Presenting The Study Club Magazine!

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Hey Everybody!

You all probably know that we recently began a Study Club here in the BJA! You can the chatroom here

We decided to bring to you a bi-weekly magazine filled with tips and tricks to help you and motivate you to study better!

For this first post, various of the study club share their study spreads and explain how they use their journal for studying!

Let's Begin!

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Lala says:

So, the easiest thing I do is including studying in my habit tracker. Leading up to an exam I also track the hours I spent studying.

Then I also make a diagram of all the topics I need to study. This is a great visual representation on how far you are and works well with essays or longer projects too.

The same method, but not as a diagram:

For my entrance exam for university I needed to do a lot of different things, like solfege and practicing my instruments. So I did trackers for all of them and coloured in every day I did one of them.

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Stark says:

The learning style I use for my bujo is to just write everything down as neatly as possible. I use a bulleted system similar to one you might find in a list to keep everything organized. I like lists. It keeps everything tidy. I use a simple system of bullets and dashes to keep everything in place where it should be. A bullet is a topic, and a dash is the information under the topic. This keeps everything neat and tidy for me.

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Gjinny says:

Hi all,

Im a student at university and I'm in my last semester and currently writing my Bachelorthesis. I have a full-time Job and I started learing japanese.

I have a "Semesterplan" in the beginning of the Semester which shows me what subjects I have to attend and at which time, even so it includes the test dates and other important deadlines for my studies.

On the next page i have a tracker for my Bachelorthesis and how far I'm with my tasks for it. I kept it simple, to have more space for writing notes.

In my monthly habit tracker is a space for learing/Working on BA and one for my japanese learning progress.

In the monthly overview I have a space reserved for my studys which i use for tasks which should be done over the month and on the Weekly pages i do the same for tasks which i have to finish within the week and to write down my homework.

For japanese i have a separated progresstracker which i fill in every time i work on it.

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Bee says:

The first spread in my university bujo is my timetable. Whether you are in high school, college/ university or a student from home a timetable should be essential for organisation and time management. Plus, keeping your timetable is your bujo, you are much less likely to lose it!

Second, I keep the details of my courses and my tutors. I need these details often, as my tutor is my first call if I need any help with assessments.

Next, I keep a list of all of my tutorial/ lecture dates, times and locations. I also keep the details or any extra university events here, such as webinars. It may be that this is not useful for you, or that your lectures are at the same time each week. In that case, they could be added to your timetable.

Then, I have my weekly spreads. I am a home student with Open University, and I have a set workload each week. At the start of the week I add all of my work to my weekly spread so that I can cross them off as I go. This gives me space to make notes on extra research and reading materials I need to look up, and well as note which areas I may need to look over again.

Other spread idea that I will introduce later in the year are: grade trackers, assignment plans, mind maps, resource lists

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That's it guys! Keep an eye out for the next issue!