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Best passive non-time consuming methods to understand + remember things in subjects?

  • 03-11-2013 1:36pm
    #1
    showsaf
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭


    I was wondering about any methods you used or are currently doing to remember key things in your subjects.

    I am currently listening to Macbeth every night before I go to sleep.

    I write down all of the key words for my spanish oral.


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  • #2
    yoho139
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 209 ✭✭yoho139


    Neither of those are exactly passive methods - which don't exist.

    Whatever works for you though, so long as you're not looking for the holy grail of results with no study.


  • #3
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,238 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Listening properly in class is the easiest way to 'get' things first time.


  • #4
    Days 298
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Days 298


    Have an interest in the subject outside school.


  • #5
    yoho139
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 209 ✭✭yoho139


    Yeah, except that doesn't work for the subjects you really need to study for. Hate English, it's the one I have to study most for.


  • #6
    Huell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 244 ✭✭Huell


    Exam papers over and over and over, i have done 2004-2013 of biology papers about 3 times already. There is no quick way to get an a1


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  • #7
    positivealf
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭positivealf


    spurious wrote: »
    Listening properly in class is the easiest way to 'get' things first time.

    I always try to listen in class but it's just so difficult, I just end up day dreaming unless I know the teacher is strict. Some teachers are just so meh :/


  • #8
    chatterboxxx95
    Registered Users Posts: 306 ✭✭chatterboxxx95


    Spurious is definately right, listening in class and completi g homework are the best ways of learning/understanding something. If you want to improve things like irish though, try listening to raidio na gaeltachta for 10 mins in the evening when going walking or something. One thing I'mfindonh really helpful is on my phone I recorded myself reading out my sraith picture notes and listen to them and am going to do the same with spainsh/ irish oral prep. Also for things where there's rote learning like in chem I sometimes write definitions on post its and stick them in random places around my room eg on the mirror


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