How to triple your memory by using this trick | Ricardo Lieuw On | TEDxH...

Do you recall studying for your exams? You probably do. But do you remember how you studied, how you memorized French words or the year of the American civil war? Now, that’s probably harder. As a teenager, Ricardo Lieuw On was packing groceries when he knew what he wanted to study: he wanted to learn about learning. He picked up a study in psychology and learned how to reduce his learning time from 3 hours to 1 hour on the same piece of content. He gained the same knowledge in 200% less time. And specially for TEDxHaarlem, he shares the secret of his technique.

CORNELL NOTES

Do you have problems taking good notes? Do you look back at what you have learnt and have no clue what you've written? This could be the solution you've been looking for - Cornell Notes

D ivide the paper into three sections. Draw a dark horizontal line about 5 or 6 lines from the bottom. Use a heavy magic marker to draw the line so that it is clear. Draw a dark vertical line about 2 inches from the left side of the paper from the top to the horizontal line.
D ocument Write course name, date, and topic at the top of each page.
W rite notes. The large box to the right is for writing notes.  Skip a line between ideas and topics. Don't use complete sentences. Use abbreviations, whenever possible. Develop a shorthand of your own, such as using "&" for the word "and".

R eview and clarify. Review the notes as soon as possible after class. Pull out main ideas, key points, dates, and people, and write these in the left column.

S ummarize. Write a summary of the main ideas in the bottom section.
S tudy your notes. Re-read your notes in the right column. Spend most of your time studying the ideas in the left column and the summary at the bottom. These are the most important ideas and will probably include most of the information that you will be tested on.

James Madison university: http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes.html