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Year 10 Study Skills: Memory Techniques

Year 10 Study Skills: Memory Techniques. Aim: Understand at least two different memory techniques ?Attempt to memorize information using one method. Memory – it’s not just for exams. Where do you use your memory? Why is it a vital life skill?. Finding your way home

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Year 10 Study Skills: Memory Techniques

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  1. Year 10 Study Skills:Memory Techniques Aim: Understand at least two different memory techniques ?Attempt to memorize information using one method

  2. Memory – it’s not just for exams • Where do you use your memory? • Why is it a vital life skill? • Finding your way home • Remembering your telephone number • Having a sense of your own life and yourself – our memories make us who we are http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/brainsmart/brain/

  3. Learning by rote • Parrot-fashion revision is slow and boring, because it’s unnatural. Our brains just weren’t built for rote learning random facts, and it’s not an effective way to study • To learn a topic properly, you need to understand it, work with it, and practise remembering and answering questions about it.

  4. Get active • Don’t just read the text over and over. That’ll never work. Make notes, figure out the key points and how they link together. • Drawing a spider diagram or mind map can help to clarify how everything connects. Boil those endless paragraphs into nuggets of information

  5. Get creative • Let your brain play with the material, in as many ways as you can. Draw a picture, write a story, get the playdough out – or pretend you’re being interviewed about it on a chat show. • This might sound like a frivolous way to spend your precious revision time, but the idea but this will help you to understand the subject in a deeper way than by just reading it. And it’s enjoyable, which means you’ll be more energised...

  6. Test Yourself • Create ways of testing your knowledge as you go along. This forces your brain to practise retrieving the information from its memory banks. • If you’re sitting exams, get your hands on as many past papers as possible, so that you can put your new knowledge to the crucial test – do you know enough to convince an examiner?

  7. Explain it to someone else... • If you can explain a concept to someone else and field any follow-up questions they have, then you’ll know you’ve understood it. • This also prompts your brain to work with the material in a new way, which will help to lodge it in your longterm memory - see Tip 2. And if your friend asks you a question you can’t answer, how great to find that out before the exam...

  8. Rehearse it • Your brain has a massive memory bank, but unlike a computer, it needs you to go over new information several times for it to really sink in. • Creating a new memory involves a new pathway being laid down between braincells, but this pathway will disappear unless it’s strengthened by being thought back over many times. Look back over what you’ve learned at the end of every study session to consolidate the memory.

  9. Sleep on it • This is the easy one. Learn the stuff, then go to bed. Or even just take a nap. Either way, your brain will rehearse the information (see Tip 5 above) but without any effort from your conscious self.. • Studies show that recall really does improve after you sleep – and similarly, marks go down if you don’t get enough sleep. Two reasons why pulling an all-nighter is a bad idea.

  10. There were 6 memory methods – how many can you remember? • G A • G C • T Y • E I T S E • R I • S O I • Get active • Get creative • Test yourself • Explain it to someone else • Rehearse it • Sleep on it

  11. Twenty items…..

  12. The link method • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NROegsMqNc

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  14. Year 10 Study Skills:Memory Techniques Aim: Understand at least two different memory techniques ?Attempt to memorize information using one method

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