Jun
20
It’s exams time!
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In times when you study hard, you may want to know more about things that you can do to be less forgetful. Donald Clark has recently had an excellent post about it. So what does he say?
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Basicallly, Clark recommends:
spaced practice, little and often, the regular rehearsal and practice of the knowledge/skill over a period of time to elaborate and allow deep processing to fix long-term memories.
Spaced practice actually means learning over a longer period of time. You should do things like
- reherse regularly what you’ve learnt – you regularly reflect/think about what you’ve learnt and you should do that every day (perhaps before you go to bed)
- take notes while you’re sudying and then reread them a few times, organize them or even rewrite them in a more organized way – this can improve your learning by 20-30%
- blog about your learning experience – those who don’t blog may want to discuss what they learnt with their friends – the best effect can be achieved if you do that throughout the course
- repeat what you learnt during the previous lesson before the next one – you should do this throughout the course
- do your homework regularly, do exercises
- study regularly: little but over a longer period of time works best
Reading about the topics that you’re trying to cover from several sources (different books, articles, reports) is also a helpful strategy. You soon discover what professionals agree about, what they don’t and why not. This adds a new, more realistic dimension to the content you’re trying to learn. Of course, you do that over a longer period of time. Actually this is something you should never stop doing: only the topics change. Later on in life you just go on to read about the topics that you’re interested in or that you need to look into so that you can understand work-related problems better.
Learning is hard work and most of the time a lonely kind of work too. Knowledge on the other hand is what you get. It is a pleasing and satisfying experience. It brings pride in oneself and self-confidence. Knowledge is empowering – it helps us do good.
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