How to Pass Exams: Accelerate Your Learning, Memorise Key Facts, Revise Effectively
Dominic O'Brienamazon.com
How to Pass Exams: Accelerate Your Learning, Memorise Key Facts, Revise Effectively
the aim of the reciting phase is to reorient your mind and attention to focus and learn more fully as you go along. In other words, this step is about literal recitation. Ask questions—out loud, verbally—about what you’re reading. This is also the point where you take copious notes in the margins of the text and underline or highlight key points. R
... See moreMemory and understanding are connected. Having key information memorized so you can readily call it to mind releases mental power and helps you work more easily at higher conceptual levels. It also allows you to form mental patterns involving the subject you’re learning. To memorize information, test yourself through active recall (retrieval practi
... See moreMany people try to remember information by sound—repeating it over and over again, hoping it will somehow stick. But sound is very limited because it doesn’t attach easily to other memories. A sound is also sequential; to remember information by sound, you have to start at the beginning and work your way through it. When you see information as an i
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