@RPGJay:
Also for some weird reason I am a god among men in giving presentations. Even when I barely know what I'm talking about. Not complaining though.
Itmustbethehair
@Bill:
I liked stats in math for some weird reason
There kinda fun.
Aside from that I'm kinda bad at it.
I have been terrible at math from the start of my academic life to the present point in time. Stats saved my life, though; it was the only thing in math that made sense to me, though I'm not sure how either. I was even able to come up with my own methods and steps, instead of following my teacher's.
@Insider2000:
EDIT: I'm in a Philosophy class myself, right now. I've been slacking off lately, which has been punching me in the gut lately. Gotta pick back up. Although, I don't think I've ever been in a class where my entire class bitches RELENTLESSLY about how horrible the class and professor is….IN FRONT OF THE PROFESSOR!
Ah ha, I took a Philosophy introductory course a year ago. We studied Plato's Third Dialogue or something along those lines, I think. Honestly, it was a really slack module. The lecture was at 8AM so i went for like two during the entire semester. Tutorials were one hour every other week, which is half the norm. Final was comprehension MCQ, and the exams often reused passages and questions from the previous years - and it was an open-book test, so you could bring in said past year papers. It was honestly more about having a decent command of English and good comprehension skills than about having a profound sense of logic or even understanding Plato well. I didn't even read the textbook.
Regarding how I study - it varies depending on the module. For one module I'm taking, the information is so all-over-the-place that it's really difficult to just read and understand the general ideas. So I try to jot down notes or key points while going through the articles. Like someone else mentioned, writing (or typing, because I used to write notes and got bad hand cramps right before my History exam) notes helps me to remember, and being able to look back on them helps. A lot. I occasionally do try to memorise certain key points, to commit them to memory, or at least to remember the idea so that I'll be able to retrieve it during the exam.
The best way to memorise something is actually not to keep reading it over and over again, but to look at it really hard and try to relate it to some other concept or idea you already have. It'd also be very good if you can relate it to something about yourself. E.g. this war happened during this time my grandpa was in this war and he was this age blah blah blah (if you're actually trying to memorise dates).