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Most students don’t mind studying if the work gets done in focused chunks, spread out over a reasonable amount of time. For some, however, reasonable efficiency is not enough. They want more. They want to push academic productivity to its absolute limit. They want nothing less than to eliminate studying all together!
I can’t get you all the way to this goal. But I do know a technique that can get you close. Imagine only having to study for one hour the day before a test? No more stress. No more long nights.
It’s possible. During my research for Straight-A I came across exactly two out of the fifty students I interviewed who managed to accomplish this goal. (And were loving life because of it). Their technique is a little-known art I like to call: Stealth Studying.
In this post, I will teach you this art…
The Stealth Studying Philosophy -
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Study Hacks is a blog dedicated to productivity hacks for students.
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M.C. BaldgeekInMDImagine only having to study for one hour the day before a test? No more stress. No more long nights.
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Walking is a great time to review.
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When taking notes — in class or while doing a reading assignment — start constructing your study guide at the same time. The easiest way to do this is to copy the questions from your question/evidence/conclusion clusters and paste them at the top of your document as you go along.
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send your notes to the nearest public printer.
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reduce the font to the smallest size you can still read.
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start looking for ways to add a 10-minute detour to a walk across campus you already need to do. Make these detours pass through somewhere quiet and unpopulated.
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In 10 minutes you might knock off 2-4 questions. Some additional notes on this process:
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To make stealth studying work, you need to understand all the material as quickly as possible.
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you need to come to class attentive and be a question-asking fiend.
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no time to spare for you to re-learn this material later on before the test. If you don’t get it down the first time, we can’t get your study time down to an hour.
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The night before the test, gather all of your expanded study guides. These guides should have been mastered at some earlier point in the semester during a 10-minute detour. You need, however, to refresh this information. Do a full quiz-and-recall pass through all of the study guides. Because of your earlier review, there should be few questions you don’t nail on your first pass. This should allow you to complete the full quiz-and-recall process in no more than an hour. At this point, you are ready to ace the exam.
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the perceived difficulty of work grows with the amount of consecutive time you spend working
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