Begin studying a week ago.



This is something we all think at some point in high school: 'I'll never use this stuff, need to know this stuff' and so we disregard the material. What a mistake. No knowledge is useless. You will be surprised later in life how useful these lessons really are. Take my advice: trust that the information will be useful and sponge it up.



The Dark Ages would happen.



No, my friend, high school is quite real. The buildings, the lockers, the desks and student body. All quite real. Make the most of it.



Possible? Yes.

Should you? Heck no! What have they done to you other than try to help you learn. They may not be perfect people or perfect teachers, but my guess is that they have done more to help you than they have to harm you.

Taking "revenge" on someone for having helped you is, well, silly.

Repetition is the mother of retention.

Sleep with your pillow on top of your book. Due to osmosis the information will seep into your head. Well, unless there is more information in the book than your head, then it would be due to diffusion.

I've seen books where if you record something and play it back while you sleep, you will retain it. I think it's bogus, but hey it worked for me once....

This goes with "the dog ate my homework" excuse list!
I guess you didn't get the 80 pages of textbook yesterday. At least one thing you will learn - start studying the stuff at least 6 weeks from the exam. Oh, and another lesson - how to cope with getting a 'failure" in an exam.
Recording and playing back the work is a good idea, but listen while you are awake. I have gone to sleep many times listening to audio books and have no recollection of what I have heard while asleep!

Start studying at least 6 weeks from the exam?...... I mean who does that?

Teachers are Not helping at all and they are weird 'people', not perfect. I think there must be some limitations on choosing somebody as a teacher. For example my Latino teacher should have sent send me to consiglio di disciplina when i said 'che cazzo dici tu?-what the f**k you'r talking about-, not when i was singing in the class.

If you are in a position where people(especially kids) are learning from you, you should be more carreful about yourself and about things you teach them.
I'm not saying names and definitons of karstic shapes etc wont help me at all in the future but when this type of an exam is affecting my university enterance DIRECTLY, there is a problem. There is definitely problems in Italian school systems. Must be changed!

Well, I consider myself the king of last minute cram sessions. I was either so busy with other classes that I had to have that one class dwindle until I got around to an exam or I just didn't read all the extra readings. This is the most useful thing I can recommend to you?mnemonics.

Mnemonics is essentially taking bits and pieces of the material you need to memorize and compounding it into a single, weird word.

So take this Mnemonic device for example? OACCL.

This is how I remember the five basic elements of contract law, OACCL. Contract law is exceptionally difficult to remember, especially considering that it cannot be memorized at will, it has to be done in specific order in range of performance, importance, etc.

The five basic elements of a contract are Offer, Acceptance, Capacity, Consideration, Legality. These are the five primary rules to form a legal contract. Without any one of these, and without proper arrangement, you run the risk of making a mistake when you think of contract theory. So?

Using mnemonics, we take this:

Offer
Acceptance
Capacity
Consideration
Legality

And transform the bundle of related notions into a single word that has no other meaning except what you attribute to it using bits of the real word to form a crazy imagined word:

OACCL.

When I think of contracts, I just say to myself Oaccl. But the important thing to remember is the fact that a person only remembers that which is interesting to them. So what I did was said to myself "what would make this odd word makes sense to me and make me remember it? For one thing, I love Greek philosophy and history. Oaccl sounds like "oracle," as in the Greek Oracle at Delphi.

On a side note, studying ahead of time never really works out right. The main thing to do is to allocate time before the test to study. Say I had a test with 6 chapters in it. I would allocate 7 days to it, spending a few hours each day on one chapter and doing a comprehensive cram session the day before on the seventh day. But most importantly it is the time allocation that helps out the most. Writing down a schedule of how much time you are going to devote to each section and how much time to a general review help you put everything into perspective before the test.

Another thing that I ended up doing towards the end of my time in university was studying like the exam was on the week before the test. I would in some cases write the wrong date on my schedule so that I would be forced to study a week in advance and be prepared to generally review the week before.

I got one for you, this is how I learned the order of the planets of our solar system in relation to the sun:- My Very Easy Method Just Set Up Nine Planets
Mercury Venus Earth......
That was out of a childrens book.

Correction. Drop the 'Planets' part.

Now we're all gonna have to figure out new sayings. My Very Elegant Method Just Showed Us Nothing.

Ok maybe not..

I guess if the exam was so important you would start studying earlier:)
I am not a teacher - this is based on experience as a student. At one time I was working full time, running a household, studying music and doing computer programming studies. I'd never take on that workload again, but I got through it all, even getting distinctions in some subjects. Sorry, but no work, no pass. No easy way, no shortcuts.
As for what is useful - you can never tell. Lots of people said studying music was a waste of time, but it has kept me sane and given me a lot of friends over the years. Not to mention the small but constant extra income! Studying Classical Greek gave me a priceless insight into the structure of languages. One thing that was useless? Most of the computer studies - they are now out of date and I need constant refreshers.

Planet stands for pluto why would i drop it?

Because 3 years ago some collection of space authority figures voted and decided to redefine 'planet'. Unfortunately Pluto did not fall under their new defenition, so it was dropped from the list! Poor little thing : (

Thankyou for letting me know. i remember vaguely now

How was your Geography exam, Grasshopper?

so-so.. i'll learn results tomorrow at school. i reached my high-limit of copying during the exam.

::For Future Reference::
Best way to remember anything:

1. Clear your mind of all thoughts
2. Find a very dark, very quiet, very small place. A closet works well if no one else is around.
3. Get a small flashlight or book light so that it only illuminates the book itself.
4. Read without really thinking about the material.

Why this works: You mind traps input and stores it in memory. If you limit the amount of external input you get from sounds, sights, smells and so forth and clear your head, you are left without misconception, worry or distraction and your memory is dedicated to absorbing the material.

when i'm trying to study for an exam i'm always eating something or listening to music and every 30 minutes i get up and walk around home. maybe that is why i have problems in learn things.

There! You've just said so yourself. Stop doing all that and maybe you'll find yourself in a more conducive mood to study.

You can't listen to music and try to remember stuff concurrently. It's tough.
Good luck to getting your results.

Mnemonics is more than that... It helps you to remember much more than small bits of information. I remember over 300 names and life spans of composers, painters and philosophers. Not much effort needed! I read one of Tony Buzan's books some year ago and decided to give it a try. It wasn't easy but it works.