Find people on your course that can help you and that you can help. Teaching something you know to classmates helps you learn. There is a saying “one teach, two learn” and it is true.
Try to review the content of a lecture before attending the lecture. Even if it is a fast 5 minute skim of the material it will help you
Try to get an overview of the course at the start, again a quick skim might take an hour or so, but the content will be more familiar when you get around to it.
For maths and science Khan academy is really useful.
There is a short course on Coursera called ‘Learning how to learn’ that includes some of the above points, it is worth checking out.
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