A friend made an interesting observation today while practicing for the upcoming apocalyptic OSCE. He asked if I learned this at verbatim from books. It's the last thing I'd do, as the entire rote learning method sucks and I'd rather make goat-ball soup than do that...
But another thing was pointed out - that certain things I said were almost word for word from textbooks. Upon thinking a little further, it seems that I tend to remember what people say , even if they're reading textbooks. Hence, I could almost quote certain things word-for-word, as well, that's what I heard.
Another personal observation was that I tend to remember things I get wrong. Hence, quizzes, random questions and other assessment orientated learning is great! However, I DO need to know enough that I can figure out why I was wrong...
Now all this leads to the actual point of this thread: differing modes of learning...
There's so much variety out there (and strangeness) in how people learn. I have a friend who just does quizzes (never studies during the semester - quizzes and he's done), another who is a walking textbook of medicine (yes - ur probably reading..don't deny it!). Another friend goes and breaks down each topic to the molecular basics - learns everything from 1st principles. He takes sooooooo long learning one topic, that you think it just wouldn't be possible to cover the course content, but each and every time, he manages. Not only that- he links the concepts together can figure out any question to a relative degree of accuracy based upon 1st principles.
And then there are the bastards who have photo-graphic memory. One read. That's all they need to do... *sigh*
In all this variety, it's a wonder that I can find people to study with at all. I doubt that I'd work well with half of them, but hey - it's been working for me so far! =P
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