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13.4.20

feel better;  it’s been a long week, not moving from your permanently dark bedroom, your phone forgotten under the bed with a hundred missed messages, but you’re finally opening your eyes and seeing a sliver of early morning sunlight filter in behind the curtains that a mysterious breeze blew open.

daisy chains;  it’s late spring or early summer and you’re dozing with your best friends in the grass, the slow and peaceful brush of the warm breeze keeping you in that state of just waking from a pleasant dream.

songs to run away to;  you’re packing an overnight bag and taking the first bus out of the city. you’re not exactly running away, but you don’t plan on coming back. all you know is that your only goal is to keep on running.

classical jams;  it’s your fancy neighbour’s annual ball held in their gothic castle and you’re getting turnt to tchaikovsky while very deliberately disappointing your parents who wanted you to use the occasion to find an upstanding suitor.

so I received an ask (ages ago, i’m SO SORRY I JUST GOT TO IT) asking me to do a more in-depth post of that voice recording study method I mentioned in this post. 

again, this isn’t catered to auditory learners! it’s always best to try it to see if it works for you, because i know for a fact that i’m not an auditory learner but this method does so much for me! 

what you can use it for 

content heavy subjects such as history, social studies, etc!

what you need before doing this

your textbook, a voice recording app, some prior knowledge optional: whatever notes you’ve written, a guidebook, etc

so how do i start? 

most chapters have different sections with their respective headings, so it’s best you do one recording for one heading. 

when you’re recording yourself, try to have this mindset: “i’m a teacher and my students are going to learn from the information i give them in this recording”. it may seem a little strange at first but i honestly think the recording bit is purely psychological (so you think you’re actually doing something useful) but if you don’t want to record, you can just talk to yourself and it’d work just fine! 

DO NOT keep your textbook open in front of you and repeat everything you see on the page. Look at the heading, push your book away and recall everything you’ve already studied for this. Refer if necessary, but do not rely! 

you can listen to the recordings after you’ve done them but i’ve honestly never listened to my recordings before, which is why i think the “recording” bit of this entire thing is psychological lmao you don’t even need to listen to them. the information you’ve spoken about naturally stays in your memory. 

this method is EXTREMELY USEFUL (i really can’t stress this enough) for all you guys who feel like you can’t memorise much from writing notes and you really don’t want to rewrite them. 

that picture above just shows the recordings i currently have on my phone when i was trying to study for my history exam lmao. they’re rather short because those were made the day before the exam. usually my full chapter recordings add up to more than an hour! 

different types of recordings

these recordings can be made multiple times, i usually break them into “just for class knowledge” and “actual memory retention”. 

“just for class knowledge” recordings are made any time in the semester, just so you keep up with everything in class and you know all the content well. 

“actual memory retention” recordings are made the day before the exam, because you’re guaranteed to remember everything, trust me. they’re usually shorter because at this point you’re expected to have everything already stored in your head and it’s just a matter of memorising. 

using guidebooks while recording

check the publisher for your textbook to see whether they’ve published a guidebook as well! the publisher for my history textbooks always have a guidebook that’s directly related to the textbook so the information is generally the same, but more vague. 

most people may not agree with this, but i really appreciate the vagueness of guidebooks. when i’m recording, i look at the heading and the relevant information in the guidebook, and then i branch out with my own info (that i’ve read from the textbook). this helps you remember the whole chunk of info a lot better!

i really recommend getting a guidebook, but if there aren’t any available, then your own notes will work just as well. i don’t think anyone’s notes are MORE detailed than the textbook, right? 

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