Many of us have the same question. I read with so much time, I sit at the reading table all day, but why don't I remember to read before the exam? A lot depends on how you actually read. Many people study for less time than you and come up with good answers in the exam. This means that the idea that you will do well in the exam if you read for a long time is wrong.
Again, it is not entirely true that those who are doing
better than you are much more talented than you. In fact, how you do the exam
or how well you remember reading depends entirely on how you are reading. For
this, you need to change your traditional reading style a bit. Excluding the
habit of continuous reading, one should get accustomed to a slightly different
but fun type of reading:
1) Taking note of lecture notes in the book
I start by picking up the lecture notes of the class. Many people in the class take what they write on the teacher's
board to the notebook. He pays less attention to what the teacher says or
explains. As a result, important things are not remembered when you look back
at the lecture notes. Even if you take notes in the notebook with a lot of
attention, you will have trouble understanding the next reading because you
will not listen to the important words with your mind. You can take a different
approach to this. Instead of writing down the whole class, you can write down
the magnet part of the lecture. Writing short keywords also helps you to
remember them later. Change the way class notes are taken and pay more
attention to the teacher's lectures.
2) Staining important parts of the book
When reading a new chapter, many people mark the
information that they think is important with colored ink. It is easy to see
the important things before the test or at other times. But most of the time, the
mistake we make is stigmatizing what seems important the first time we read it.
It turns out that after reading it, we get so much information that most of it
is useless. As a result, the really important information is covered. And as a
result of scattering too much information, it is not possible to find out what
is really important information when needed. The best advice to avoid this
problem is to read the whole chapter for the first time without any fuss. Once
you have read it, take a brief look at the chapter, then read it a second time, and then highlight the important points. The advantage of this is that the
unnecessary things will not be highlighted and reading it twice will increase
the idea about the chapter.
3) Imagine the content of the reading
Is it easy to memorize a subject perfectly, or is it easy
to describe it by looking at an image? Suppose you are describing the plastid
part of a plant cell. Now if you can memorize the structure of the plastid
directly and say it as accurately as you can or remember, looking at the image
of the plastid will increase the chances of being able to remember the correct
information. All you have to do is remember the plastid image. By looking at
the picture you can tell the description of the outer skin of the plastid, the
inner skin, the granular disc. In other cases, it is easier to describe by
looking at pictures than to memorize.
4) Loki theory
Sherlock Holmes must have seen it. There is no problem
even if you don't see it. We are not putting Sherlock Holmes on the reading
table. Rather I will discuss his type of thinking. Those who are fans of
Sherlock must be familiar with the word 'Mind Palace'. As soon as he sees an
object or a person, Sherlock thinks about him. He continues to observe the
person or object thoroughly. At the same time, he kept thinking about what his
next step would be. This world of Sherlock's thought is called the 'Mind
Palace'. But in reality, it has another name. That is the 'folk theory. The
point of this theory is that when you read a subject, you also use your
imagination. Suppose you are reading a novel or prose. Then integrate the world
of your imagination with the content of that text. If the content of the text
can be memorized as a picture, it is easy to remember and less likely to be
forgotten. That is why this folklore theory has a special value for
perpetuating memories.
5) Memorize with the help of symbolic rhythm
Many people became acquainted with this rhythm while
learning the unit of measurement as a child. "Peace will be found in the
country if the robbers are killed." This means ‘kilo hecto deca meter deci
cent million. This rhythm was used to memorize the periodic order of the
units of measurement. Similarly, there is a rhythm to remembering the style of
the Mughal emperors. "My father had a fever once, with good
medicine." That is ‘Babar, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shahjahan,
Aurangzeb’. Such rhythms are also used to memorize the order of the elements of
the periodic table. The advantage of using such a rhythm is that on the one
hand, it gives pleasure in reading, on the other hand, the reading stays in the
memory much more.
6) Read the same subject over and over again
Most likely this advice is given everywhere to make reading permanent in memory. Repeated reading does not mean reading what you have read a few more times and then forgetting. Repeated reading means taking a look at what was in the previous topic or chapter before starting a new topic or chapter.
If there is a long break after reading something, it is
likely to be forgotten. Many people don't think about a chapter once they have
read it until after the exam. As a result, there is a high probability of
forgetting that chapter before the test. So advice That is, before starting a
new chapter, take a look at the previous chapter. As a result, the previous
reading is rebuilt in the head at least once, which is more permanent in the
memory.
Two types of memory work in our brain based on time. One
is transient and the other is long-lasting. Transient memory lasts from a few
seconds to the time you are working or reading. And long-lasting memories can
last from a few days to the rest of your life. The main purpose of the above 6
tips is to transform your reading from transient memory to long-lasting memory.
This will make you less likely to forget to read.
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