Even though I knew it was ineffective, I blindly just tried to memorize the material and learn how to apply it to the homework problems. I never had a full comprehension of how everything fit together. I never found a good solution to this problem, and to this day I still struggle to find it.
I'd love to hear from other people who have experienced this problem and maybe have a good solution. Or do you face a different set of problems?
I rarely understood much in the classroom. Lectures were just an occasion to take notes of what the prof wanted us to learn. I would then always enhance the notes to fill in the gap. May even go to differnet books until I found an explanation I could understand. I would then try example problems to make sure I understood them. And then I would try homework problems. And while doing so I would make note of what I found difficult to review later.
ReplyDeleteI followed a "deliberate" way of learning, I had to work at it. It was not easy. It did not just flow. I really had to follow the 3R approach.