There's a joke among students that studying really means stuDYING and after doing your studies you stuDIED. We have been studying for so many years from preschool to grade school, high school and college. And by the time we enter medical school, we have been students for 15-18 years of our lives! Although we are students for that long already, sometimes we feel that we still do not know how to study efficiently and effectively. We still search for the best methods of studying — what will work for us and what won't work for us. If we cannot claim that we are good students, perhaps we are breaking the rules of good studying.
Since it is exams week again, I'm sharing this article excerpted from A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel in Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra) by Prof. Barbara Oakley Penguin, July 2014, with emphasis added. I only injected some annotations to tailor it for medical students. Check whether you follow the good rules or the bad rules of studying.
