Improving your retention and study skills

Below is a simple but effective procedure to improve studying and more importantly retention

Step 1 - Pre-knowledge - firstly brainstorm everything you already know about the subject matter for a few minutes maximum. this gives you apositive mindset fors the rest of the study because you relaize that you do already know something about the topic.

Step 2 - Pre-read text or article on topic. See this link for pre-reading methods

Step 3 - Attend normal classes or read in detail taking normal notes.

Step 4 - 10 minutes and 6 hours later do a mindmap od what you can recall from Step 3. take about two to three minutes

Step 5. Look back over your notes from Step 3 and now do a good file copy mindmap taking about ten minutes.

Step 6. 24 hours later mindmap what you can recall from Step 3 and check it against the file copy

Step 7 - One week later - repeat Step 6

Step 8 - One month later - repeat Step 6

Sterp 9 - three months later - repeat Step 6

Step 10 - Six months later - Repeat Step 6

This article assumes that the reader knows what mindmapping is. For those who don't please go here to read more