You’re familiar with the concept and keep thinking, I KNOW THIS! I KNOW THIS!īut in reality, you’re just familiar with this. You see the same topic and you’re not able to recall what you read. Let's say you read up on a topic a day before your exam. Recognizing and remembering something is entirely different Memorized facts are bound to be forgotten, concepts on the other hand if remembered by associating proper context, you might end up remembering the concept for a lifetime. Don’t just remember the name, remember the concept of what is psychoanalysis, associating a name with a concept is easier to grasp rather than the fact by itself You’re trying to remember: Sigmund Freud - Father of psychoanalysis. Understand why it exists, how it works, you’ll be able to remember topics at hand much better than rote memorization. Learn concepts, don’t memorize them as facts You get better at this over time with experience. Similar to raising hands, even studying is a reinforced behavior. When you’re asked the same question in person, you’re not gonna be raising your hands. When someone asks a question to a crowd, people naturally end up raising their hands. Even chocolate works! Although, drinking a day right before your exams is not a good idea! Studying is a reinforced behavior But you gotta be honest with yourself and not cheat. If you like beer, you could study from say 3–9 in the evening and head out to a bar as a treat for achieving your target. Treat yourself with something for finishing up on a study session. These 25 Minutes work, 5-minute break(often called the Pomodoro technique/tomato timer technique) is also quite useful in getting procrastination under control talk about taking out two birds with one stone! It helps bring our focus back to the level at which we started. Taking breaks after these short study periods. An average human’s concentration span ranges from 25–30 minutes.īeing able to study and understand anything beyond that time frame is not normal and unless our brain has been reinforced and trained to stay focused for longer periods, we can’t stay focused. So I thought, I’m gonna use this to brush up the things I already knew. On with the good stuff!Ī while ago, I had worked on a course on Coursera by the name “ Learning how to learn” and there struck me, the concepts being talked about here(in the lecture by Marty) were quite synonymous to what I’d learned in the Coursera course. Okay enough about me, let's move to the part you came here for. That’s exactly what I was trying to study lately and couldn’t get myself to focus. In one of the semesters, I didn’t clear a math exam for my Masters. Post Graduation changed things, significantly. In college, things didn’t change much, I was still the average student getting enough grades to cross the border and staying afloat to move on to the next step in the education ladder. I wasn’t all bad I used to pay attention during the classes, but that was more or less my life back in school. My parents would always get quite an earful when they came to the open house at my school □.
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