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1. Attend lectures and be active in them

Lectures and classes are very useful for effective learning. The instructor can step back from the manual or textbook and give additional information or share experiences from his or her own practice. Lectures involve lively communication, where you can ask questions and get feedback. Attending will save time you would have spent reading textbooks and reference books.

Nurture active listening: be attentive, take notes, and don't be afraid to be the weird guy who keeps asking stupid questions. The better you understand the material in the lecture, the less time you spend on studying it before the exam.

By the way, lecture attendance and activity on them is useful also because many teachers put credits and marks on exams automatically - for attendance and active participation. The task of the teacher is not to fail you at the exam and give you a "C" on the next retake. He also does not want to waste his time on this.

2. Take notes properly.
Develop your own system for taking notes. It can be anything, as long as you find it convenient to work with. One of the most convenient is the Cornell system. It consists in initially taking notes in a format of cards for memorizing:

Divide the sheet into two parts: the left margin, which takes up about a third of the width of the sheet, and the right margin, the rest of the sheet.
Keep your lecture notes on the right side of the sheet, making sure to indent between paragraphs on different topics.
On the left side of the sheet, write out all the headings, main ideas, and associations - do this after the lecture, as you repeat the material. Now cover the right side of the outline with a sheet of paper and check yourself against the theses from the left side.
Leave a space at the bottom for the section and subsection headings. This will make it much easier to find the information you need in your notes.

Before the exam, ask your classmates to make an aggregator of notes: collect the best of them and form a single one with the most complete material in a structured form. This way you will not only prepare for the exam, but also earn the respect of your classmates when you distribute the outline to them. If there is a lot of material, you can distribute the tasks among several people and at the end combine the resulting work into one.

3. Assist and take advantage of help

Create your own mini-group to prepare for exams and homework. Make it a group of like-minded people with the same goals. Be active in the group - help others. By explaining the material to others, you yourself will have an easier time figuring it out and understanding it. In addition, you will learn how to work as a team and develop leadership skills.

4. Participate in projects and make connections.
Be active. Take part in conferences, scientific work, create projects, solve cases at championships. This will help you build up a portfolio that you can show to your future employer. It will be more valuable than a diploma with honors, because it shows that you have not only knowledge, but also practical experience.

Case championships and conferences will help you make connections. Get to know each other, network, and be sure to have an internship. All this will help you get your dream job much faster.


5. Prepare for exams more efficiently

Let's say you already have the right notes or a complete aggregator of them in general. But that's not enough to prepare for the exam. Most likely, in addition to the tickets, the teacher will ask additional questions, so reread the outline once again. Do it actively: create mental models, hypotheses, find correlations to not just memorize, but to build logic and understand the material.

Test yourself by taking a virtual exam. Exam tickets, additional questions from past courses, and completed homework will help. Develop your weaknesses - identify what you understand the worst and work through those points.

Finally, study a little more than you went through in lectures: ask for additional information, curious details and facts.

6. What to do if you come across a critical instructor
Be open to criticism. It can be constructive and help you get better - it all depends on how you take it.

If you do not like the teacher and he/she is being sarcastic, think what is more important - his/her personal attitude towards you or the knowledge you can get. If knowledge is more important, prove that you can handle the subject. Chances are, after that the teacher will begin to respect you.

7. Encourage yourself.

Rejoice in your merits. Student years should be fun. Allocate one day a week just for recreation. Go to concerts, exhibitions and movies. Take an interest in everything that surrounds you. Be insatiable and reckless. And if you think it's impossible to combine all that with serious study, you're wrong - with strict adherence to a schedule and time management nothing is impossible.

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