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6 Study Tips for Visual Learners
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Visual Learning
... is learning by seeing the information through images, graphs, and other visual materials.
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Study Tips for Visual Learners
- Color Code. Assign color to common themes in your lectures, when highlighting information.
- Organize your notes by compiling handouts, putting tabs, writing neatly, using outlines, to make your notes appealing.
- Study the Graphics. Use charts and graphics in your textbook to easily remember information.
- Draw pictures or figures to accompany the information you're trying to learn.
- Watch documentaries or videos to get a bigger picture and expand your knowledge on the topic you want to learn.
- Draw concept maps to easily categorize a certain subject. Illustrate pictures relating to each subtopic.
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The sequential (or analytic) learner
It is an analytic person likes to learn things step-by-step, or sequentially.
Knowing if you are a sequential learner can help you take advantage of the study recommendatio...
Characteristics of a sequential learner
- Sequential learners are more likely to respond to a problem with logic, instead of emotion.
- You may feel the need to understand each part of an algebra equation.
- You may be good with time management.
- You tend to remember names.
- Your notes are categorized and labelled.
- You plan ahead.
Difficulties
- You may get hung up on details because you have to understand before you move on.
- You get frustrated when people don't understand things as quickly as you do.
Analytic style study itps
- Ask for clear rules. Without rules, you might feel lost.
- Don't worry about not finishing a task. Sometimes it is good to move on and re-visit a project later.
- Don't worry if some things don't seem logical.
- Group your information since you are good at categorising things.
- Sit in front of the class to avoid getting distracted.
- Don't worry about big concepts you don't grasp right away. You may need to know all the details first before you can put them together.
- Take things step-by-step, but don't get hung up if you don't understand a specific step.
- Ask for clear goals if you feel you need them.
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Re-reading doesn't help
Don't just re-read your notes. When you first read, you extract a lot of information, but when you do it the second time, you read with a sense of 'I know this, I know this.'
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Ask lots of questions
Read once and then quiz yourself. Retrieving that information is what actually produces more robust learning and memory.
Even if you get the answers wrong, you'll still have an idea of what you don't know. This helps guide your studying more effectively.
Make connections
Relate new information to prior information for better learning.
During a second reading, try to connect new information to something you already know.
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Meta-Learning
It's knowing how to learn. Learning itself is a skill, and knowing how to do it well is an incredibly valuable advantage.
Merely acquiring information is not learning....
Learning has 2 phases
Learning is a two-step process:
- Read/listen: feeding ourselves new information.
- Process and recall what you’ve just ‘learned’: connecting new materials to what we already knew.
Remembering the right things
You should not waste your time by committing unimportant details to memory.
Your focus should be on understanding the bigger picture, on how things relate to each other.