Finding sequences and order in the material you read, will help you retain the information because of the structure you discover. The more sequences you discover, the better you will remember and understand the reading material. When you discover a sequence in the text, give some thought to the reason why it is ordered that way, such as: importance chronology size from hot to cold from dark to light … Making a clear list helps you remember concepts better because you see them in relation to each other. If you find that some concepts do not fit, that in itself …
Remembering
The Eraser
The learning strategy The Eraser consists of gradually covering more and more of the original material, while repeating and filling in what is covered, until you finally remember it all. Simple? Simple! Start by setting up the learning material, e.g. the events in a timeline, an entire form, table, list or whatever it may be. Put a piece of paper over some items to begin with, or you can blank out what you have written; try to fill in the correct information from memory. Keep covering more and more keywords and words until you are happy with the result. You …
Color coding
Books and digital aids are common in the learning process. When books are owned by the school, you’ll not be able to use color coding as a learning strategy. However, that is against the purpose of learning: you do not go to school to make sure the teaching material looks unused, but to take in the subject matter! So feel free to ask for copies of the texts so that you can use them in a way that helps you. When going through a text, it may be helpful to highlight certain words or parts of the text using colors. …
Chunking
Your short-term memory has a limited capacity. It can hold information for up to 30-40 seconds. Young people, up to approx. 14 years old, can remember and process 3-7 different subjects at the same time. From the age of 14 onward, this increases to 5-9 simultaneous subjects in short-term memory. So… what can you do to remember more and better? You can create and use chunks, meaning blocks, so a chunk means a block of information that you remember and work with, as if it were a single element. Chunking occurs naturally. For example: the word “pythagoras” probably makes you …