Studying Tips!

This week at my school (Art Institute) is mid-term week. That means a lot of studying to do, so that I can kick butt on my exams. I think the hardest part about studying is using the correct techniques for studying. Learning the material for each exam can be difficult, and how to learn the material various. For example, some times your teachers will give you study guides with information on it that you need to know, and the test is multiple choice, matching or essay. For those type of tests, I usually go through the study guide and find the information for each topic that I need to know, and I ether type it up or write in on paper as notes. If possible I make questions out of the topics, and use the information I found on the topic to answer those questions. Then I put those questions on flash cards and use them to study and I also go over my notes I took in class and that I found in the book.
Another type of test is fill in the blank, where the definition is given  and you provide the term. I had a test like that today, I had to know 50 terms. To prepare for this test, I made flash cards with the term on one side and the definition on the other side. Then to get the terms complete memorized, I wrote each term out 5 times. ( Not typed, handwritten) Doing this helps to you to process this information into the brain, sometimes looking at the term/definition doesn't do this, but writing it out helps with this. Then with each term, I would find a word in the definition that is associated with the term.  For the fill in the blank test I had today, all of the these techniques helped a lot, I got a 88% on the test. :)
The best test to take is an open notes or open book, or both. I had one of those today, and it was pretty easy. it was a little difficult to find the information in the text. I didn't doing any preparing for this test. I recommend to prepare for this type of exam, is just browse through your notes or text and find out where things are, therefore when taking the exam you don't have to search as much.

I hope these studying tips help you guys on your next exam!

Some extra tips are:
Get enough sleep the night before the test
Eat breakfast
Have all the materials you will need