I made these for a workshop I designed for middle-schoolers interested in veterinary medicine, but they are appropriate tips for any pre-vet. Enjoy!
My A+ review method is a result of trying different study techniques over the course of my college career. To date, I have taken over 100 exams since the start of my college career, but it was only in this past summer that I finally, FINALLY, think I have perfected my Method. I believe it is perfected because in my most recent use of The Method I earned the highest score on my evolution midterm-- 97%, when the class average was 67%. I am proud to say that I was not even included in the curve because my score was an outlier. I used the perfected Method again to study for an exercise physiology midterm and only missed 1 point-- overall, a 98.9%. Additionally, through the variations of the Method that lead up to the perfected Method, I consistently scored in the upper percentiles of my exams.
So, do you want an edge? Read through The Method and take what you like from it. Make my method Your Method by adjusting it and adding to it. Note taking using shorthand is valuable to all kinds of learners- visual, auditory, and kinesthetic!
By developing your own bank of shorthand words, you can increase the time you spend synthesizing the main ideas presented in lecture-- the point of notes is to take away lecture CONCEPTS, not practice your calligraphy! Notes provide physical evidence of the lecture for you to refer to later, and by using shorthand you will be able to both get all the information down PLUS have time to actually listen to the teacher. When you are spending time writing, you miss out on paying full attention to another student's question, or worse, miss out on asking your own question because you did not have time to synthesize the notes in your head to even begin to develop a question. Energy allocation, people! Or should I say, NRG alloc'n, ppl !! |
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