How to Make Studying Fun

Nursing courses are challenging and require a lot of attention and time in order to properly absorb the information. Nursing students are always claiming that they are overworked and cannot enjoy the learning process. This is due to tough deadlines, and being fatigued from a large volume of work.

Here are a few simple methods to make your studying experience interactive and fun:

• Flashcards
• Learning in the classroom
• Color-coding notes, a lot of notes
• Creating and maintaining an agenda
• Creating a study group

Flashcards

Flashcards are an attractive way of learning and absorbing new information. Prepare a number of cards and start writing questions upon each of them. After this, you start writing down the related answers on the other side. Once all the flashcards are already set up and you are ready to start your own personal exam, you can start by selecting them one by one and try to answer yourself. Once you think you have already provided the answer, you can flip the card on the other side and check whether the answer you provided was correct. Once you’re comfortable with this, have a classmate or roommate quiz you with the cards in a different order.

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Flashcards are stimulating, since you are absorbing information and becoming engaged by an interactive activity. Flashcards are considered beneficial since they provide even visible information that supports your memory processes to record the information.

Learn whilst in the classroom

Classroom presence is something you cannot avoid. You have to follow your lectures since it is the first direct approach to new information. However, you can exploit this amount of time not only to receive but also to enrich your experience. Whilst the professor is explaining you can resume what is unclear to you and question these uncertainties. This way, you will be saving additional time you might be spending at home in order to understand what was left unexplained during the classroom lecture.

The answers provided by the professors are more efficient than those you might be deducting once studying alone. Once you are uncertain at home, the time you spend may become unproductive or inefficient.

Once alone at home, we are prone to start wandering around between TV, eating, cooking, and other activities, rather than focusing on that specific topic we are not clear on.

Color-coded notes, a lot of notes

When you follow along with lecture, you’re taking notes. If you use different colors to highlight the information, the notes will be more attractive in terms of focus and appearance. Use of different colors enables better memory of the notes and concepts.

You can choose different colors for different purposes. For example, green might be used for “To be developed”, red for “To be highlighted” and so on and so forth. Once you set your predefined rules on colors to be used, everything will be easier when you resume later.

As far as notes are concerned, it has been proven that learning through notes is more effective than learning through the book. Notes are taken depending on the individual, so absorbing the information would be easier for you personally than through reading the whole text lecture. Notes are considered visual aids to memorize the information even for long-term periods.

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Create and maintain an agenda

Time management can be fun! You can schedule all recorded events during your academic year. This will help you plan to study, and it will also help you to see what kind of free time you have in the coming months.

If you’re using a paper calendar, keep it close to where you study and keep your class materials. If you are more of into a technological approach, you can schedule this calendar through different smart applications. In this way you will also have automatic notifications and you can postpone daily tasks from one day to another if need be.

Create a study group

Creating a studying group is one of the greatest opportunities you can provide to yourself, both socially and academically. Group studies might positively impact your daily social engagement and as well enrich your studying routine with a pleasurable time spent among students. During this time you might be exchanging information and methodology in terms of academic topics, but also in terms of academic life.

You share common interests, so you can support each other even in terms of social engagement. You might not have time to have a cup of coffee with your old friends, but for sure you can enjoy time with one of your classmates and still discuss over last lecture or upcoming exams.

Study groups:

• Help you to clarify uncertainties and acquire more accurate information 
• Help you achieve a proactive approach in terms of methodology 
• Allow you to exchange information and experience. You can provide feedback on the group uncertainties or might ask feedback on yours. It is always a win – win solution. 
• Impose individuals to have a greater responsibility in terms of following schedules. Once alone you might switch to music or other unrelated to study activities. Once in group, you are obliged to follow the study agenda. 
• Do not require or involve extra fees or charges. 
• Provide a good reliable resource of information once you are skipping a class or lecture. 
• Provide the best way of mastering information (revision, repetition within the group) 
• Open resources to new study methodology – Each person have his or her own way of studying. No one assures us it is the best or efficient approach. Thus, comparing different study methodologies, we can learn new ones that are more feasible to us.

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