It can be stressful trying to memorise and remember everything you’ve read in preparation for your upcoming examinations. When it’s not like you have some sort of photographic memory. If only…
Having exam fevers or getting a ‘high blood pressure’ over reading and retaining memory is not worth it. How then, do you remember most of what you’ve read?
These 7 steps will show you the way;
1. Have an interest in the subject
Without interest, reading material will take a lot of efforts. Think about a child, he will be more interested in the exciting tales of a storybook than he would a book about quantitative reasoning. Having an interest in the subject of your choice will go a long way in helping you remember all you have read.
2. Skim through
Have you ever seen a person skimming through the beginning and the end of a novel before reading the entire book? He/she is trying to find out if the plot is interesting enough to pique their interest. Once that is done, they can happily read the book knowing that they are going to enjoy it. Skimming through can help you remember because you have seen it before. It helps you anticipate what is to come.
3. What is your objective?
Reading with an objective in mind helps you assimilate and remember what you’ve read. This is so because you know that you intend to gain something from what you are reading. When you see the purpose of your reading a material being fulfilled, it gives you the motivation you need to continue with enthusiasm.
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4. Visualise
You might not be a child who needs a picture book to understand and remember what went down in the book, but you have a perfectly working imagination. Use it. A picture, according to Sharp Brains, can capture the essence of a dozen words. A mental picture is one of the ways of facilitating the memory of what you read. Just like actors get into their roles, you too can get into character by creating pictures in your head that best relate to your subject of interest.
5. Rehearse often
Prepping for an exam is not something you read once and expect to just stick. Again, you do not have a photogenic memory. The more you rehearse something, the chances of it sticking in your mind are high. Just like you would rehearse a song or a role-play over and over again, you need to read your materials more than once.
6. Do not wait for the last minute
You can go ahead and envy those students who wait two weeks before their exams before they pick up a book to read and still come out in flying colours, but you are not them. If you want to come out in flying colours too, you should start the same week you got the material. This way, as the work accumulates, you do not lose the knowledge you already have over the previous materials you have read.
7. Don’t scribble
When a lecturer is dictating, especially in a boring class, one can be tempted to scribble, while yawning or dozing off in class. When you scribble or pass off on writing your note, you might not be able to read and understand what you’ve written or worst still, you try to later copy from someone else’s book and find out he/she has written jargons. LOL…it happens. Write clear and easy to understand notes. If you are dozing off in class and can’t keep up, then record the lecturer’s voice and transfer to your note later.
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