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- ^Introduction - Reading, Studying, and Learning\
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- The process of learning involves the following steps :
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- (1) The Search for Information
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- (2) Remembering the Information
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- (3) Applying the Information
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- The <search for information\ relies on teachers, sources of knowledge, and
- your thirst for knowledge.
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- The >application\ of that knowledge is up to you, with guidance from
- teachers, text books, etc.
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- |Remembering the information\ is where the Memory Master systems come in.
- Simplistically, it can be said that virtually all learning is based on
- memory. Many teachers, who like to put down 'memorisation', don't like to
- admit this, but it is nevertheless true.#
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- If you are sitting in a history examination, and have remembered few of the
- dates, names, places, and events you were taught in your history classes,
- the fact that may have have an exceptionally high I.Q. will not help you a
- lot in passing that examination.
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- A large percentage of all written examinations are basically examining
- two things :
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- (1) Your knowledge of the subject.
- (2) How well you can express that knowledge in written replies to the
- questions asked.
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- The second point depends on a variety of factors, such as intelligence,
- flair for the subject, how well you have been taught to express yourself in
- writing, and so on.
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- The first point depends largely on ^memory\ - how many facts, figures,
- events, dates, names, quotations, etc., you have |learned\ or |remembered\
- about the subject.#
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- Very few schools or teachers offer advice to students on how to remember the
- vast amount of new information that they present you with. This is despite
- the undisputable fact that memorising information plays a large part in
- passing many examinations.
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- Many students rely largely on 'rote' memory when revising for examinations -
- reading information over and over again in the hope that some of it will
- 'stick' in the memory. Other students write out the information several
- times, or repeat it to themselves 'parrot fashion'.
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- Some students are more organised, and extract from their notes the key
- points they wish to remember, in a similar manner to the 'Key Thoughts' idea
- discussed in the section on Remembering Speeches. However, having extracted
- those key points, they probably still apply 'rote' memory to remember those
- key points.#
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- There is really only one way to read and study more effectively - and that
- is to |remember as you read\.
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- Tutorial 17 shows you how you can use the Memory Master systems you have
- already learned to help you remember any reading material, $as you read\.
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- ^Press Page Down to proceed to Tutorial 17\~