What are 'study groups' and are they helpful?

What are 'study groups' and are they helpful?

A study group is often an impromptu casual group that a student and fellow students will gather together to make the material a little more understandable. Getting together in a group, with a group of fellow classmates is also a great way of make friends and to learn the material by talking amongst each other and by learning and reading certain chapters or pieces of that work, and then coming together and sharing what each person is learning and contributing to the group's knowledge. Sometimes study groups are assigned by faculty members as part of group projects, and that also accomplishes the same goal. A lot of times informal study groups are a lot more fun and they are way of really understanding a material a lot better.