How to learn a chapter
1. Read the chapter
2. Classify the material
· turn the study material into a set of focal points or simple questions and answers
· Use any headings. If you go into Wikipedia, notice, and use the boxes to the left and right of each article, which will also give you headings.
· To identify the questions, ask Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
Either mind map, make flashcards or create individual numbered files in a spreadsheet for these questions. Mind Mapping is good for this, but I tend to use a spreadsheet, which has the date on the left in column A followed by the questions and it enables me to keep a daily track employing the Interval System.
What is essential is that:
· You design a system of asking simple questions,
· Answer them
· Put them in time and date form to review them following the Interval System
· Memorise the answer to question 1 that you have created and leave it for 10 minutes.
· Go on to question 2 and so forth.
· After 10 minutes see if you can answer question 1 correctly. If so, leave it for an hour
· After an hour, if you can still answer question 1 correctly – leave it for a day
· Follow this system until you have covered all the questions from your chapter.
An example of spaced reviewing would be 10 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, 5-7 days, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year. This is only an example and adapt the times to fit into your ability to remember. Remember that the principle of the Interval System is to review what you have learned at spaced intervals - just at the point when you might forget it.