My Most Helpful Study Habit by Linnea

My Most Helpful Study Habit by Linnea - May 2016 Scholarship Essay

In all honesty, I don’t study. I’ve made it through my high school career and only had to study for my history, health, and physics classes. How did I study for those classes? I wrote last minute notes and read them before class for a memory refresh.
Everyone I know gets frustrated by my lack of motivation to do activities. Generally, I only participate in those kinds of activities which I think are important to me that moment or are entertaining. Writing this essay for this scholarship, for example, is something necessary. So when do I study?
Studying is one of those things I absolutely loathe. It’s boring and it takes time from the fun activities I could participate in. That’s why the notes are last minute. More often than not, last minute studying doesn’t help someone. My study habits are a bit scattered, but the way I study is fairly effective for me.
Do you write notes for your study guides? I do. I look at the work I’ve done that term and write notes for those specific areas of the subject that I don’t know at all or are a bit fuzzy in the area of recollecting. Once I write the notes, I read them to make sure they are coherent. If they make sense, I read them to make sure I didn’t leave anything out, then re-read them to make sure I understand some topics better.
For the last part of my studying habits, I sift through my notes and read through them once or twice before class as a memory refresher. I never remember anything except numbers after reading or hearing it only once or twice. Classes that stick to numbers or a fairly number based are classes I don’t need notes in.
To recap my sparse study habits, I write effective, clear notes and read them multiple times. I read my notes most right before the test at hand. Last minute isn’t the best strategy for everyone, but it works for me.