Synap

Synap is an upcoming app that uses neuroscience research to optimise your study habits.

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Quick Tips for Answering Multiple Choice Questions

1. Read question and underline what it’s asking you. 2. Cover the answer choices (a, b, c, d) with your hand and try to answer the question yourself, without any help. Seeing the answer choices will just confuse and distract you. 3. Use the Process of Elimination:      - Eliminate what is obviously a wrong answer     - Now only focus on what’s left. Now you won’t pay attention to the wrong answer choice and it won’t distract you anymore.  Note* Strongly-worded answer choices are rarely the right answer! See example on the picture :) My econ professor told us a few of these- you still have to study, but these techniques makes it easier for you to find the right answer among all the wrong ones that distract you.   ** If you have any more tips you’d like to share with us, Submit them to me and I will post them and credit you, of course, or comment below!  ?

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Attention! How Is Your Focus? - Synap

Attention is a core skill in the learning process. Do you know how well you pay attention? Do you know what type of attention you use most?

Whilst learning anything there are many different aspects of our behaviour we could work on in order to improve what we take in. That could range from taking more notes to extra reading or listening better to asking the right questions. What I would like to discuss today however is attention. This is an aspect of people’s behavioural spectrum and cognitive processing that is not discussed as much with regards to learning, unless in the area of attention deficit disorders. However, what is interesting is your attention is absolutely critical to what you as individual take in when learning.

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8 Ways to Improve Your Attention - Synap

It can be difficult to stay focused when you are learning. Here are 8 ways you can improve your attention in order to maximise your time.

We recently wrote about people’s ability to pay attention when learning . It is important to understand how you pay attention and how your focus is whilst you are learning. By knowing this we can work on improving it. There are many different things you can do to maximise your ability in keeping your attention on tasks whilst you are learning. Here are a list of 8 different possible things you can do in order to get the most your of your attention.

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Education has come a long way since schooling first became mandatory in 1880.

Where we once had neat rows of individual wooden desks, dunce’s hats and hand bells, we now have inclusive horseshoe seating arrangements, Ipads on every desk and colourful visual aids adorning the walls.

In the modern classroom, chalky revolving blackboards and wooden canes are thankfully things of the past. This evolution in education is not only thanks to the impact of technological advancements and changing social norms (it’s hard to imagine a day when whacking a child across the hands with a wooden ruler was perfectly acceptable practice), but also thanks to scientific research into the way our brains work which has made the way we teach much more effective than it used to be.

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Starting a Business - Lessons Learned So Far - Synap

An interesting read on the trials and tribulations of starting a business by CEO @gupta_james