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Boning up for a work course or a school test? Trying to learn a new skill? Cramming late, devoting a whole day to nothing but bio, reading that training manual 20 times?
You’re doing it wrong. So very, very wrong.
Nailing the art of studying right can be a scientific task. Two professors — Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel at the Washington University in St. Louis — and author Peter Brown condensed the best study knowledge, based on scientific papers published over the past few years, in a new book, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. Roediger distilled his 6 top tips for successful learning. We’re talking the best ways to retrain new knowledge for the long haul.
Pull up a seat, and start taking notes.
1. Take those notes by hand. That’s right: Go Luddite. In a board meeting or a freshman survey hall, think pen and paper. ”When typing, students tend to record information as though they were taking dictation,” Roediger says. Handwriting is slower, ”so they have to think harder about the material to distill it,” he says, discussing a studyjust published this April. So yes, it might seem painful to put pen to paper in class, but you’ll save study time in the end.
2. Don’t study — practice. Stop re-reading the same passage 20 times. Searching your brain for what you’re trying to remember keeps things fresher. In one of Roediger’s own studies, subjects who took a test were more likely to do better on a subsequent test then those who studied. It’s not just about remembering the information, but using the brain muscles to practice retrieving the information too. That’s what a test — and real life — requires of us.
3. Pace yourself. Cramming puts a lot of info your head, fast, but it also leads to fast forgetting. “Spacing helps embed learning in long-term memory,” Roediger says.
4. Sleep on it. If you never want to think about conjugating French verbs again, pull an all-nighter before a test. But if you’ve got info you want to keep for the long haul, plan some zzz’s. Your brain needs time to catch up and process all you’ve stuffed in there. Sleep is when it happens.
5. Multi-task subjects. Maybe you’ve got finals this week in history, bio and psych. Yuck. If you’ve only got three days to study, don’t tackle just one subject a day, Roediger says. Devote a bit of time every day to each of the subjects, and you’re more likely to ace those tests. Roediger cites a 2012 studythat says we’re more likely to confuse similar things when studied together — like if you’re trying to cram on the differences between four kinds of biological processes that all kind of sound the same — than if we break the biology up a bit with something else.
6. Test yourself. These are the professor’s words, not ours. ”Make up practice tests and take them repeatedly as you study,” he says. This goes back to tip No. 2 — finding ways to pull things from your mind. Plus, this way, you’ll learn what you need to work on.
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[07:18, 4/24/2015] Gurbani Uncle: मुनि श्री तरूण सागर जी
रसोई घर को चौका कहा जाता है। जहाँ चार बातों का विचार किया जाता है वह है चौका। चार बातें हैं -- 1..कब, 2..कितना, 3..कैसे, और 4..क्या। मतलब कब खाना ?, कितना खाना ?, कैसे खाना ? और क्या खाना ?।......कल तक चौके को रसोईघर कहा जाता था, आज वह किचन हो गया है।.... रसोई घर और किचन में अन्तर है।..... जहाँ रस बरसे वह रसोई है तथा जहाँ किच-किच हो वह किचन है। दबा - दबा कर खाएगा तो फिर दवाखाना भी जाएगा।
[13:55, 4/26/2015] Gurbani Uncle: AC डेढ़ टन का लगा लो या दो टन का मगर.......
जो मज़ा बचपन में घर वालों के साथ छोटी मटकी भरकर छत पर सोने में आता था उसका कोई मुकाबला नहीं ।
Missing Childhood.....
[07:15, 4/28/2015] Gurbani Uncle: माना कि बरगद और पीपल जैसे विशाल हम नही
पर गमलों मे उगने वाली तुलसी भी किसी से कम
नही
[07:16, 4/28/2015] Gurbani Uncle: "POWER" does not mean you can treat people the way you like...
But it means people cannot treat you the way they like!!.Good Morning
Couldn't resist sharing this beautiful story
This story is about a beautiful, expensively dressed lady who complained to her psychiatrist that she felt that her whole life was empty, it had no meaning.
So, the lady went to visit a counselor to seek out happiness.
The counselor called over the old lady who cleaned the office floors.
The counselor then said to the rich lady "I'm going to ask Mary here to tell u how she found happiness. All I want u to do is listen to her."
So the old lady put down her broom and sat on a chair and told her story:
"Well, my husband died of malaria and three months later my only son was killed by a car. I had nobody. I had nothing left. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, I never smiled at anyone, I even thought of taking my own life. Then one evening a little kitten followed me home from work. Somehow I felt sorry for that kitten. It was cold outside, so I decided to let the kitten in. I got some milk, and the kitten licked the plate clean. Then it purred and rubbed against my leg and, for the first time in months, I smiled.
Then I stopped to think, if helping a little kitten could make me smile, may be doing something for people could make me happy.
So, the next day I baked some biscuits and took them to a neighbor who was sick in bed.
Every day I tried to do something nice for someone. It made me so happy to see them happy.
Today, I don't know of anybody who sleeps and eats better than I do.
I've found happiness, by giving it to others."
When she heard this, the rich lady cried. She had everything that money could buy, but she had lost the things which money cannot buy.
"The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are; but on how happy others can be because of you..."
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now.
Happiness is not dependency, it is a decision.
Happiness is what you are, not what you have..
This is a sincere request to all the parents, please read.
During holidays, instead of taking kids to movies,shopping, please try to do the following activities:
1. Go to the nearest bank and show them the functioning of the banks, how ATMs work and what is the benefit of it.
2. Take time out and visit orphanage, home for the aged and explain to them about those places.
3. Take them to the rivers,seas,oceans and teach them how to swim.
4. Give them saplings and ask them to plant them and water them and see them grow. Encourage them by saying that they will be presented with gifts for their good deeds.
5. Perform blood donations in front of them, and explain to them the need for it. Be a hero (role model) for them.
6. Take them to government hospitals and show them the difficulties the patients are going through. Tell them how difficult it is to go through this process of pain if you are met with an accident.
7. Take them to your hometown/village and let them spend time with their grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins. Let them experience the affection and good times of being with the family. Show them what is agriculture/farming and the difficulties a farmer goes through in providing the food that we are eating and that we should not waste food.
8. Take them to the nearby police station, court, jail. Explain them the punishments rendered to the inmates because of their wrong doings. This will make them aware of the bad things they should be away from.
9. Make them sit by you and ask them what their needs are and satisfy some of the useful ones and explain them which ones are essential and which ones are not. Give them a feeling that you are there for them.
10. Take them to all the places of worship without restricting to any single place. Take them to temples, mosques, gurudwara, church etc., Based on how much you know of each place explain it to them.
कोशिश कर, हल निकलेगा।
आज नही तो, कल निकलेगा।
अर्जुन के तीर सा सध,
मरूस्थल से भी जल निकलेगा।।
मेहनत कर, पौधो को पानी दे,
बंजर जमीन से भी फल निकलेगा।
ताकत जुटा, हिम्मत को आग दे,
फौलाद का भी बल निकलेगा।
जिन्दा रख, दिल में उम्मीदों को,
गरल के समन्दर से भी गंगाजल निकलेगा।
कोशिशें जारी रख कुछ कर गुजरने की,
जो है आज थमा थमा सा, चल निकलेगा।।
शुभ मजदूर दिवस