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Saturday, November 24, 2007

Super Learning

Do you know that being the top ten students is not a boon but a skilled technique, which we can achieve by constant practice of some study techniques? A certain memorization techniques, reading techniques and regular practice of those techniques are the bases of good students.

First of all, memorization is the basic of the good students. The visualization technique, imagination, association, using short hand etc, are the bases of the memorization technique. To remember something, the most effective way is to visualize a zany, silly, crazy, goofy scene i.e. to make a mental movie. The human nature is very much powerful to remember something which is funny or which is abnormal or unique things, for e.g. if we ever see cow having 8 legs we won’t forget it till we live. Like that way, if we were able to visualize something funny for the text matter then it will be memorized for a long time. If we were able to visualize something moving then it will be more memorable than static picture. If we were able to make the mental movie of subject matter that we have to remember then it will be remembered for a long time. The more crazy we can make this mental movie, the more action, silliness, color, life, movement and imagination that we can put into it the better will be our recall of the item being memorized. Imagination is the process of imaging something funny which would help us to remember for a long time. If we were able to link ourselves in the subject matter to be imagined then it will be remembered for a long time. The more vivid our imagination, the easier it is for us to come up with visualizations - or mental movies - and therefore the better our natural ability to remember and recall things. Association is another major tool for the memorization technique. In this, we have to associate the word or the paragraph that we are trying to learn to something funny or something familiar. For example, if we have to remember the word ‘xenophobia’ which means intense or irrational dislikes or fear of people from other countries. For that let’s visualize that Jenny has gone to some funny world where she sees people playing hockey with, short, grey colored humerus (an upper arm bone) and the ball is red-colored, football-sized tomato. The people playing are very horrible, with the big mouth, long nose, big-eyed, long feet and hands. So Jenny got afraid with those foreign people. So by this way we can associate the xenophobia with the Jenny’s phobia with foreign people and memorize word for forever. Using short hand is also equally proved efficient technique for the memorization. No matter whatever the subject matter, we have to remember the certain important things only; such a process is called shorthand. For e.g. as most of the students used to remember the color of the rainbow as ROYGBIV which is a shorthand of all the colors (Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, Indigo, and violet) present in the rainbow. Not only can these things, many of the paragraphs be remembered in this fashion.

Secondly, Reading technique are equally important for students if they want to become best among their friends. Reading techniques can be developed by practicing reading the text book from upside down position for at least 30 minutes a day, by reading the text book from the upside down position out brain will be thrown a challenge and it will be very hard for brain to catch up those word. If we studied in that matter for 30 minutes daily, then brain will be equally exercised and when we tend to read the book from the normal position we will be able to read it fast. The fast reading tends to help to read lots of information in few time. The other technique for reading faster by reading the topics of the subject quickly which would let us familiarize with the context of the chapter and it would be easy for us to read it next time.

Last but not the least, recalling process is best tool for the super learning. If the subject matter is not recalled from time to time it will be forgotten with the time. If we have to remember something for a long period of time then we have to remember it from time to time. For e.g. If we have to remember some subject matter for a year then according to the mind technology scientist we have to remember that subject matter in one day, one week, one month, three months and in six months for one time then it will be remembered in our mind for one year. Like wise if we need to remember it for three months we have to recall that subject matter till the first month.

It is not an asset that only the intellectually borne people can reach to the top 10 level of the education but those people can also reach to the top ten levels if they follow up the study technique. The memorization technique, reading technique, and the recalling technique could act as the ladder to become the good ranked student.

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