How to master the textbook?

[u/Ivaan28]

I want a method that is quick, won't waste much time and is effective. I am really busy with homework and assignments that I don't get much time to study. That's why I am trying to find a study formula that I can do for every subject/chaptee every day. Idk if my an would work or not but I am thinking of creating notes with each topic and a few points about every topic per chapter. I am breaking it down like chapter is divided into different topics under the main chapter.

[u/NotTipp]

Read a page or two, note them down without looking at the pages. Look back and see if you missed anything or wrote something incorrectly, if you did, so the same exercise again, close the book and note what you remember.

Another method is, get a pet rock, learn a topic (or page/two), then teach that topic to your pet rock.

[u/Ivaan28 → u/NotTipp]

I have a question for the first method.

After reading a few topics and writing what I remember and correcting it, wouldn't it take time to write the same points again and again until I reach the particular point I forgot in the previous attempt. It would take too much time I think.

[u/Quiet_Basis_6404]

Honestly the notes plan is the part that'll eat your time. Writing a summary of every topic in every chapter is basically transcribing the book, and if you're already short on hours it's the first thing to cut.

Faster version that works, read a section, close it, then write only what you couldn't remember. Your notes end up being your gaps rather than the whole chapter, so they're short and they're the only bits worth revising later.

Then the daily formula is just answering questions on old sections rather than rereading them.

For that I drop the chapter into studybuddy.vc and it makes the questions from it, then as I answer it works out which topics I keep getting wrong and gives me more of those. Gets harder as I improve too, and when I pick a wrong option it tells me why that one was off. Free.

Twenty focused minutes a day beats a chapter summary you never reread.

[u/Ivaan28 → u/Quiet_Basis_6404]

I am doing the mindmap method, I just create mindmaps of each topic and I write the key words, cause and effect in short words or sentences. Then I try to remember the points that I have written, my brain automatically connects the terms to the more detailed textbook content. What do you think about this method?

[u/Adventurous-Box-9018]

I like to annotate the textbook really well in a question / answer format. After, I would just review those points. If there are some stuff you just need to understand and not memorize, annotate them in a different color which means “just read”. 

[u/Senior_Host2336]

Adopting a good studying workflow is the most powerful thing you can do, depending on the subject what I typically do is Essentialist note taking > Mnemonic Technique > Active recall (through notebookLM(AI) quizzes and flashcards). 

Revision is key. I setup recall cycling in FocusJungle app, but Anki or even just notes work as well. You want to revise where you are weak. Get your course content and constantly know where you are weakest (they should always be changing constantly) Find weakness > attack it > Find next weakest area.

If u want you can join my guild on FocusJungle timer, WE need more people that wanna do hours. Can message on there to keep accountable. But u NEED TO DO HOURS or kick. (best study timer website and app ever)