I was a student once, sat for many exams to prove my metal and seems like this is still the life for many a student. A month or so before exam time is crunch time–time to burn the midnight oil, sleep less and hope to God that you can remember everything you studied. Interestingly no matter that they say memorising is not critical in exams–its understanding, strong memory is still the key to success in exams (this is from experience coaching kids for exams). Sometimes you have to remember the understanding not just the facts. So if you go for a course that purportedly helps you ace your exams you will most likely be thought memorising techniques more than anything else. Of course its all nicely packaged into a seminar. This is the way it will be I guess until we find a better solution to qualifying students instead of exams.
I mean the days when memory is the cornerstone of intelligence is probably coming to an end. With the internet and future development in accessibility to it all you may need is a wrist watch to help you remember facts. These are the days of–oh well, I'll just google it. How long before students can't be stopped from taking a computer in one form or another along for their exams.
For now of course the traditional methods still rule and over the years we have come to catalog the many techniques we creatively use to remember stuff for which we now have fancy names like mind-mapping, bubble and double bubbles, 'visceralisation' etc. The generations of the 21st century who have been growing up with the internet need to be taught memory techniques that I and my friends as students in the 80's used to come up with ourselves out of sheer necessity. While so many of these techniques are simply common sense to me, students today are often lacking in coming up with creative ways to remember facts and figures because there is little practical need until exam crunch time reigns in.
If you are a student looking for such techniques or a teacher or parent looking to help your student or child with their study this online tutorial by Scott H. Young can help. Mind-mapping is of course well represented in many online sites. Mr. Young's tutorial delves into using mental pictures, metaphors or analogies, 'pegging', 'viceralisation' and other holistic methods such as teaching as part of learning.
I mean the days when memory is the cornerstone of intelligence is probably coming to an end. With the internet and future development in accessibility to it all you may need is a wrist watch to help you remember facts. These are the days of–oh well, I'll just google it. How long before students can't be stopped from taking a computer in one form or another along for their exams.
For now of course the traditional methods still rule and over the years we have come to catalog the many techniques we creatively use to remember stuff for which we now have fancy names like mind-mapping, bubble and double bubbles, 'visceralisation' etc. The generations of the 21st century who have been growing up with the internet need to be taught memory techniques that I and my friends as students in the 80's used to come up with ourselves out of sheer necessity. While so many of these techniques are simply common sense to me, students today are often lacking in coming up with creative ways to remember facts and figures because there is little practical need until exam crunch time reigns in.
If you are a student looking for such techniques or a teacher or parent looking to help your student or child with their study this online tutorial by Scott H. Young can help. Mind-mapping is of course well represented in many online sites. Mr. Young's tutorial delves into using mental pictures, metaphors or analogies, 'pegging', 'viceralisation' and other holistic methods such as teaching as part of learning.
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