Building capacity to understand lessons
Sunday, 27 December 2009
M A Islam
THERE are many students who always look for short-cut ways in studies and also for facing the examinations. Instead of spending good amount of time in understanding the lessons, they just try to memorise the lessons, want to reproduce on the exam scripts what they have memorised and in this way just want to cross the hurdles of examinations. In reality, exams become panic for them and the task of studying becomes uninteresting and boring to them.
It is core responsibility of students to understand the lessons.
If students spend enough time in understanding the lessons during the semester/year, their preparation would be good enough to make the exams interesting. They can make exams as interesting as ice-cream is.
Even after the recent introduction of Creative Method of Exam in Bangladesh, students are found to memorise their lessons. This is very sad and this is killing the potentials of the students.
If you rely on memorisation, it might be very difficult to answer the questions in the examination since in the exam, you will have to remember so many things at one sitting-and things which you do not have clear idea about. Contrary to that, if you understand you might be at ease even while answering the easiest questions in the exam.
If a lesson seems difficult to you, you may take help of your teachers, seniors, classmates. The more difficult time you will spend for preparing yourself for the exam, the easier it will be for you to appear at the exam since you have through understanding of the course, and you can connect knowledge of one chapter with another, even knowledge of one course with another.
When you are reading a chapter, try to visualise what you are reading. Human brains can remember pictures better. So through visulisation if you can see video of what you are reading, you will be able to remember the chapter very easily. The more imaginative power you have, the better you will be able to visualise and the better you will be able to remember lessons.
When one particular chapter becomes difficult to you, you may read more than one book. It is sometimes seen that one particular chapter in a particular book has been written in a more complicated way, but the same chapter may be found written in easy language in some other books. So consulting more than one book will help you get concepts clear.
Mere memorisation and not understanding of the lessons cannot help one to move ahead in life. Memorisation may help one in the short-run, may be just in passing the exams but no guarantee. Only memorisation can never help you make excellent result in the exam. You can never expect to be creative through mere memorisation and not trying to understand the lessons.
THERE are many students who always look for short-cut ways in studies and also for facing the examinations. Instead of spending good amount of time in understanding the lessons, they just try to memorise the lessons, want to reproduce on the exam scripts what they have memorised and in this way just want to cross the hurdles of examinations. In reality, exams become panic for them and the task of studying becomes uninteresting and boring to them.
It is core responsibility of students to understand the lessons.
If students spend enough time in understanding the lessons during the semester/year, their preparation would be good enough to make the exams interesting. They can make exams as interesting as ice-cream is.
Even after the recent introduction of Creative Method of Exam in Bangladesh, students are found to memorise their lessons. This is very sad and this is killing the potentials of the students.
If you rely on memorisation, it might be very difficult to answer the questions in the examination since in the exam, you will have to remember so many things at one sitting-and things which you do not have clear idea about. Contrary to that, if you understand you might be at ease even while answering the easiest questions in the exam.
If a lesson seems difficult to you, you may take help of your teachers, seniors, classmates. The more difficult time you will spend for preparing yourself for the exam, the easier it will be for you to appear at the exam since you have through understanding of the course, and you can connect knowledge of one chapter with another, even knowledge of one course with another.
When you are reading a chapter, try to visualise what you are reading. Human brains can remember pictures better. So through visulisation if you can see video of what you are reading, you will be able to remember the chapter very easily. The more imaginative power you have, the better you will be able to visualise and the better you will be able to remember lessons.
When one particular chapter becomes difficult to you, you may read more than one book. It is sometimes seen that one particular chapter in a particular book has been written in a more complicated way, but the same chapter may be found written in easy language in some other books. So consulting more than one book will help you get concepts clear.
Mere memorisation and not understanding of the lessons cannot help one to move ahead in life. Memorisation may help one in the short-run, may be just in passing the exams but no guarantee. Only memorisation can never help you make excellent result in the exam. You can never expect to be creative through mere memorisation and not trying to understand the lessons.