This site has some good info, and a few tips that I don't think would work so well. Overall through, it's got a lot more good info than bad. Like it says, it's ranked high on Google, and it's used by many schools, so it has proven itself useful to many people already.
One of the things it describes that I am weak with is making every hour count. I'm great at finding a distraction, whether it's Youtube, Facebook, or just an interesting Wikipedia article. So far in my academic career I've managed to get along alright; it's interesting living by the skin of my teeth. I find that I work best under pressure. I hardly ever turn things in late because I'm just slacking off, I know my limits and when the deadline is approaching I get to work. Still, working hard earlier and having fun later would be a safer way to do things.
Another thing I'm weak with is outlining textbooks. I've never depended heavily on books in my academic career, and I don't expect to. If a teacher teaches differently from the book, I don't need to learn from the book because that teacher's assignments and tests are going to be different from the book's instructions. If a teacher teaches straight out of the book, I don't need to learn from the book because the teachers already taught me that material. I'll certainly review it as I complete my assignments, but by that point it's stuff I already know and thus I'm not learning anything completely foreign to me.
My one great weakness is examinations. I just plain suck at them. It's because I work slowly and carefully, which is great for homework, but bad for timed things like tests.
My grammar and punctuation is strong. I guess I got it from my mother. She used to be an English teacher. She reviewed all my papers when I was younger, and now I always try to have perfect grammar. I often play around with sentences and rewrite them until they sound splendid, especially for important papers.
My lecture notes are great too. Well, they're great for me. I'm good at getting the main idea from both books and lessons, and then distilling that onto paper as a few lines of notes, when everybody around me is writing down exactly what the teacher said / wrote on the board. That never helps me! Say it takes a teacher 30 minutes and 3 pages of notes to make the entire class understand an idea. That teacher certainly doesn't need 3 pages of notes to remind himself/herself how it works, and once a student learns the idea the student won't either. I learn during class, and take a few notes to remind myself of the concepts. To somebody else, my notes will mean nothing, but if they ask me I'll be able to explain it in great detail from those notes.
There were also a few weird tips in that list. The first is just a grammar issue, but I thought it was funny enough to mention. "Never study within 30 minutes of going to sleep." Due to the ambiguousness of the word "within," this could mean "Don't study for 30 minutes before going to sleep," or "Don't story for 30 minutes after going to sleep." Personally, I try my best not to have studying dreams.
Another weird tip was, when taking an exam, start by writing all the material you know on the subject. This really wouldn't work for me, because I'm always pressed for time on exams anyway, but it seems like a weird tip in general because usually the only time you forget things is if they're in short-term memory, like when you've been cramming, and this site argues against cramming before tests.
To summarize:
Areas in which I'm strong
- Getting the main idea
- Using correct punctuation and grammar
- Taking lecture notes
Areas in which I'm weak
- Making every hour count
- Outlining textbooks
- Taking examinations
Ideas that are strange
- Never study within 30 minutes of going to sleep
- Test taking - the memory dump
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