With exams coming up, I came across this video about the Feynman Technique that helps you learn and revise stuff more effectively. Essentially, you should use simple terms to explain the idea, as if to a new student.
There are several techniques involved:
Explain the Idea
Explain the idea as if you’re explaining it to someone who doesn’t understand it at all.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it very well – write down the bits you do get; use a textbook, your notes, a friend or a teacher to fill in the gaps.
Then explain the bits you didn’t get. I find it’s best to explain how you should approach these ideas too, perhaps using an analogy.
Simple language and short sentences work well to explain the concept.
Accumulate Ideas
This is also an opportunity to tie in other concepts you’ve done, which could help your understanding.
When Can You Use It?
This technique is super useful for loads of situations:
- Learning a new idea – walk through this technique after reading through your notes/after classes etc. This helps pinpoint which concepts are more difficult to grasp, so you can create better analogies etc.
- Revision – again, this technique helps you understand where your knowledge is shakier, especially if you don’t look at your notes.
Go use this technique now: take out a blank sheet of paper, pick a topic and start explaining!
You can write a blog post using this technique, I’d be interested to see what you come up with 🙂 my favourites might even get posted on this blog next week! Just link to this post and I’ll have a look at them.
Daring To Jess 
Cheers. Very interesting.
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Thanks, hope it’s useful!
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Transcendental meditation helps me a bit… as well as other techniques to compliment my studies
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Ooh interesting! Yes combined with other techniques, learning will be easier 🙂
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My health is my wealth 😉
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I use this technique at times, especially when learning Psychology. It does help to pretend that your teaching it to someone who doesn’t understand. It’s an effective way of learning
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Yes, it definitely is! Glad that it worked for you 🙂 x
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Such a helpful post- will use all of these tips x
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Thanks, glad you found it useful! x
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I’m horrible at exams and retaining information. This seems helpful and I will definitely try it! http://sayeedahsparkles.com
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I hope it helps! Tell me how it goes 🙂
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Will do!
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So helpful
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Thanks 🙂
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Simple but effective. Thanks.
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Yes, teaching is one of the most effective ways of learning 🙂
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Looking forward to your next post Jen
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Jess sorry. Spell check
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No worries 😀
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Good Friday here. Hope you and your loved ones have a good and safe Easter
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Thank you, have a brilliant Easter weekend 🙂
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Not bad so far. Plenty going on down here. Happy Easter and good tidings to you all x
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Effective methods! I can’t wait to try them 🙂
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Thanks! Hope they help 😀
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No problem! Yep, me too 😀
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Seriously, I love your blog. You have always got really helpful, real-world-relevant content and I love that xx
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Thank you Mia, that means honestly so much to me! I hope it does come in handy aha xx your blog has seriously become my ‘favourite new lifestyle blog’, there’s so much inspo whenever I read it ❤
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very useful, i’ll definitely used them for my finals!
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That’s great, I’m glad that it’ll come in handy! Good luck for your finals 🙂
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yeah, Thanks for sharing
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