Memory, Studying Techniques
How to use study strategies for aphantasia and boost your learning without mental imagery.Imagine trying to visualise a lush, green forest in your mind—hearing the rustling leaves, feeling the warmth of the sunlight through the trees—only to find that the image never materialises.For those with aphantasia, this is a daily [...]
Studying Techniques
Discover how the Pomodoro Technique can support your study strategy Here's a simple time management technique, developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s, that can help you stay focused and increase your productivity. When studying for exams, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the amount of material that needs [...]
Studying Techniques
Here's what you need to know about the Link MethodIf you’ve ever had a spontaneous thought, triggered by something else; maybe something you see or hear... or a particular smell, you'll realise that there must be all sorts of ideas connected in your brain that you’re blissfully unaware of, until [...]
Studying Techniques
Want to know how to use highlighters to remember what you’re learning?Highlighting the challengeWho likes to use highlighters to identify themes in their textbooks?You?Are you sure it's a good idea?I frequently come across students with psychedelic textbooks! Undeniably beautiful, is enthusiastically and copiously highlighting your book actually serving you?First of [...]
Studying Techniques
When it comes to making study notes, less is more. Ever noticed how hard it is to retain information if it’s coming at you too fast to absorb it? It’s as if it’s ‘not going in’ your brain to start with, and if it ain’t in there, you’re hardly going [...]
Studying Techniques
A change is as good as a rest, to fix your memory problems – or so they say! When revising for boring old exams you’d be forgiven for complaining that perhaps some subjects just aren’t that exciting! And that’ll just add to your memory problems! Why? Because we’ve evolved to forget anything [...]
Studying Techniques
Did you know that using Serial Position makes studying easier? I bet sometimes you wonder how you’re ever going to get through the enormous amount of material you need to learn for the exams. I’d also be willing to bet that you’re finding it quite a challenge to find time [...]
Studying Techniques
Your brain loves the sort of connections and associations formed by using the Link Method of learning, and it remembers new things more easily if those new things can be associated with, and linked to information you already know. So the basic steps of the Link Method are as follows: Find [...]
Studying Techniques
Is it a sign of the times, that the on-going debate won’t abate! Which debate? The one among scientists, about the brain and vision. Hey! I don’t suppose it’s the only one! But it is the one that we are going to, ahem, look at! Because, while they agree that most of [...]
Studying Techniques
Old habits die hard, but here’s something new for you: play word association football when revising for exams! You know that lovely definition of madness… repeating the same action but expecting a different outcome? And the aphorism: If what you’re doing isn’t working, then er… do something else! We’ve all been there!!! [...]
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