How-do-top-students-study？

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If you attended or are going to a top school like MIT, Harvard, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Cornell, Caltech, Princeton, Yale, Brown, UPenn, what is your studying method?

如果你想要去像麻省理工学院、哈佛、哥伦比亚、加州大学伯克利分校、斯坦福、康奈尔大学、加利福尼亚理工学院、普林斯顿大学、耶鲁大学、宾夕法尼亚大学等，你的学习方法是什么？

Could you please give advice on how to study the best possible way (especially for math classes)? How do you get good grades at the top universities? Please give me directions, like what you do before a lecture, after, during weekends, how you study the book, how many books you read, how you take the tests, how much do you study, etc.

怎样以最合适的方式学习（尤其是在数学课上）你能给出一些建议吗？ 如何在顶尖大学取得好的成绩？请给我指明方向，就像你在演讲前后需要做什么，在周末，怎样学习看书，读了多少书，怎样做测试，学习花了多少钱，等等。

Ben Leong, Associate Professor of Computer Science answered：

Ben Leong，计算机科学副教授回答道：

I was a decent student back when I was an MIT undergrad and now that I'm a prof, and I really want my students to do well. Every semester, I email them a link to the following article by Cal Newport: http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/10/03/the-art-of-stealth-studying-how-to-earn-a-40-with-only-10-hours-of-work/, which pretty much summarizes everything in about a thousand words.

倒退到我是麻省理工学院的本科生时，我是很好的学生，现在我是一名教授，我真的希望我的学生们可以做的很好。 每个学期，我给他们发了一封邮件，链接到以下的文章:
http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/10/03/the-art-of-stealth-studying-how-to-earn-a-40-with-only-10-hours-of-work/， 用大约1千字概述了每件事。

If you don't have time to read the article, the hypothesis is that your brain absorbs information best in small chunks, so the key simply is CONSISTENCY.

如果你没有时间来阅读这些文章，假设你的大脑最好消化信息在于小块化，那么关键之处在于一致性（翻译的什么啊不知道什么意思 哭）

Learn topics that you are taught as soon as they are introduced in class and learn them well in small chunks. Do your problem sets diligently and put effort into understanding the material. Math requires practice if you want to solve questions consistently under exam conditions. How much practice you need will depend on your level of maturity (in Math).

学习一些你在课堂上被介绍的主题，小块地学习。你的问题在于努力的理解这些资料。如果你想要在考试条件下不断地解决问题，就需要练习。 你需要多少练习取决于你的成熟度(在数学上)。

Do not count on last minute cramming right before exams to do well. Cramming（死记硬背，恶补） might work (i.e. get you decent grades in the exams) during the first two years when the material is relatively simple, but if you don't learn the basics well, you might end up having trouble with the more advanced material that will build on the basics. It might be hard to catch up once you have a gap in your understanding in the early years.

在考试做的很好之前不要指望在最后一分恶补正确。死记硬背可能有用（比如在考试中取得好成绩）在头两年资料相对比较简单，但是如果你的基础知识学习不好，在遇到更多基于基础的高级资料时你会遇到很多麻烦。一旦你在早期理解有了差距，将会很难赶上。