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How to Read ?
1) Finger Technique
There are four steps in this technique. Repeat each step until you are comfortable with it. Only then move on to the next step.
Step 1: Turn your book upside down. Move your finger under the lines of the text end to end. See just above the finger tip as it moves. Don’t try to move your lips or speak words as you read.
Step 2 : Move your finger faster and train your eyes to move fast along with it. Don’t try to understand, just read.
Step 3: Do not move your finger end to end, slowly increase reading speed and decrease the moving space.
Step 4: Keep the book normal to read and understand. Try to read faster, moving the finger fast and see the words as your finger moves. It is enough if you understand 70 – 80 % and no need to understand fully.
2) Trackers and Pacers
Regression, back-skipping, and the duration of fixations can be minimized by using a tracker and pacer.
For this purpose, we will use a pen. Holding the pen in your dominant hand, you will underline each line (with the cap on), keeping your eye fixation above the tip of the pen. This will not only serve as a tracker, but it will also serve as a pacer for maintaining consistent speed and decreasing fixation duration. You may hold it as you would when writing, but it is recommended that you hold it under your hand, flat against the page.
1) Technique (2 minutes):
Practice using the pen as a tracker and pacer. Underline each line, focusing above the tip of the pen. DO NOT CONCERN YOURSELF WITH COMPREHENSION. Keep each line to a maximum of 1 second, and increase the speed with each subsequent page. Read, but under no circumstances should you take longer than 1 second per line.
2) Speed (3 minutes):
Repeat the technique, keeping each line to no more than ½ second (2 lines for a single “one-one-thousand”). Some will comprehend nothing, which is to be expected. Maintain speed and technique-you are conditioning your perceptual reflexes, and this is a speed exercise designed to facilitate adaptations in your system. Do not decrease speed. ½ second per line for 3 minutes; focus above the pen and concentrate on technique with speed. Focus on the exercise, and do not daydream.
3) Perceptual Expansion
If you focus on the center of your computer screen (focus relating to the focal area of the fovea in within the eye), you can still perceive and register the sides of the screen. Training peripheral vision to register more effectively can increase reading speed over 300%. Untrained readers use up to ½ of their peripheral field on margins by moving from 1st word to last, spending 25-50% of their time “reading” margins with no content.
To illustrate, let us take the hypothetical one line: “Once upon a time, students enjoyed reading four hours a day.” If you were able to begin your reading at “time” and finish the line at “four”, you would eliminate 6 of 11 words, more than doubling your reading speed. This concept is easy to implement and combine with the tracking and pacing you’ve already practiced.
1) Technique (1 minute):
Use the pen to track and pace at a consistent speed of one line per second. Begin 1 word in from the first word of each line, and end 1 word in from the last word.
DO NOT CONCERN YOURSELF WITH COMPREHENSION. Keep each line to a maximum of 1 second, and increase the speed with each subsequent page. Read, but under no circumstances should you take longer than 1 second per line.
2) Technique (1 minute):
Use the pen to track and pace at a consistent speed of one line per second. Begin 2 words in from the first word of each line, and end 2 words in from the last word.
3) Speed (3 minutes):
Begin at least 3 words in from the first word of each line, and end 3 words in from the last word. Repeat the technique, keeping each line to no more than ½ second (2 lines for a single “one-one-thousand”).
Some will comprehend nothing, which is to be expected. Maintain speed and technique-you are conditioning your perceptual reflexes, and this is a speed exercise designed to facilitate adaptations in your system. Do not decrease speed. ½ second per line for 3 minutes; focus above the pen and concentrate on technique with speed. Focus on the exercise, and do not daydream.
4) Overviewing and Skimming
Overview the text before you start reading and understand what you have to read.
Skimming is getting the essence from reading material without reading all the words — boils down to knowing what parts to read and what parts to pass by. Know what you want before you start skimming.
Read vertically as well as horizontally. Focus on the original, meaningful material and skip over the material that just supports the author’s argument without advancing it. Try to detect the main idea in the introductory paragraphs. Read the first sentence in each paragraph and then decide whether the rest of the paragraph deserves a read. Read the start of sentences with an eye to whether they will yield useful information, and read them all the way through only if they appear to be useful at first glance. You can skip the examples, if you believe the point doesn’t need proving.
5) Steps n Jumps
You won’t learn anything instantly. Do not be discouraged, continue your learning after sometime you will see the jump and huge jumps thereafter.
6) Read, Revise & Rest.
Read for 20 minutes, rest for 10 minutes and revise for 10 minutes.
How to Revise ?
1) Revise, Re-revise and Revise again.
2) Revise shortly say 10 minutes after and before learning period.
3) Quick revision every morning and every evening.
4) Revise in your free time.
5) Revise Daily, Weekly, Monthly etc.,
6) Revise on Sundays and Holidays.
How to relax / rest ?
1) Eyes – natural sunlight, Blinking and Palming
Let natural sunlight fall on your eyes in the morning hours. Blink your eyes as many times as possible and cover them with your palms for relaxation.
2) Alpha Breathing Exercises
Breathe in such a way that your stomach moves in as you breathe out and vice-versa. Breathe in through your nose for a count of 4 ; hold your breath for a count of 4 ; imagine that oxygen is relaxing your brain and your body while holding your breath. Breathe out through your mouth for a count of 4; while exhaling imagine that all stresses and tensions in your body or mind are going out with the breath. Don’t pause, immediately repeat and do it regularly.
3) Aerobic Exercises
For 30 minutes daily do aerobic exercises like walking, jogging, running, cycling etc., Warm up for 10 minutes then exercise for 30 minutes and the cool down for 10 minutes.
4) Good Sleep
Sleep a little while in the day time for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Don’t read or watch TV when in bed. Try to go to bed at the same time every night. Take non-stressful activities in the last hour before sleep. Eat easily digestible foods at nights.
5) Rest Routine
Stand up, bend forward and take your hands towards the floor. Then slowly stand up with your hands stretched upwards, slowly bend backward. Do this stretching exercise for 3 times.
Sit down, close your eyes and breathe deeply. Do this deep, regular and smooth breathing for 6 breaths.
6) Have some juice or snacks
Take some juice or snacks and revitalize yourself.
How to prepare notes ?
1) True Meanings
Find true meanings of new words.
2) Key-words and key-concepts
Key-words and key-concepts are the main features, outlines etc., which you remember in an event or a story. Key-words are of two types – memory keywords and creative key-words. Memory key-words generate some specific meanings in your mind and creative key-words generate many different possible meanings. Use only memory key-words for taking notes.
3) Transition Words
Identify the transition words like however, similarly, Moreover etc., Transition words show how the meaning of one sentence is related to the meaning of the preceding sentence.
4) Mind Maps
Mind maps use only key-words and key-concepts. Different shapes, images and pictures make mind maps memorable. Use a key-word at the centre. Draw lines from there. On each line, write key-words in CAPITALS. Use only one word per line to make connections easy. Let ideas flow and write down whatever comes to your mind. The aim is to write everything that your mind thinks about the central idea. Your mind thinks faster than you can write.So you should not pause or stop momentarily. Just keep writing or drawing.
5) Linear Notes and Pictures
Linear notes use complete sentences and paragraphs. Pictures include all the notes in pictures.
How to enhance memory ?
1) Photographic Memory
Prepare key-words list first and then draw pictures describing as a story to remember those key-words.
2) Mind Programming
Conscious Mind can only be aware of 7+/-2 items at a time while subconscious mind can be aware of a very large number of items at a time. Conscious mind is like a watchman and the subconscious mind is like a store room. The watchman has no intelligence on his own. He behaves on the information in the store.
Mind Programming means putting information into the store without the knowledge of the watchman.
Conscious mind becomes less critical in a relaxed state and the new information enters the store much easily. When you are in a relaxed state, tell yourself positive messages such as “I’m good at studies”. Use imagination to see yourself achieving success. Listen to the music to get more relaxed. Combine the music with voice and songs for the purpose of mind programming. Certain music can relax your mind and body as well. In such relaxed state you can start programming the mind giving it positive messages.
3) Number Techniques
Build stories using the number rhyme or number shapes.
Number rhyme: 1 – bun sun gun; 2 – shoe crew; 3 – tree sea knee; 4 – door; 5 – hive dive drive; 6 – sticks bricks; 7 – heaven; 8 – gate weight date; 9 – wine dine line; 10 – pen den men;
Number shapes: 1 – pen; 2 – swan; 3 – eye glasses; 4 – sail boat; 5 – hook; 6 – hockey stick; 7 – mountain cliff; 8 – hour glass; 9 – pipe; 10 – cricket bat and ball;
4) Mnemonics
Mnemonics are the associations to remember some specific things. We associate what we want to remember with something that is easier to remember. First letter of each item or name and make an interesting word like VIBGYOR.
5) Imagination
In your imagination make something bigger or smaller or absurd or meaningless and you will remember it better.
6) Eye-Accessing Cues
If you are right-handed, you may have noticed the following (for people who are left handed, interchange left and right in the following text) :
For question about something you have seen before and hence you remembered it. eyes up and to your left. -- visual remembered (VR). Ex: What is the colour of your front door?
For question about something that you have not seen before and hence you constructed this picture. eyes up and to your right. - visual constructed (VC). Ex: What will you look like in 15 years?
For question about something you have heard before. eyes on the horizontal plane to your left. - auditory remembered (AR). Ex: What does your favourite music sound like?
For question about something you have not heard before. eyes on the horizontal plane to your right. - auditory constructed (AC). Ex: What would your voice sound like if you had marbles in your mouth?
For question about your self talk. eyes down and to the left. - auditory digital (Ad). Ex: When you talk to yourself, what type of voice do you use?
For question about your feelings. eyes down and to the right. - kinesthetic (K). Ex: What does it feel like to be in a nice warm bath?
How to take exam ?
1) Sleep well the previous night
2) Don't eat before exam
3) Reach exam 30 minutes early
4) Answer all questions fast and in full length
5) Present well – write neatly
6) Check 6 Q Tags (Who, What, Why, Where, When & How)
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Author: Pawan Alluru
Source:Framework
Category: Student’s Plan
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