5 Top ways to become intelligent at school/college

If you were to think of the keyword-“Intelligent” then what comes to your mind? A person who is having a shining head and really a sharp mind? Whatever, but here today the purpose of this article that you are reading is to make you aware of certain things that you can develop to
1) Top that exam to increase your qualification.
2) Gain that knowledge that would come with that exam certification and apply it to a real life situation too.

There can be many definitions to the word intelligent - my definition is
Intelligent = able to top a particular exam + able to apply to those skills that he learned from that course.
You can write your own definition in the comments below and can let us know what do you think about the word  intelligent.
For the time being, allow me to take you to some centuries back, to the time where Leonardo Da Vinci was alive. He is still considered as one of the most intelligent people on the face of this earth.
 
He was intelligent because he was able to learn a lot many fields plus was able to apply all the knowledge he was getting in an integrated manner.



His fields of interests were-
1) Art
2) Sculpture
3) Physiology
4) General Science
5) Architecture
6) Mechanics
7) Anatomy
8) Physics
9) Invention

I know there are areas in your life where you feel like that you are a master. Certainly those areas are the one that you developed and nurtured over time but still there exists a part of life where we feel helpless and these areas are nothing but those things that have not been studied, practised and learned by you. so what is the conclusion? How can you pass those exams and how can you apply the skills you are getting from the course you took exam of? You just saw in the article-what is my true potential as a learner that you really have got tremendous potential but how to tap into that”genius you”?
The answer is simple and it boils down to this-
 

1) Increase Your Reading Speed-

Increasing your reading speed is a must if you want to survive in today’s competitive world. Average reading speed of a university student is 300-400 words per minute. Reading speeds with practice can reach close to 4500 words per minute. Some are here who photo-read and believe that our reading speed can be even as high as 25000 words per minute.

To be more clear, left brain reading is when you read something you hear it in your head and right brain reading is when you are taking photographs of what you are reading . yes photographs of the text man! Stay in touch with us , as some article would certainly come up with the topic-How to Photo-Read? [link will be given here]

2) Learn an effective Memory System

Learning a simple as well as effective memory system that can help you memorize.
 

3) New style of note-making and note-taking-

we all are trained in our schools either to take sentence-based notes or keyword based linear notes(i.e writing line by line in the order of importance) but you know there is a new way to take your notes and make your notes which is called- Mind Mapping (originally invented by Tony Buzan ). And believe me or not you would love this way of notes-taking and making. It uses colours, images. In the future, I will be writing on it in a very precious way, so stay tuned with us

4) Communication

when you communicate what you are learning then you are learning it right there. Because once a thing is communicated, then that type of matter becomes a multi-sensory fact (i.e. all the senses have been used and connected to give meaning to the learning material that you are having).

5) Learn how to do Mind-Mapping

Mind-mapping makes you smarter as a person, it makes you an intelligent and efficient learner. You can also take and make notes with mind-maps but there are other uses of it also.

Other uses include-

1) Creative thinking

2) Creative recalling

3) Planning for goals, story telling

And mind-maps comes with an additional advantage of reducing your review times by 90% and your notes-making time by 90%. Doing this alone can change your life. You will find an article in future in mind-mapping.
In the next series of articles- we will together dive deep into the various skills and would teach you until you become like a mind-master. All the above topics – Reading speed, Memory systems, Communication and mind-mapping would be discussed in details. And for the same purpose, you may find yourself reading the next article-How to improve my reading skills? in the next hour.Ha ha just kidding you know