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Late night studying! Decided to paint starry night lol.

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It’s study time bois. Ft. My old clock.

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This was my first time doing an ombre lol.

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With school coming up, I decided to plan my weekly routine in my planner. I’m hoping to stick to it through the year (or at least September).

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Good morning! I’m reading To Kill a Mockingbird and working on my planner.

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Making some notes for the upcoming writing test. It’s extremely important, and I’m super nervous for tomorrow.

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I’m so sorry I was gone for a month! I moved into my new house! I’m very excited to get back into posting.

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Study Pack #2

by Eintsein

It’s a new year, and whether you’re looking to organize your current study process, or try out something more productive, this study pack can help you out. These are some of the methods I use to help myself study more effectively, and I’ve decided to make some printables out of them so that you can use them too!

In this study pack:

Day Tracker: to schedule your day or keep track of how you use your time.

Past Paper Tracker: to track all the past papers you’re practicing.

Past Paper Summary: to summarize the trends in your past papers so you can plan your studying accordingly.

Topic Tracker: to track the topics that appear in the past papers.

Syllabus Tracker: to help you know where you currently are in your syllabus: what’s been done and what’s left to do, along with how well you know the material

Click here to download! (link to study drive)

Hope these help, and don’t forget to tag me with #eintsein when you use them - I’d love to see them in action! And if you have any questions, drop me an ask/message. Have an awesome day :)

P.S. Examples of how to use some of these printables are in the gifs above, but of course, you’re free to use them in whatever method works best for you. For example, for the topic tracker, instead of distinguishing between the number of marks for the question, you could keep track of how many marks you’ve received for that topic (i.e. 100% means you get full marks for every single question of that topic).

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[13/100] spent this morning writing and reading. Nothing like a relaxing day to put your mind at ease.

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How to study effectively

Set yourself achievable goals. Never try to fool yourself into thinking you will read 10 chapters every day, run at least 5 miles, clean the whole house and manage 1 huge assignment in 1 hour. This won’t work, you know that and you’re just fooling yourself. Be realistic. Read 1 chapter, but actually read it, not highlight every word there. Read it again, make a summary of it, close the book, explain the material to somebody else or just write it down in bullet points. Do a 20 minute work out. Clean your table. Write 500 words of that 2k essay (or write 100 words, or 50, hovewer much you can actually write)\

Take breaks frequently, but not longer than 20 minutes. I am a big fan of pomodoro technique when studying because it gives me a sense of a timeline that doesn’t allow to check on my phone, on my email- anything. Once you decide to ‘i’ll rest for a bit’ that bit turns out to be 5 hours on tumblr and bam - you’re not sleeping at night because your deadline is due.  Set a timer for yourself. 25 minutes of reading, 5 minutes break. After 3 cicles make a big 15 minutes break. After another 3 cicles take half an hour. Set yourself the exact amount of time  you will work, and the exact amount of time you will rest. 

Turn off your Tumblr/Twitter/Youtube. No explanation necessary

Understand what you’re reading. I can’t stress enough about this one, because in my 4 years of studying in med school i realized just how many people try to memorize exactly what is written instead of understanding the concept. Listen, your memory will fail you. You’re not a perfect database that can reach for any data file that you need any time. People forget  things, this is how our brains operate.  Logic will never fail you. This is so important to understand to all of you in medicine, that if you understand the basic you can always draw conclusions from that. For example, it is no problem for me to answer the question like ‘Clinical manifestation of pneumonia’ because i understand the pathogenesis, and just draw logical conclusion. This is what clinical thinking is based upon, basically

Don’t do things just because everybody do them. Make notes for yourself, not for a pretty tumblr post. I used to spend a lot of time and money on those but they were less effective than messier quicker not very photo ready notes that i made, but those were actually more helpful. Notes are here to help you, not to make an appearance of studying. A lot of my classmates spend hours taking notes but once they come to class it’s like they just mechanically copied the textbook without actually realizing what they wrote. Which is why my point of understanding what you study is important in note taking, notes are just a quick summary you can go back to, some details you might have troubles remembering, they are helping you revise not read from when you are asked a question. 

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I almost didn’t follow bc you’re a dog person but I like your aesthetic so here I am lol

Haha, thanks! I like all animals (even cats) if that makes you feel better! Love your profile picture by the way. Thanks for helping me make it to 300 followers! 

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I felt super summery today, if you can’t tell. I decided to start planning out my summer break ahead of time. Anyone else feeling the same?

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a guide to how i edit my studyblr photos ✨

this is what usually works for my images. remember that you will need to adjust to suit your own images but a lot of the presets on these apps should generally work without too much trouble. i hope this helps you 💖

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How to Take Cute, but Effective Notes

Notes can always be cutesy and kawaii, but a lot of times they lack in information. Any student should learn to take notes that you’ll use and find aesthetically pleasing. It can be hard to balance these out at times, but I’m here to help!

Hi there! I’m not the best at note taking, but I have a pretty good idea of what I’m doing. I thought I would share some knowledge with you lovely people.

Supplies:

Highlighters are an essential tool. I use these zebra mid liners, but feel free to use regular highlighters like sharpie or Bic. Make sure to have a few colors at hand in case you have multiple sets of vocabulary or facts you want to separate.

I like to keep my notes in a notebook. Some people like to take notes in loose leaf paper though. This one is completely up to preference.

Pens are important. If you are a lefty like me, you’ll want to get a quick dry pen, so you don’t smear the ink. It is important that you let the ink dry completely before highlighting.

Taking the Notes:

Always have a reference. Don’t ever use the information off the top of your head. Use a book, website, or class notes.

Only use the most important information. No one wants to hear the life story of an equation. Just explain the steps in how to solve it.

Keep it organized. Keep your handwriting neat, and don’t add weird breaks and stuff.

Make sure you include your sources ie: Book page, website, or class.

If you are working with math, ALWAYS double check your work.

Don’t over highlight. A good rule is to ask yourself if you would remember this or need this enough to know exactly where it is in your notes.

Use common sense. Don’t add details you’ll never need in class.

Always add dates in history. Dates are important.

Abbreviate words you’ll use a lot.

It’s okay if it looks ugly. Just don’t post it. Use it in class.

Here are some things you can add to your notes

Cursive titles

Bolded words

Pictures or photos

headers before paragraphs

Vocab in the margins

Doodles to represent the lesson or chapter

Graphs or charts

Quotes

Memory devices (Please excuse my dear aunt Sally or I before E)

Test Dates and things the teacher told you to remember.

 I hope this helped you! Much love,

Birdy

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[10/100] Taking some notes for math class. Kahn academy is a life saver. I recommend it to anyone who struggles with math concepts. Spent my morning listening to some Frank Sinatra with a good cup of tea.

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[9/100] I’m not ready to go back to school yet! Reading an amazing book for the second time.