Study Tips for Finals

This year I had three finals tests, and three final projects. When facing six finals, proper studying technique is a MUST. Here's what I did:

Tabs
The first thing I did was go through all my notes, and tabbed them. There is no need to buy special tabs for this. I bought a back of multi-colored post-its, so that I could color code my notes. Go through page by page and just glace at them. Anything that I didn't remember, I marked with my brightest color (fluorescent pink). I used my cooler colors (blue and green) for things that I remembered, but didn't do well in. I repeated this process with my text books.

Studying
There are a few studying tips that are generally always given. Everyone hears them at some point in their life, but I thought that I'd repeat them, because they bear repeating.

1. Don't study on your bed. Your brain should associate it with sleeping, not school. Studying on your bed can make you tired when you're trying to review, and keep you up when you're trying to sleep.
2. Take frequent breaks. A ten minute break every half an hour is good for your concentration, especially when you're working on a subject that is hard for you. If your break lasts too long, though you'll get out of your learning mode.
3. Study one subject for at least an hour. It sounds like a big investment, but the brain takes about an hour to really get immersed in a subject, especially if its a subject that you don't like, or are not good at.
4. Don't cram. Cramming right before a test is shown to make your recall worse, not better. Make sure you finish your studying the night before the test.

The reason there really isn't very many overall studying tips, is that everyone learns differently. If you don't already know how you learn best, there are a number of tests out there to determine your learning style. There is a learning style test in the links section. They want you to pay for your results, but the graph to the side as you go can give you a very nice idea for free. Find out your learning style and use it to your advantage when you study.