^Introduction - Reading, Studying, and Learning\

The process of learning involves the following steps :

  (1) The Search for Information

  (2) Remembering the Information

  (3) Applying the Information

The <search for information\ relies on teachers, sources of knowledge, and
your thirst for knowledge.

The >application\ of that knowledge is up to you, with guidance from
teachers, text books, etc.

|Remembering the information\ is where the Memory Master systems come in.
Simplistically, it can be said that virtually all learning is based on
memory. Many teachers, who like to put down 'memorisation', don't like to
admit this, but it is nevertheless true.#

If you are sitting in a history examination, and have remembered few of the
dates, names, places, and events you were taught in your history classes,
the fact that may have have an exceptionally high I.Q. will not help you a
lot in passing that examination.

A large percentage of all written examinations are basically examining
two things :

 (1) Your knowledge of the subject.
 (2) How well you can express that knowledge in written replies to the
     questions asked.

The second point depends on a variety of factors, such as intelligence,
flair for the subject, how well you have been taught to express yourself in
writing, and so on.

The first point depends largely on ^memory\ - how many facts, figures,
events, dates, names, quotations, etc., you have |learned\ or |remembered\
about the subject.#

Very few schools or teachers offer advice to students on how to remember the
vast amount of new information that they present you with. This is despite
the undisputable fact that memorising information plays a large part in
passing many examinations.

Many students rely largely on 'rote' memory when revising for examinations -
reading information over and over again in the hope that some of it will
'stick' in the memory. Other students write out the information several
times, or repeat it to themselves 'parrot fashion'.

Some students are more organised, and extract from their notes the key
points they wish to remember, in a similar manner to the 'Key Thoughts' idea
discussed in the section on Remembering Speeches.  However, having extracted
those key points, they probably still apply 'rote' memory to remember those
key points.#

There is really only one way to read and study more effectively - and that
is to |remember as you read\.

Tutorial 17 shows you how you can use the Memory Master systems you have
already learned to help you remember any reading material, $as you read\.

                ^Press Page Down to proceed to Tutorial 17\~