Study Tips

Map Branches

• Surroundings
  • Lighting
    • Plenty
    • Natural
  • Temperature
    • Comfortable
  • Background noise
    • Eliminate
    • Less distraction
• Sessions
  • Keep sessions short
    • Keeps you focused
    • Less mind wandering
  • Intersperse with breaks
    • Review the information
    • Interpret it your own way
• Mind Maps
  • become study notes
    • Mind
      • Like Camera
      • Remembers
        • Pictures
        • Colors
    • Use
      • Pictures
      • Colors
      • Link lines
• Summarizing Text
  • Mind Map branches
    • Logical categories
    • Related information
      • All together
• Music
  • Baroque
    • Volume
      • Loud enough
        • Eliminate background noises
      • Quietly enough
        • Not distracting
    • You don't have to listen to it!
      • Your subconscious does
    • Raises alertness
    • Calms nervousness
    • Harmonizes
      • Perfect frequency
      • Brain
• Food
  • DON'T
    • Eat junk food
      • Energy declines
      • Initial sugar rush wears off
    • Drink alcohol
      • System depressant
      • Less likely to remember information
    • Eat large meals beforehand
      • Causes
        • Tiredness
        • Ineffective study
      • Digestion
        • Less for the brain
        • Requires blood
    • Study while hungry
      • distraction
  • DO
    • Drink plenty of water
    • Eat
      • healthy
      • light
• Remembering
  • Mnemonics E.g.
  • Keywords
    • Prompt your memory
    • Easier than remembering every word
  • Discuss with others
    • Additional stimuli
      • Sound
      • Sight
  • Interpret
    • Commits it to memory
    • Better understanding
    • Your own words

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