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Improving reading memory and relieving stress about studying
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I'm not bragging, but I've worked and studied under some of the best psychologists in the world. In a nutshell, here is some of the best advice, based on research:
1) Keep your sugar levels high. Readily available sugar (even chewing polos) during study will increase your recall by about 15pc.
2) Do not revise only some of the stuff you got acquainted with. This will damage the traces of other stuff you previously knew. Revise ALL of it.
3) Integrate integrate integrate. Every new piece you study should be put into part of a great overall plan. Irrelevant parrot like rote learning will be difficult to remember. Your brain works with networks and cascades (open up chests at a time and open up chests within them). Have definitive subheadings in your head
4) Cheat! Not in the bad way, the good way! Use all the tricks available to cheat the deficiencies in your memory. Use mind maps, mnemonics (e.g. acronyms)
5) Silver bullet???????We found one, and it got us through some of the very hardest courses. Find a good study buddy, divide the work between yourselves, then meet up in cafes/wherever and bore each other senseless with what you know. They learn from you/you get the chance to practice.
6) Study in places where there are others around you.
7) Keep your self belief high. Tell yourself you can do it. You can!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck dude!
I'm pretty stunned just reading through the quality of some of the responses to this question.
I read a lot about state dependent learning and worked on some research on network theory. The best place to study is in the exam hall, obviously this aint too practical! When you go into the exam try to recreate in your head the place where you studied. This almost completely overcomes the change in location.
As far as music is concerned, choose carefully. Certain types of music (or even syncopated tapping!! da dum dum dum, da dum dum dum), interrupt the rehearsal that takes place in your working memory systems and will damage encoding.
It is actually pretty bad to study just in one place. The network (your brain works on networks, you just have to live with that) associates the place of study with the stuff studied, when you then go to the place of examination it declares the info you learned previously as irrelevant to this new place and inhibits it. If you study in lots of different places your mind gives up the place-material association and you are fine.
Different cues have different salience-valencies. Location or music are not a bit as powerful as smell. This for pretty obvious reasons. You are not a born student. You are a born hunter gatherer. You have to know where you smelt various foodtypes and folliage. This is why when you smell some particular smells you are transported mentally to the place where you first smelt them. Peppermint during study then in the exam will drastically increase your recall. As will caffeine (for the recall). Oh yeah, modafinil, gingko, and ginseng don't do too much harm either. Good luck :-)
I found that using Rosemary Essential Oil was very effective when revising also (it is known to be good for the memory). Use it on a tissue in the exam or on your cuff.
I am just starting to learn Spanish and I am hopeless at the moment............being 51 doesn't help! Anyone any other advise on how to learn a language easily? I am having one to one lessons with a Spanish naive but I fear I shall never get to grips with the grammer!!!!
Adios!
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