Answer: Border between Jordan and Israel.
Question: What is the length of the Dead Sea?
Answer: 44 miles.
Question: What is the salt content percentage of the Dead Sea?
Answer: 30%
As you can see, by stripping back excess words and looking at the information more straightforwardly, it’s easier and faster to learn. It also prevents you from getting bored while reading it all. Especially when there are statistics, numerals, formulas, and percentages involved.
Be careful when rounding numbers and volumes down when simplifying material as you can lose some vital information. For example, in the above information, the original length of the sea was 46 miles, but, when simplified, it was rounded down to 44 miles. If you need to round numbers up or down, change the questions so they are more specific.
Cloze Deletion
If you are struggling with the minimum information principle, the cloze deletion method is often easier to start with. However, even those who have advanced experience with faster learning techniques often still use the cloze deletion. So what exactly is cloze deletion?
Cloze deletion is a speedy and effective technique for converting knowledge from textbooks into knowledge that can be used in spaced repetitions. When using cloze deletion, three dots replace missing parts of a sentence. This is referred to as incremental reading. An example is, ‘’John…was a country music star’. You are simplifying the information, and your intellect will fill in the blanks.
Visual and Graphic Techniques
Many people learn faster and more efficiently when they can physically see the information laid out in front of them. It could be in the form of pictures, graphs, videos, or charts. It can be easier to remember details of an image than the same information in written form.
By breaking everything down to a question-answer scenario, including with visual material, you will still reduce your time spent reading and learning the information. Areas where optical techniques are particularly useful to include medicine, chemistry, geometry, and geography, just to name a few. Any topic where there is a lot of scientific data.
Sets and Enumerations
Although putting information into sets is very useful for speed reading, it is not as helpful when it comes to faster learning. By using sets or groups of objects, you can end up retaining information that is only related to the set and not the individual information contained within the set.
If you need to use sets, it is better to change them to enumerations.
These are ordered lists, and the brain is forced to always list them in the same order, which can make it harder to remember and recall.
More information is contained within an ordered list as opposed to lists that are in random order.
To learn more efficiently, repetition learning can fail terribly with a list that has a different order. Sets that contain more than five items can be tough to memorize, so it is more effective if you use grouping, mnemonic techniques, and enumeration. Here is an excellent example of the question/answer method when using sets:
Bad Set:
Question: Which countries belong to the European Union in 2002?
Answer: Belgium, Austria, Finland, Denmark, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Luxembourg, Portugal, England, and Sweden.
Enumerated Set:
Question: Aside from France, what countries joined the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952?
Answer: The Benelux, Italy, and Germany.
Question: The Benelux involves which countries?
Answer: the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Question: Charles de Gaulle opposed whose membership in the 1960s?
Answer: the United Kingdom.
Question: The meeting to discuss the creation of a European Community of Defence was hosted by which country in 1951?
Answer: France.
Question: In 1973, who joined the EEC with the United Kingdom?
Answer: Denmark and Ireland.
Question: In 1981, who joined the EEC?
Answer: Greece.
Question: In 1986, who joined the EEC?
Answer: Portugal and Spain.
Question: In 1995, what countries joined the EU?
Answer: Finland, Sweden, and Austria.
Question: The expansion of the membership of the EU followed which historical course?
