You probably don't know how to study...

You probably don't know how to study... When you're taking a test, you look at all the answers choices and everything looks familiar, but you don't remember exactly what the answer is. You probably don't know how to study. I'm five weeks into nursing school. These are my grades and I'm gonna tell you exactly how I study. Personally, I think there's only one correct way to study and that's active recall. When I first started college, I used to spend hours looking over material and then wonder why I didn't get good grades. I felt like I spent so much time studying, but I just wasn't studying correctly. This is exactly how you're going to study. After class, you're going to go through your PowerPoint line by line and you're going to decide what you know and what you don't know. And you have to be really honest with yourself at this point. So if you read something and you're like, that makes sense, but I wouldn't be able to teach it to someone else, you don't really know it. Anything that you don't know, you're going to make into a flashcard. Right before your exam, you're going to go to whatever your study guide is, or whatever topics your professor told you is going to be on the exam. You're going to go topic by topic and you're going to write down everything you know about the topic without using any notes. Then using your notes, you're going to go back in, correct anything you got wrong and fill in any missing information. Try this and I guarantee you're going to ace your next nursing school exam.