For some reason, along with other exams that I've considered important, this one didn't go well either. I knew almost all of the derivations, but I couldn't show it anywhere. There was one big question that would more-or-less decide the faith of the exam and a bunch of small questions. The big one was on Liouville's theorem, but I couldn't remember what it was about. If only I had remembered that Liouville's theorem meant the continuity of gas flow, I would've done it.
Approached it with pk, but couldn't extract more than a few feelings and even these I forgot right after uncovering them. As if the feelings were stuck in a jelly.
- Why do I often feel great about stuff that are far from great?
- Why is it that the results of exams depend on psychological reasons and studying actually doesn't mean a thing?
- And why do I always stumble upon that same old rock of memory loss on important moments?
- How do I fix it?
Even though the next one is next Friday, I'm not too happy about it. Wanted to spend time on other subjects and spice it with some levitation practice. Too bad, have to study these equations and derivations all again.
It won't help with the last exam, but the memories are actually still in your subconscious, or more precisely, associated with relative states of mind.
ReplyDeleteThere is theory about memory retention called state specific memory. Since people alter their states of mind frequently throughout the day, examples of such states being dreaming; watching television, athletic performance, driving, sexual arousal, reading a book, playing video games, learning etc. It is thought that memories may actually be stored within state specific areas of consciousness, which are easier to recall if you can re-trigger the specific state. Good examples of this would be the ways that a piece of music, or a smell may trigger a sudden vivid memory out of the blue. A more deliberate example would involve dream recall. When awaking from a dream, the details naturally fade because you are switching into a state which is more functional in waking reality. However, the forgotten dream can be recalled in full if one remembers even a piece of the dream. Let's say you only vaguely remember that there was row boat & a girl on a hot day from the dream. By visualizing the memory fragment in detail, the associated emotions & sensory awareness of the fragment will often trigger a return to the related dream state, and the full memories may become accessible.
This technique is not limited to dreaming. It's often made use of in psionics, with the techniques of anchoring & triggering. When using forensic hypnosis to help people rebuild or recall a memory it is use as well. If you can make use of memory fragments or conditions associated with your study periods; the memories may become more accessible than if you if you try to recall the information directly. Direct recall can be difficult without associative meaning.
Another great study example of state specific memory would be anchoring a song or rhyme(music being the state) to the study information(the memories.
Hope this is helpful:)
-Owltwelve
Hm, yeah, I suppose so. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI was high on equations, when I studied. Went to exam after sleeping for some hours, so the state of mind changed.
Took a nap; in the dreams I was proving theorems and stuff to the lecturer via feelings.
For learning vocabulary by heart, I used to associate every word with an image and a feeling. This made it easier to recall during the test. Perhaps I should do the same with equations and sentences.