Your mind has unlimited capabilities. All you need to do is to recognise them and use them. This will help you a great deal in preparing for your examinations. The sharper your memory, the better your scoring in exams. Today’s students are by and large dogged by poor memory. Even as they work relentlessly to memorise their subjects, they can’t make it to expected grades. Indeed most of their energies are sapped by difficult-to-cram facts and unwieldy sentences.
The current chapter therefore harps on high niche techniques which enhance and expand your learning capability. These will help you to memories names, facts, spellings and formulae easily and effortlessly. Albeit you must constantly work on these techniques and understand them very thoroughly.
Some of these techniques are easier of lot, for example, remembering names of people and inanimate objects. But others are tedious, demanding patience and unremitting perseverance on your part. The more you feel at home with these techniques, the more you will find them handy and easy to use.
It would be interesting to note that much of the learning in ancient times was memory based. There were no reams of papers to write on, nor stationery to write with. The Gurukul pattern of imparting education mandated writing on plant leaves, sheets of hide/skin, on rocks and stone slabs. Student per force relied on attentive listening to gain knowledge from their masters. Their memories therefore were top notch and trained methodically. No wonder, this kept wisdom of thousands of years intact and unsullied.
So, gear up, right from now, to size up your memory, and give it a shine. Give it a cutting edge that matters. For this, you must go through the fact listed below and grasp them in their substance and nuances.
Creative Imagery
The power of creative imagination opens flood gates of human memory. This is one tool you can use to acquire accessory skills to augment learning. Its application acquires a thrill of its own when what you memorise, is mixed with colours of fantasy, funny. That makes memory awesome, 3-dimensional, and a heady cocktail of sense perceptions. This fun game leads you to quality thinking and lively erudition.
Thus whatsoever you learn, mutates into vibrant shapes sizes and colours, making studies an enjoyable exercise. For, if you add speed and thrill into tidbits of subject matter, then fixing them into memory becomes easy.
Action is significant. It is hard to remember a person standing alone and aloof. But a group of persons engaged in animated discussion remains live in memory for long. Hence add a dose of awe and action into your imagination to make it tick.
This explains how and why you remember a TV film or serial in great details. It is because of its
2-dimensional visuals on screen. Stories and plots devoid of visuals aren’t easily remembered. So, visuals make a difference. Let these live and kicking images be part and parcel of your thought process. And you would be surprised to see how beautifully they deliver goods, and facilitate learning and memorising.
Apart from imageries, what matter is sense of taste, smell, sight, touch and hearing. These should find place in the paraphernalia of your memory. These sense perceptions make subject matter readily acceptable to our brain. Even gender considerations, real or imagined, help memory machine. All said and done, there is no denying that creating a virtual world in vistas of mind is a powerful tool to improve memory.
Aptitude
To memories any subject matter, it is essential that you develop a liking for it. Once your interest is aroused, learning becomes easy. Conversely, if you are not interested, studies would be tedious and boring. It’s only what touches your heart and rivets your mind that stays long in your memory kitty.
Collation and Coordination
If you face difficulty memorising some odd piece of information, try to associate it with something that you know and understand well. Such link-up facilitates learning as well as recalling of facts and figures.
Concentration
Single pointed concentration of mind does wonders to your intellectual faculty. If mind is wavering and wayward, memorising would be nightmarish. Hence whenever you sit down to study, do so with commitment. And keep your attention totally focussed on text required to be memorised.
Respect chronology
Whenever you memories a text, make sure that number-word sequences are taken up in correct order and not haphazardly. This will help you remembering well, as well as check your drifting into superfluous and confusing imagery.
Scientists aver that human brain is, by far, most complicated of living systems. At the time of birth, a child has an aggregate of about 10,000 crore neurons. But it is only a minuscule of them that are put to use in the entire life span of a human being. Though brain is still a riddle in many respects, its working has been explored and understood to a great extent. For example, the difference between mind and intellect is now known. If they be compared to a modern day computer, we can say that intellect is a software whereas mind is hardware. And both of them put together, make human brain a biological computer.