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STUDY SKILLS
Learning strategies & techniques
The strategies that are given below are ways of holding onto information and recalling information.
5% LISTENING
10% READING
20% AUDIO VISUAL
30% TEACHER DEMONSTRATION 50% DISCUSSION IN GROUP
75% PRACTISING BY DOING
90% TEACHING OTHERS IN YOUR GROUP
The bar graph illustrated above displays learning strategies in increasing order of effectiveness, from top to bottom. The top bar, Listening, is the least effective strategy. The bottom bar shows the strategy that is most effective in helping your brain to retain and later recall information. This does not mean that the other strategies should be discarded completely. each of these strategies plays a part in helping you to understand, absorb and recall information.
This Bar Graph shows the recall rate of various learning activities. (Source: Data derived from the uS national Training Laboratories.