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kingdomof said:What I found to be extremely detrimental to all my attempts at self study are the lac of repetition and drilling of the material. However, looking back, I'd probably take an assload of notes and go over them, constantly for a few hours a day for a few days, progress, do the same again, review them material, etc. However, I'm a Biology guy, so I really have no useful information in how to study Physics and Math.
samspotting said:A lot of the time I feel that I'm just aimlessly taking notes while self studying. When you guys say reading through the material then doing chapters, do you involve note taking? I'm questioning if note taking actually helps. I hear a lot of active learning with generalizing of specializing theorems. While studying from rudin, this was sometimes helpful but most of the time beyond my ability.
For example, even during compact sets I had trouble of thinking of a neat compact set besides the obvious closed set in R^n.
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