Making the difficult subjects easy and interesting
Sunday, 6 January 2008
M A Islam
It is common for students to think this way: 'not now or today, I will read this later or some other day'. It many cases, it so happens that they do not read the subject in near future. That way they remain weak in the subject and this becomes catastrophic for them. The subject creats panic for them.
Begin your day with the most difficult subject. If you can have some considerable amount of reading in the early hour of the day, you will feel confident and will enjoy reading other subjects. I remember my friend's study habit in this regard. This friend of mine stood first in whole Bangladesh in HSC exam from humanities group. Just after waking up early in the morning, he used to study for a short while. Then he went to washroom and got back to studies again.
When you go back home or your dormitory, you can first open the pages of the most difficult book. Then after you become fresh, you can read a little bit from the book. This will make you more familiar with the difficult issues.
You must be very serious in the class. Teachers usually try to present difficult things in an easy manner. You must use the opportunity and focus on the discussion in the class.
Form study groups in order to discuss most difficult parts of the most difficult subjects. Sit with your fellows on regular basis. Discussion will surely help you. Such practise will keep you under pressure to study at your own also.
Collect more than one book for the same difficult subject. It so happens that one chapter is not written that clearly in a book and the same chapter is written in a much better way in another book. Reading several books will help you have required understanding on all the chapters.
Before you go to bed, revise what you have learned from the difficult subject today. This will help you get prepared for tomorrow's fresh lessons of the same subject.
Think, think and think. If you think minutely, you can surely have a clear grasp of the subject and the difficult subject will not remain that difficult for you. This will also help you remember the issues and you can reproduce your idea on any topic more quickly.
Reading the chapters again and again will surely help you remove 'feeling of difficulty' about any subject and you will even start liking the subject. One fine morning you will find you have good mastery over the subject.
It is common for students to think this way: 'not now or today, I will read this later or some other day'. It many cases, it so happens that they do not read the subject in near future. That way they remain weak in the subject and this becomes catastrophic for them. The subject creats panic for them.
Begin your day with the most difficult subject. If you can have some considerable amount of reading in the early hour of the day, you will feel confident and will enjoy reading other subjects. I remember my friend's study habit in this regard. This friend of mine stood first in whole Bangladesh in HSC exam from humanities group. Just after waking up early in the morning, he used to study for a short while. Then he went to washroom and got back to studies again.
When you go back home or your dormitory, you can first open the pages of the most difficult book. Then after you become fresh, you can read a little bit from the book. This will make you more familiar with the difficult issues.
You must be very serious in the class. Teachers usually try to present difficult things in an easy manner. You must use the opportunity and focus on the discussion in the class.
Form study groups in order to discuss most difficult parts of the most difficult subjects. Sit with your fellows on regular basis. Discussion will surely help you. Such practise will keep you under pressure to study at your own also.
Collect more than one book for the same difficult subject. It so happens that one chapter is not written that clearly in a book and the same chapter is written in a much better way in another book. Reading several books will help you have required understanding on all the chapters.
Before you go to bed, revise what you have learned from the difficult subject today. This will help you get prepared for tomorrow's fresh lessons of the same subject.
Think, think and think. If you think minutely, you can surely have a clear grasp of the subject and the difficult subject will not remain that difficult for you. This will also help you remember the issues and you can reproduce your idea on any topic more quickly.
Reading the chapters again and again will surely help you remove 'feeling of difficulty' about any subject and you will even start liking the subject. One fine morning you will find you have good mastery over the subject.