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8. How much studying is enough?

Studying comes in various forms. In fact, we as students do it more often than we think. We are studying when listening and taking down notes during lectures, when we pre-read and post-read (for those of us who find it helpful), even when we discuss certain concepts with fellow students! The question now is: how much is enough? Lectures: how much is enough? In the blog post titled “Note-taking and note-making – effective?”, I share how pre-reading helped me make lectures useful: I was familiar with the sections lectured when the lecturers lectured them, and that together with the insight of lecturers made it easier for me to make summary notes during lectures. This helped to minimize my study time. However, the challenge I had was understanding only certain sections of work lectured instead of everything. This leaves me with this question: how much of what I grasped in lectures was enough? Pre-reading and post-reading: how much is enough? After I started pre-reading, I realiz