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Increase your learning speed by 30%-50% Author is consultant with Hindustan Times, running memory centres nationally and writing columns for various newspapers and magazines. She is also a member of the Research Team for "Yaad Rakhenge Aap". the world's first memory movie.-> This book will answer some of the unaddressed questions:-> How to recall instantly during exams.-> Quick methods to improve memorising speed.-> How to retain information without much revision.-> Scientific study tips which can increase your score by 20%.

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Publié par	Diamond Books
Date de parution	08 décembre 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9788128822728
Langue	English

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This book will answer some of the unaddressed questions:-> How to recall instantly during exams.-> Quick methods to improve memorising speed.-> How to retain information without much revision.-> Scientific study tips which can increase your score by 20%." />

MEMORY TECHNIQUES
for science students
(A must for XI, XII,IIT, CPMT, NET and other science students)

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M EMORY T ECHNIQUES FOR S CIENCE S TUDENTS
by: Neerja Roy Chowdhury
This Book Is Dedicated To My Family .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
There are many people I would like to acknowledge for their support and help. I wish to thank Mr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury for his support and inspiration. I’m grateful to Yashika and Rupali Agarwal who helped me by giving their invaluable suggestions. I thanks to Madhvi for her unconditional emotional support and friendship .
I’m thankful to Ms. Saroj Arora for her empathetic listening and guidance. I must thank Devyani, Pawan Garg, Shankar Singh Koranga, Mr. Praveen Java and Malti for their generosity and readiness to support .
Thanks to my students for encouraging me to write a book on a subject that is regarded as the toughest of its kind. I thank Ms. Madhu for her instant guidance .
I have the good fortune of having a very understanding and loving family. This Book is in nothing but the result of my parents’, sisters’ and brother’s belief in my abilities. My special thanks to Poonam, Seema and Rinky. And finally a big thanks to Anjul for Being the most wonderful Brother in the whole world .
INDEX
Introduction
1. Know the mind’s potential and power
LEARN MNEMONICS TO MEMORISE FAST
2. Mnemonics A way to simplify memorisation
3. Visualisation Thinking in sensory images
4. Linking system Association
5. Substitution Personalised meaning system
6. Acronym method
7. Minor peg system
8. Major peg system
9. Value system
MEMORISE CHEMISTRY WITH MNEMONICS
10. Some basics of periodic table
11. Elements in each group
12. Elements and their atomic numbers
13. Variation in properties across periods
14. Melting and boiling point of elements
15. Quantitative analysis - Physical examination of the mixture
16. Some important processes
17. Important alloys
18. Physical properties of gases
19. Important ores, reagents and chemicals
20. Structural formulae
21. Name reactions
22. Preferential series
QUICK RECALL TECHNIQUES FOR FORMULAE
23. Math’s formulae
24. Physics formulae
25. Prefixes for expressing powers of 10
MNEMONICS FOR MEMORISING BIOLOGY
26. Biological terminology
27. The Genetic Codes
28. Diagram The human forebrain and Plant cell
29. Multiple choice questions- Botany
30. Multiple choice questions- Zoology
GENERAL
31. Procrastination
32. Note - making
33. Revision plan
34. The art of reading sciences
35. Absent-mindedness
36. Practice relaxation
37. Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
If you think poor, you will be poor, If you think rich, you will be rich, If you think success, you will be successful, If you think goodwill, you will attract good will, If you think friendship, you will attract friends, If you think love, you will be loved,
It is so. It is in accordance with the law of consistency. It can not be otherwise.
The above lines show the power of thought. It is well said- thoughts rule the world. Our thoughts are mental pictures; these mental pictures guide us throughout our life.
In the context of studies, we can say our thoughts about the subject define the amount of learning. Of course, thoughts can make us efficient and effective to produce any result in our studies, but they must be very strong and organised. If it is not so; they will take us nowhere. Mostly students resort to ‘Rote Memorisation’. In rote memorisation thoughts are most of the time unorganised and students blindly mug up the answers. They repeat the things until the material is registered in their subconscious mind. Whenever they are asked a question answer will flow out. This type of memory is known as ‘Rote’ or parrot like memory. Although, this is also a method to learn the things but it is boring. Remember, how many times we commit to ourselves that today we will memorise all the tables or biological diagrams or periodic table or equations or maps or long question answers, and then we mug them up blindly; hours later when we try to recollect we find ourselves confused and frustrated.
Let’s now face the fact that rote memorisation is time consuming, boring and inefficient. In rote memorisation you are required to take more and more revisions and still there is no guarantee of perfect and timely recall.
Though hard work is a must and there is no substitute for hard work, however in today’s competitive era you can not win with hard work alone. The number of educated job seekers is increasing day-by-day but the proportions of jobs are not. So, apart from hard work, smart work is needed. Just think one person is spending days breaking a rock with hammer and another fixes a dynamite and removes it in few seconds. One is working hard and another smart. Who is showing better performance? Obviously the person who is taking advantage of scientific technology. Similarly, there are sciences that help us understand the functions and features of our brain. If you learn these sciences, you can be very successful in your studies and work. These techniques are based on visualisation and they can make learning easy. According to these techniques you can keep any information perfectly in your mind if you can convert it into mental pictures.
Remember, the subjects which you assume are easy to understand and remember are those which are easy to imagine. For example; stories in language books or some interesting historical event. Most of the students spend lesser time on these subjects since they are confident about these imaginable subjects. But what about the subjects like chemistry, biology, maths, physics etc.? Students spend more and more time on these subjects, they work hard on such subjects in school, tuition and at home and still they are not confident about the perfect recollection of what they study.
Reason is simple-retention of the material in these subjects is difficult because almost every information is in abstract form. Students feel helpless in retaining as they have never seen it in their practical life. And hence it is unimaginable for them.
Hence, we can say that the difference between easily understood and remembered subjects and so called gruesome subjects is of imagination.
If we are able to apply imagination and creatively on abstract subjects too, we can understand and remember them with great easiness and fun.
This book is an endeavour to lessen the trouble students’ face in memorising chemistry, biology, math’s and physics formulae. This book aims at showing how to apply creatively of thought and fun on these subjects.
This is my effort to show students a different and effective way of learning by converting the abstract data into visual pictures. Although my focus in this book is on chemistry, biology and mathematical and physics formulae but the same principles can be applied to memorise other subjects too.
I will be happy even if a single student is benefited by this book. I heartily welcome your precious suggestions to improve upon my work in future. I can be contacted at- neerjatomar@yahoo.com
Neerja Roy Chowdhury
CHAPTER - 1
KNOW THE MIND’S POTENTIAL AND POWER
According to researches human mind’s potential is limit less. More specifically many scientists say that average human being uses only 10% of his mind. From these two statements emerges an exciting implication- the human potential awaits to be released.
If we are using only 10% of your mind power, then think what possibilities are in releasing just another 50% of our potential. If we’re already successful and effective using only 10% of our mind power then what height we can raise to if we can release the total reserved power within us? Miracles lie ahead.
Mind consists of the conscious and subconscious, which together have an extraordinary power. It has been known that behind the conscious mind lies the subconscious. The subconscious consists of a vast bank of information and capacities. The subconscious acts as a huge sponge which absorbs information from most important to totally unimportant and nothing escapes.
A very simple example which all of us would have experienced shows the efficiency of our subconscious - many a times we try to remember a name and cannot. But when we engage in some other work that is totally different from remembering that name it springs to mind.
This example shows that our mind is capable of keeping anything we put in. Problem does not lie with the capability of our brain but with our inefficiency to tap the unlimited power of our mind.
How can we tap this potential and enable ourselves to learn better and remember more effectively? Is there anything that can develop accelerated learning that is- super memory? Is there any method that can be learnt so that we can release the stored super energy we have, which will enable us to achieve the seemingly impossible.
The answer is an unconditional YES.
LEARN MNEMONICS TO MEMORISE FAST
CHAPTER - 2
MNEMONICS
A WAY TO SIMPLIFY MEMORISATION
‘Mnemonics’ is used to describe memory techniques which we are about to learn. If we look for dictionary meaning of mnemonics, it will be defined as ‘an artificial aid to memory’.
How do mnemonics aid memory? We shall understand it later in the book. Before this we should concentrate on how we retain information.
There are two types of retention- Short Term Long Term
The short term retention is the one in which an idea is in the brain but has not been properly coded and due to this it is easily forgotten.
For example- vocabulary memorised by ‘rote memory’ is the example of ‘short term memory’. We remember and forget since blind memorisation does not enable our brain to encode t