How to Study Overwhelming PowerPoints
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Do your teachers and professors primarily use powerpoints during their lectures? Do you find yourself overwhelmed when it's time to study, because you have 60 or 70 slides to review for each test?
Lately, I've had a number of folks working with graduate school students come through my training program (The Art of Inspiring Students to Study Strategically), and they've been asking me to give some more concrete ideas for how these students can work with the massive amounts of information that they are exposed to each week.
In this video, I suggest that students work on making one-page sheet sheets for each power point deck, and I provide four different options for how to do that.
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How exactly do you use this sheet, is this so you know which slides to look at when referring back to the info or to give you an idea of the content as a whole before making proper notes or you entire revision notes? thank you.
whaatt? one page per lecture??? im in pharmacy school and usually its 40 minimum 150 max. the 40 minimum has information that makes it feel like its about 100 slides. How can I do one page per lecture? please reply
i think forcing urself to do one when u are a pharmacy student or med student is crazy. you should do more pages considering ur major and understanding of the lecture. she is suggesting an idea to make memorizing easier, not force urself to do the exact same thing. do what works for you.
I'm in pharmacy school too and they all teach like this, it is astounding how little effort they put into organizing their lectures and it is so hard for me to learn like that. I am trying to figure out how to adjust, because I tried to take notes last year and it didn't really help me so it wasn't worth my time.
These are great ideas! Thank u!
How would you suggest learning from power points. I am transitioning from having degrees in English and am now studying science in a grad program. I took pre-reqs for this program. It is at a med school. I am flooded with power points as is typical in medical and doctoral level programs. Most of my academic experience has been without powerpoints. I would always have to read multiple things from a piece of literature, and then academic articles or various additional philosophical and theoretical papers to read along with the main reading. I would always have to read with the intention of writing a paper. For my first masters of course the papers were much longer and more complicated to write say from a long paper in undergrad could be from 12 to 25 pages and in grad school they were 30+ pages, but basically it was just a transition from undergrad. For my undergraduate science courses, of course there were powerpoints, but there were also textbooks that went with it. I would take those powerpoints and use it as a guide for reading.
In my current program, it is just flooded with powerpoints and I just don't know what to do with them. I ALWAYS saw powerpoints as an outline and NOT a substitute for a book. I would then read for comprehension to get what I needed to out of reading and just take notes and add to lecture notes. Now, everyone tells me how the powerpoints ARE the book. I don't really know how to get depth from them and learn in the same way as I would from a book. Some people listen to the lecture over again. I find this process useful if I were to listen to it straight through over again, but to go through a lecture again just isn't useful to relisten to it over again slowly and try to rewind stuff back. It takes hours to do this and I want to be efficient in my studies.
This is a great question, Chris. Just saw it, so sorry for the delay. Powerpoints are a big pain in learning, as more and more professors rely on them as the main source of information. And you're right that re-listening to lectures is time consuming. I'd have to see the nature of the powerpoints and to know more about the kind of content you're learning to truly guide you. However, the short generic answer is to learn a process I call "Honing Your Notes." It's a way of summarizing the structure of information on one page, so that you can see it visually. Powerpoints are so many individual slides that it's hard to get a grasp of the big picture. When you learn how to Hone Your Notes regularly, it helps you ground the information in a visual context, and you can understand and remember the information better. That said, I'd really need to see the kinds of powerpoints you're working with, and meet you, to help you find some ways that are more efficient for YOU. I hope that helps somewhat... and I'm more than happy to chat more if you want to reach out -- gretchen@gretchenwegner.com.
This helped alot!
It would be a lot more helpful if you did it with an example, like doing it with a real lecture slide
That’s awesome
Thank you
thank you this is very helpful. keep it up.
Thanks, will do!
Thank you so much saved me from a F cause idk what I would've done otherwise lol
Glad I could help
60 or 70? I have like 850 like what am supposed to do
That's a lot! Take it piece by piece and try to not overwhelm yourself by doing too much in one sitting.
good idea
If I were to be completely honest, anyone can put in the time and memorize slides, just to lazy too
how do you memorize them?