Study Techniques

Study Techniques

1. Note taking

   • Apps: Notefile, Pear Note, ThinkBook and Take Notes
   • Is a learning process in itself, helping you to process and understand the information you receive.
   • Advantages: They are usually easier to remember than a text. Keeps you alert. Engages your mind. Emphasizes and organizes information. You’ll also be able to indicate the supporting points of a presentation, making study and understanding easier after class.

2. Mnemonic technique

   • You only need:Imagination, Association and Location
   • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.

3. Mind Map

   • It is a diagram used to visually organize information.
   • It is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added.
   • Advantages: Increases your creativity and productivity. Is an excellent way for you to be able to sort through your thoughts and ideas. This method is a great way for you to categorize and organize the ideas you brainstormed and identify their relationships.The use of colours, images, and keywords in mind mapping aids in enhancing your memory and retention.
   • Apps: Mindjet, XMind, iMindMap and iThoughtsHD

4. Speed reading

   • Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement while improving retention.
   • You will need: a book of 200+ pages that can lay flat when open, a pen, and a timer (a stop watch with alarm or kitchen timer is ideal). You should complete the 20 minutes of exercises in one session.
   • 1) Technique (2 minutes): Practice using the pen as a tracker and pacer. Underline each line, focusing above the tip of the pen. DO NOT CONCERN YOURSELF WITH COMPREHENSION. Keep each line to a maximum of 1 second, and increase the speed with each subsequent page. Read, but under no circumstances should you take longer than 1 second per line.
     • 2) Speed (3 minutes): Repeat the technique, keeping each line to no more than ½ second (2 lines for a single “one-one-thousand”). Some will comprehend nothing, which is to be expected. Maintain speed and technique-you are conditioning your perceptual reflexes, and this is a speed exercise designed to facilitate adaptations in your system. Do not decrease speed. ½ second per line for 3 minutes; focus above the pen and concentrate on technique with speed. Focus on the exercise, and do not daydream.
   • 1) Technique (1 minute): Use the pen to track and pace at a consistent speed of one line per second. Begin 1 word in from the first word of each line, and end 1 word in from the last word. DO NOT CONCERN YOURSELF WITH COMPREHENSION. Keep each line to a maximum of 1 second, and increase the speed with each subsequent page. Read, but under no circumstances should you take longer than 1 second per line.
     • 2) Technique (1 minute): Use the pen to track and pace at a consistent speed of one line per second. Begin 2 words in from the first word of each line, and end 2 words in from the last word.
       • 3) Speed (3 minutes): Begin at least 3 words in from the first word of each line, and end 3 words in from the last word. Repeat the technique, keeping each line to no more than ½ second (2 lines for a single “one-one-thousand”)

5. Daily schedules (priozing study)

   • It is a variation of the normal schedules
   • First, put down all of the necessities;
     • Now block in your study time, schedule it for a time when you are energized.
       • Make sure to schedule in study breaks, about 10 minutes each hour.
         • Be constant
   • Don't be a perfectionist. Learn to prioritize and Combine several activities

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