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[rainbowcolouredstudies]

How to study hundreds of pages in the shortest time possible

First of all a disclaimer: No, you can not study them in one or two days. But depending on the topic and how fast you can read, you can do it in one or two weeks!

Factors on which your needed time depends on:

How complex the topic is

How long you need to read a page

How fast you can write

How easy it is for you to understand the text

Basic explainations before I go into detail:

There are two ways of studying: global and and analytical studying

Analytical studying means you really go into detail, try to understand every single word and try to get as much information in the topic as possible. You are studying the topic very precisesly and need the small details to understand it. This is great to understand the topic profoundly.

Global studying means you barely go into detail, but rather try to get an overview over the topic, its most important aspects, and the basic connections. This is great to realize what the most important connections and facts of this topic are, and in what relation the facts stand to each other. 

Studying in four steps:

1. The first thing you need to do is read through the whole text and make an excerpt. This step will take you the longest, some days or even some weeks. Basically the best way to do this is to follow these steps:

Look through what you have to study. Hopefully it has chapters, if not, try to split it up into chapters of about twenty pages. This amount works at least for me best. If you have a short concentration span, rather make more chapters with less pages. If you have a long concentration span, make less chapters with more pages per chapter.

Set a realistic goal how many chapters you can read and excerpt in a day. Try to stick to this goal. If the text is easy to read and the font a normal size, one needs about one to two minutes to read a page. If it is difficult to understand or a small font, you may need three to five miutes, so keep this in mind when setting your daily goals.

This goal can vary from day to day. If you know that one day you have a long and exhausting lecture, set the goal lower than for a day were you won´t have any distractions. 

Make sure you make this plan early enough. The later you do it, the higher is the chance you have not enough days to get through the text!

Now read a chapter and try to understand as much as possible of it. Focus on it as best as possible, because this is one of the most important steps. If you have problems staying focused, here is my masterpost on how to stay focused.

If your concentration is lost after reading this chapter, take a short break. Then, and it is really really important that you only do it afterwards you read the whole chapter, do an excerpt of this chapter. If you do not know what an excerpt is or how to make on, click here.

By doing the excerpt at the end of the chapter, you revise it for the first time already.

Do this for every chapter you need to study. If you have time left, you can revise the excerpts you already made, but your focus should be on getting through the whole text once. 

2. Read thoroughly through your whole excerpt. While doing this, try to recall as many details of the original text that you didn´t write down. Not only read the excerpt, but focus on the relations and connections, realize the meaning and consequences of what you are reading, understand their impact on the subject matter and the topic. Don´t learn it by heart, instead understand it and try to comprehend it with a logic that allows you to recall the realtions without studying them intensively. Do this at least once, if you have the time better do it twice. The harder the topic is for you, the more often you should do this step. This step should take you about one or two days.

3. Skim over your excerpt. Set your focus on the keywords you wrote down in colour and try to recall the most important keywords associated with them. If you have enough time, repeat this once or twice, but you do not have to if you feel you are already very good.This step should take you some hours or a minimum of one hour.

4. Skim over the headings and subheadings of your excerpt. While doing this, try to recall the words you focused on in step three. Only the most important keywords, realtions and connections should cross your thought in this step. This step should take you less than an hour.

After step four, you will be prepared for your exam! Just try to calm down, and most importantly, do not try to recall every little detail now. It will only stress you and give you the feeling that you cannot recall them, which is more often than not totally false. Everytime I used this strategy, I could recall most of the details when writing the test! Also do not revise right in front of the test. You will only confuse yourself and start to panic.

The concept behind this method:

Remeber I tought you the basics of global and analytical studying in the beginning? Well, these are exyctly the background for this method.

Step 1 = analytical

Step 2 = semi - analytical

Step 3 = semi - global

Step 4 = global

Pretty easy once you see it this way, right?

Tip for revising

It helps a lot of people to walk around while doing step 3 or 4!

Good luck everyone and hope this helps!

[ara-study-blog]

january 21, 2018

some old pictures from a few weeks ago. my apush notes have been really long and detailed because we literally read 50 pages every two nights.  which i actually should be doing now but i’m procrastinating

this week’s been hectic because of my family and stuff so that’s always fun to juggle school and family. also i made a post about my study playlist meraki. which you can see here. it’s purely just lo-fi because i can’t study with lyrical music. i get too distracted so yeah. check that out maybe :)

[parisgellerstudy]

hi there! hopefully you are having a wonderful day! my name is cheyanne (this is for the name aesthetic thingy!) also...I really like both of your blogs 💕💕💕

hello!!! i hope ur having a wonderful day as well :) thank u!!! cheyanne: white tree blossoms, wearing cozy boots to school, using scraps of paper for bookmarks, small silver hoops, plum-colored socks, glittery eyebrows. hope u like it!!!

get a name aesthetic here

[academla]

If you send me the link to that essay, I would love to help! I usually have some free time either in the morning or at night, so if you ever need any help with some homework, I'll try my best! Also, I really appreciate the fact that you don't just show the perfect studyblr side, you keep it real!

Thanks for your help! I always need help with my English homework :P

Thank you so much for the appreciation though! I know my “keeping it real” might have adverse consequences and be met with mixed reception but it’s honestly worth it to me because 1. it’s my blog, and 2. I still have plenty of people who totally support and appreciate it!

[breatheandfocus]

I was tagged a long time ago by the awesome, @unicorn-studying, (thank you so much!)

Tagging my cuties: @quijoteando, @rya-procrastinatrix, @lemonadeandlanguages, @langblog, @go-down-studying, @memoirsofauniversityperson, @rae-parla and @studysuccessfully :D

♡ 5 things in my bag

lip balm

a book (always)

an umbrella

my sunglasses

some gum and candy

♡ 5 things in my pencil case

pens (blue)

pencil + eraser + sharpener (like basic items)

3 color pens ( black, red and green)

2 highlighters (yellow and orange)

whitener

♡ 5 things about myself 

I like reading, so much that i’m studying literature (and lenguage) at college (and right now I’m dying among readings)

Besides my degree, I’m studying to be an instructor in camps and other activities

Like @unicorn-studying has said, studyblr community has helped me a lot

I like love music, and if you know some cool bands you have to recomend me!

 I want to be a writer (or to work in the editorial industry)

♡ 5 fave playlist 2016

New Americana by Hasley 

Ghost by Halsey  

M83 by Midnight city

Chicago by Sufjan Stevens (Since VM movie it’s one of my favorite songs)

Should I stay or Should I go by The Clash 

♡ 5 fave studying apps

I don’t use it oftenbut...

Duolingo

Forest (but I never used it -.-’)

Google Drive app

I love this tag!! 

[academla]

MAJOR appreciation post

3 am and I’m done with English!

HUGE thank you to those who helped me with the poems. Although I pretty much wrote my own responses, let me tell you, it took a TREMENDOUS amount of stress off of me and I actually found myself enjoying answering the questions more than I would’ve if I’d gone in feeling lost and confused and with zero guidance. So, ya know, if you lit nerds ever feel like helping me out with that again, hit me up because we have question sets every week.

@lenainu @rhyming-without-the-recipe @icarusgliding @agentraven007 @miscellaneoustaiwanese 

Another HUGE thank you to people who helped with my essay. It was great seeing people pop up and give their two cents (except I got nervous when people kept selecting the entire essay). Although I sent her a panicked email apologizing for the subpar (and lengthy) essay, I would not have been able to make it as relatively readable without you all. I’ve listed the URLs/names of people I think went on the doc.

@anne-alytically @lesbiancrisis (thanks by the way you’re awesome and always super supportive and helpful and I appreciate your presence in my activity) @hatboxesandsecrets @studysuccessfully @redpandareader, Erin F., Vidya S., Lynn S., Z W. (special shoutout to Z and Erin for your “you can do this!” attitude I posted that to Snapchat), Emily W., Hannah T., Mary X., and Sankhavi S.

I seriously, seriously could not have gotten through this hellish English night without your support and help. I’m so lucky to be part of studyblr and to have followers like you! I plan to do this in the future too, anytime anybody offers to help me with something (usually Chinese), because I want to make sure everybody is recognized and appreciated. You all go above and beyond for me with your kind messages and support and I’m honestly so lucky seriously.

Anyway, I still need to pack for tomorrow (I think I’ll have to memorize some characters in the morning or something because I’m screwed for tomorrow’s dictation...) so I’m gonna sign off, but I wanted to make sure to thank you.

It will get better.

Love,

Edye