Does anyone have good study tips?

form a study group and make notecards, my anatomy teacher told me that was the best way to study

Disconnecting from the Internet would be a good start.

I find that if I rewrite concepts in my own words I retain them better. I also prefer to write all my in-class notes, rather than to accept pre-printed notes distributed by the professor. Something about the writing process seems to help me.

Memorize, test yourself, and then reward yourself with a 10-minute break. Make yourself take the break, or your mind won’t retain the information as well and you’ll get too stressed.

Make a song! Like Hannah Montana did

@TheIncomparableBenziniBrothers, thanks smartass! Thanks guys

Em get off fluther
Yes thats right i said get off fluther

Please don’t hate me for advising to get off fluther

My class has not even started yet so I think I’m just fine on fluther. If you don’t have any helpful study tips (because I believe that’s what I asked for) then don’t respond to my question. Please and thank you. :)

Because your class hasn’t started yet , does that stop you from starting to study now .I think not , being on the internet is a huge distraction . Last i checked fluther is part of the internet , and is sound advice telling you to get off it if you can’t handle someones advice don’t ask for it .

Oh and the ’ Please don’t hate me for advising to get off fluther ’ was directed to fluther not you

I can handle anyones advice. My point was that a few minutues on fluther won’t make or break my “studying time”.

A few minutes online turns to hours , hours turns to days days melt to weeks i forget the rest…..
The art of study is to get rid of all distractions , internet is a distraction when studying in my book and maybe indeed many others Sounds to me you already have the fluther bug , and can’t let go : welcome to fluther study well my fellow Jelly :)

LoL, ok… Thanks for the warm welcoming.

It would have been even warmer , if you hadn’t taken the rude course with your reply to mine .

I felt that your intial response was rude, so that’s where my rudeness came in. I do apologize, lol. Take care :)

I’m in my second year of anatomy (I’m an OT major) and the way I learned muscles and bones best (because I know muscles is going to come eventually and probably directly after bones) is to start by learning a few a day. Also try these things:

-Point to them on your own body
-I took my teacher’s colored bone charts and manipulated the printer to make them small enough to laminate and carry around in my pocket.
-The name game works pretty great when it comes to things like wrist and ankle bones, for the wrist I think we used “Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can’t Handle” (That’s scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform, trapazoid, trapezium, capate, hamate if I remember right)
-studying in a group may work with flashcards, I’m not so good with group studying though

Basically anything to get them down without having to sit and study for hours. If you’re a nursing major you’re going to be drilled and drilled and drilled so one way or another you’re going to know them like nothing by the time you graduate

@kelly8906, I’m throwing this out there, because when I mentioned it to my daughter when she asked the same question, it never occurred to her that it she could do this: Turn your phone off when you are studying. Your productivity will increase 300% because you will not be interrupted. Every time you get a phone call or text message, it will take your brain 5–10 minutes to get back to where you were before the phone rang. You will get done in an hour what takes 3 hours with the phone on.

I was a nursing major, once upon a time. The best way to learn anatomy is rote memorization. I’m a big fan of index cards, and you could build the system. Start with the stack of cards, and on the floor or wall, place the card where it would be on the body. Do all the ones that you know, look up the ones you don’t, and place them out. Do this until you can build out the whole body without having to look anything up. Then take the cards and explain what goes where to someone else.

This is something you’re going to really have to know, so there’s no learning it for a test and then forgetting it.

Just do it.

Plenty of sleep. Otherwise the brain can’t learn effectively. The consolidation of learning materials for better retrieval later happens when we sleep. Many people are not aware of this.