Probably, many students (present and former) are familiar with this situation: before the exam is only one night, for which you need to learn all that was needed to learn during the whole semester. Unfortunately, usually, the results of the "stormy activity" undertaken on the eve of the hour "H" are far from the cherished assessment "excellent", but we will not read here the notations about the need to remember, about studying regularly, and not just in the session, how quickly to learn a large amount of information, be it the text of the report, or the materials of the training course. Moreover, the question of how to quickly learn a lot of text is relevant not only for students, but also for schoolchildren, as well as for those who have long since left their native alma mater.
How to quickly learn the text you want?
There are many ways to remember a large amount of information, here I would like to bring one of the most effective, which will allow you to quickly learn the text, both by heart and for free retelling, as well as a couple of interesting auxiliary techniques that may come in handy.
Method one - "Classic"
Suitable for memorizing a variety of textual information. It consists of several successive steps:
- First you need to tune into the process of remembering information. For this purpose, a small jog in the park is ideal. After all, aerobic exercises have long been known, improve cerebral circulation, and, consequently, memory, in addition, according to the latest research of scientists at the University of Michigan, contemplation of nature increases cognitive function by 20% of the norm. Just do not need to arrange a marathon race, 10-15 minutes will be enough.
- Create an enabling environment for memorization. Where you will learn the material should be quiet, so that you can concentrate.
- When the preparatory conditions are fulfilled, we begin the process of memorizing information. To do this, you can read all the text that you need to learn more carefully, if there are incomprehensible words, quickly write them out and find what they mean (if the text is in a foreign language - we translate it qualitatively, without missing words).
- When the meaning of the reading is finally understood, we make up the so-called citation plan. To do this, we divide the text into several logical parts - no more than 5-9, for some reason it is just as many fragments that, on average, can hold a person's short-term memory. Each part is best titled with a quote from the text that you need to learn. We write down these sentences. Read a few times, aloud, the resulting plan. You can rewrite it 2-3 times for reliability.
- Carefully read each fragment of the text, and try to tell it or retell (if you do not need to reproduce verbatim).
- When each logical part of the text starts to "bounce off the teeth," we try to collect the whole picture. If some words do not want to be remembered (it usually happens at the junction of two fragments), we write out the words separately on the sheet, which we are peeking, until the text more or less settles in the head.
- We arrange a break, during which we try not to think about the text that we need to learn.
- After 20-30 minutes, repeat the text, and go to bed.
This is the basic way of memorizing the text.
The second method is "Antique"
Better known as the site method, was first described by Cicero, but is widely used to this day. It helps to memorize the sequence of words in the list (for example, the items of the citation plan) in the correct order. In order to apply this method, you need:
- Imagine a place, or a path, necessarily good friends - for example your home, or the road from work (study) home.
- Select several objects or places, the path between which is obvious (for example, the front door, corridor, room, kitchen, etc.).
- Make sure you can mentally go through this path.
- Now we start the visualization, take the words from the list, and, as it were, place them in the selected places, for example, the list of the words of the eyes - apple-stars, is represented as follows: on the entrance door, instead of the usual eye-hole, there is an eye, in the middle of the corridor there is a huge apple, room on the ceiling the stars shine. Do not be afraid if the images are completely absurd, the main thing is that they are bright, so they are easier to remember.
The third way is "Victorian"
It was first described by the Monk Brayshaw, the director of one Yorkshire school in 1849. It consists in coding the figures with consonant letters, and compiling phrases from these letters. It is necessary when you need to remember the digital information in the text (for example, the dates for the history exam). In the original, the Braishow code looks like this:
Example code usage:
1945 - BHCM
There was a Good Classy May Day when the German Reichstag was taken.