A great way to study for a final exam is to create a concept map
Interested in improving the way you prepare for final exams? Concept maps are a way to visualize major concepts or content from a course and can help you study for a big exam. Concept maps help you chunk content to show relationships or connections between concepts. These visualizations will help you learn and remember content and are a great way to study complicated material. You can read more about concept maps here.
Concept maps are fairly simple. Here is what you need to do to create a concept map.
First, start with a topic or question that you need to “map”.
Next, brainstorm key concepts. Write them out – type them, put them on a piece of paper or on post-it notes. This will be your “parking lot” of concepts that will need to go into the concept map.
After you have all the main ideas within that concept on paper somewhere – group related terms or ideas. Organize each from general to specific.
Create you map on paper or with a free concept map software. A list of free concept mapping software can be found here.
Keep scrolling to see some examples of different concept maps you can use for final exams.
1. Chapter map
2. Spider map
3. Fishbone concept map
4. Cycle or process map
