Per usual in a study partner or group space, it is your responsibility to complete your own work in ways that align with Duke’s standards of academic integrity and to ensure that you are learning. Maybe you can help your friend understand the experimental set-up, while they can help you better approach those pesky problem sets. Turning these friends into study partners or a group is useful for keeping yourself accountable and crowd-sourcing knowledge. It also never hurts to form your own group too! Making friends in class is always a plus-it makes you feel more comfortable in your learning environment and often more willing to engage with new peers and your professor or TAs. SAGE offers biology, chemistry, math, physics, and biochem study sessions! Many students take advantage of these resources, along with the STEM Advancement through Group Engagement (SAGE) program. The Academic Resource Center often has study groups or tutorial sessions you can join for different STEM courses at Duke. and Make Use of Your Resources - Including Peers and Professors This is really helpful for courses that have cumulative final exams. Identify your weaknesses early and fix them.
I also revisit past exams and quizzes during the course of the class though it sometimes feels easier to shy away from what I got wrong. This allows me to focus more heavily on my most fuzzy concepts before exams. Though it’s not always possible, if multiple versions of past exams or quizzes are available, I take these practice tests at different points in my studying process. This allows me to see what types of questions I still don’t understand, which material would be the best to review, and to adjust my study schedule accordingly. After I do the practice round, I go back and grade myself rigorously according to the answer key. One way I do this is by quizzing myself with provided practice tests without allowing myself to use my notes and under similar conditions to a real exam. interrupting friends, checking social media, etc.). not constantly checking your phone) for a shorter period of time can be much more impactful than studying with constant distractions (i.e. Also, take my word for it, studying undistracted (i.e. Instead, try scheduling in shorter chunks of time between classes to review what you learned in the class before, note your lingering questions, and identify strengths and weaknesses in your understanding of the material. In fact, that might do more harm than good. This doesn’t mean you have to go sit in Perkins for 5 hours at a time draining your energy over review of one concept. Another really useful idea overall is going back to your syllabi: Looking at what you have covered so far and what the professors have emphasized as being important can be useful in dividing up your study efforts.
For physics, you could do a practice problem or two per day, drawing from questions that might not be assigned for extra help. Or you could also review the quizzes you took in between bigger exams to remind yourself of the types of questions you could be asked and the topics of material being covered. For biology classes, you might try transferring your written notes to a file on your computer to refresh the material and have a more succinct, searchable document when studying. Or you might really take your professor seriously when they say flashcards of reactions can be an important study resource. That’s right-studies have shown that you are able to remember more content for longer periods of time when you review materials within a few days of learning it.įor organic chemistry classes, you might try practicing alkene addition reactions within a few days of them being introduced. Let’s just say my first exam did not go too well.But if you don’t believe me, then trust the science. When I was in Chemistry101 my first semester at Duke, I did not fully re-read my notes until days before the exam and I only did practice examples for a week beforehand. Rather than waiting for the night before an exam to cram, cram, cram and pull an all-nighter, spread your studying out.
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