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Have you got enough marks in your intermediate exams? If not, high school students should go through these tips:-
#1) Use lots of headings, sub-headings, numbered points, "bullets", etc.
#2) To get the information into long-term memory students must REVIEW.
#3) This may be an unusual thing to do in the middle of a high school study session, but students' brain needs that time to sort out the information in students' short-term memory. At the end of the rest period, the information students were reading will be much clearer than it was to begin with.
#4) This is especially good for working out what to put in an essay or extended assignment. Think of everything students can to do with a topic, no matter how odd or unusual. Note down the words and/or ideas, discuss how important they are. From that discussion develop a pattern that makes sense of the things mentioned by getting rid of those that stray from the point.
#5) This is a simple note-making style and is best for making notes during lessons. Don't write everything students hear or read but select out the most important points. Concentrate only on those pointers that will help students recall the lesson content. Improve upon them later when time allows.
#6) Then take another five-minute break and re-read once more, fitting all the bits of information together.
#7) The purpose of notes is not to copy out great chunks of information from books. They should only act as a trigger to help students remember what students have read. Key words are more easily remembered than long sentences!
#8) The only way to make high school study work for students is to avoid BOREDOM - the worst enemy of learning.
#9) The brain receives information from your senses. This is then passed on to your short-term memory where it is stored for a short time. From then on the information in short-term memory must be passed on to long-term memory or students end up "forgetting" the information. students' brain's ability to do this depends on how students feel.
#10) The best way to learn is to limit high school study periods to the length of your concentration-span. This gives the brain the best chance to store what students are high school studying in long-term memory.
#11) students will probably find that students' concentration-span varies between ten and twenty minutes depending on the intermediate subject, how students feel, the amount of rest students have taken, and students' eating habits.
#12) Short-term memory lasts between 12 to 48 hours. If students stopped at this point students would be able to recall only about 10-20% of the information students read.
#13) Read a large section of the text book belonging to students' least favourite intermediate subject, preferably from part of the book which has not been covered before. Note the time students start.
#14) Over time students develop a concentration-span - the time between starting a task to the time students find your minds wandering. This is because students' brain deals with information in a very special way.
#15) ONE WEEKand TWO WEEKS later review the topic again using students' notes. By now students should have found that there has been a huge improvement in students' ability to remember, understand and use that information.
#16) Now that students know what students' own brain can cope with students can sort out students' reading and revision to suit.
#17) Notes should be short, to the point, well-organised and easily read. The exact style is up to students and students only. Some tried and tested methods are given in the next section.
#18) Note the time at which students find students' mind beginning to wander, no matter how little. This will be students' minimum concentration-span. Repeat the task with students' favourite intermediate subject. This will be students' maximum concentration-span.
#19) NEVER high school study beyond students' concentration-span. students may still be reading but students' brain will be losing most of the information it takes in. This makes it pointless to go on. UP Board students may satisfy students' need to feel as if students are working hard, but the amount students actually remember will get less and less.
#20) Make an effort to LEARN and RECALL the information students read.
#21) In learning, the pieces of knowledge students have can be swapped between several jigsaws in students' mind - but there is no pattern which students can follow.
#22) If students use the above methods while students are still following a course of high school study, students' final revision will be made much easier. Some 12th students who have used these methods early find that very little final revision is necessary. They became so good at remembering the work during the course of the year that they didn't need to do any more!
#23) If students make patterns within students' work then several pieces can be missing from the middle, but by looking at their neighbours a guess can be made as to what the missing pieces should be. In other words - students do not have to know everything!
#24) If students are bored, short term memory is lost very quickly and so can never be passed on. students may be surprised to learn that it is not lost forever - it is stored away often never to be remembered again.
#25) From a very early age, students vary what students do to stop ourselves getting bored. students look for new tasks and seek new ways to do things. Sometimes even this fails and students fall into the boredom-trap. students cannot be bothered to find ways to cure your boredom because students are too bored.
#26) Finally, students must REVISE. This is simply a way of drawing loose ends together with the same high school study method but this time using students' notes only.
#27) By making patterns students'self all the pieces fall into place. Soon, that wonderful feeling of excitement hits students when students look down and see how the jigsaw fits together.
#28) By improving students' reading and note-taking skills students can speed up the building of the jigsaw and increase students' ability to remember the pattern.
#29) Brainstorming is best used when revising in groups (but can be used by someone working alone) and combines all of the above techniques.
#30) Both of these reviews would be made even better by note-taking in whatever way students find easy and helpful. Make sure that the notes students make are well organised!
#31) After students' five-minute rest, read the same information again. Concentrate only on those points that are most important.
#32) After high school studying for the time students found was best, students must then take a rest for about five minutes. Do something else not connected with students' work. Listen to music, have a snack, refresh students'self - but don't stop thinking about what students were reading.
Best of luck for your next board exam!