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"Study smart and nor hard" - That is so true and applies to learners, students, teachers or even univeristy lecturers. I always use this line to help my learners understand that its nit about the quantity of work that you cover during a study session but rather about the qaulity of the study methods which you make use of. It is easy to read, write and try to memorise everything...truth is it simply does not work for everyone. You will find that for those that it supposingly works best willbhave episodes like "hitting blank" during an exam. So what exactly does it mean to "study smart and not hard"...Well time management plays a big role. Set out times, draw up rosters, stick to that roster and find new and improved ways of making yourself and others understand the study content. Find study material to make things easier and fun for yourself to learn too. If you go with this then you simply cannot go wrong in any exam room.

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This is so informative and I do agree many of us don't actually knowhow to study. In most cases you've either seen an older sibling or relative study and think oh this is how it should be done. Many a times it's resorting to the parot fashion to retain information. There are actually so many different ways to study and I think the key factor is to find the one thats suits you best/personally.

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LOL!

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STUDYING FOR A TEST CAN BE THE HARDEST PART OF ONES EDUCATION

So, prepping for a test can be stressful right?

Below is 10 tips of how one can increase ones abilities to study smarter becoming more productive and efficient while preparing for a test.
the video below will talk about the following:

1. 20-30 min sessions, then 5 min break 1:05
2. reward your brain during breaks 1:37
3. dedicated study area 1:50
4. buy study lamp 3:26
5. instrumental music only 3:55
6. form study group 4:18
7. good night's sleep 4:53
8. take notes 5:20
9. teach others 5:37
10. find out what works for you 5:47

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Study Less Study Smart - 10 College Studying Tips And Hacks

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2 Important Strategies for Effective Studying

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2 Important Strategies for Effective Studying

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By John M. Grohol, Psy.D.

Founder & Editor-in-ChiefLast updated: 8 Jul 2018  ~ 3 MIN READ

Every college student and high school student believes he or she has honed a set of highly effective, useful study skills. I used re-reading, lots of summarizing, note-taking (and outlining), and taking the little tests you would often find at the end of a chapter to help me remember the material I just read.

Nobody taught me how to study this way. It was just something I did through trial and error in trying and discarding multiple techniques. For instance, I tried highlighting, but it did little for me.

Of course, psychologists and other scientists have been testing effective study techniques now for decades. Being far more clever than I, they’ve actually run such techniques through the research ringer, and have come out with some effective study strategies.

Just last month, another group of researchers decided to take a look at all of that research, and boil down what we know about the most effective methods for studying. Here’s what they found.

Researchers led by John Dunlosky (et al. 2013) from Kent State University decided to take a critical look at the 10 most common learning techniques available to students and see whether they had strong or little backing in the research literature. The study methods examined were:

1. Elaborative interrogation — Generating an explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is true

2. Self-explanation — Explaining how new information is related to known information, or explaining steps taken during problem solving

3. Summarization — Writing summaries of to-be-learned texts

4. Highlighting/underlining — Marking potentially important portions of to-be-learned materials while reading

5. Keyword mnemonic — Using keywords and mental imagery to associate verbal materials

6. Imagery for text — Attempting to form mental images of text materials while reading or listening

7. Rereading — Restudying text material again after an initial reading

8. Practice testing — Self-testing or taking practice tests over to-be-learned material

9. Distributed practice — Implementing a schedule of practice that spreads out study activities over time

10. Interleaved practice — Implementing a schedule of practice that mixes different kinds of problems, or a schedule of study that mixes different kinds of material, within a single study session.

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Studying is NOT about how much you study its about how you study. so its important to follow a pattern or a timetable and most importantly its important to time ones study sessions as well as study breaks