Organizing Study Materials

When you’re trying to organize your materials before a study session, you should first make sure that you’re mentally prepared to take in information and store it for later use, set up a study space that works well for you and will allow you to study uninterrupted with help or resources close at hand. And lastly, you should arrange a time to study prior to a test and allow yourself a place in which you can study without being disturbed or distracted. As you begin organize the material that you will be using, seek out ways to ondense the information, finding the key concepts and main ideas is the best way to learn something quickly and if you want it to stick. As you go through your previous notes and tests or exams, you can collect the problems that you had trouble with and set them in one of the many different kinds of organizers and study charts. For reading, cornell notes or simply bullet points could be used, while math might require a three-column study chart or a graphic organizer for formulas, for example.