LEARNING AND MEMORISING

Some skills to help you study more effectively

• Link new material to old

• Never try to memorise what you don't understand

• Select important points to remember - you cannot rote learn everything

• Organise your material into a meaningful system

• Active repetition, such as reading out aloud or re-writing the material helps your memory

• Simply reading and re-reading does not help your memory

• Revise logically from the start of the topic to the end of the topic

• Break longer pieces of material into shorter, more manageable chunks of material and memorise them in bits

• When information such as poetry and mathematical tables have to be learnt by heart, try to use rhythmic patterns to rote learn

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