I tried to summarize the whole lecture, and I'm really sorry if I made any mistake.

I hope it helps you:

Break it up into small chunks and reinforce it.

Find out what is funny to do during short breaks, and what is a great reward at the end of the consecutive studying hours.

Create a study area.

Turn your table and chair to make your bed behind you, so that you don't look at it and remember sleeping.

Try studying at some study café.

The more active you are in your learning, the more effective.

The way to learn effectively is first you have to decide what you are learning: facts or concepts?

Understanding the name of a bone is a fact, but understanding what it does in the body is a concept.

If it's a fact use Google, references... etc.

Concepts are more important.

Learning only the facts is a waste of time, for example, I remember the lyrics of thousands of songs but do I know what are those songs about?

I don't know what is 90% of the songs are about.

Can you put the concept in your own words?

If you can't; you don't really understand it. It's not meaningful to you, and to make it meaningful is a struggle that you need to do, or you're wasting your study time.

Take the time to discover the meaning of it.

What is the meaning of meaning?

A meaningful piece is a piece that relates to something you already know. Ex: a file system, that you've already established, you add a new entry to it so it's all neatly organized, and it's very easy if you got a file system to add a new entry.

A meaningless piece is a piece that does not relate to something you already know. So, how should you understand something brand new?

You have to create a new entry. You should break it down.

Tips of advice:

A. Study groups are powerful & great.

B. Read the whole thing (ex: 4 paragraphs) & then get back and read and understand the 1st paragraph again, one by one.

C. Sleep well, have a good rest for your memory.

D. Write notes during the class, and right after the class; sit down with your notes and expand on everything you wrote down, give it depth. If you want to do it after 2 hours you will have forgotten some of your own notes.

E. Look for classmates and ask them for help.

F. Active Recitation: The best way to learn is to teach somebody else. If there's no one, teach an empty chair, or write it out.

How to use textbooks?

Use "SQ3Rs": Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review.

Survey: a textbook is not a novel, so you can go through the entire chapter and survey it.

Question: you raise questions as you go through the survey, ex: what is X here? , what is Y..?...etc.

Read & Recite mentioned before.

Review: give yourself enough time to review what you've studied. We usually make a mistake when we start studying shortly before the exams which leaves us with NO time to review what we've studied.

Acronyms and interacting images.

Acronyms help you remember and memorize facts, terms, and idioms.

Interacting images help you understand and also connect things together and memorize facts.