"I Don't Know Where To Begin" "I read It. I understand it. But I just can't get it to sink in"

"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"



"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"



"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

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

WHAT exactly made you remember those words in

particular?


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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



Movement



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?

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