ah yes must mathify everything i see om nom nom
So I was teaching Fred about logarithms for chemistry, and a funny thought popped into my mind. As a result, I propose the following relationship.
The idea
The amount of effort one places into their studies has a logarithmic relationship with the grades one receives.
Now, why do I say this?
Because I think people underestimate the effort required to learn!
I think just showing up to class, and actually engaging in active thought about a specific subject is good enough. Good enough to get a passing grade that it.
That's most of the effort. And people who pay more attention in class probably get better results (many exceptions of course).
However, I'm yet to cover the more important aspect of study, self revision. That is the part of the graph where the gradient starts to approach 0. It becomes much more harder to go from a 95% to a 100%, for example, than from a 60% to a 70%.
Hence, the crux of my thesis is that most of the effort we need to put into our studies is only to get our grade from a good one to an exceptional one.
So, what is the takeaway from this? Learn your topics early! Even if you don't fully understand them, it saves you time when you are actually learning them. You can spend that time revising and actually practising the topics for greater proficiency. i.e. You should aim to skip the high-gradient area of the graph by learning the topics earlier.
