study/do homework to music or I start to freak myself out with quiet. (I barely went to libraries in college, and never without music when I did.) I usually do all my work on my bed, which leads me to fall asleep more often than not.

Today's bad-student issue is the inability to study on the day I have a test. Review, maybe. Look over problems, sure. But not with half-so-much attention as I had last night when I did TONS of review problems, or Sunday/Saturday when I did just about every odd-numbered problem in the textbook. Now that it's actually game day, I find myself barely able to LOOK at the textbook, much less prep. I barely remembered to make up my equations cheat-sheet that I'm allowed to bring to the test.

I'm really bad on test days. I would take every test first thing in the day, given the option, because having the day available to study does me no good and only makes me nervous--mostly about how much extra study time I'm not using...

Aiyah. Is it 6 yet?

Comments

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

You'll be fine! If you've reached the point where you can't take in any more information, you've probably done as much study as you could ever do. And trying to study more will just stress you out! Maybe skim the outlines?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Probably a good idea. Mostly, the problem I have is not knowing whether or not I've gotten all I need to out of what I know. I mean, I'll have equations to take with me, so will the application of those be hard? Or will it be as easy as it seems to have been in doing rote problem sets? I won't know until later!