How to Study on the HOPE---2

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Brief bursts of reading can be made doubly effectively by highlighting crucial facts - the visual and kinesthetic aspects of this activity can really bolster your learning power. If you can't bear to mark books, use mini-sticky notes to indicate important pages. Write key phrases on small index cards that you can keep handy for snatched study 'windows'. Use the back of your index cards for mind-mapping if you are feeling creative.
You may not want the voice of your lecturer with your night and day, but give tapes a chance by recording yourself reading out loud anything that requires memorising. Repeated listening - even on a 10-minute train journey - can embed that knowledge in your sub-conscious to be recalled when you need it. You can also transfer tapes to MP3 players - and while listening to the finer points of you subjects on your iPod might sound deeply uncool, your fellow passenger will have no idea. ^^