  Studying for physics exams can be difficult and stressful, especially during
a student's introductory year in physics. For students who do not plan to major
in physics, the desire to do well is based less on understanding concepts and
more on achieving a better grade. For this reason, students want to study as
efficiently as possible by using the most optimal study methods. We have taken
surveys over the past three years to determine how students study for exams and
compared that to their exam grades. We found that students who studied using
methods that they rated as more helpful did better on the exams. By utilizing
the study results, we are able to present our current and future students with
study methods that have been rated as being more helpful, and give them advice
on ways to optimize their study time for exams.
