With the alarmingly increasing availability of information to people nowadays, the need for speed reading is also on the rise. It is a collection of various techniques and methods that help in increasing your reading speed without actually reducing your retention and comprehension capabilities. This is becoming more and more popular among students and professionals [...]
Always keep one thing in mind – “Good Leaders are Good Readers”. To become a successful student, you must have a good study routine. Successful kids apply many good habits to all their classes. Read about some excellent study routine and try to develop the study pattern that you do not comprise. Superior study [...]
In our last blog post, we looked at some ways to become a more effective learner. We summarized Five main points. They include the following: 1. Memory Improvement Basics 2. Keep Learning and Practicing New Things 3. Learn In Multiple Ways 4. Teach What You Have Learnt To Another Person 5. Utilizing Previous Learning To [...]
Putting facts to memory by brute force will not make you gain the most important result from studying, which is, comprehension. And to be honest, it will be very boring. Studying should be fun – all about thoughtful exploration and discovering new things. When we cram things, we tend to forget them immediately our tests [...]
This was the question that someone named Dan asked: Why do we forget people's names when we first meet them? I can remember all kinds of other details about a person but completely forget their name. Even after a lengthy conversation. It's really embarrassing. He's not alone. We all are guilty, and it's not because [...]
Mnemonic techniques or systems according to Samuel do not replace the basic principles of learning and memory but they make use of them. Meaningfulness: Through the application of rhymes, patterns and associations, mnemonics techniques and systems makes any material meaningful, even though they are inherently without meaning, they get wide-spelt meaning. Organization: As mental filing [...]
We recall more of items, which are associated by repetitions sense, rhyming etc and more of things which are outstanding or unique Information that can be reconstructed can be remembered if the information is understood in the first place. When memorizing information continually ask yourself: how can I recall the information back if I forget [...]
I deem it necessary to let you be in the know of the memory types that there is from the get-go so you can learn to harness its potentials effectively. First of the list is 1.) Procedural memory which is the memory of knowing how to do things, followed by the, 2.)Propositional memory which is [...]
In the 19th century, South Indians can simultaneously keep in mind and do the following things and afterwards correctly repeat the whole: Play a game of chess without seeing the chess board; direct the movement of a knight so that it should make the circuit of the board within the outline of a horse traced [...]
According to a research, grape juice can indeed improve our short-term memory and motor skills significantly. This is because grape juice is effective in increasing the production of the neurotransmitter dopamine (a chemical released by nerve cells to send signals to other nerve cells) in our brain. Aside from the well-known fact that [...]