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Mind
Mapping | Exam Tips | Tools
of Memory Improvement
Training for Corporates & Professional | Yoga
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Mind Mapping |
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A mind map helps you see not only what is
there, but also what is missing.
Here are the fundamental aspects of Mind Mapping: |
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Start with your central thought |
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Write the premise
in the middle of a blank sheet of paper.
Then list the first idea that comes into your mind.
Next, note down any related points.
As you exhaust ideas on a topic, move to the next idea.
Note down related points.
Repeat this process until you have exhausted all the
ideas and related points you want to cover. |
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Be free flowing |
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One of the models
I use for the mind looks like a pinball machine.
It can bounce around very quickly to numerous ideas
before it comes up with a logical conclusion.
We have all had this experience at some point or the
other: someone says something to you.
You pause for a minute and then reply. Your listener
asks where in the world your response came from.
You reply, "You said this, which reminded me of
that, and that made me think of that, and that's why
I said that to you."
For you, the thought progression was very logical, but
anyone else looking at it may not see how you got your
reply from the original statement.
The Mind Mapping technique accommodates this type of
bouncing around better than either note taking or outlining.
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Use only keywords |
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Often when taking
notes and creating an outline, we use too many words.
Most people think faster than they write.
(The human mind can think 1,200 to 1,600 words a minute.
On an average, most people only write freehand 25 to
35 words a minute. The best of us can type a little
more than 100 words a minute.)
The key concept is to think in bullets and jot down
one or two words that capture the concept. This way,
you won't slow down your thinking. |
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Allow yourself to bounce around |
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You might be on
your third or fourth key idea and, suddenly, you think
of something that fits back with idea number one.
Stop. Bounce back up, add the idea, and continue. That's
okay. |
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Feel free to connect things
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When two topics
relate to one another, simply draw an arrow to connect
them.
Draw the arrow with the same colour as the rest of the
mind map or with another colour to clearly highlight
the intended connection. |
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Try short bursts |
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Time yourself for
five minutes.
Then take a break. Sit back. Look at your mind map.
Do something else.
Then, spend another five minutes adding, modifying and
adjusting.
Remember, Mind Mapping is your tool. Let it work for
you.
Many people, when exposed to Mind Mapping, say, "I
could never show this to my boss."
A mind map is not necessarily for others. It is primarily
for yourself.
Use the mind map, not as a report, but to dictate or
type the report.
Use it to make sure that all the elements you want in
the report are there before you start. |
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Exam Tips |
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Strategise your
time. Prioritise. Work hard and achieve!
Approach your work with prior planning. Only then can
you be successful.
Cramming will not work now.
Ever thought of preparing a list of the chapters/ topics
of all the subjects in decreasing order of difficulty
levels so that you can focus easily on the difficult
chapters first?
Do it if you have not done so yet. Prepare a time table
by allocating the days of the week to the subjects.
Take up difficult subjects every day. Practise easier
ones on weekends. |
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Oh my God! Time's up! |
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You never want to face this situation. For that matter,
no one does.
Even comprehensive coverage of the syllabi does not
work when it comes to facing the pressures of time,
because they are brutal.
Start timing your solutions to each and every question
from now on.
You must know, for instance, the time you need to
spend on a three-mark question in Science.
A rather more important task is to allocate the time
for unexpected questions.
This is because these unexpected questions take most
of your time and energy.
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Presentation makes the dish
yummy! |
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Make it easy for
the examiner to identify the question number and the
section it has been attempted from.
The way you present your views can make it easy for
the examiner to go through your paper quickly.
Moreover, you are not going to meet your examiner to
explain what you intended to write; it is your handwriting
that introduces you to the checker.
Always attempt your paper neatly. |
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Are your answers patented? |
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You are no longer expected to mug the bookish language.
For that matter, you do not have much time for that.
Let the tone of your answers not be bookish. You should
own your answers.
They should give the impression that you have understood
the topic fully.
Of course, in some places, you will need to quote
the lines from the textbook (as in case of theorems
in Mathematics or in Social Sciences), in order to
make your answer authentic.
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Take Mock Tests. They work! |
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Building self-confidence
and maintaining it throughout the test is very important
in order to excel.
Focused preparation is the key here.
It is a good idea to spend time solving previous years'
papers. This helps you become familiar with the test
pattern of each subject in advance.
But make sure you attempt those mock tests in the same
format and with the same limitations which you will
face on D-day. |
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Tools
Of Memory Improvement |
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Imagination |
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It is what you
use to create and strengthen the associations needed
to create effective mnemonics. Your imagination is what
you use to create mnemonics that are potent for you.
The more strongly you imagine and visualize a situation,
the more effectively it will stick in your mind for
later recall. The imagery you use in your mnemonics
can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as
long as it helps you to remember. |
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Association |
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This is the method by which you link a thing to be
remembered to a way of remembering it. You can create
associations by:
Placing things on top of each other
Crashing things together
Merging images together
Wrapping them around each other
Rotating them around each other or having them dancing
together
Linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or
feeling
As an example, you might link the number 1 with a
goldfish by visualizing a 1-shaped spear being used
to spear it.
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Location |
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It gives you two
things: a coherent context into which you can place
information so that it hangs together, and a way of
separating one mnemonic from another. By setting one
mnemonic in a particular town, I can separate it from
a similar mnemonic set in a city. For example, by setting
one in Wimbledon and another similar mnemonic with images
of Manhattan, we can separate them with no danger of
confusion. You can build the flavors and atmosphere
of these places into your mnemonics to strengthen the
feeling of location.
You can do the following things to make your mnemonics
more memorable.
1) Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks
out unpleasant ones
2) Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images - these are
easier to remember than drab ones
3) Use all your senses to code information or dress
up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain
sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings
as well as pictures.
4) Give your image three dimensions, movement and space
to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to
maintain the flow of association, or to help you to
remember actions.
5) Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image
6) Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to
remember then normal ones.
7) Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
8) Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road
signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly
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Designing Mnemonics |
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Imagination, Association and Location
The three fundamental principles underlying the use
of mnemonics are imagination, association and location.
Working together, you can use these principles to
generate powerful mnemonic systems.
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Using Your Whole Mind To Remember |
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The key idea is
that by coding information using vivid mental images,
you can reliably code both information and the structure
of information. And because the images are vivid, they
are easy to recall when you need them.
Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli
such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells,
tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We
use these to make sophisticated models of the world
we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively.
Unfortunately, a lot of the information we have to remember
in modern life is presented differently as words printed
on a page. While writing is a rich and sophisticated
medium for conveying complex arguments, our brains do
not easily encode written information, making it difficult
to remember. |
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Mnemonics |
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'Mnemonic' is another
word for memory tool. Mnemonics are techniques for remembering
information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall:
A very simple example is the '30 days hath September'
rhyme for remembering the number of days in each calendar
month.
The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember
information in a way that is much easier to remember. |
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Remembering with the Story Method |
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Alternatively you
could code this information by imaging the following
story vividly:
An AVON lady is walking up a path towards a strange
house. She is hot and sweating slightly in the heat
of high SUMMER (Somerset). Beside the path someone has
planted giant CORN in a WALL (Cornwall), but it's beginning
to WILT (Wiltshire) in the heat. She knocks on the DOOR
(Dorset), which is opened by the DEVIL (Devon).
In the background she can see a kitchen in which a servant
is smearing honey on a HAM (Hampshire), making it GLOSSY(Gloucestershire)
and gleam in bright sunlight streaming in through a
window. Panicked by seeing the Devil, the Avon lady
screams 'SORRY' (Surrey), and dashes back down the path. |
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Key points |
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The Link Method
is probably the most basic memory technique, and is
very easy to understand and use. It works by coding
information to be remembered into images and then linking
these images together.
The story technique is very similar. It links these
images together into a story. This helps to keep events
in a logical order and can improve your ability to remember
information if you forget the sequence of images.
Both techniques are very simple to learn. Unfortunately
they are both slightly unreliable as it is easy to confuse
the order of images or forget images from a sequence. |
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Training
For Corporates And Professionals |
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Memory is not just needed
for students. It is a must in the Corporate World and Day
to Day life. We need a Sharp Memory to succeed in life and
a Trained Memory is always an asset.
I have seen Grown-ups having FEAR THAT THEIR MEMORY IS FADING.
I would like to point out that with regards to memory; there
are 2 types of fears i.e. USEFUL FEARS AND USELESS FEARS.
Can you make a list of useful fears and another list of useless
fears. Ask yourself the following:
How clear are you in your thought process?
How aware are you?
Does awareness come only when you get worried.
The 3 laws of memory are Imagination, Observation and Concentration.
They need to be used if you would like to make your short-term
memory Permanent.
A Memory for names and faces is obviously of enormous value
to politicians. But it is equally important for businessman
and professionals. It adds to his goodwill and influences
the business positively. Try the following for remembering
a name of a person introduced to you;
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Get the name clearly |
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Repeat the name
immediately after the introduction |
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See whether the name has a meaning in
itself |
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If it has no meaning, find an appropriate
meaning |
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Repeat the name several times |
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Write the name down |
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I remember over 2,000
Telephone and Mobile numbers and remember over 700 Individuals
Date of Birth. I BELIEVE IN THE FUNDA: "LEARN ONCE AND
REMEMBER FOREVER". I have created an Intensive Two Days
Corporate Program where the Participants are taught Association
and Concentration Techniques and allow various Skills like
Fast-Reading, Yoga for Memory, Fast Calculations Skills and
we also have Group Discussions and Team Games and various
other exercises to sharpen your brain and to reduce Stress
and have efficient Time-Management.
Are you aware that the longest word is a 47 letter lung disesase
i.e Pneumononoultvamicroscopicsilicovolsanoconiosis.
Some ways to cope with Stress are: |
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Get up 20 minutes early |
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Say "NO"
more often |
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SMILE SMILE SMILE |
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Use Time Sensibly |
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Read a poem |
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Do it today |
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Stand up and stretchAlways have a plan
"B" |
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Memorize a joke |
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Exercise daily |
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Get to work early |
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Get enough sleep |
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Talk less and listen more |
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Learn to meet your own needs |
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Do a brand new thing |
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Practice grace and dignity when under
pressure |
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DO IT TODAY; DO IT NOW |
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Have goal-setting in your daily work-schedule |
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Stretch your limits a little each day |
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VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS A WINNER |
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Set priorities in your life |
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Prepare for the morning the night before |
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Anticipate your needs |
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Look at problems as challenges |
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Avoid negative people |
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IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY |
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Yoga can
also Improve Memory |
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Stress reduction, Strengthening
the body, Body awareness, Self-Confidence, Memory Improvement…….yes
Yoga is a very vital tool to increase Memory and Concentration.
Having trained several people of all ages in Memory-Development,
I have seen how Yoga can improve Concentration and reduce
Stress that students always face. The union that yoga brings
to the body is important for students because it brings everything
back to the body and away from the head.
YOGA is not merely a system of physical exercises but
a complete way of life. It helps a person to remain healthy
in any adverse condition and to retain his mental balance
in any difficult situation. These are the essential steps
towards life, full of harmony, enjoyable and worth living.
Yoga prevents MEMORY Lapses by MAKING YOU CALM AND COOL and
improving your concentration. It can also improve your powers
of recall by increasing circulation to your brain. And the
BIGGEST ADVANTAGE to students is that they gain SELF-MASTERY
and SELF-IDENTITY. Yoga is the vehicle through which
one can do so.
As a child grows up and goes to higher classes, Yoga helps
to MAINTAIN THE FOCUS which helps the child to study
better. Yoga is not just a system of exercises, it is a holistic
science, promoting specific techniques for integrated development
of one’s being be it physical, mental, emotional and
spiritual.
Daily meditation helps with memory. Sit quietly in a comfortable
position and start silently counting backward from 50. As
your concentration improves, you can move the starting count
higher, to 100, 200,500,750 and more. This exercise will improve
your concentration and help you remember things better.
Regular practice of YOGA ensures Sound Health, Sharp Intellect,
Youthful Looks and Abundant Energy. Yoga Breathing
Exercises(Pranayama) are very powerful since they work
as a tonic to reduce Stress, Insomnia, Emotional Imbalance,
headache etc. Yoga is indeed a must for all of us whether
me, you or you.
GOOD LUCK ALWAYS |
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Mathemagic |
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Have we ever wondered
when we read, we feel that we remember every word, only to
find after some time that only some part of that topic is
still with us. It is observed that all individuals who have
countless of their childhood incidents see many of them disappear
with time.
Don't we always envy people who reel off long extracts of
poems and paragraphs and always remember people's names and
who seem to have a great memory?
Friends, in order to have a good memory we need to take care
of few vital aspects. Without that, a good memory is a distinct
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Creativity:
Creativity is one aspect which has been neglected by
one and all whether with regards to memory or any other
thing. This is a core issue to be tackled. Ask yourself
how you can be creative in remembering some subject.
By employing a dry boring way of reading and then forgetting
will not take us far. Also some, rather many people
especially young students try to learn any subject by
mugging the topic by which they learn for some time
and then forget the stuff. Always find new innovative
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How many of us
see our wife's hand every day. Stunned at the question,
wait! I want to know if we have ever observed how many
bangles she has worn or of what colour. This is Observation.
A person with a good observation capacity is the one
who can remember fast and quick. Try this. Ask anybody
the time and then immediately ask how many seconds were
there. One in hundred might give the correct answer
despite the fact that he had seen the watch just few
moments ago. |
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Working of your Memory:
To know what is Memory, one should know how it functions.
Memory works in four stages:
i. It recognizes a thing.
ii. An impression is left on it.
iii. It retains the impression.
iv. It recalls what it has retained. |
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Let us know something about
our senses. There are 5 senses of the body and 5 senses of
the mind. The 5 body senses are:
1) Sight
2) Smell
3) Touch
4) Taste
5) Hearing
The 5 Mind Senses are:
1) Observation
2) Discrimination
3) Memory-Power
4) Decision Making
5) Spiritual
All the 5 body and the 5 Mind Senses contribute significantly
to our Memory Retention Capacity.
Memory is the ability of the brain to recall any information
that has been stored into it. It is the power to remember
something that has been learnt or experienced. Without memory
we would forget things soon after learning them.
Memory forms a huge part of our brain; if we didn't have it
we would not remember routine habits of eating, dressing,
brushing our teeth, etc. We would not ever learn from experience.
Is Memory good or is it bad? It's neither. Memory is either
trained or untrained. We need to follow some Laws of Memory
Development to improve our Memory.
Three important Laws of Memory-Enhancement:
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Imagination:
Imagination is to get your creativity and hidden potential
realized. The more strongly you imagine and visualize
a situation, the more effectively it will be in your
mind for the future. To have a great impact, we need
to visualize and imagine our own images. |
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Observation:
A person with a good power of Observation has alertness
and a good presence of mind. E.g. Newton saw the apples
falling from the tree and discovered the Law of Gravity.
A very important tool for Mind Development. |
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Concentration: Study
for 30 minutes with full Concentration rather than 4-5
hours in an absentminded frame of mind. You cannot be
productive in work, study or anything else without Concentration.
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Students both school and
college need to use Memory-Techniques effectively to get
OPTIMUM RESULTS.
Remember:
Begin on time: Start your work on time and
do not waste time on unnecessary things.
Self-assessment: Study-time should be genuinely
effective. See if you really studying or frittering away time.
Time-Management: See that proper time is
allotted to each subject and to each part of all the subjects.
Do the difficult questions first when more fresh.
Regular Breaks: Divide and plan the work
and allow time for recreation. Rest relieves fatigue, not
boredom, so a difficult task may be even more difficult after
a break. Time your breaks properly.
Revision: Revision of earlier work helps
in understanding. Do not think that since you have read the
bock, you do not need to revise again. Four Stages Students
need to remember that:
Memory recognizes a thing.
An impression is left on it.
It retains the impression.
It recalls what it has retained.
If students do their work the way it has to be done, exam
is just a four letter word for them. Do not get unnecessarily
scared if you are weak in any subject. With proper working
habits, you can improve yourself and do well in all the subjects.
I would also like to share some Math Tricks with you to show
how interesting and easy it can be done mentally. E.g.: 1.
75 multiply 75 = 5625. When we have two numbers same and ending
with 5, last two digits of the answer will always be 25 as
a rule and the first digit i.e. 7 is multiplied by next number
i.e. 8 and the answer is 56 and the final answer is 5625.
If we take 2 numbers ending with 5 and having a difference
of 10 e.g. 65 multiplied by 75 we get 4875. The last two digits
of the answer will always be 75 as a rule and first digits
6 and 7 multiply to get 42 and add the smaller number 6 to
42 to get 48 and the answer is 4875.
42 multiply 11and we get 462.
78 multiply 11and we get 858.
When we multiply 42 and 11, just write 4 and 2 leaving some
space and add 4 and 2 to get 6 and the answer is 462.
And for 78 multiply by 11, write 8 for the last digit of the
answer and adding 7 and 8 we get 15 so we write 5 and carry
over 1 and add to 7 to get 8 and the answer 858.
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