Who doesn’t want to improve their learning skills? After all, there are quite a few benefits that are to be had from improving and polishing your learning skills! In fact, just one of the is the part where better learning techniques means that the student in question will be able to learn their work faster and be able to get better grades overall also.
Other than just the academic side of it though, practising learning techniques can have even more benefits, including in an individual’s daily life. For instance, it could help you immensely in your daily life also, from (at least subconsciously) learning what your teacher was talking about in her class lecture only this morning, to learning off the grocery list by heart so that you need to waste lesser amount of time shopping, the benefits of utilising learning techniques are just too many to ignore.
The process takes a lot of effort and time though, just like any other (new) skill that a person may be trying to acquire, but like every other skills this one is a tad bit trickier as it is more about practice than just having the mere talent to learn something off by heart.
- Pay Attention
Paying attention to anything that is going on in your surroundings, whether it is when you are involved in doing a chore or whether you are sitting in class or even when you are studying, every one of your settings demands that you pay attention to whatever may be going on around you. In doing so, not only do you manage to take in more of your surroundings, you also learn more by absorbing all the effects of your settings into yourself.
- The Power of Underlining
When learning a task, it is essential that
the student in question start by underlining all the important points in the
text that they come across. In doing so, the student can benefit in two ways.
For one thing, the student manages to convey to their mind the importance of
that particular part of the text that they have just underlined or highlighted.
For another thing, it can be useful during revision time later, when all that a
student needs to do is read all the highlighted parts to get a fair idea of
what the text includes.
- Note-taking May Just Be The Next Big Thing
Similar to underlining or highlighting,
note-taking however, takes the concept of this more interactive form of
learning a step further and ensures that students, in rewriting all the
important points that they have just read from the text. In doing so students need
to look at the text, understand what is written, process that information and
then write it down in their own words. The entire process also involves the
student learning the work better as they are processing and writing it down.
- Brainstorm. A lot!
Brainstorming when sitting with friends or classmates is another great way of understanding and in doing so, learning the work at hand. All you need is to hang out with buddies and then get together and shoot off all the ideas related to a particular topic. As you do so, you end up understanding and learning the subject matter even better.
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