How to learn

1. Easy is easier to remember

While learning something, try to make it as easy as possible to understand. A really long sentence with a lot of (yet) unknown words is just not easy to learn, Try to have short sentences. Don’t put a lot of information in a small space. Try to keep it as simple as possible, so you can relate to it better.

2. Use your own words

If you are learning definitions and they don’t need to be precisely memorized, reword it. Using your own words or even changing the structure of a sentence makes it easier to memorize. 

3. Break it into pieces

If you need to memorize a specific definition break it in pieces. Don’t try to learn all the sentences itself but just parts of it. A very easy Example:

“A contract is a voluntary, deliberate and legally binding agreement between two or more parites.”

1. voluntary

2. deliberate

3. legally binding

4. agreement

This way you will associate these words with the term “contract” which will be easier to keep in your mind. 

4. Use numbers 

Use numbers instead of dots or other ways of breaking the information into pieces. This way you will associate a number to each information and be able to revive the missing words. Just like in the exampel above; you will remember that there are 4 individual pieces for the definition of contract.

5. Pictures can help too

Just like numbers, it is also easier to associate pictures to something. If possible draw something on your flashcards or notebook. For the definition of “contract” you can draw two stickfigures shaking hands on top of an piece of paper which has the letters v,d, lb, A on it. Of course there is no limit to your imagination and I am pretty sure you’ll be able to find nicer ideas in your own field than I just did =)

6. Know what that means

A lot of times we read something and then get frustrated because we didn’t undestand anything. Mainly the issue is that there is a word (or a few) we just don’t know what the meaning is so that the sentence in its total seems hard to understand. Finding out the meaning of one word, esspecialy if it’s something returning in the text frequently, just helps so much understanding everything else. So just take your time to understand one word so you can understand everything else es well. 

7. Quiz yourself

Finding your own way of learning is very important but not easy. I found out that studying with Quizlet is helping me a lot. It is not only a way to learn with flashcards, you can also quiz yourself even while playing games. I would definitely recomend to check it out. It is free you only need to sign up. Also you can use it on your Laptop and your phone. It will sync within seconds.

These are just a few tips. I hope they are helpful for you. Mostly I found myself struggling while studying for my exams and these were the things that I figured out helped me in times of frustration. I hope you don’t just like or reblog this, but instead try to actually see if one (or more) are helpful for your way of learning. Sometimes there are just small issues that block us and kill our motivation. Try to eliminate those and you will be fine.

You know what pisses me off? when people have a different approach to things than other people but they get recklessly criticized for being the way they want which maybe isn't the way most people do. Like there is this bride who is wearing a nice simple wedding dress but she is told that it looks like a simple dress and that brides should look 'special' on their wedding day and wear some type of princess dress or that things that some other brides do which is ok for them but just this bride isn't into that so why not just tell her she looks beautiful in this dress she is wearing and was so happy with herself and glowing when she came out of the dressing room ? Why are some people so mean I dont undestand