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by
Sri Sundari Purbohadi
Contact:
sundari_purbo@yahoo.
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Medical Education Unit
Muhammadiyah
University of
Make a commitment
Make the task at hand personal
Take the task seriously
Make a detailed plan to finish it
Dont procrastinate
Remember:
Students with better study methods and
strategies score higher on their exams.
Every student is different. What works
best for you, may not work well for
someone else.
The following memory
methods/strategies are suggestions.
We hope you can improve your study
habits, concentration and memory.
Focus on Memory
Link whatever yourre trying to learn with what you already know
Learn from the general to the spesific
Intend to remember
Break up material into small unit
Use mnemonic
Match material to be learned with the most effective technique
Application a new material summation
1. clarify
2. motivate
3. categorize
4. organize
5. plan
6. review
Memorization
Strategies:
Acronym
Acrostic
Chunking
Repeating
Rhymes & Songs
Acronym:
According to Merriam-Webster online, an
acronym is a word (as NATO, radar, or
laser) formed from the initial letter or
letters of each of the successive parts or
major parts of a compound term; also : an
abbreviation as FBI
Example: SCUBA is an acronym which
stands for Self-Contained Underwater
Breathing Apparatus
(Acronyms work well when you need to
memorize facts)
lemon
behind over
around
timid
BLUE BOAT.
boy
lemon
under
egg
behind
over
apple
timid
Acronym examples:
NFL = National Football League
LSAT = Law School Admission Test
FBI = Federal Bureau of Investigation
IRS = Internal Revenue Service
EPA = Environmental Protection Agency
FDA= Food & Drug Administration
Acrostic
According to Merriam-Webster
on-line dictionary, an acrostic is
a composition usually in verse in
which sets of letters (as the initial
or final letters of the lines) taken
in order form a word or phrase or
a regular sequence of letters of
the alphabet.
Acrostic example
You may heave learned this sentence
to solve mathematical equations:
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
This acrostic tells you to do the
following functions in this order:
Parentheses, Exponents,
Multiplication, Divide, Add, Subtract
Chunking
Chunking is one of the more commonly
used mnemonic techniques especially when
memorizing numbers. It is based on the
idea that short term memory is limited in
the number of things that can be contained.
A common rule is that the average person
can remember 7 (plus or minus 2) items in
short term memory. When you use
chunking to remember numbers, you
decrease the number of items you are
holding in memory by increasing the size of
each item.
Chunking (continued)
Can you remember this 16 digit number?
20091776181215678
1776
1812
5678
Repeating
Example: An ice breaker game that has
everyone in the circle go round and say
My name is Sally and I like seashells.
Then, the next person would say Her
name is Sally & she likes seashells. My
name is John and I like jelly. Then the
next person would have to repeat all the
people & items before he says his name &
what he likes. This is an example of the
memorization strategy called repeating.
Repeating (continued)
Once you are able to repeat about 5-6
items in a row, then try adding an
additional item and so on. This strategy
seems to work well with all subjects.
Repeating can also be accomplished,
when you can teach the material to
another person. This makes you repeat
the material in order to tell them.
And
While you are studying and trying to
memorize information----Remember
to practice relaxation techniques
which can be reviewed in the Power
Point presentation titled Test
Anxiety.
Improve Concentration