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  • It's the most wonderful time of the year! The time when you freak out for 3-4 weeks

  • and feel more stressed than you ever have in your life. Yay?

  • Hey everyone, Laci Green here for DNews. I miss a lot of things about being in college,

  • but finals! Haha......noooo finals is not one of them. There are a lot of insane things

  • that people do to prepare for finals--but none of them are quite as effective as rolling

  • up your sleeves and studying *the right way*. Here are 5 scientifically backed ways to get

  • it in this finals season.

  • #1 - DO NOT CRAM. Yeah, everyone knows cramming sucks and they do it anyway. But hey, it's

  • gotta be said. The Association for Psychological Science asserts that cramming doesn't work(!),

  • in large part because of the all nighters that are pulled to cram. Keeping irregular

  • hours impairs your memory the next 4 DAYS! Scientists at NYU also found that a huge chunk

  • of what you take in while cramming is lost as soon as the next day. Generally, people

  • remember what they studied FIRST and LAST the most - and forget everything in between.

  • So, prioritize your information accordingly.

  • #2 - Practice tests. Forget highlighting, rereading, summarizing -- the APS has found

  • that even though they're the most common, they're amongst the WORST methods to help

  • you study. But practice tests do work. REALLY WELL, actually. When you force yourself to

  • repeatedly call information to the mind, you strengthen your knowledge of the material

  • and your ability to retrieve it. If you don't have a practice test, flash cards have similar

  • benefits.

  • #3 - Explain the material to someone else. Say you're studying the digestive system,

  • explain each step of the process to someone IN DETAIL. It's similar to a practice test

  • in that it helps you memorize and recall, but it also helps you find the missing gaps

  • in your knowledge and to get better at articulating the information. If you can accurately explain

  • something to someone out loud, you're in good shape!

  • #4 - When you're structuring your study schedule, study a subject in intervals. For instance,

  • bio on M/W/F and physics on T/Th/S instead of 3 days in a row. Distributing your study

  • into intervals over the course of several weeks will strengthen your retention of the

  • material. The longer you need to remember the information, the longer the intervals

  • should be.

  • #5 - Do the hardest part of your studying before bed. A good night's sleep helps to

  • consolidate your memory and scientists have found that the information taken in right

  • before bed is often the first to come back to you.

  • There you go my dears, good luck this finals season! The whole DNews team is rootin' for

  • ya. After you're all done, if you need a good book to unwind with I just finished "The Ocean

  • at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman, which you can find on Audible. IT'S SUCH A GREAT

  • READ! I've been recommending it to everyone. And if you sign up at audiblepodcast.com/dnews,

  • you get a free audiobook-download of your choice AND you'll be helping the show out,

  • too. Let me know if you like it or if you have other book recommendations. Audible has

  • over 100,000 titles to choose from in every genre so you're bound to find something you

  • like. Thanks for watching, I'll see you next time!

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