How to Pass Exams

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Learn highly effective and easy-to-grasp techniques and memory skills for exam situations Specially designed for everyone who would like to improve their learning skills and exam performance Packed with useful advice and handy hints on speed-reading, note-taking and revision Includes special features on specific academic subjects – from history and the sciences to modern languages and business studies Invaluable tips and tricks from eight-times winner of the World Memory Championship, Dominic O’Brien Designed for all ages and abilities, How to Pass Exams presents everything you need to know to increase your memory power and your chances of passing any exam with flying colours. Whether you are at school revising a foreign language for an exam, or at university studying for apaper toward a degree, How to Pass Exams will show you the easy way to step up your learning abilities and help you to achieve the grades you seek in any subject. Many of the chapters focus on specific memory and learning techniques – from visualization and association to the "journey method" and the "link method". Other chapters concentrate on particular fields of study, showing you the easiest way to remember history dates, to master scientific concepts and to prepare most effectively for a presentation. Be revealing the secrets of Dominic O’Brien’s extraordinary command of the memory skills we all have at our disposal, this practical and accessible guide enables you to achieve the success in your studies that you’ve longed for. About The Author Dominic O’Brien is renowed for his phenomenal feats of memory and for outwitting the casinos of Las Vegas at the blackjack tables, eventually resulting in a ban. In addition to winning the World Memory Championships eight times, he was named Brain of the year in 1994 and Grandmaster of Memory by the Brain Trust of Great Britain in 1995. He has made numerous appearances on TV and radio and holds a host of world records, including one for memorizing 2,385 random binary digits in 30 minutes. Table of Contents Introduction Speed Reading Note-taking and Mind – mapping Memory Imagination and Association The Link Method Visualisation The Journey Method The Language of Numbers Never Forget a Quotation The Easy Route to Learning Languages Mathematical Short-cuts The Abstract World of Science How to Remember History Dates Geographical Tips A Brain for Business Mind over Media ICT with Imagination Giving a Presentation Planning Your Revision A Final Word