Jemma Spike

Either explain it to someone else.

in your life or prepare like essentially a small lecture on your topics.

This is known as the Fenman technique.

Research has shown it's one of the most effective study techniques you can use.

When you can teach it back to somebody else, you know it at a depth.

that is hard to come by because it asks you to almost be the expert it asks you to adopt the skills and knowledge you'd need to be an expert so teach it to somebody else to turn it into something creative I used to do these big mind maps and like diagrams and doodles on it I used to actually get like a massive poster board to remember psychology concepts back at uni and I would make like this poster in high school I would get a whiteboard marker and I would

Write my notes and I would like draw diagrams and all that stuff on my windows and on my mirrors.

So process it creatively.

Or write down your notes as personal questions and do at least 20 of them and answer them.

So questions like, if I had to choose the biology concept I knew the least about from this year, what would it be?

And then describe that concept.

Or like, what's another one?

Like, what term did I find most interesting?

What applies most to my life?

What area am I most fascinated by?

Like make the questions personally relevant, then answer them.

Again, all these methods work because we are trying to encode on a deeper, more specific, personally relevant level.

It's like when you do this, when you adopt one of those final three methods on top of those other methods, you are solidifying an idea in concrete, not in paper.

Another element to this is to understand your learning style.

Research says there's eight learning styles.