Final examinations are here and you’ve already read books, notes, and class lecture slides. But how much did you actually retain? What other ways can you study? A great strategy to test your knowledge would be to do a whiteboard activity. This includes having a whiteboard or simply a blank sheet of paper, and writing at the top or the center the main ideas or topics you are to be tested on, then writing down every single piece of information or knowledge you have on the topic. Doing this activity forces you to dig deep, to come face to face with what you do know and more importantly, what you don’t know.
Above, you see an example of how to chunk your studying while implementing this activity.
Let’s say you take a week to study per subject. On the first day of said studying, you can just focus on re-reading notes, lectures, books, and skimming for main ideas. Day 2, you can take active notes on all the reviewing. Day 3 can be focused on trying out practice problems on certain topics you’re weak in and applying the knowledge you’ve learned. On Day 4 you could do the whiteboard activity, and make notes of what you still need to learn and follow that up with Day 5 of actually filling in the gaps of knowledge by reviewing again and doing problems/questions in that needed area.
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Staff Writer: Victoria Gill