The master of all knowledge - Adam Khoo

I have read the books of many motivational speakers, but I must say that the person who motivates me the most is him, Adam Khoo. His secrets of self-made millionaire really strive me to work extra hard to be able to emulate him one day.

Here is his profile I found :

Adam Khoo is an entrepreneur, a best-selling author and a peak performance trainer. A self-made millionaire by the age of 26, He owns and runs 3 different companies with a combined annual turnover of $20 million. He is the CEO & Managing Director of Adcom (S) Pte Ltd (a leading marketing communications and advertising agency), Founder & CEO of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group Pte Ltd (a premier training and consulting company that specializes in both corporate training and student education programmes), and the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Event Gurus Pte Ltd (an event management company).

He is the best-selling author of "I Am Gifted, So Are You!", a motivational accelerated book that was ranked MPH #1 best-seller in 1998 and 1999. He is also the co-author of "How to Multiply your Child's Intelligence" and "Clueless in Starting a Business". In addition, he is the Best-selling author of “Master your Mind, Design your Destiny” that has been ranked #2 on the Straits Times Life! Best-sellers list since its launch. He is also the author of the national best selling book “Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires & Secrets of Millionaire Investor”. He holds an honours degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore, from where he was ranked among the top one percent (1%) of academic achievers and was also a pioneer in NUS Talend Development Progrom.

Adam is known as one of the most dynamic and powerful speakers in Asia, having motivated and trained over 100,000 professionals, managers, executives, salespeople, teachers and students in areas like Entrepreneurship, Strategic Marketing and Sales, Motivation, Presentation and Communication Skills and Accelerated Learning Techniques and Behavioural Change Technologies, among other areas. He has worked with hundreds of multi-national corporations, schools and non-profit organizations in Singapore and around the region.

(www.shareinvestor.com/misc/seminars/profile_adam_khoo.pdf)

Tips to do well for your exams

These Study Tips are for any student who would like to stick to a good study regime. You don't have to be the TOP Brain to do that---anybody can do it by following these simple rules and tips. Its your call !!!



BE ORGANISED
•Make a homework/study timetable. Work on the important or urgent task first. Give equal time to your least liked subject. Leave until last the things you enjoy most and things that are least urgent. Highlight all the important task to be done.
•Vary your study. Spending too much time on one task will give you less time for something else which might be just as important.
•Use your study diary. Keep it handy all the time. It's a valuable tool to keep you organise yourself.
Organise your study timetables so that the most important stuff is given TOP attention time!! (e.g. PRIORITY - Top >>>Medium >>>Low)





FILE YOUR NOTES
Create an individual subject files at home. This could be a 2 ring binder. Preferably use one at each subject.

Place the subject name clearly on the outside. When you get home from school each day transfer all the notes and handouts you recieved that day into each of your subject folder.

Before filing, read through, make notes and organise what it is you need to study from them.

•Your subject file can be further divided into topics. This will make it easier to locate a particular topic when you need to study it later on.

SET A TARGET
•Carefuly check your timetable, make sure you have allowed a reasonable time for what you want to achieve. e.g. "Complete Math exercises 3 and 4 or start writing a draft for English essay." You need to clearly identify exactly what you have to do.
•Set yourself realistic targets. When you get them done, you will feel good about yourself. Each small achievement helps to build up your confidence.
Congratulate yourself each time you reach your target.

IDENTIFY
Identify exactly what it is you need to learn in some subjects. You might have to memorise a poem or a speech. In other subject you might have to write an extended response. So in order not to waste time, IDENTIFY the kind of learning or task that you need to do and work accordingly.

READ AND MAKE NOTES
•By using the notes from your subject or topic files, read and make notes - write comments, make brief summaries.
•Practice the writing of key ideas and facts from memory, you will learn better by doing this.
•Highlight important information, it makes it easy to relocate. It also allows you to create an outline of the material as you are reading. (Use highlighter that are not too bright, they have a tendency to be distracting)
•Write notes as neatly and as legibly as possible. If you compose neat notes, or at least legible ones, you can save valuable time by not having to rewrite them.
Note taking is probably one of the foremost components to being successful in acquiring productive study skills

CONCENTRATE ! ! !
•Don't daydream! Keep your mind on what you are doing.
•Remember to have a 10 minute hourly break, this will help you concentrate. The best way to do it is to stnd up and face away fromyour books, don't sit at your desk starring at your book- the physical act of standing up will help your thinking back to the job.




UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE LEARNING
Understanding in the classroom involves listening to instructions, being attentive, involving yourself in discussions and asking questions.

Take an active role in your learning. This will improve your understanding of the subject and will help you recall too.

•Summarise things in your own words. When you are summarising, it should be short and to the point, capture key elements. Use diagrams, drawings, and flowcharts.
•When you don't understand something, don't be shy or afraid to ask your teacher for help.

REVISE ! REVISE ! REVISE!
It is normal for your brain to forget things, but this doesn't mean your not smart.

You should revise work very soon after you have learned it, once or every two or three study sessions, simply review older materials that you still need to remember.

Doing this regularly will save you having to re-study a topic in detail. Make sure your homework/study timetable includes plenty of revision time. The summaries and class notes you have made can be a great help in revision.

One simple trick to remember older information is to SIMPLY REVIEW.


Are doing a research for an assignment ?
•Study Skills - Six Research Strategy Secrets
The following checklist and questions are guide for students while they are doing their research for their assignments, it will help students to acquire and developed their skills in finding the right information not only during the students' high li

http://hubpages.com/hub/research-strategy-secrets

(http://hubpages.com/hub/how-to-study)

Exam Tips

(An article i found which is especially useful for students tackling their exams now)

Tests and exams are a regular part of the school environment. It is important that exams be kept in proportion - they are important, but not the end of the world. Some things can be done to make exams a more valuable, worthwhile and less threatening experience for students.

1. Have all necessary material with you
   You can't borrow items such as pens, pencils, rulers or special equipment while in an examination.
   
2. Have a relaxing night before your exams
   Have an early night, and try to have a healthy breakfast.
   
3. Read the entire paper.
   Where you have choices, decide which ones you plan to answer.
   
4. Plan your time.
   Spend some time drafting a plan for the questions you choose to answer.
   
5. Jot down ideas as they come to you.
   While you are answering one question, information about another may suddenly occur to you. Jot it down somewhere because when you come to that question perhaps an hour later, you may have forgotten it.
   
6. Don't leave any questions unanswered.
   If you are short of time, use note form. Remember, you can only be marked on the answers you give.
   
7. Never leave the room early.
   If you have time at the end, go over your work, add information (eg in the margin). You can't return if you suddenly remember a fact after you have left.
   
8. Do not spend too long on multiple choice questions.
   With multiple choice questions it is best to cover the answers and work out your own before looking at the choices on paper. If you can't answer the question come back to it later - have a guess.
   
9. Never omit an entire question.
   No matter how well you answer other questions, you must leave time for all questions - a perfect answer can still only earn a certain number of marks. If you write nothing, you can't receive any marks and you have lost all your marks for a particular question. Write something - it may at least give you a few points.
   
10. Maintain a stable energy level.
    Eating foods such as chocolate bars before an exam might give you an energy boost to begin with but your blood sugar levels will drop within an hour and your energy will plunge dramatically, making it hard for you to concentrate.

(http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/gotoschool/highschool/examtips.php)

Treasure your happiness

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take pictures, pictures and more pictures, laugh and laugh and laugh out loud, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness
you'll never get back.

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Why NH3's solubility decreases when temperature increases

The variation of solubility for a gas with temperature can be determined by examining the graphic on the left.

As the temperature increases, the solubility of a gas decrease as shown by the downward trend in the graph .

More gas is present in a solution with a lower temperature compared to a solution with a higher temperature.

The reason for this gas solubility relationship with temperature is very similar to the reason that vapor pressure increases with temperature. Increased temperature causes an increase in kinetic energy. The higher kinetic energy causes more motion in molecules which break intermolecular bonds and escape from solution.

(http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/174temppres.html)

Study smart

Here's another article i found on web which is very educational :

Building an Understanding

Learning is a process similar to building a house. You aren’t fed the complete picture. Limitations on communication prevent the instantaneous transmission of knowledge. Instead you listen to lectures, read textbooks and take painstaking notes to try and comprehend a subject.

You are fed building supplies, bricks, mortar and glass. It is up to you to assemble the building. Unfortunately, most learning strategies fall into two basic types:

1. Memorization - Instead of building anything you simply stare at each brick for several minutes trying to record its position.
2. Formulas - This is the equivalent to being blind, fumbling around a new house. You can’t see the building itself but you learn to come up with simple rules to avoid walking into walls.

There is nothing particularly wrong with either of these strategies, assuming they aren’t your entire strategy. The human brain isn’t a computer so it can’t memorize infinite sums of knowledge without some form of structure. And formulas no longer work if the questions they are designed to solve change scope.

Learning Holistically

The alternative strategy is to focus on actually using the information you have to build something. This involves linking concepts together and compressing information so it fits in the bigger picture. Here are some ideas to get started:

1. Metaphor - Metaphors can allow you to quickly organize information by comparing a complex idea to a simple one. When you find relationships between information, come up with analogies to increase your understanding. Compare neurons with waves on a string. Make metaphors comparing parts of a brain with sections of your computer.
2. Use All Your Senses - Abstract ideas are difficult to memorize because they are far removed from our senses. Shift them closer by coming up with vivid pictures, feelings and images that relate information together. When I learned how to do a determinant of a matrix, I remembered the pattern by visualizing my hands moving through the numbers, one adding and one subtracting.
3. Teach It - Find someone who doesn’t understand the topic and teach it to them. This exercise forces you to organize. Spending five minutes explaining a concept can save you an hour of combined studying for the same effect.
4. Leave No Islands - When you read through a textbook, every piece of information should connect with something else you have learned. Fast learners do this automatically, but if you leave islands of information, you won’t be able to reach them during a test.
5. Test Your Mobility - A good way to know you haven’t linked enough is that you can’t move between concepts. Open up a word document and start explaining the subject you are working with. If you can’t jump between sections, referencing one idea to help explain another, you won’t be able to think through the connections during a test.
6. Find Patterns - Look for patterns in information. Information becomes easier to organize if you can identify broader patterns that are similar across different topics. The way a neuron fires has similarities to “if” statements in programming languages.
7. Build a Large Foundation - Reading lots and having a general understanding of many topics gives you a lot more flexibility in finding patterns and metaphors in new topics. The more you already know, the easier it is to learn.
8. Don’t Force - I don’t spend much time studying before exams. Forcing information during the last few days is incredibly inefficient. Instead try to slowly interlink ideas as they come to you so studying becomes a quick recap rather than a first attempt at learning.
9. Build Models - Models are simple concepts that aren’t true by themselves, but are useful for describing abstract ideas. Crystallizing one particular mental image or experience can create a model you can reference when trying to understand. When I was trying to tackle the concept of subspaces, I visualized a blue background with a red plane going through it. This isn’t an entirely accurate representation of what a subspace is, but it created a workable image for future ideas.
10. Learning is in Your Head - Having beautiful notes and a perfectly highlighted textbook doesn’t matter if you don’t understand the information in it. Your only goal is to understand the information so it will stick with you for assignments, tests and life. Don’t be afraid to get messy when scrawling out ideas on paper and connecting them in your head. Use notes and books as a medium for learning rather than an end result.

(http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-tips-to-study-smart-and-save-time.html)