Well, I usually make a study sheet based on my notes.  On my handy dandy computer, I type up questions two days before the test and then answer the questions the night before.  And then sometimes I get lazy and make the whole thing the night before.  But I usually try not to be too lazy.... Um, last year, when we did a lesson on the Middle Ages, I put Medieval fonts on my study sheet.  But that's as fun and interesting as it gets.

I notice that my teachers love to give me tests all in the same week and then give me a week off. So it's one week of tests then one week with only one tiny test, or something like that.  It's like they coordinate it all.  Does that happen to anyone else?   

I don't have any more ideas at the moment, but maybe I'll think of some later.  Oh, wait, your tests were today.  Hope you did well!  And I guess this advise is for future tests. :)

~Leaf 

I use flashcards and prtend I am on a game show

Well, I usually, don't study, but I agree that just reading things over and over doesn't really help.

Usually, when I do study, I just have someone keep asking me the questions until I get them all right. If I have trouble with a certain question, I try to think of a trick to remember it. For example, I had a geography test recently for which I had to know where the Caucasas mountains were. They form part of the border between Europe and Asia, and this test was only about Asian (not European) geography. Caucasus sounds kind of like Caucasian, and there are probably more Caucasians in Europe then Asia, and the Caucasus mountains were near Europe. That helped me remember it. However, different things work better for different people...

I'm homeschooled, and don't study too much. I'm not saying that homeschoolers don't study, I'm just saying that I'm a homeschooler and I don't study much. But i do study for science tests (most of the time). Alot of the questions on the worksheets come up on the test, so I just look at that and repeat the stuff I'm reading in my mind. Sometimes I'll make up little rhymes.. Like one I did with Prokaryotic cells that don't have organelles, and a Eukaryotic cell that does have organelles: "Pro has no, and Eu has two." Well the "Eu with two" part I kinda cheated on because it can have more than two, but it did help me remember.

So I guess you could try making rhymes to study. Even if the rhyme doesn't excactly tell what whatever it is means, as long as you can understand it, it's all good.

-☺☻

I'm a seriously perfectionistic studier in most courses, so beware.

1) Read the whole chapter. Concentrate on the flow, logic, and concepts so as to get the big picture.

2) Reread the whole chapter. Take comprehensive (and by comprehensive I mean that I can have six sheets of handwritten notes for a longer chapter) notes on the major events. Summarizing every paragraph helps.

3) Go back over the whole chapter, taking notes on one aspect. I might look for people, or dates, or just important terms, or steps in a process. Make a seperate sheet for every topic until you feel like there's no other category you could need to know. Don't just write lists - explain everything. That's how to learn. On a dates sheet, don't write just 1066. Write 1066 - Normans invade Britain. That's the way to really get it in your head. 

4) Reread (or retake) whatever you're not comfortable on. Then skim all your notes as close before the test as you can for a reminder. Cheers!

-EH

*tsk, tsk* My dearest Maggie, you created a thread where people commented, and you never replied...  Haha, want me to fetch her for you, CBers? :)