Exam Prep with the Study Club

It’s time!

Another edition of the study club magazine - Exam Preparation

So many of our amazing club sent in entries for this magazine, and we can’t thank them enough for their contribution!

This is how our use their journals to prepare for exams - we hope it helps!

┏━━━━━━━━━━┓

Mellianen

-

-

”First I had a list with all the subjects divided by chapters or texts for my ancient Greek class.

This overview helped me to see what I needed to study. As you can I haven’t fully used it. But I think this kind of spread is helpful even if you don’t use it entirely like me.

You can see that on the same page I have a calender where I tracked the time spent on each subject, following a color code.

-

-

I also used dailies during my revision week. I have two time bars each day : the first one is my plan for the day and the next one is what I did. I have a color code that I know, it’s the same since my bujo beginning in 2016.

Dark blue is sleep, dark green is study time, light blue is reading, pink is me time / self care / friends, red is phone or computer...

My biggest advice would be to have someone tell you to study. You could tell them what is your plan and a reminder is a great help. Maybe that wouldn’t work for you but I now this is what helps me the most.”

Great advice - find yourself a study buddy to keep you on track! The study club is always there :wink:

┗━━━━━━━━━━┛

┏━━━━━━━━━━┓

Ellster

-

-

”This summer I have a major exam that I need to study for. This spread is the first of four double pages, but they all look pretty much the same.

I learn best with flashcards so I made this spread listing all the subject by textbook chapters. On the right I have space so I can tick off which chapters I made flashcards for, which flashcards I have already memorized and which topics I already ed a test exam for.

(The reason that are not ticked in order is because I still have tests on one subject toys semester, so I started with the topics relevant to that first.)”

Break down your topics so you have a clear view of what you need to do

┗━━━━━━━━━━┛

┏━━━━━━━━━━┓

Dorte

-

-

”This is a spread I use during my test weeks. I make a different spread for it, so my weeklies don’t get too filled up. I give different sorts of subjects different colors: languages blue, beta subjects purple and the rest pink. This helps me planning, because it’s easy too see when I only plan languages, for example, in a day. When I have studied that subject I put stripes over it and when I’m not gonna do it I cross through it.”

Colour coding keeps everything clear

┗━━━━━━━━━━┛

┏━━━━━━━━━━┓

Mathpal

-

-

”The most important thing when exams are coming up is staying on schedule with your revision, so you don’t have to stay up all night before the exam, which will totally not help your performance. If you have many exams, it can be really hard to spread out your revision, or know how much of what you need to do each day.

Having a visualisation of your goals and progress really helps with this. For example, filling in what questions or topics you’re comfortable with, what concepts you’ve memorised, etc.

It’s also important that you factor in your days off, when you won’t be able to do work (or just a day off because you’re not a machine!) so make sure, if you’re drawing a timeline, that you leave those days out of it.”

An important reminder that sometimes you need to take a break!

┗━━━━━━━━━━┛

┏━━━━━━━━━━┓

Sky

-

-

”I used this spread to keep track of the topics I was weakest in and needed to focus on. After the exams I also kept track of my grades as I got them. Honestly, its a fat mess but it did its job well. (Around exams season, i never find much time to make pretty spreads so usually they’re just functional and ugly)”

Blunt as ever Sky :joy:

┗━━━━━━━━━━┛

┏━━━━━━━━━━┓

RilakkumaLover

-

-

”Any weekly spreads works for me. I just put on some tasks and bring it with me while studying

-

-

Write useful stuffs in your bujo. Things like schedules, pointers and notes. Don’t forget to put motivational quotes. :blush: ”

We all need a little motivation boost at times - add it to your bujo!

┗━━━━━━━━━━┛

┏━━━━━━━━━━┓

Stark

-

-

”I couldn’t find my old exam spread, so here’s this one I’ve been using! I don’t have any current exam dates, so I’ve been using it as a study tracker. Up at the top I have a space for appointments during the day, and in the middle I have space for studying. At the bottom I have place for tracking my meals!

I got the idea for this tracker here”

┗━━━━━━━━━━┛

┏━━━━━━━━━━┓

Rain

-

-

”I never made special spreads for exam prep, except the occasional tracker and syllabus spread.

So, I use my weeklies. This is an example from November when I used a Dutch door spread. I created seperate boxes to track my weekly homework and revision and then assigned the task to a specific day. I added the occasional sticky note when I felt like it and when I was in a big time crunch, I outlined the time for each task/chapter as well.”

┗━━━━━━━━━━┛

┏━━━━━━━━━━┓

Useful links

Study Club Wiki

Study Club Chatroom

┗━━━━━━━━━━┛

Thank you to everyone who made a submission to the magazine! :two_hearts: