Learning
Remember, there are 3 things to pay attention to - if you want to remember something.The 1st key is you've got to spend long enough in the first place with the information you want to learn.The 2nd key is that when you make study notes you need to make the [...]
Studying Techniques
How good is your memory? Do you retain everything that you’ve revised? Or do you find that over time the information begins to slip away? Do you know what to do to get better grades? Don’t worry! That’s perfectly normal. Human beings are supposed to forget! I’m not making this [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
Thinking positively and believing in yourself will help to counteract the fear you might feel when confronted with that oh so thick course manual, the contents of which you have to learn in order to give you the best chance to get better grades in your exams. You know what [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health, Learning
The trouble with focusing on study skills is that very often we neglect the other areas that all contribute to getting better grades in our exams. Thanks to recent research, we’ve become more aware of how important it is for our bodies to be in good shape if we want [...]
Learning
When you’re studying hard and paying good attention to the 3 Keys to Learning, making sure that your revision strategy gets the information you’re learning into your long-term memory, wouldn’t you also make sure that your eating and sleeping patterns support your other study skills? Sleep has been found to [...]
Health, Learning
It’s early days, but it just might be that sleeping late in the morning is the ideal way to get better grades in your exams! If you’ve ever woken up grumpy and confused, you won’t be surprised that David Dinges of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia concluded from his [...]
Memory
Cast your mind back to the last time that you were introduced to somebody whose name you realised immediately afterwards you couldn’t remember. On the other hand, think of a time when you were introduced to somebody you were very interested in. You had no problem remembering their name did [...]
Brain, Health
What do nuns at the convent of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in on Good Counsel Hill in Mankato Minnesota teach us about keeping your brain alive and healthy and using it efficiently to get better grades in your Diploma in Financial Planning ? Alzheimer’s expert David Snowden of [...]
Brain
Photo by Mary (Mayr) from Southern California Evidence has arrived from the University of Northumbria in Newcastle that people who chew gum throughout tests of both long-term and short-term memory got much better scores than people who didn’t! 75 adults were bombarded by 20 min of memory and attention tests. [...]
Learning
Do you get better grades by using an effective revision strategy, or are you one of those people who doesn’t start working until a looming deadline frightens you to death? You probably know that I taught 20 years in mainstream schools in England. Whenever homework was due to be handed [...]
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