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Christine Lambe

Training & Commercial Director – Chamber Business Training CMI Level 7 Leadership Coach & Mentor.

Health & Wellbeing is a state of physical, mental & social wellbeing?

Understand how your brain works

Research Finding Implications for Learning Your memory will increase if you have studied frequently and recently. Little and often is the key to engaging long term memory. Emotions strengthen memory Personalise the subject to you. What are your experiences? Plus, reward yourself! Learning causes changes to the physical structure of the brain Engaging in learning increases

• ur ability to learn. Dendrites

(neural pathways) are strengthened every time we learn! Memories are stored in multiple parts of the brain Engage all senses when learning, play relaxing music even light a scented candle. Studies have shown that after around 30 minutes, the brain stops retaining new information.

Adapted from :https://www.trainingindustry.com/content-development/articles/how-the-brain-learns.aspx

Know your style and play to it

Make recordings and listen to them as you drive

Mind map

Group related ideas together Make it visually pleasing Consider using post its on a large area of your study room

Auditory

• Podcasts
• Discussions
• Presentations

Kinesthetic

Role Playing Note Taking Highlighting Quizzes

Visual

• PowerPoints
• Videos
• Pictures
• Articles
• Models
• Colour

Revision Science

Recent scientific studies have found that there are only two revision techniques which really work. 1) Testing yourself or get someone else to test you. 2) Spreading your revision out over time, taking the little and often approach. "Testing itself, when you get the correct answers appears to produce a more elaborative memory trace, connected with your prior knowledge, so you're building on what you know". Professor Dunlovsky, Kent State University. So what about cramming? Cramming will only address the short term memory, so it might get you through, but it won’t help with knowledge retention.

The Feynman Technique

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” – Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize winning physicist ).

Planning

Manage your time: create a visual plan with a level of detail that works for you and build in downtime. Find a quiet study area: The less distracted you are, the more chance you have of retaining key information.

Dealing with Nerves.

Understand where stress comes from. Stress is a historical reaction, fight, freeze or flight! Understand how it impacts on you. Once you’ve named your demons, they have less power. Use tried and tested techniques to minimise the impact. Understanding what is the worst that can happen? Is it really that bad? One Minute Mindfulness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6eFFCi12v8 Being fully revised and prepared for an exam will reduce your stress levels!

Don’t add to your stress, arrive at the centre with your I.D. and confirmation of your exam booking 30 minutes before the exam starts. Make sure you have made time to eat prior to the exam and keep hydrated. A good nights sleep prior to the exam will give you the best chance at performing at your best. Once the exam is over, try and put it out of your mind until results day which for this series is the final week of January 2018.

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