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whose hanging fruit are yellow trucks, high heels, jewels, and oak saw horses.
Absurdity makes abstractions memorable.
3) Frequent re-visits. Like with your sick friend, or mom, frequent, but brief
touchdowns signal the importance you place on the nearness of your interrelationship, in this case, with knowledge.
4) Sit in the room where you'll be examined...ahead of the scheduled exam
time, with your material. Connect details of the material with the room's
character, its blinds, paint chips, ceiling tiles, light switches, colour, ambience.
Entering the examination room ought to be a metaphorical return to the cozy
comfort of the womb. Your material, will "be" the room and it will feel "warm"
because you took the time to make it so...ahead of time. You've prepared your
relation within the environment for your very best performance.
5) If in university, pick courses as early as possible, and start doing light, but
frequent readings on the subject every day through the summer, before fall
semester starts. You might even find a favorite author! Your relaxed
familiarity with the upcoming material, on day one, class one, will deliver you
huge momentum to help carry you throughout the term. You're on your bike,
accelerating well before the foot of that big hill you're about to ascend. Get a
running start.
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Internet).
Hence, the biggest challenge would be to take "sankalpa". Without
committing to oneself, however small and easy it might seem, one cannot
finish anything.
Having said that about the right attitude, here are two effective Psychologically
proven study methods:
PQRST method (Preview, Question, Read, Self-recitation & Test)
SQ3R method (Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Review)
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implications or applications of this material? What questions are you left with?
How many of the steps you follow is up to you. As you become more efficient
you may find that you can read more - and retain more - with less effort.
Regardless, if an assignment is important, be sure to take notes so that you
don't have to reread it later.
Source: Want to Read Faster and with Better Retention? Try the SQ3R
Method
The PQRST Method of Studying
Some additional tips to study in terms of relevance is also mentioned in this
answer:
Prasanna Madhavan's answer to Tips and Hacks for Everyday Life: What can
I learn right now in just 10 minutes that could be useful for the rest of my life?
* Mudr is a symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism
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One of the best things I did for myself as a student was buy How to Become a
Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use
to Score High While Studying Less - Kindle edition by Cal Newport. Reference
Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
I have always been pretty good in school. Math and science come easily to me,
and I like to read. So, school has been a breeze for the most part. But, my
situation has dramatically changed in the last year or two.
Right now, I'm a junior in high school. I live in the state of Iowa, where many
high schools offer Post-Secondary Enrollment Offer (PSEO) classes. These,
essentially, are classes that count for both high school credit and college credit
at a local community college. My high school has a system where they'll pay
for up to 23 credits of classes that I want to take per year, under the condition
that if it was offered on my high school's campus then I had to take it their
instead of at the community college. Otherwise, I essentially have carte
blanche to take whatever classes I want to at this community college.
So, being an overly driven sophomore, I decided that I want the get an AS
from this community college concurrently with getting my high school
diploma. Long story short, I decided that I should get a math AS which I
would then use to transfer into a computer science program I was interested in
attending. And now, we're at the present. I'm in my second semester of my
junior year of high school, which is also the second semester of my freshman
year of college.
This arrangement has presented me with some challenges, to be frank. Since
last August, I've been enrolled in between 4 and 6 full time high school classes
which meet 1 hour per day M-F and collectively generated 1-2 hours of
homework per night. During the fall semester I was also enrolled in 16 credit
hours of classes at the community college, including calculus, ethics,
philosophy, economics, and one or two other classes. These had much more
variable times, but gave me on average just over three hours of class per day
and a collective ~2 more hours of homework per night. This semester is much
that same situation, but I'm taking 19 credit hours instead of 16. (For those
keeping count, yes, that is more than 23 credit hours this year. I had to pay for
everything after the 23 hours. It's been well worth it, in my opinion.)
Without some of the tools that I got from the book I mentioned above, I don't
believe I would have been nearly as successful as I am. Right now, I'm sitting
at a 4.0 GPA at the community college and 3.962 at my high school. That
book taught me how to take notes, how to study, how to organize my hectic
life, and much more. That was all stuff that I probably could have figured out
on my own, but because I bought that book I didn't have to.
I'm aware that this answer is mostly personal anecdote, but I strongly suggest
that anyone who isn't completely 100% on top of their life skim the sample of
this book and see if it helps them. I know that it's helped me.
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Interact with the material. The more connections your brain makes with the
information, the more likely it will stick in your mind.
During college I found that I could read a whole page of a textbook and then
not be able to recall what I had read a minute ago. It was a lot easier for me to
retain the information if I actively thought about how I could apply it to some
problems. Textbook authors know this so they put those review questions at
the end of chapters/sections. Do them!
Some people try outlining chapters, but eventually they get too good at
outlining that it becomes a passive activity. Actually trying to solve problems
makes your brain think about the material in a novel way that helps you
remember it.
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6. Take Breaks
It's important to take breaks while you're studying, especially if you're feeling
tired or frustrated. Working too long on a task can actually decrease your
performance.
When you take a break, make sure you get away from your desk or study
space. A bit of physical activity - even just a walk around the block - can
sometimes help you to look at a problem in a different way and could even
help you to solve it.
8. Stay Motivated
When you're studying it helps to keep in mind your reasons for doing all this
hard work, like a course or career you're working towards. It can help to have
something in your study space to remind you of your goals.
You could also decorate your study space with inspirational quotes or photos of
people you admire and family members you want to make proud of you.
9. App it Up
There are heaps of apps out there for helping students with all aspects of study.
Have a chat with your friends and teachers/lecturers to see which apps they
recommend.
Good Luck :)
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maps, drawing flash cards, maybe in the end it all boils down to the same
thing...
But seriously, at least give the Loki method a try, it takes only a minute to
learn (for a loki list that enable you to learn 20 "items"). For more than 20
"items" you have to create longer lists, but at least that takes the form of taking
pleasant walks looking at the scenery with a new reason.
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The two types of courses are knowledge courses and Math related courses.
For courses that are heavy on memorizing knowledge:
Use the memory palace or Method of Loci, to commit new information to
memory faster and reduce the repetition needed to remember it. To understand
concepts faster, try to relate it to everyday things and try to teach it. To review
everything you learn and only study what you have forgotten, use flashcard
apps that have the forgetting curve algorithm built in, like Anki.
1) The memory palace method, of Method of Loci, is a fantastic way to store
hundreds of pieces of information. Joshua Foer's book Moonwalking with
Einstein is a good book to read on how to utilize a memory palace. The general
principle is to have a layout of place you know well (like your home) and put
information in different places.
The reason why it works so well is that our brain is built to remember
spatial memory (memory for orientation and environment). For example
when you walked into your high school or college the first time you probably
had no clue where stuff was. But after a few days it was second nature. There
wasn't really a time where you had to sit down and study the entire campus for
hours to nail down where everything was. Your brain just memorized it
without too much effort. Even after years without going to a place you could
probably still remember the layout of the place.
So using this method you can not only remember the information but
recall it at will. If you need the name of something, you can simply walk down
your memory palace and find the name without any external cues. This comes
in handy when having to answer free response questions where there are no
multiple choice answers to jog your memory.
To actually memorize a piece of information, take the name of the
concept and try to make an image out of it. For example, in General Chemistry
2, we learned about Van der Waals Interactions so to remember that I would
place it at the front of the Science building at my college and imagine a Van
hitting a Wall. Then out of the back molecules would fall out reminding me
that it is the force between molecules.
Even though initially it will take more time to brainstorm the images, the
amount of repetition needed to remember information will sharply decrease.
Instead of rereading a definition 12 times to make it stick, this will reduce that
to once or twice. You could do this without laying the images in a order, but
putting them in a memory palace really cements the knowledge and gives you
the ability to instantly recall any definition at will.
2) The memory palace is good for remembering definitions and facts but
understanding a concept is different than just remembering a name. To
understand concepts try to find at least 10 metaphors for that concept. Try to
relate it to things you see in real life.
Try to teach the concept, for example, try explaining it to your friends and
seeing if they understand. If you can teach it, you mostly likely understand it.
I make Youtube videos for concepts I don't understand because trying to teach
it to someone else always reveals the gaps in your knowledge. Then I go back
and once I can fully complete a video I understand it.
Also, always ask questions. If you think you understand it try to see what
else could happen. Taking an example from chemistry again, we understand
that raising the temperature will cause water to boil. But what happens if you
decrease the pressure? It will cause the water to boil at a lower temperature.
That's what you should think about for concepts. If I change variable X what
happens to Y. When you ask these questions you will realize that even though
you thought that you understood a concept you actually didn't.
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3) Flashcards are good for reviewing your memory palace. Use smartphone
flashcard apps such as Anki, which are built in with the forgetting curve
algorithm. Why I suggest flashcards is due to the fact that they can be studied
anywhere. A common complaint is that we lack the time to study in large
blocks so this solves that problem. Throughout the day, there are plenty of
moments that we are not being productive; waiting for class to start, waiting in
line for food...etc. These small pockets of time can be used to study just with
your phone which is accessible at nearly all times and convenient. All these
small times can add up to 2 hours of studying or more when you thought you
had none. Also since it's built in with the forgetting curve, your only studying
what you have forgotten so you're maximizing efficiency.
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