How To Study Effectively & Boost Memory Retention

Thomas Farmarkis talks to Rowan Kunz from Study TV about how he studied effectively to boost memory retention, including looking at creating study notes, and teaching other people, using Legal Studies as a case study.

Thomas and Rowan discuss the following study skills/study tips:

- Writing and Organizing Study Notes
- How to ensure your notes are effective
- How to avoid duplicating the textbook
- Using examples that cover multiple topics
- How to study to boost memory retention
- Why teaching others is an effective study strategy

Thomas recently completed his Higher School Certificate (HSC) in NSW, where he achieved an Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank of 99.95, placing him in the top 49 students out 66,000 students in the state.

Thomas also achieved a number of state rankings including, 1st in Legal Studies out of 8,800 students, 9th in Economics out of 6,200 students, 9th in Modern History out of 10,000 students, and 6th in History Extension out of 2,500 students.

Thomas is currently studying a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Law at the University of Sydney.

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[MrStudyTV]

There are a number of different strategies - I would utilize strategies used by top students for learning vocab for languages (essentially very similar). You can use the following methods:

a) Look, cover, write definition, check

b) Flashcards

c) Re-Write out the definitions repetitively

d) Create visual associations - take the words/terminology and connect them to something else that is easier to remember

Hope this helps! I will see if I can get vids up that cover this stuff in more detail!

[2012maritza]

Too hard to focus on what he's saying with that accent=(

[drdarkness16]

Thomas didn't mention the amount of terminology within the legal studies textbooks. They take up pages of notes. How to I learn these?