Change Your Study Style

Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation:-

• extrinsic-learn a subject because you love it

• intrinsic-learn a subject because you'll be able to graduate and become a doctor

Goal pyramid

• long range-e.g.: to be a successful neurologist

• mid range-e.g.: to graduate from medical school

• short range-e.g.: to score in the final exam

Use reward as artificial motivators

• size of reward according to the size of task

• it can evaluate your performance

Turn you failure into success

• failures are valuable as successes

• review your list of failure and what you learn from it

• those will keep you think positive

Stay focus on your study

• create a study environment in which you are comfortable

• put aside things that may distract you during study e.g.: mobile phone, laptop

• recognize your strong point

• be thankful for the natural talent that you have and utilize it as your strength

Making study habit-forming

• replace the old poor study habit with a new one

• tell your friend and family or your decision to do better

• chart every inch of your progress

HOW TO READ AND REMEMBER?

Read with a plan

• learn the term (medical term)

• do a thorough analytical reading

• immediately upon concluding your thorough reading, review what you’ve learnt

What decreases reading speed or comprehension?

• read aloud @moving your lips

• reading mechanically-using finger to follow words

• lack sufficient vocabulary

To increase your reading speed

• focus your attention and concentration

• eliminate outside distraction

• provide yourself with unclustred n comfortable environment

• try to grasp overall concept rather than attempting to understand every details

Retention

• broad concept more easily retained than details

• if you think something as important, the information can be retained far much easier

• speed is secondary to comprehension

Recall

• >interest,>easy to recall

• selective-focus on import details need to be recalled

• react to what you’re studying, e.g. associating new info with the old one

• repeat out loud or just in your mind what you want to remember

Why we forget

• fail to make material meaningful

• did not learn the prerequisite material

• fail to grasp what is to be remembered

• lacking the desire to remember

• allow apathy or boredom to dictate how we learn

• failing to/ do not use the knowledge we’ve gain

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." Kahlil Gibran

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