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"I Don't Know "I Don't Know Where To Begin"Where To Begin"
"I read It. I "I read It. I understand it. understand it. But I just can't But I just can't
get it to sink in"get it to sink in"
"I've got so much "I've got so much to study . . . and to study . . . and
so little time"so little time"
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““I panic in exams I panic in exams and forget and forget
everything"everything"
"I can’t "I can’t remember stuff remember stuff
well enough"well enough"
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"There's too "There's too much to much to
remember"remember"
"I Knew It A "I Knew It A Minute Ago"Minute Ago"
"I need to cram "I need to cram before a test to before a test to keep it fresh in keep it fresh in
my mind"my mind"
"I'm going to stay "I'm going to stay up all night 'til I up all night 'til I
get this"get this"
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"I'm SO bored”"I'm SO bored”
Leaving Revision until the last minute
Just reading notes over and over again
Writing notes out over and over again
Writing essays and trying to learn by learning them
off by heart
Finding ways of putting off revision
I can’t get myself started
I can’t cope with the boredom- I start to
daydream and wonder why I’m bothering
I start to panic and think I’ll never be able to
remember it all
SOME IDEAS
7 tips
•1. Know your own attention span. •2. Make sure you understand what you are trying
to learn. •3. Vary your studying
•4. Space your studying of a topic or area and repeat your study several times.
•5. Organise the information that you are trying to learn. Check your memory style.
•6. VISUAL MEMORY TECHNIQUES THAT WORK!•7. Learn then review, Learn again then review
again
1. Pay 1. Pay Attention!!!!Attention!!!!
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Attention is a muscle
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How we focus our attention decides what we
see
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Your focus is your reality
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You are growing up in a new reality
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10 texts every waking hour!!
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‘Information consumes the attention of its recipients’
‘‘A WEALTH of information creates A WEALTH of information creates a POVERTY of attention’a POVERTY of attention’
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•Running your eyes over a page of notes , then realising
you haven’t understood or taken in anything
•Sat in a lesson and ‘tuned-out’
•Performed a task on ‘auto-pilot’.
Attention research has shown
• We learn best with FOCUSED attention
• Better the focus, better the neural lock-in
If YOU don’t take a break, your brain will go on one without you anyway-
-and your brain might decide to go on break just when you’re trying to learn the most important piece of
work.
The amount of time a person can sustain attention differs from person to person and from task to task.
You will know when you’ve reached your limit because your mind will start to wander.
Know your own attention span
2. Make sure you 2. Make sure you understand what you are understand what you are
studyingstudying
Interpretation means reallyreally understanding what you’re
trying to learn, thinking deeply about each part,
thoroughly understanding the information you will
need.
If you don’t understand, you won’t learn or remember.And, if you only ‘sort of’ understand, you’ll only ‘sort of’ learn or remember.So how do you know if you thoroughly understand, or you only ‘sort of’ understand?When you thoroughly understand you will REMEMBERREMEMBER more.
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Now is the time to make sure that you really
UNDERSTAND all the topics you are trying to
revise
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Go online or use past papers
Make a note of any topic you don’t understandAsk your teacher/parents/friends
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3. VARIATION3. VARIATION
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TRIAL AND ERROR
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4. Spacing and 4. Spacing and RepetitionRepetition
You have 2 exams the next day – you have 4
hours study time
How do you make the best use of this limited time?
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You need to study a topic area more than once – hence the repetition.
Spacing your study is another way of increasing variation.
5. Organization 5. Organization and Structureand Structure
Memory thrives on organisation
Plum Elbow giraffe Caravan
Puppy Banana foot apple
pony cherry barge bungalow
Now try and write down the words you can
remember.
Now look at this list
FRUIT ANIMAL HOME BODY
Plum giraffe house foot
Banana Puppy apartment knee
apple donkey bungalow elbow
cherry pony caravan hand
Now try and write down the words you can
remember.
Compare your scores
Organise the topic in a way that best suits you Flash cardsMind mapsRevision headings provided by teachersFiles/Folders*DIARIES*
How good is your memory?
Where do you feel your memory strengths lie?
Why don't we use our memory to its fullest potential?
For some odd reason, we tag certain information and remember it well.
RIRO
Check your memory style
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WHAT exactly made you remember those words in
particular?
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chair
saucercog kitchen LOG hobby butter
cheesecircus green Spain essay harp
windy gink student jog pills sandwich
sick walnut pong Doctor Gandhi plate
JAM FRED sneeze sad maybe holiday
fog happy tutor INDIA hand bandage
blue lost table book kneel gloom
seaLenin dog merry PINK
chair
saucercog kitchen LOG hobby butter
cheesecircus green Spain essay harp
windy gink student jog pills sandwich
sick walnut pong Doctor Gandhi plate
JAM FRED sneeze sad maybe holiday
fog happy tutor INDIA hand bandage
blue lost table book kneel gloom
seaLenin dog merry PINK
chair
saucercog kitchen LOG hobby butter
cheesecircus green Spain essay harp
windy gink student jog pills sandwich
sick walnut pong Doctor Gandhi plate
JAM FRED sneeze sad maybe holiday
fog happy tutor INDIA hand bandage
blue lost table book kneel gloom
seaLenin dog merry PINK
chair
saucercog kitchen LOG hobby butter
cheesecircus green Spain essay harp
windy gink student jog pills sandwich
sick walnut pong Doctor Gandhi plate
JAM FRED sneeze sad maybe holiday
fog happy tutor INDIA hand bandage
blue lost table book kneel gloom
seaLenin dog merry PINK
chair
saucercog kitchen LOG hobby butter
cheesecircus green Spain essay harp
windy gink student jog pills sandwich
sick walnut pong Doctor Gandhi plate
JAM FRED sneeze sad maybe holiday
fog happy tutor INDIA hand bandage
blue lost table book kneel gloom
seaLenin dog merry PINK
chair
saucercog kitchen LOG hobby butter
cheesecircus green Spain essay harp
windy gink student jog pills sandwich
sick walnut pong Doctor Gandhi plate
JAM FRED sneeze sad maybe holiday
fog happy tutor INDIA hand bandage
blue lost table book kneel gloom
seaLenin dog merry PINK
chair
saucercog kitchen LOG hobby butter
cheesecircus green Spain essay harp
windy gink student jog pills sandwich
sick walnut pong Doctor Gandhi plate
JAM FRED sneeze sad maybe holiday
fog happy tutor INDIA hand bandage
blue lost table book kneel gloom
seaLenin dog merry PINK
chair
saucercog kitchen LOG hobby butter
cheesecircus green Spain essay harp
windy gink student jog pills sandwich
sick walnut pong Doctor Gandhi plate
JAM FRED sneeze sad maybe holiday
fog happy tutor INDIA hand bandage
blue lost table book kneel gloom
seaLenin dog merry PINK
chair
saucercog kitchen LOG hobby butter
cheesecircus green Spain essay harp
windy gink student jog pills sandwich
sick walnut pong Doctor Gandhi plate
JAM FRED sneeze sad maybe holiday
fog happy tutor INDIA hand bandage
blue lost table book kneel gloom
Left/Right BrainWhich ever preference – try to use the other side tooTry to combine a mixture of memory strategiesLook at itRepeat it with rhythmNumber itGive it a shapeTurn it into a diagram
Say it out loudSing itDraw itColour itAct it outMake it bizarreUse ANY device to make it more memorable
SYNAESTHESIASYNAESTHESIA
Our memories are far better than we give them
credit!!
6. Visualization and 6. Visualization and Mental Mental
ReinstatementReinstatement
The use of IMAGES and MEMORY
The power of IMAGES
Exaggeration
Bizarre Humour
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Movement
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Sexual Imagery
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Try and apply some of these techniques
““How can the use of How can the use of images improve my images improve my
memory ?”memory ?”
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How can this help my revision?
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DIAMETER
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DIAMETER
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RAYS - RADIUS
url
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CHORD
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TANGENT
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ARCARCH
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CIRCUS RINGCIRCUMFERENCE
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SLICE
SECTOR
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SEGMENT
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Shapes and Angles
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PerPENdicular
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PARAllell
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CONGRUENTEXACTLY the same size and shape
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SIMILARSame shape but different size
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ISOSCELES TRIANGLE2 equal sides
2 equal angles
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VOLUME How much an object can
hold
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Key to Memory
MNEMONICS
Mnemonics
Any memory-assisting technique that helps us to associate new information with something familiar.
Some examples :
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ROY G. BIVROY G. BIV
METHOD OF LOCI
Take a list that would be useful to know in order
1 Hair1 Hair2 Eyes2 Eyes3 Neck3 Neck4 Chest4 Chest5.Navel5.Navel6.Knee6.Knee7.Feet7.Feet
1.Radio Waves
2.Microwave
3.Infra Red
4.Visible light
5. Ultra Violet
6.X Rays
7. Gamma Rays
1 Hair1 Hair2 Eyes2 Eyes3 Neck3 Neck4 Chest4 Chest5.Navel5.Navel6.Knee6.Knee7.Feet7.Feet
7. Generate, generate, 7. Generate, generate, generate! Retrieve, generate! Retrieve, retrieve, retrieve!retrieve, retrieve!
It’s well known that people will tend to remember the first thing that they learn and the last thing that they learn (these effects are known as primacy and recency).
First part
Last part
Primacy
effectRecency
effect
60 minutes
1hour is too longAge +2minutes
Maximum 30 minutesTake a break
With more beginnings and ends and less middle we can actually work less
and learn more.
BREAK BREAK
60 minutes
What about once you've finished
learning?
What happens to our learning within 24
hours?
Research suggests we forget around
80% within a day!
To combat this, go back to the way the brain learns by making connections.
•The more you do something, the stronger the connections become.
•Cells that fire together, wire together
•After every period of learning, spend five to ten minutes reviewing what you've just
learned.
Curve of forgetting
By getting into the habit of this review cycle you
can improve your memory by 400%.
Curve of forgetting
GCSE EXAMSGCSE EXAMS
You can do You can do this!this!
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Keep the lid off the jar
ARE YOU GOING TO FINISH STRONG?