Learning Strategies For Students

Here are some learning and memory techniques that will help with the process.

Learning Strategies

• Outline
• Divide
• Vary
• Incubate
• Revise
• Engage

Outline

An outline of a topic gives people a framework on which they can add details to get a picture of what they are learning.

Textbooks, articles 
and essays usually 
start with an 
introductory overview

Scenes in movies and
TV often show a long
shot before they zoom into the close ups.

If you ask someone to draw
a house, they will usually
draw the walls and roof
before they fill in details like
doors and windows

When reading, writing, explaining and in exams, order your information from the general to the detailed