Overview
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Get tips for improving your reading speed and memory, creating detailed notes, and preparing for tests.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Using the challenges
- How fast do you currently read?
- Using your hand to guide your eyes
- Reading faster on a computer screen
- Boosting your reading speed with simple practice drills
- Improving your reading comprehension through speed variability
- Dealing with charts and diagrams
- Note-taking for linear vs. nonlinear concepts
- Avoiding excessive highlighting and note taking
- Taking notes with the Cornell system
- Understanding how your memory works
- Remembering better using the multiple reading process
- Memorizing new vocabulary using the similar sound technique
- Using mnemonic devices
- Using songs, rhymes, and alliteration
- Using pictures to improve your memory
- The link system
- Memory palaces and the method of loci
- Numeric peg system: Linking numbers to pictures
- Numeric peg system: Memorizing a 10-item list
- Numeric peg system: Memorizing more than 10 items
- Remembering important dates
- Memorizing formulas and equations
- Challenge 1: Use the similar sound technique with foreign vocabulary
- Solution 1: Use the similar sound technique with foreign vocabulary
- Challenge 2: Create a memory palace
- Solution 2: Create a memory palace
- Creating a study plan
- Reviewing your notes and re-reading
- Taking strategic breaks while studying
- Scoring better on reading tests
- Tips for the day of the exam
- Next steps
