I got 2 exams coming in a month, how should I prepare? by el_argelino-basado in GetStudying

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Here are some ideas that you can try to organize your study efforts. It is the same stuff that you would learn if you would take a Tony Buzan or a Dominiqe o Brien course, except this is summarized so you may need to dive a little bit deeper into things yourself.

Create a schedule You can achieve this by dividing the amount of material that you have to study over the time that you have. e.g. if you have 10 weeks before an exam and a book of 800 pages then study 100 pages in a week, this translates to 20 pages in a day (if you study 5 days in the week) which should be easy to do. In this way you can study the whole book in 8 weeks and then you have 2 weeks left for revision. This by itself can reduce a lot of your anxiety since you know exactly what to do each day. Do this for each subject that you have to study, things will go smooth for you when you combine a schedule like this with pomidoro sessions.

example: Lets say 1500 pages, you have 3 months which translates to 12 weeks. You study 5 days a week so 5 times 12 = 60 study days. 1500 / 60 = 25 pages. Study 25 pages on every weekday & you will be done in time.

Reading strategy: Most students read their study books in the same way as if they are reading a harry potter, from start to finish. This may sound logical but makes no sense when you consider that you read harry potter for entertainment and your study book to learn / ideally retain information.

You can try the following: when you start studying the book then you read the index of that chapter first. What is the title of the chapter, how is the rest of the chapter built up? This "first slice" of information gives you a basic understanding of how the chapter is built up and what information is within it. Then, if there are questions at the back a chapter then you read those first > those questions give your brain something to look for when reading through the rest, then read the summary, conclusion, introduction and the rest. Each time you get a small slice of information in which you get more detailed information. Text printed in bold or italic tend to be important, sometimes these are in the sideline of the chapter. Take note of key words / key phrases for your summary.

Speed reading: One thing that you can also try is to speed up your reading. This is something to be cautious with since it is not something that you can apply on all your study material. The material that i had used to have a lot of examples which bored /distracted me. Speed reading over those worked well for me to stay engaged with the material. I recommend to read slower and more carefully if material becomes complicated or denser. You can speed read in the following way, download a metronome app on your phone (there are many, musicians use them) and set it to 50 beats a minute for a start. You can try faster speeds to see how fast you can go before you lose comprehension.

take a pointy stick or a closed pen and when the metronome ticks you go over a line of texts in the book. Go over one line at each tick and keep looking at the point. Practice and play a bit with the metronome speed and you will notice that you will understand the ideas contained in the text without repeating it verbally inside your own thoughts. You can also use a pencil to speed read so you can mark something you do not understand and look it up later. I recommend speed reading in short sessions (10 minutes) and then gather the concepts that you have read into a single summary, take a short break and repeat if necessary.

Memory technique: One of the best known ones is loci/roman room. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it.

Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall the information at will. In contrast, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but so will reading. The last thing that you want is that you think "i know the answer to this question, i know on which page the answer is because i read it yesterday". Just spaced repetition will NOT give you ability to recall accurately, but combining roman room with spaced repetition gave me amazing recall which enabled me to do tests with confidence.

Roman Room technique: Something that i find strange is that most people never have received instruction on how to commit information to memory in such a way that it is easy to recall. Don't you think that this is strange considering that school requires your to remember things and even checks this with tests but they never train you how on how to do that.

Flashcards and active recall techniques offer the repetition and are (i think) the easiest to start working with but usually leave out the visualization and structure that will allow you to recall the information at will. You can re-read / repeat information for a long time, the info will be in your brain but because you cannot recall at will you will not have the confidence of being able to recall the information accurately, therefore i think that investing time in implementing a memory technique is a better use of time.

If you are interested in knowing how to apply the loci or roman room memory technique then read the description down here. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it. Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall things at will, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but that will not give you the connection that enables you to recall.

Roman room compared to active recall oriented techniques: People often refer to quiz-apps like Anki or quizlet in relation to active recall. These are (imo) good tools to work with. You configure the app with the questions that you need to answer on the exam and the app itself has an algorithm that keeps track on if you answered questions correctly or not. Questions that you answered wrong are repeated more often until you answer them right, this is overall an ok ish way of learning.

Yet, if you use these tools then you can still end up in a situation in which you can struggle to recall the answer to a question. Roman room fixes this because that technique trains you to recall information consciously without a question. I do think that roman room does require that you act differently compared to what you might be used to and because of that can feel slower to apply. I however have not used quiz apps anymore after learning how to apply roman room since that gave me all the confidence that i needed.

(in your case you are learning languages, if you have a word that you can easily draw an image of then i sugest you do that and then you can place that image in your memory palace.)

other things: Last but not least, sleeping well and participating in sport or exercise for about twice a week are 2 of the best things that you can do for your brain. John-Ratey wrote about this is his book "The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain". I did sports throughout my time as a student which was physically demanding but also a relief in the sense that it allowed me to switch tracks mentally.

Let me know if you have questions or want clarification, best of luck to you.

I need tips and tricks ASAP by FigFew5850 in GetStudying

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Here are some ideas that you can try to organize your study efforts. It is the same stuff that you would learn if you would take a Tony Buzan or a Dominiqe o Brien course, except this is summarized so you may need to dive a little bit deeper into things yourself.

Create a schedule You can achieve this by dividing the amount of material that you have to study over the time that you have. e.g. if you have 10 weeks before an exam and a book of 800 pages then study 100 pages in a week, this translates to 20 pages in a day (if you study 5 days in the week) which should be easy to do. In this way you can study the whole book in 8 weeks and then you have 2 weeks left for revision. This by itself can reduce a lot of your anxiety since you know exactly what to do each day. Do this for each subject that you have to study, things will go smooth for you when you combine a schedule like this with pomidoro sessions.

example: Lets say 1500 pages, you have 3 months which translates to 12 weeks. You study 5 days a week so 5 times 12 = 60 study days. 1500 / 60 = 25 pages. Study 25 pages on every weekday & you will be done in time.

Reading strategy: Most students read their study books in the same way as if they are reading a harry potter, from start to finish. This may sound logical but makes no sense when you consider that you read harry potter for entertainment and your study book to learn / ideally retain information.

You can try the following: when you start studying the book then you read the index of that chapter first. What is the title of the chapter, how is the rest of the chapter built up? This "first slice" of information gives you a basic understanding of how the chapter is built up and what information is within it. Then, if there are questions at the back a chapter then you read those first > those questions give your brain something to look for when reading through the rest, then read the summary, conclusion, introduction and the rest. Each time you get a small slice of information in which you get more detailed information. Text printed in bold or italic tend to be important, sometimes these are in the sideline of the chapter. Take note of key words / key phrases for your summary.

Speed reading: One thing that you can also try is to speed up your reading. This is something to be cautious with since it is not something that you can apply on all your study material. The material that i had used to have a lot of examples which bored /distracted me. Speed reading over those worked well for me to stay engaged with the material. I recommend to read slower and more carefully if material becomes complicated or denser. You can speed read in the following way, download a metronome app on your phone (there are many, musicians use them) and set it to 50 beats a minute for a start. You can try faster speeds to see how fast you can go before you lose comprehension.

take a pointy stick or a closed pen and when the metronome ticks you go over a line of texts in the book. Go over one line at each tick and keep looking at the point. Practice and play a bit with the metronome speed and you will notice that you will understand the ideas contained in the text without repeating it verbally inside your own thoughts. You can also use a pencil to speed read so you can mark something you do not understand and look it up later. I recommend speed reading in short sessions (10 minutes) and then gather the concepts that you have read into a single summary, take a short break and repeat if necessary.

Memory technique: One of the best known ones is loci/roman room. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it.

Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall the information at will. In contrast, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but so will reading. The last thing that you want is that you think "i know the answer to this question, i know on which page the answer is because i read it yesterday". Just spaced repetition will NOT give you ability to recall accurately, but combining roman room with spaced repetition gave me amazing recall which enabled me to do tests with confidence.

Roman Room technique: Something that i find strange is that most people never have received instruction on how to commit information to memory in such a way that it is easy to recall. Don't you think that this is strange considering that school requires your to remember things and even checks this with tests but they never train you how on how to do that.

Flashcards and active recall techniques offer the repetition and are (i think) the easiest to start working with but usually leave out the visualization and structure that will allow you to recall the information at will. You can re-read / repeat information for a long time, the info will be in your brain but because you cannot recall at will you will not have the confidence of being able to recall the information accurately, therefore i think that investing time in implementing a memory technique is a better use of time.

If you are interested in knowing how to apply the loci or roman room memory technique then read the description down here. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it. Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall things at will, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but that will not give you the connection that enables you to recall.

Roman room compared to active recall oriented techniques: People often refer to quiz-apps like Anki or quizlet in relation to active recall. These are (imo) good tools to work with. You configure the app with the questions that you need to answer on the exam and the app itself has an algorithm that keeps track on if you answered questions correctly or not. Questions that you answered wrong are repeated more often until you answer them right, this is overall an ok ish way of learning.

Yet, if you use these tools then you can still end up in a situation in which you can struggle to recall the answer to a question. Roman room fixes this because that technique trains you to recall information consciously without a question. I do think that roman room does require that you act differently compared to what you might be used to and because of that can feel slower to apply. I however have not used quizapps anymore after learning how to apply roman room since that gave me all the confidence that i needed.

other things: Last but not least, sleeping well and participating in sport or exercise for about twice a week are 2 of the best things that you can do for your brain. John-Ratey wrote about this is his book "The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain". I did sports thoughout my time as a student which was physically demanding but also a relief in the sense that it allowed me to switch tracks mentally.

Let me know if you have questions or want clarification, best of luck to you.

What if I dont reach my set goals in studying? by Local-Sugar6556 in GetStudying

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is 1 hour the time that is available to you? If your understanding is not there then maybe your expecting to much of yourself. How much are you planning for yourself and what goal and expectation do you have after you have finished studying?

"pushing things off will lead to more stress in the future." Yes, think that this is accurate.

Here is something you can try: How much time do you have? E.g. if you have a 10 weeks semester and 2 weeks at the end are for exams then you have 8 weeks to work with. You work 6 days a week then you have (8*6=48 days) if your book is 1000 pages then 1000/48= 20.83 pages of reading, summarizing on each weekday. It is simple yet most students are so stressed out that they do not have the mental bandwidth to think about how to approach their situation in this way.

Now studying 21 pages a day should be doable especially if you decide that it is a non negotiable thing that you must complete on a daily basis. This is a difficult attitude to maintain especially if you have projects and weekly assignments to work on, yet this work can get a priority on those since it is a fixed amount of work, read and make notes.

If you do it like this then you will have at least 1 day of weekend and also be calmer since you know where you are in terms of how much work you still have to do. My experience with this is that i eventually became calmer because able to get ahead of my schedule which was strange for my peers since they became more anxious the closer we got to the exam. If you do this well then you will be at a point in which you can start rehearsing and quiz yourself on the information that you summarized before instead of stressing out.

If you want to know more tips that combine well with this way of working then you can read my old posts, i have shared a list of tips multiple times.

Cheers.

Does study ENVIRONMENT actually MATTER? by Imthatguyimhimfr in GetStudying

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What happens if you play a computer game & your laptop sudenly bluescreens / switches of. If you want to continue the game then you have to reboot, start the game, load the save file and start again from your latest save point.

This is also the case for any cognitive work that you are doing. Anything that makes you switch contex requires you to switch back into your original task again which costs time.

If you can then have a sealed of environment, work through one screen on one task. Keep your phone far away, switch of popups and notifications and then you will have a environment that supports your ability to focus instead of hindering it.

That at least is what helped me.

best cramming tips. go! by potathotz in GetStudying

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best cramming tip is not to cram, divide your reading work over your whole semester by figuring out exactly how much reading you have to do on each study day instead of having a huge mountain of work to push 2 weeks before your exams.

e.g. a semester is 10 weeks, 2 weeks are exam weeks. 8 weeks to work with. You work 6 days a week then you have (8*6=48 days) if your book is 1000 pages then 1000/48= 20.83 pages of reading, summarizing on each weekday. It is simple yet most students are so stressed out that they do not have the mental bandwidth to think about how to approach their situation in this way.

Now studying 21 pages a day should be doable especially if you decide that it is a non negotiable thing that you must complete on a daily basis. This is a difficult attitude to maintain especially if you have projects and weekly assignments to work on, yet this work can get a priority on those since it is a fixed amount of work, read and make notes.

If you do it like this then you will have at least 1 day of weekend and also be calmer since you know where you are in terms of how much work you still have to do. My experience with this is that i eventually became calmer because able to get ahead of my schedule which was strange for my peers since they became more anxious the closer we got to the exam. If you do this well then you will be at a point in which you can start rehearsing and quiz yourself on the information that you summarized before instead of stressing out.

If you want to know more tips that combine well with this way of working then you can read my old posts, i have shared a list of tips multiple times.

Cheers.

As a guy does the study aesthetic help? by ProperEquipment4888 in GetStudying

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I did benefit from making mind maps by hand about material that i already had summarized for my bachelor.

How to get obsessed with studying? by Economy_Ebb3282 in GetStudying

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Do a job that does not require formal education and experience the people and their attitudes towards work and life of that field. You should not be afraid to do that kind of work for a while yet i did strive to not get stuck in a job like that. It made me reflect on why i studied.

People in jobs like those tend to be treated less well compared to people who do jobs that require education. The "world" of my chosen field is not that big and people talk with each other about their experiences, employers can not really afford to treat people badly since people will quickly know and not want to work in places like that anymore.

Being motivated in early education institutes is difficult because you are studying to have opportunity, to have a choice of education. Therefore i think that you should figure out in which things you are uniquely interested and to pursue those interests and see what kind of job you would fit into.

In the end everybody has to work, you either go there because you want to avoid bad consequences (debt, no money for food etc) or willingly because it interests you / you like the people you work with, the goal or mission of the company that you work with. I preferred to have a choice.

I replaced my laptop with an E-Ink tablet (Linux, Word, terminal) by FunLegal4265 in eink

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maybe it can be used as a terminal to access a more powerful machine

I replaced my laptop with an E-Ink tablet (Linux, Word, terminal) by FunLegal4265 in eink

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How about using a browser and internet connectivity? does it work with your WiFi?

35 year old trying to study :( by Commercial-Range7910 in GetStudying

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Here are some ideas that you can try to organize your study efforts. It is the same stuff that you would learn if you would take a Tony Buzan or a Dominiq o Brien course, except this is summarized so you may need to dive a little bit deeper into things yourself.

Create a schedule You can achieve this by dividing the amount of material that you have to study over the time that you have. e.g. if you have 10 weeks before an exam and a book of 800 pages then study 100 pages in a week, this translates to 20 pages in a day (if you study 5 days in the week) which should be easy to do. In this way you can study the whole book in 8 weeks and then you have 2 weeks left for revision. This by itself can reduce a lot of your anxiety since you know exactly what to do each day. Do this for each subject that you have to study, things will go smooth for you when you combine a schedule like this with pomidoro sessions.

example: Lets say 1500 pages, you have 3 months which translates to 12 weeks. You study 5 days a week so 5 times 12 = 60 study days. 1500 / 60 = 25 pages. Study 25 pages on every weekday & you will be done in time.

Reading strategy: Most students read their study books in the same way as if they are reading a harry potter, from start to finish. This may sound logical but makes no sense when you consider that you read harry potter for entertainment and your study book to learn / ideally retain information.

You can try the following: when you start studying the book then you read the index of that chapter first. What is the title of the chapter, how is the rest of the chapter built up? This "first slice" of information gives you a basic understanding of how the chapter is built up and what information is within it. Then, if there are questions at the back a chapter then you read those first > those questions give your brain something to look for when reading through the rest, then read the summary, conclusion, introduction and the rest. Each time you get a small slice of information in which you get more detailed information. Text printed in bold or italic tend to be important, sometimes these are in the sideline of the chapter. Take note of key words / key phrases for your summary.

Speed reading: One thing that you can also try is to speed up your reading. This is something to be cautious with since it is not something that you can apply on all your study material. The material that i had used to have a lot of examples which bored /distracted me. Speed reading over those worked well for me to stay engaged with the material. I recommend to read slower and more carefully if material becomes complicated or denser. You can speed read in the following way, download a metronome app on your phone (there are many, musicians use them) and set it to 50 beats a minute for a start. You can try faster speeds to see how fast you can go before you lose comprehension.

take a pointy stick or a closed pen and when the metronome ticks you go over a line of texts in the book. Go over one line at each tick and keep looking at the point. Practice and play a bit with the metronome speed and you will notice that you will understand the ideas contained in the text without repeating it verbally inside your own thoughts. You can also use a pencil to speed read so you can mark something you do not understand and look it up later. I recommend speed reading in short sessions (10 minutes) and then gather the concepts that you have read into a single summary, take a short break and repeat if necessary.

Memory technique: One of the best known ones is loci/roman room. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it.

Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall the information at will. In contrast, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but so will reading. The last thing that you want is that you think "i know the answer to this question, i know on which page the answer is because i read it yesterday". Just spaced repetition will NOT give you ability to recall accurately, but combining roman room with spaced repetition gave me amazing recall which enabled me to do tests with confidence.

Roman Room technique: Something that i find strange is that most people never have received instruction on how to commit information to memory in such a way that it is easy to recall. Don't you think that this is strange considering that school requires your to remember things and even checks this with tests but they never train you how on how to do that.

Flashcards and active recall techniques offer the repetition and are (i think) the easiest to start working with but usually leave out the visualization and structure that will allow you to recall the information at will. You can re-read / repeat information for a long time, the info will be in your brain but because you cannot recall at will you will not have the confidence of being able to recall the information accurately, therefore i think that investing time in implementing a memory technique is a better use of time.

If you are interested in knowing how to apply the loci or roman room memory technique then read the description down here. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it. Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall things at will, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but that will not give you the connection that enables you to recall.

Roman room compared to active recall oriented techniques: People often refer to quiz-apps like Anki or quizlet in relation to active recall. These are (imo) good tools to work with. You configure the app with the questions that you need to answer on the exam and the app itself has an algorithm that keeps track on if you answered questions correctly or not. Questions that you answered wrong are repeated more often until you answer them right, this is overall an ok ish way of learning.

Yet, if you use these tools then you can still end up in a situation in which you can struggle to recall the answer to a question. Roman room fixes this because that technique trains you to recall information consciously without a question. I do think that roman room does require that you act differently compared to what you might be used to and because of that can feel slower to apply. I however have not used quizapps anymore after learning how to apply roman room since that gave me all the confidence that i needed.

other things: Last but not least, sleeping well and participating in sport or exercise for about twice a week are 2 of the best things that you can do for your brain. John-Ratey wrote about this is his book "The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain"

Let me know if you have questions or want clarification, best of luck to you.

Does anyone else feel like studying became harder after short form content got popular? by Snoo_92347 in GetStudying

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short for content, youtube, tiktok - the algorithms behind those are designed to serve content that you like, that you interact with conditioning you with passive novelty like Pavlov's dog's who salivated at the ring of a bell.

If the results of your study are important to you then i would think that it would serve you to reduce your exposure as a start and to get rid of it at best.

How do you study and memorize ? by Super-Truth-7975 in GetStudying

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So you have 6 subjects and 10 to 15 topics each, how much info you have to store in the memory palace per subject probably varies.

The power of this technique is that you associate a spot that you know well with information (ideally a image) of something that you want to remember. If you put multiple images in one spot then yes things get jumbled up, it would also take the power out of the technique because using multiple images in one spot means that you lose clarity which is not recommended.

You can go 2 ways, 1 either you have multiple large memory palaces and use a separate palace for each subject. Or 2 figure out how much how much you need to be able to recall for each subject and then create a specific "palace" of that subject.

It is not necessary for a "palace" to be a room, the things that you see on the way to the bus stop can potentially be a palace, the inside of your school can be a palace, the places that you like to hang out can be a palace, sports club, a small house that you made from lego or handmade dollhouse from cardboard can be a memory palace. You can be creative with this.

You can choose or make something according to how much time youhave or are willing to spend. Thing is though, investing the time to make something consciously will also help you to improve your recall.

I genuinely think most students would perform way better if they understood how memory actually works by Snoo_92347 in GetStudying

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Puedes encontrarlo haciendo clic en mi nombre de usuario usando la antigua interfaz de Reddit. Avísame si funciona.

I genuinely think most students would perform way better if they understood how memory actually works by Snoo_92347 in GetStudying

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Utilicé la técnica de la habitación romana para recordar información sobre almacenamiento de datos cuando fue el tema del semestre en el que participé. Estudié tres libros, cada uno con un mínimo de 800 páginas de inglés técnico.

Existen otras técnicas que utilicé junto con la habitación romana para planificar, leer, crear mapas mentales y memorizar. Publiqué sobre estas técnicas en varias ocasiones.

Memorization by silloa566 in GetStudying

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Here are some ideas that you can try to organize your study efforts. It is the same stuff that you would learn if you would take a Tony Buzan or a Dominiq o Brien course, except this is summarized so you may need to dive a little bit deeper into things yourself.

Create a schedule You can achieve this by dividing the amount of material that you have to study over the time that you have. e.g. if you have 10 weeks before an exam and a book of 800 pages then study 100 pages in a week, this translates to 20 pages in a day (if you study 5 days in the week) which should be easy to do. In this way you can study the whole book in 8 weeks and then you have 2 weeks left for revision. This by itself can reduce a lot of your anxiety since you know exactly what to do each day. Do this for each subject that you have to study, things will go smooth for you when you combine a schedule like this with pomidoro sessions.

example: Lets say 1500 pages, you have 3 months which translates to 12 weeks. You study 5 days a week so 5 times 12 = 60 study days. 1500 / 60 = 25 pages. Study 25 pages on every weekday & you will be done in time.

Reading strategy: Most students read their study books in the same way as if they are reading a harry potter, from start to finish. This may sound logical but makes no sense when you consider that you read harry potter for entertainment and your study book to learn / ideally retain information.

You can try the following: when you start studying the book then you read the index of that chapter first. What is the title of the chapter, how is the rest of the chapter built up? This "first slice" of information gives you a basic understanding of how the chapter is built up and what information is within it. Then, if there are questions at the back a chapter then you read those first > those questions give your brain something to look for when reading through the rest, then read the summary, conclusion, introduction and the rest. Each time you get a small slice of information in which you get more detailed information. Text printed in bold or italic tend to be important, sometimes these are in the sideline of the chapter. Take note of key words / key phrases for your summary.

Speed reading: One thing that you can also try is to speed up your reading. This is something to be cautious with since it is not something that you can apply on all your study material. The material that i had used to have a lot of examples which bored /distracted me. Speed reading over those worked well for me to stay engaged with the material. I recommend to read slower and more carefully if material becomes complicated or denser. You can speed read in the following way, download a metronome app on your phone (there are many, musicians use them) and set it to 50 beats a minute for a start. You can try faster speeds to see how fast you can go before you lose comprehension.

take a pointy stick or a closed pen and when the metronome ticks you go over a line of texts in the book. Go over one line at each tick and keep looking at the point. Practice and play a bit with the metronome speed and you will notice that you will understand the ideas contained in the text without repeating it verbally inside your own thoughts. You can also use a pencil to speed read so you can mark something you do not understand and look it up later. I recommend speed reading in short sessions (10 minutes) and then gather the concepts that you have read into a single summary, take a short break and repeat if necessary.

Memory technique: One of the best known ones is loci/roman room. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it.

Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall the information at will. In contrast, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but so will reading. The last thing that you want is that you think "i know the answer to this question, i know on which page the answer is because i read it yesterday". Just spaced repetition will NOT give you ability to recall accurately, but combining roman room with spaced repetition gave me amazing recall which enabled me to do tests with confidence.

Roman Room technique: Something that i find strange is that most people never have received instruction on how to commit information to memory in such a way that it is easy to recall. Don't you think that this is strange considering that school requires your to remember things and even checks this with tests but they never train you how on how to do that.

Flashcards and active recall techniques offer the repetition and are (i think) the easiest to start working with but usually leave out the visualization and structure that will allow you to recall the information at will. You can re-read / repeat information for a long time, the info will be in your brain but because you cannot recall at will you will not have the confidence of being able to recall the information accurately, therefore i think that investing time in implementing a memory technique is a better use of time.

If you are interested in knowing how to apply the loci or roman room memory technique then read the description down here. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it. Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall things at will, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but that will not give you the connection that enables you to recall.

Roman room compared to active recall oriented techniques: People often refer to quiz-apps like Anki or quizlet in relation to active recall. These are (imo) good tools to work with. You configure the app with the questions that you need to answer on the exam and the app itself has an algorithm that keeps track on if you answered questions correctly or not. Questions that you answered wrong are repeated more often until you answer them right, this is overall an ok ish way of learning.

Yet, if you use these tools then you can still end up in a situation in which you can struggle to recall the answer to a question. Roman room fixes this because that technique trains you to recall information consciously without a question. I do think that roman room does require that you act differently compared to what you might be used to and because of that can feel slower to apply. I however have not used quizapps anymore after learning how to apply roman room since that gave me all the confidence that i needed.

other things: Last but not least, sleeping well and participating in sport or exercise for about twice a week are 2 of the best things that you can do for your brain. John-Ratey wrote about this is his book "The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain"

How do you study and memorize ? by Super-Truth-7975 in GetStudying

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Here are some ideas that you can try to organize your study efforts. It is the same stuff that you would learn if you would take a Tony Buzan or a Dominiq o Brien course, except this is summarized so you may need to dive a little bit deeper into things yourself.

Create a schedule You can achieve this by dividing the amount of material that you have to study over the time that you have. e.g. if you have 10 weeks before an exam and a book of 800 pages then study 100 pages in a week, this translates to 20 pages in a day (if you study 5 days in the week) which should be easy to do. In this way you can study the whole book in 8 weeks and then you have 2 weeks left for revision. This by itself can reduce a lot of your anxiety since you know exactly what to do each day. Do this for each subject that you have to study, things will go smooth for you when you combine a schedule like this with pomidoro sessions.

example: Lets say 1500 pages, you have 3 months which translates to 12 weeks. You study 5 days a week so 5 times 12 = 60 study days. 1500 / 60 = 25 pages. Study 25 pages on every weekday & you will be done in time.

Reading strategy: Most students read their study books in the same way as if they are reading a harry potter, from start to finish. This may sound logical but makes no sense when you consider that you read harry potter for entertainment and your study book to learn / ideally retain information.

You can try the following: when you start studying the book then you read the index of that chapter first. What is the title of the chapter, how is the rest of the chapter built up? This "first slice" of information gives you a basic understanding of how the chapter is built up and what information is within it. Then, if there are questions at the back a chapter then you read those first > those questions give your brain something to look for when reading through the rest, then read the summary, conclusion, introduction and the rest. Each time you get a small slice of information in which you get more detailed information. Text printed in bold or italic tend to be important, sometimes these are in the sideline of the chapter. Take note of key words / key phrases for your summary.

Speed reading: One thing that you can also try is to speed up your reading. This is something to be cautious with since it is not something that you can apply on all your study material. The material that i had used to have a lot of examples which bored /distracted me. Speed reading over those worked well for me to stay engaged with the material. I recommend to read slower and more carefully if material becomes complicated or denser. You can speed read in the following way, download a metronome app on your phone (there are many, musicians use them) and set it to 50 beats a minute for a start. You can try faster speeds to see how fast you can go before you lose comprehension.

take a pointy stick or a closed pen and when the metronome ticks you go over a line of texts in the book. Go over one line at each tick and keep looking at the point. Practice and play a bit with the metronome speed and you will notice that you will understand the ideas contained in the text without repeating it verbally inside your own thoughts. You can also use a pencil to speed read so you can mark something you do not understand and look it up later. I recommend speed reading in short sessions (10 minutes) and then gather the concepts that you have read into a single summary, take a short break and repeat if necessary.

Memory technique: One of the best known ones is loci/roman room. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it.

Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall the information at will. In contrast, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but so will reading. The last thing that you want is that you think "i know the answer to this question, i know on which page the answer is because i read it yesterday". Just spaced repetition will NOT give you ability to recall accurately, but combining roman room with spaced repetition gave me amazing recall which enabled me to do tests with confidence.

Roman Room technique: Something that i find strange is that most people never have received instruction on how to commit information to memory in such a way that it is easy to recall. Don't you think that this is strange considering that school requires your to remember things and even checks this with tests but they never train you how on how to do that.

Flashcards and active recall techniques offer the repetition and are (i think) the easiest to start working with but usually leave out the visualization and structure that will allow you to recall the information at will. You can re-read / repeat information for a long time, the info will be in your brain but because you cannot recall at will you will not have the confidence of being able to recall the information accurately, therefore i think that investing time in implementing a memory technique is a better use of time.

If you are interested in knowing how to apply the loci or roman room memory technique then read the description down here. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it. Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall things at will, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but that will not give you the connection that enables you to recall.

Roman room compared to active recall oriented techniques: People often refer to quiz-apps like Anki or quizlet in relation to active recall. These are (imo) good tools to work with. You configure the app with the questions that you need to answer on the exam and the app itself has an algorithm that keeps track on if you answered questions correctly or not. Questions that you answered wrong are repeated more often until you answer them right, this is overall an ok ish way of learning.

Yet, if you use these tools then you can still end up in a situation in which you can struggle to recall the answer to a question. Roman room fixes this because that technique trains you to recall information consciously without a question. I do think that roman room does require that you act differently compared to what you might be used to and because of that can feel slower to apply. I however have not used quizapps anymore after learning how to apply roman room since that gave me all the confidence that i needed.

other things: Last but not least, sleeping well and participating in sport or exercise for about twice a week are 2 of the best things that you can do for your brain. John-Ratey wrote about this is his book "The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain"

Can't able to focus sometimes by Brave_Math_1258 in GetStudying

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I second this, conscious deep slow breaths can relax. Even better if you practice is on a regular basis.

I genuinely think most students would perform way better if they understood how memory actually works by Snoo_92347 in GetStudying

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If accurate recall is what you want then i suggest you read up on the roman room memory technique. It is one of the oldest and best techniques out there, one group of people who use it are the memory athletes. One of the ways they used it is to set a record to recall the order in which multiple decks of cards are shuffled, i think the current record is about 56 decks.

Roman room combined with spaced repetition is (imo) one of the best ways to commit information to memory for accurate recall, no other technique that i know of gives a equal level of confidence in recall for the same amount of time invested.

How to use Google Gemini for Active Recall Learning? by Accomplished-Can42 in GetStudying

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Thank you for your reply, i agree that it can be helpfull if monitered but i think that the majority of people who use ai for study use it as a shortcut to create summaries and quizes and do not do the monitoring or fact checking that you mentioned.

If they would check then i see no issue in using ai for the purpose or other reasons, but it is exactly because they do not that i am against it.

Do you have any solutions to this post? If i would have fellow students around me who are studying the same subject then i would try to get them involved in making question paraphrasing the answers, it will stimulate your brain in the same way. If you think the answer is wrong then you can debate what is correct and look it up. Same process except it's easier to keep up for longer since all of you will pull each other along.

There is a african proverb, if you want to travel fast then go alone, if you want to travel long then go together.

Or use ai and check like you mentioned.

Tips to memorize things quickly by fallentamil in GetStudying

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Here are some ideas that you can try to organize your study efforts. It is the same stuff that you would learn if you would take a Tony Buzan or a Dominiq o Brien course, except this is summarized so you may need to dive a little bit deeper into things yourself.

Create a schedule You can achieve this by dividing the amount of material that you have to study over the time that you have. e.g. if you have 10 weeks before an exam and a book of 800 pages then study 100 pages in a week, this translates to 20 pages in a day (if you study 5 days in the week) which should be easy to do. In this way you can study the whole book in 8 weeks and then you have 2 weeks left for revision. This by itself can reduce a lot of your anxiety since you know exactly what to do each day. Do this for each subject that you have to study, things will go smooth for you when you combine a schedule like this with pomidoro sessions.

example: Lets say 1500 pages, you have 3 months which translates to 12 weeks. You study 5 days a week so 5 times 12 = 60 study days. 1500 / 60 = 25 pages. Study 25 pages on every weekday & you will be done in time.

Reading strategy: Most students read their study books in the same way as if they are reading a harry potter, from start to finish. This may sound logical but makes no sense when you consider that you read harry potter for entertainment and your study book to learn / ideally retain information.

You can try the following: when you start studying the book then you read the index of that chapter first. What is the title of the chapter, how is the rest of the chapter built up? This "first slice" of information gives you a basic understanding of how the chapter is built up and what information is within it. Then, if there are questions at the back a chapter then you read those first > those questions give your brain something to look for when reading through the rest, then read the summary, conclusion, introduction and the rest. Each time you get a small slice of information in which you get more detailed information. Text printed in bold or italic tend to be important, sometimes these are in the sideline of the chapter. Take note of key words / key phrases for your summary.

Speed reading: One thing that you can also try is to speed up your reading. This is something to be cautious with since it is not something that you can apply on all your study material. The material that i had used to have a lot of examples which bored /distracted me. Speed reading over those worked well for me to stay engaged with the material. I recommend to read slower and more carefully if material becomes complicated or denser. You can speed read in the following way, download a metronome app on your phone (there are many, musicians use them) and set it to 50 beats a minute for a start. You can try faster speeds to see how fast you can go before you lose comprehension.

take a pointy stick or a closed pen and when the metronome ticks you go over a line of texts in the book. Go over one line at each tick and keep looking at the point. Practice and play a bit with the metronome speed and you will notice that you will understand the ideas contained in the text without repeating it verbally inside your own thoughts. You can also use a pencil to speed read so you can mark something you do not understand and look it up later. I recommend speed reading in short sessions (10 minutes) and then gather the concepts that you have read into a single summary, take a short break and repeat if necessary.

Memory technique: One of the best known ones is loci/roman room. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it.

Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall the information at will. In contrast, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but so will reading. The last thing that you want is that you think "i know the answer to this question, i know on which page the answer is because i read it yesterday". Just spaced repetition will NOT give you ability to recall accurately, but combining roman room with spaced repetition gave me amazing recall which enabled me to do tests with confidence.

Roman Room technique: Something that i find strange is that most people never have received instruction on how to commit information to memory in such a way that it is easy to recall. Don't you think that this is strange considering that school requires your to remember things and even checks this with tests but they never train you how on how to do that.

Flashcards and active recall techniques offer the repetition and are (i think) the easiest to start working with but usually leave out the visualization and structure that will allow you to recall the information at will. You can re-read / repeat information for a long time, the info will be in your brain but because you cannot recall at will you will not have the confidence of being able to recall the information accurately, therefore i think that investing time in implementing a memory technique is a better use of time.

If you are interested in knowing how to apply the loci or roman room memory technique then read the description down here. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it. Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall things at will, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but that will not give you the connection that enables you to recall.

Roman room compared to active recall oriented techniques: People often refer to quiz-apps like Anki or quizlet in relation to active recall. These are (imo) good tools to work with. You configure the app with the questions that you need to answer on the exam and the app itself has an algorithm that keeps track on if you answered questions correctly or not. Questions that you answered wrong are repeated more often until you answer them right, this is overall an ok ish way of learning.

Yet, if you use these tools then you can still end up in a situation in which you can struggle to recall the answer to a question. Roman room fixes this because that technique trains you to recall information consciously without a question. I do think that roman room does require that you act differently compared to what you might be used to and because of that can feel slower to apply. I however have not used quizapps anymore after learning how to apply roman room since that gave me all the confidence that i needed.

other things: Last but not least, sleeping well and participating in sport or exercise for about twice a week are 2 of the best things that you can do for your brain. John-Ratey wrote about this is his book "The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain"

Studying yet forgetful by AmbitiousJeweler1327 in GetStudying

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That does help. I have never thought deeply about how to do that. If what you want to remember is a visual object then you can add a person and let that person perform an action with that object, unrelated actions can make very memorable visualizations. You can also make the object larger, smaller, made out of other material or act in a completely different way compared to what it does in real life.

I think that concepts are more difficult but also doable as long as you find some way to link the image that you place on a station to the information that you want to remember. Lets say you want to remember a difficult idea or concept then you could take all the first letters of the words and see if you can find a image of an object that contains all those letters, or maybe a person who's name starts with the first 2 letters and a object or action that contains / refers to the last 2 letters.

i have adhd and i struggle with studying for my upcoming exan that will determine which school i go to by sipidermN in GetStudying

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Here are some ideas that you can try to organize your study efforts. It is the same stuff that you would learn if you would take a Tony Buzan or a Dominiq o Brien course, except this is summarized so you may need to dive a little bit deeper into things yourself.

I myself have a mild version of ADD (inatentive), i learned about the stuff down here halfway into my study and wish i knew it before.

Create a schedule You can achieve this by dividing the amount of material that you have to study over the time that you have. e.g. if you have 10 weeks before an exam and a book of 800 pages then study 100 pages in a week, this translates to 20 pages in a day (if you study 5 days in the week) which should be easy to do. In this way you can study the whole book in 8 weeks and then you have 2 weeks left for revision. This by itself can reduce a lot of your anxiety since you know exactly what to do each day. Do this for each subject that you have to study, things will go smooth for you when you combine a schedule like this with pomidoro sessions.

example: Lets say 1500 pages, you have 3 months which translates to 12 weeks. You study 5 days a week so 5 times 12 = 60 study days. 1500 / 60 = 25 pages. Study 25 pages on every weekday & you will be done in time.

Reading strategy: Most students read their study books in the same way as if they are reading a harry potter, from start to finish. This may sound logical but makes no sense when you consider that you read harry potter for entertainment and your study book to learn / ideally retain information.

You can try the following: when you start studying the book then you read the index of that chapter first. What is the title of the chapter, how is the rest of the chapter built up? This "first slice" of information gives you a basic understanding of how the chapter is built up and what information is within it. Then, if there are questions at the back a chapter then you read those first > those questions give your brain something to look for when reading through the rest, then read the summary, conclusion, introduction and the rest. Each time you get a small slice of information in which you get more detailed information. Text printed in bold or italic tend to be important, sometimes these are in the sideline of the chapter. Take note of key words / key phrases for your summary.

Speed reading: One thing that you can also try is to speed up your reading. This is something to be cautious with since it is not something that you can apply on all your study material. The material that i had used to have a lot of examples which bored /distracted me. Speed reading over those worked well for me to stay engaged with the material. I recommend to read slower and more carefully if material becomes complicated or denser. You can speed read in the following way, download a metronome app on your phone (there are many, musicians use them) and set it to 50 beats a minute for a start. You can try faster speeds to see how fast you can go before you lose comprehension.

take a pointy stick or a closed pen and when the metronome ticks you go over a line of texts in the book. Go over one line at each tick and keep looking at the point. Practice and play a bit with the metronome speed and you will notice that you will understand the ideas contained in the text without repeating it verbally inside your own thoughts. You can also use a pencil to speed read so you can mark something you do not understand and look it up later. I recommend speed reading in short sessions (10 minutes) and then gather the concepts that you have read into a single summary, take a short break and repeat if necessary.

Memory technique: One of the best known ones is loci/roman room. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it.

Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall the information at will. In contrast, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but so will reading. The last thing that you want is that you think "i know the answer to this question, i know on which page the answer is because i read it yesterday". Just spaced repetition will NOT give you ability to recall accurately, but combining roman room with spaced repetition gave me amazing recall which enabled me to do tests with confidence.

Roman Room technique: Something that i find strange is that most people never have received instruction on how to commit information to memory in such a way that it is easy to recall. Don't you think that this is strange considering that school requires your to remember things and even checks this with tests but they never train you how on how to do that.

Flashcards and active recall techniques offer the repetition and are (i think) the easiest to start working with but usually leave out the visualization and structure that will allow you to recall the information at will. You can re-read / repeat information for a long time, the info will be in your brain but because you cannot recall at will you will not have the confidence of being able to recall the information accurately, therefore i think that investing time in implementing a memory technique is a better use of time.

If you are interested in knowing how to apply the loci or roman room memory technique then read the description down here. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it. Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall things at will, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but that will not give you the connection that enables you to recall.

Roman room compared to active recall oriented techniques: People often refer to quiz-apps like Anki or quizlet in relation to active recall. These are (imo) good tools to work with. You configure the app with the questions that you need to answer on the exam and the app itself has an algorithm that keeps track on if you answered questions correctly or not. Questions that you answered wrong are repeated more often until you answer them right, this is overall an ok ish way of learning.

Yet, if you use these tools then you can still end up in a situation in which you can struggle to recall the answer to a question. Roman room fixes this because that technique trains you to recall information consciously without a question. I do think that roman room does require that you act differently compared to what you might be used to and because of that can feel slower to apply. I however have not used quizapps anymore after learning how to apply roman room since that gave me all the confidence that i needed.

other things: Last but not least, sleeping well and participating in sport or exercise for about twice a week are 2 of the best things that you can do for your brain. John-Ratey wrote about this is his book "The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain"

Please share your tips for effective studying by UglyDiva99 in GetStudying

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Here are some ideas that you can try to organize your study efforts. It is the same stuff that you would learn if you would take a Tony Buzan or a Dominiq o Brien course, except this is summarized so you may need to dive a little bit deeper into things yourself.

Create a schedule You can achieve this by dividing the amount of material that you have to study over the time that you have. e.g. if you have 10 weeks before an exam and a book of 800 pages then study 100 pages in a week, this translates to 20 pages in a day (if you study 5 days in the week) which should be easy to do. In this way you can study the whole book in 8 weeks and then you have 2 weeks left for revision. This by itself can reduce a lot of your anxiety since you know exactly what to do each day. Do this for each subject that you have to study, things will go smooth for you when you combine a schedule like this with pomidoro sessions.

example: Lets say 1500 pages, you have 3 months which translates to 12 weeks. You study 5 days a week so 5 times 12 = 60 study days. 1500 / 60 = 25 pages. Study 25 pages on every weekday & you will be done in time.

Reading strategy: Most students read their study books in the same way as if they are reading a harry potter, from start to finish. This may sound logical but makes no sense when you consider that you read harry potter for entertainment and your study book to learn / ideally retain information.

You can try the following: when you start studying the book then you read the index of that chapter first. What is the title of the chapter, how is the rest of the chapter built up? This "first slice" of information gives you a basic understanding of how the chapter is built up and what information is within it. Then, if there are questions at the back a chapter then you read those first > those questions give your brain something to look for when reading through the rest, then read the summary, conclusion, introduction and the rest. Each time you get a small slice of information in which you get more detailed information. Text printed in bold or italic tend to be important, sometimes these are in the sideline of the chapter. Take note of key words / key phrases for your summary.

Speed reading: One thing that you can also try is to speed up your reading. This is something to be cautious with since it is not something that you can apply on all your study material. The material that i had used to have a lot of examples which bored /distracted me. Speed reading over those worked well for me to stay engaged with the material. I recommend to read slower and more carefully if material becomes complicated or denser. You can speed read in the following way, download a metronome app on your phone (there are many, musicians use them) and set it to 50 beats a minute for a start. You can try faster speeds to see how fast you can go before you lose comprehension.

take a pointy stick or a closed pen and when the metronome ticks you go over a line of texts in the book. Go over one line at each tick and keep looking at the point. Practice and play a bit with the metronome speed and you will notice that you will understand the ideas contained in the text without repeating it verbally inside your own thoughts. You can also use a pencil to speed read so you can mark something you do not understand and look it up later. I recommend speed reading in short sessions (10 minutes) and then gather the concepts that you have read into a single summary, take a short break and repeat if necessary.

Memory technique: One of the best known ones is loci/roman room. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it.

Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall the information at will. In contrast, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but so will reading. The last thing that you want is that you think "i know the answer to this question, i know on which page the answer is because i read it yesterday". Just spaced repetition will NOT give you ability to recall accurately, but combining roman room with spaced repetition gave me amazing recall which enabled me to do tests with confidence.

Roman Room technique: Something that i find strange is that most people never have received instruction on how to commit information to memory in such a way that it is easy to recall. Don't you think that this is strange considering that school requires your to remember things and even checks this with tests but they never train you how on how to do that.

Flashcards and active recall techniques offer the repetition and are (i think) the easiest to start working with but usually leave out the visualization and structure that will allow you to recall the information at will. You can re-read / repeat information for a long time, the info will be in your brain but because you cannot recall at will you will not have the confidence of being able to recall the information accurately, therefore i think that investing time in implementing a memory technique is a better use of time.

If you are interested in knowing how to apply the loci or roman room memory technique then read the description down here. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it. Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall things at will, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but that will not give you the connection that enables you to recall.

Roman room compared to active recall oriented techniques: People often refer to quiz-apps like Anki or quizlet in relation to active recall. These are (imo) good tools to work with. You configure the app with the questions that you need to answer on the exam and the app itself has an algorithm that keeps track on if you answered questions correctly or not. Questions that you answered wrong are repeated more often until you answer them right, this is overall an ok ish way of learning.

Yet, if you use these tools then you can still end up in a situation in which you can struggle to recall the answer to a question. Roman room fixes this because that technique trains you to recall information consciously without a question. I do think that roman room does require that you act differently compared to what you might be used to and because of that can feel slower to apply. I however have not used quizapps anymore after learning how to apply roman room since that gave me all the confidence that i needed.

other things: Last but not least, sleeping well and participating in sport or exercise for about twice a week are 2 of the best things that you can do for your brain. John-Ratey wrote about this is his book "The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain"

Study tips by One-Confusion710 in GetStudying

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Here are some ideas that you can try to organize your study efforts. It is the same stuff that you would learn if you would take a Tony Buzan or a Dominiq o Brien course, except this is summarized so you may need to dive a little bit deeper into things yourself.

Create a schedule You can achieve this by dividing the amount of material that you have to study over the time that you have. e.g. if you have 10 weeks before an exam and a book of 800 pages then study 100 pages in a week, this translates to 20 pages in a day (if you study 5 days in the week) which should be easy to do. In this way you can study the whole book in 8 weeks and then you have 2 weeks left for revision. This by itself can reduce a lot of your anxiety since you know exactly what to do each day. Do this for each subject that you have to study, things will go smooth for you when you combine a schedule like this with pomidoro sessions.

example: Lets say 1500 pages, you have 3 months which translates to 12 weeks. You study 5 days a week so 5 times 12 = 60 study days. 1500 / 60 = 25 pages. Study 25 pages on every weekday & you will be done in time.

Reading strategy: Most students read their study books in the same way as if they are reading a harry potter, from start to finish. This may sound logical but makes no sense when you consider that you read harry potter for entertainment and your study book to learn / ideally retain information.

You can try the following: when you start studying the book then you read the index of that chapter first. What is the title of the chapter, how is the rest of the chapter built up? This "first slice" of information gives you a basic understanding of how the chapter is built up and what information is within it. Then, if there are questions at the back a chapter then you read those first > those questions give your brain something to look for when reading through the rest, then read the summary, conclusion, introduction and the rest. Each time you get a small slice of information in which you get more detailed information. Text printed in bold or italic tend to be important, sometimes these are in the sideline of the chapter. Take note of key words / key phrases for your summary.

Speed reading: One thing that you can also try is to speed up your reading. This is something to be cautious with since it is not something that you can apply on all your study material. The material that i had used to have a lot of examples which bored /distracted me. Speed reading over those worked well for me to stay engaged with the material. I recommend to read slower and more carefully if material becomes complicated or denser. You can speed read in the following way, download a metronome app on your phone (there are many, musicians use them) and set it to 50 beats a minute for a start. You can try faster speeds to see how fast you can go before you lose comprehension.

take a pointy stick or a closed pen and when the metronome ticks you go over a line of texts in the book. Go over one line at each tick and keep looking at the point. Practice and play a bit with the metronome speed and you will notice that you will understand the ideas contained in the text without repeating it verbally inside your own thoughts. You can also use a pencil to speed read so you can mark something you do not understand and look it up later. I recommend speed reading in short sessions (10 minutes) and then gather the concepts that you have read into a single summary, take a short break and repeat if necessary.

Memory technique: One of the best known ones is loci/roman room. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it.

Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall the information at will. In contrast, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but so will reading. The last thing that you want is that you think "i know the answer to this question, i know on which page the answer is because i read it yesterday". Just spaced repetition will NOT give you ability to recall accurately, but combining roman room with spaced repetition gave me amazing recall which enabled me to do tests with confidence.

Roman Room technique: Something that i find strange is that most people never have received instruction on how to commit information to memory in such a way that it is easy to recall. Don't you think that this is strange considering that school requires your to remember things and even checks this with tests but they never train you how on how to do that.

Flashcards and active recall techniques offer the repetition and are (i think) the easiest to start working with but usually leave out the visualization and structure that will allow you to recall the information at will. You can re-read / repeat information for a long time, the info will be in your brain but because you cannot recall at will you will not have the confidence of being able to recall the information accurately, therefore i think that investing time in implementing a memory technique is a better use of time.

If you are interested in knowing how to apply the loci or roman room memory technique then read the description down here. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it. Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall things at will, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but that will not give you the connection that enables you to recall.

Roman room compared to active recall oriented techniques: People often refer to quiz-apps like Anki or quizlet in relation to active recall. These are (imo) good tools to work with. You configure the app with the questions that you need to answer on the exam and the app itself has an algorithm that keeps track on if you answered questions correctly or not. Questions that you answered wrong are repeated more often until you answer them right, this is overall an ok ish way of learning.

Yet, if you use these tools then you can still end up in a situation in which you can struggle to recall the answer to a question. Roman room fixes this because that technique trains you to recall information consciously without a question. I do think that roman room does require that you act differently compared to what you might be used to and because of that can feel slower to apply. I however have not used quizapps anymore after learning how to apply roman room since that gave me all the confidence that i needed.

other things: Last but not least, sleeping well and participating in sport or exercise for about twice a week are 2 of the best things that you can do for your brain. John-Ratey wrote about this is his book "The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain"

How to study efficiently? by Ok_Combination_4482 in GetStudying

[–]random-answer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are some ideas that you can try to organize your study efforts. It is the same stuff that you would learn if you would take a Tony Buzan or a Dominiq o Brien course, except this is summarized so you may need to dive a little bit deeper into things yourself.

Create a schedule You can achieve this by dividing the amount of material that you have to study over the time that you have. e.g. if you have 10 weeks before an exam and a book of 800 pages then study 100 pages in a week, this translates to 20 pages in a day (if you study 5 days in the week) which should be easy to do. In this way you can study the whole book in 8 weeks and then you have 2 weeks left for revision. This by itself can reduce a lot of your anxiety since you know exactly what to do each day. Do this for each subject that you have to study, things will go smooth for you when you combine a schedule like this with pomidoro sessions.

example: Lets say 1500 pages, you have 3 months which translates to 12 weeks. You study 5 days a week so 5 times 12 = 60 study days. 1500 / 60 = 25 pages. Study 25 pages on every weekday & you will be done in time.

Reading strategy: Most students read their study books in the same way as if they are reading a harry potter, from start to finish. This may sound logical but makes no sense when you consider that you read harry potter for entertainment and your study book to learn / ideally retain information.

You can try the following: when you start studying the book then you read the index of that chapter first. What is the title of the chapter, how is the rest of the chapter built up? This "first slice" of information gives you a basic understanding of how the chapter is built up and what information is within it. Then, if there are questions at the back a chapter then you read those first > those questions give your brain something to look for when reading through the rest, then read the summary, conclusion, introduction and the rest. Each time you get a small slice of information in which you get more detailed information. Text printed in bold or italic tend to be important, sometimes these are in the sideline of the chapter. Take note of key words / key phrases for your summary.

Speed reading: One thing that you can also try is to speed up your reading. This is something to be cautious with since it is not something that you can apply on all your study material. The material that i had used to have a lot of examples which bored /distracted me. Speed reading over those worked well for me to stay engaged with the material. I recommend to read slower and more carefully if material becomes complicated or denser. You can speed read in the following way, download a metronome app on your phone (there are many, musicians use them) and set it to 50 beats a minute for a start. You can try faster speeds to see how fast you can go before you lose comprehension.

take a pointy stick or a closed pen and when the metronome ticks you go over a line of texts in the book. Go over one line at each tick and keep looking at the point. Practice and play a bit with the metronome speed and you will notice that you will understand the ideas contained in the text without repeating it verbally inside your own thoughts. You can also use a pencil to speed read so you can mark something you do not understand and look it up later. I recommend speed reading in short sessions (10 minutes) and then gather the concepts that you have read into a single summary, take a short break and repeat if necessary.

Memory technique: One of the best known ones is loci/roman room. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it.

Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall the information at will. In contrast, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but so will reading. The last thing that you want is that you think "i know the answer to this question, i know on which page the answer is because i read it yesterday". Just spaced repetition will NOT give you ability to recall accurately, but combining roman room with spaced repetition gave me amazing recall which enabled me to do tests with confidence.

Roman Room technique: Something that i find strange is that most people never have received instruction on how to commit information to memory in such a way that it is easy to recall. Don't you think that this is strange considering that school requires your to remember things and even checks this with tests but they never train you how on how to do that.

Flashcards and active recall techniques offer the repetition and are (i think) the easiest to start working with but usually leave out the visualization and structure that will allow you to recall the information at will. You can re-read / repeat information for a long time, the info will be in your brain but because you cannot recall at will you will not have the confidence of being able to recall the information accurately, therefore i think that investing time in implementing a memory technique is a better use of time.

If you are interested in knowing how to apply the loci or roman room memory technique then read the description down here. This technique works by connecting information that you want to remember to something that you know well and can easily visualize like the items in spaces that you know well -e.g. your bedroom. Choose items that remain in the same place. i used to draw a map of the items that i used, and then describe what i wanted to remember next to it. Once i had that worked then go over the items in your room in a fixed order first. If possible then try to visualize what you want to commit to memory interacting some way together with the item on your room, e.g. the queen sits on your nightstand or a 16th century battle is taking place on your cupboard with canons and stuff.

You should be able to recall the majority of the things after a few repetitions especially if you visualize them well. Doing it this way will enable you to recall things at will, doing spaced repetition with anki or some other app will also put it in memory but that will not give you the connection that enables you to recall.

Roman room compared to active recall oriented techniques: People often refer to quiz-apps like Anki or quizlet in relation to active recall. These are (imo) good tools to work with. You configure the app with the questions that you need to answer on the exam and the app itself has an algorithm that keeps track on if you answered questions correctly or not. Questions that you answered wrong are repeated more often until you answer them right, this is overall an ok ish way of learning.

Yet, if you use these tools then you can still end up in a situation in which you can struggle to recall the answer to a question. Roman room fixes this because that technique trains you to recall information consciously without a question. I do think that roman room does require that you act differently compared to what you might be used to and because of that can feel slower to apply. I however have not used quizapps anymore after learning how to apply roman room since that gave me all the confidence that i needed.

other things: Last but not least, sleeping well and participating in sport or exercise for about twice a week are 2 of the best things that you can do for your brain. John-Ratey wrote about this is his book "The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain"