Most of us believe that understanding guarantees recall.

The next slide has 30 commonly used words – written in the way we’ve been told to make notes.. {single colour only words.}

See this slide for 20 seconds only & then let’s check..

You understood all the words…

Would you like to guess how many are you able to recall ‘just now’?

How many would be able to remember after one hour?

Myth 2: Understanding implies Recall..

We’ve seen that the traditional way of note making is not very effective.

Let’s see if we can do something better.

The same 30 words are now displayed to the same Brain (You) for the same time of 20 seconds… but, in a different way.

Now let’s see what happens…

Now – how many words were you able to recall?

Was it more than the previous Linear way?

Was this easier to understand AND recall?

Would it help if you are trained to convert your Linear notes to a more effective way of making notes?

Let’s do another experiment:

Think of any word say, ‘Food’ or ‘Car’.

Close your eyes for 10 seconds..

What did you see?

Did you also see an image – with some shape & colour?

Well, this is the natural way for the Brain to work..

So, if in the previous image we add colour & images…

Would it make a difference to are ability to recall? Let’s check

Did you notice a marked improvement in the number of words remembered now?

The same words, for the same Time, to the same Brain! Just the way information was fed to the Brain was tweaked

Step 3 – Note Making: How well did you do?

This is a simple yet powerful ‘Brain friendly’ way of feeding any and all of your information to your brain..

And this is called a ‘Mind Map.

You could convert 5-10 pages of Linear text onto a single sheet! This increases understanding & recall-ability while saving revision time!