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How to Study – by Don Frank

Most students tend to believe that doing many exercises would help them understand something

better. Well, it is only true if you have understood the concepts well but what if you don’t? The answer

is that you become more confused than you were before.

There are two types of learners, namely holistic learner and shallow learner. Holistic learner is the one

who has very strong and logical understanding about certain topics but shallow learner uses rote

memory.

It is without doubt that most students resort to rote memory learning today because it is one of the

easiest and at the same time, one of the most ineffective and time-consuming learning process. For

example, shallow learners, while learning PA kertas 1, they tend to memorise all the facts instead of

understanding them. By understanding I mean knowing the intuition behind something you learn.

I found that our brain will only remember things that come with logical reasons. The stronger the

reasons, the longer it will remember. For example, if your friend tells you that A = B and and he explains

why A = B, you would remember it with ease but if he never explains the intuition behind, your brain will

struggle in remembering (such is the problem in rote memory learning).

1) Always understand the intuition behind something that you learn. For example, learn how to derive

certain formulae instead of memorising them.

Let say for a chemical reaction – aA + bB <—> cC + dD

Its equilibrium constant, Keq = [C]^c . [D]^d / [A]^a . [b]^b

Why should we times the exponent a for [A]? Have your teachers ever taught you how do they derive

Keq? I guess most teachers don’t.

If you want to know how, go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONBJo7dXJm8&feature=fvsr

2) Uses your internal dialogue to learn.

Internal dialogue is the sentences that people tell themselves and the debate that often goes on “inside

their head” a form of self-talk, or inner speech.

You talk to yourself on how to solve a certain question, when you are making decisions or when you are

choosing which path to go in future and so on and so forth and in the end you choose. So internal

dialogue is something that we do since the moment we are born. So how are you going to use it in your

learning process? Well, whenever you come across any topics that are mind-blowing, you must use

internal dialogue to learn. You must try to give yourself some reasons why something occurs, why is it

so, why is that so and so on. Even if your reasons are ludricous, so be it. The stronger the opinions you

have towards that certain topic, the better is your understanding and your memory towards that

particular subject. The important thing is that you keep talking to yourself about that topic until your

brain accepts it without a shadow of doubt.

*The more logical is your reasons, the better your brain can accept and thus remember for a long time.

I’m using this to learn biology, chemistry and most of the subjects that are quite abstrative.

3) Learn with heart

Perhaps this is the element that most students lack – the passion to study. A student without heart will

have to force himself to learn subjects being taught. Hence, he has to struggle to make himself learn and

he of course would not be talking to himself about these subjects so he wouldn’t remember much of it.

Imagine if you talk to yourself about those academic subjects you learn, everything would be at your

fingertips.

Students who learn with heart will always find learning easy. They would never have problems in

learning, even when they have, they would happily solve it without hurry and worry. A student with

heart does not have to force himself to learn. Even when learning is difficult, students with heart will not

have any problems but students without heart would have headaches.

4) Always understand how something works first before attempting any questions.

Such is the case with vectors, deductive geometry and many math topics which base a lot in

understanding rather than simple calculations (matrix).

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How to Study – by Don Frank Most students tend to believe that doing many exercises would help them understand something better. Well, it is only true if you have understood the concepts well but what if you don’t? The answer is that you become more confused than you were before. There are two types of learners, namely holistic learner and shallow learner. Holistic learner is the one who has very strong and logical understanding about certain topics but shallow learner uses rote memory. It is without doubt that most students resort to rote memory learning today because it is one of the easiest and at the same time, one of the most ineffective and time-consuming learning process. For example, shallow learners, while learning PA kertas 1, they tend to memorise all the facts instead of understanding them. By understanding I mean knowing the intuition behind something you learn. I found that our brain will only remember things that come with logical reasons. The stronger the reasons, the longer it will remember. For example, if your friend tells you that A = B and and he explains why A = B, you would remember it with ease but if he never explains the intuition behind, your br ...
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