Tricks to learning things!

smoke more less crack weed

[Edited on Oct 06, 2004 by beedlebaum]

Whenever I have a lot of work on and need to conentrate I always find getting as far away from SG as possible helps.

Its great, but distracting as fuc...what was I saying?

Ditto. I just took a phonology exam, and I would have completely mixed up a pair of Open-mid vowels (represented respectively by the 'E' that looks sort of like a backwards 3, and the backwards version of that same 'E') if I hadn't thought up "E before 3". Seriously: when there's 17 vowels, they're impossible to remember any other way.

Study with friends. It's easier to remember things that other people have said than stuff you've read off a piece of paper. I remembered the Arnold wrote Dover Beach because my friend did this Ahhhh-nold voice (as in the governor). Dumb, but I remembered for the test.

I find the best way to learn something is to read it a couple of times and then get together with some people studying the same stuff and throw questions at each other. Don't plan it just pull stuff out of the air. It can be a laugh as you get really competitive and try to trip each other up. This got me through an eighteen week training course with 3000 pages of law and procedure to learn.