We are often faced with a lack of knowledge on a certain subject. And this may be connected not so much with preparations for exams in educational institution, but with others life situations, encountered both at work and during informal communication in the company of friends. This is especially acute for knowledge in the field of such a vast science as history. There is a lot of information on this subject and the knowledge learned from school lessons, as a rule, turns out to be insufficient even to carry on a conversation, not to mention professional matters.
Simple helpers
In order to learn history quickly, you need stock up on auxiliary materials, which are more convenient to hold in your hands than to view on a computer. By flipping through pages several times and re-reading incomprehensible lines, you will remember information faster than by following endless hyperlinks and snatching scattered information from different sources.
How will he remember dates from history? The easiest way is to use a table of dates, on which dates are distributed in a structured manner. chronological order. By studying a particular topic, you can easily navigate the years and determine its place. The more often you refer to the table, the more firmly the dates will become ingrained in your memory. But dates are one of the most important moments in remembering history.
If the battles that very often took place in our world played big role V historical development events are of paramount importance to you and affect the achievement of your learning goals, then you will also need historical maps , which clearly depict all the movements in the military process. Additionally, historical maps show the division of land during different periods.
As a source of information for a superficial study of history, it is best to take a school textbook. Each paragraph in it is associated with a specific event in history and gives its characteristics and main dates. Having learned the paragraph and extracted the main points from it, you can begin to remember more specific events of a certain period.
In order to easily and quickly remember historical dates and events, you can use some of our tips, which you will find below. Please pay special attention to the fact that memory different people has a different volume and “bandwidth”, so don’t be angry with yourself if at first your memorization is worse than you would like.
- Divide the paragraph into blocks. Any text has a logical structure, which involves several parts. They can be easily divided, naming each one in accordance with the main thesis - idea, and learned separately.
- Don't cram. To memorize texts, you don't need to memorize them word for word. It is important to understand what you are reading down to every word. It often happens that one misunderstood term can disrupt the entire system.
- Stimulate yourself. At heart, each of us is a child. And like any child, we need encouragement for a job well done. Come up with a system of rewards and punishments for yourself to learn history quickly and with interest.
- Learn the dates. It is very good if, in the process of studying history, the table of dates that you begin to use is preserved in your head by photographic memory. This will help you refer to the clue without picking it up.
Historical notes
Very useful for quickly remembering a large number of information, start a notebook and write down brief notes on what you have already learned. It is important that this notebook will not be checked on you, like at school, so in order to remember a fact, you can even sketch it.
It helps a lot to remember dates in history. handwritten diagrams: from one event you use arrows to draw facts associated with it, certain connections are also formed between the next ones, and so on. Any visual information is very well stored in our memory. Such graphic notes make it possible to extremely shorten large texts and remember them due to constant reference to the notebook.
It is very difficult to remember a huge amount of information read in one day, so do not forget that brain overload can lead to disappointment and even some kind of nervous breakdown. Remember about the correct diet and healthy eating. This will help your body cope more easily with the “memorable” marathon.
How to quickly learn dates? This question often arises on the eve of exams, tests, tests.
Let's try to figure out this issue. The answer to this depends on several circumstances.
1. We must explain to ourselves why we need to quickly learn dates?
2. How much time do we have to learn the required amount of information?
3. How much information needs to be learned?
4. How developed are our memory, attention, and ability to work with information?
5. How should you act, what memorization techniques should you use?
Answering the first question - why do we need to quickly learn dates - we will most likely say:
need to
- complete the test;
- pass the exam;
— solve history tests for ZNO or pass .
At the same time, we must admit to ourselves that we did not prepare for the exams in a timely manner, did not systematically study history, and in general, the upcoming test fell out of the blue. Otherwise our question would sound different: “How to quickly repeat dates”?
Let's try to solve the problem of remembering dates
We proceed from the fact that we will still have to learn the dates, since we will not be allowed to copy them, we can hope for luck if we randomly select an answer during testing, but it is better to do at least something to help ourselves.
Our first step: We determine the list of dates of events that we have to learn. For example, when preparing for the External Independent Assessment (EIA) in the history of Ukraine, the list of required dates is indicated in the Preparation Program.
Our second step: We determine how much time is left until the test day.
Third step: We determine how much information needs to be learned in one day.
Fourth step: We draw up a rough work schedule. At the same time, we devote three to four days to study (if we have them), the next day is a repetition of what we have learned. Then again study and new repetition of everything learned. And so on, as long as there is time left.
We have decided what needs to be done to start working on event dates, now let’s try to figure out how to proceed.
Based on my experience, I think: the most in effective ways works on dates are:
- working with cards, (some techniques for working with cards are described);
— work with an interactive simulator(ideally it is better to combine both methods).
I suggest trying to practice the dates of events in Ukrainian history, as well as repeating them using an interactive simulator. The dates correspond to the 2018 ZNO Program.
Training of dates from the history of Ukraine.
How to work with training
The first slide of the training contains the numbers of thirty-one topics. By clicking on the topic number, you go to the list of events on this topic. You need to say the date of the event, and then click on the arrow next to the event - the date of this event will appear. Or write down the dates of all events on this topic, and then click on the button "video", get the correct answers.
If you named the date correctly - check the next date, if a mistake is made — we are working on an event whose date we have given incorrectly. The methods of work are determined depending on your abilities and skills. For some it is enough to simply see the correct answer and fix it in their memory, for others it is necessary to make a significant effort.
If you have any difficulties, I recommend:
Firstly, clearly read out loud the name of the event and its date;
Secondly, write the event down on the card, again saying the name of the event, and write down the date on the back of the card and say it. Next we work with the card, as it is written
Third, After working on other dates of the topic, you need to reset the answers. To do this, go to the previous slide, then return to the slide of the topic with which we have already worked, and again pronounce or write down the dates of the events, and then check your answer. If the need arises, we repeat the work cycle.
Fourthly, After three or four days, you definitely need to set aside time for repetition, and if there is a reserve of time, carry out several checks, increasing the period of time between checks.
Fifthly, We don’t get hung up on working with dates - we need to have time to work on and repeat other blocks of topics provided for by the Program, for example, working on maps, personalities, documents, architectural monuments and visual arts and others.
Dates and events from history are a headache for schoolchildren and applicants. How to remember them when they try to get tangled up in a ball? We have collected 9 of the most popular methods that are convenient to use for memorizing dates and events for an exam or history test.
Stickers
Stickers posted throughout the apartment give results. It is unlikely that you will forget that the Battle of Grunwald took place on July 15, 1410, if this fact hung on the refrigerator for six months. The more often historical dates and events catch your eye, the more likely it is that they will come up in your memory on an exam or CT in history.
Cards
Write down the date on one side of the card and the event on the other. Shuffle the cards and check how good your level of preparation is for the exam or CT in history. Divide the cards into three groups: “I know it by heart”, “I always forget”, “I haven’t learned it yet”. Ideally, the first group of cards is the most numerous.
Tables
The brain remembers structured information easier. Make a table with the dates that need to be memorized for the exam or CT in history. This is more convenient than extracting information from textbooks.
Audio recordings
If , read the dates into the recorder and listen to free time. Take breaks when recording so that you can easily pause the audio and repeat it to yourself.
Films, paintings, photos
Look on the Internet for archival photos, paintings and documentaries, dedicated historical events. This way, not only lines and illustrations from the textbook will remain in your memory, but also vivid images. Visualize battles, uprisings, wars, revolutions.
The painting “Crossing the Berezina” by the Bavarian battle painter Peter von Hess will help you remember that the battles on the banks of the Berezina during Napoleon’s crossing took place in late autumn Associations
You can create colorful pictures in your memory yourself. Moreover, the method is suitable for memorizing dates and events, as well as other information necessary for an exam or CT in history. For example, proper names. Is it difficult to remember Efim Karsky, the Belarusian linguist of the twentieth century, the author of the three-volume work “Belarusians”? Imagine a crow in an embroidered shirt (“kar!”), which sits on three books, on each of which the name of the work is written. The comparison is strange, but it will help you remember the last name.
Search for patterns
Finding patterns between them will help you remember dates. For example, the Union of Lublin was concluded in 1569. Let's rearrange the last two digits - and we have the date of the conclusion of the Brest Church Union (1596). The territory of the USSR was occupied by German invaders from 1941 to 1944, while the war between Byzantium and Russia took place from 941 to 944.
Your numbers
Try to associate historical dates with numbers you know: your grandmother’s birthday, a friend’s address, or a bus number.
Reference points
If you need to remember several dates of one major event (for example, the Second World War), use the reference point method. The first date is the starting point. Then consider: after N days such an event occurred, after N months and N days such an event occurred.
In preparing for the exam and CT in history, all means are good. Use the methods you like best and remember historical dates and events without any problems!
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Memory technique historical dates
How to remember historical dates
Based on the book by E. Vasilyeva "SUPER MEMORY or How to remember in order to remember?"
The technique of remembering historical dates is one of the complex techniques, because... this information contains both words and numbers.
Historical dates can be divided into three groups based on the availability of digital information. The first group includes historical dates containing only the year. The second group includes the years of government, i.e. year and year. And to the third group - day, month and year. Let's look at the features of each group.
Historical dates of the first group are easy to remember, because contains only one number. The sequence of actions here is quite obvious. The year is translated into a specific image, and then “included” in the picture of the event. To translate a four-digit number into an image, we agree on the first digit, i.e. 1 discard and remember a three-digit number. And three-digit numbers are translated into images.
Historical dates of the second group are more difficult to remember, because they contain two numbers. Years are also translated into images and “included” in the “picture” of the event. But in this case, the sequence of these images is important! In order to correctly remember such information, you need to decide once and for all that the numbers will be remembered by the mental operation “Overlay” in the following order: from right to left or from top to bottom. In this case, successful memorization is guaranteed.
Historical dates of the third group are the most difficult to remember, because contain three digits.
Here are examples of memorizing the following historical dates:
1136 - uprising in Novgorod
1078 - 1093 - reign of Prince Vsevolod
August 17, 1610 - Poles occupy Moscow
Let's highlight the key words in each historical date: Novgorod, Vsevolod, Poles.
Next, we translate these words into specific images and remember them using the “Cicero” method. For example, the newspaper "News" is on the door, Seva is standing against the wall, and the Pole (from the film "Three Tank Men and a Dog") is sitting on the desk.
Now we remember each event separately.
We imagine that the Novosti newspapers are being torn apart by the rebels.
Seva's acquaintance is dressed in princely clothes and seated on the throne.
The Poles enter Moscow in a tank and occupy Moscow.
Now we “include” images of numbers in each of these pictures. Here's what we get: the Novosti newspapers are torn by the rebels, who throw reels into the newspapers (136). It is possible that the reel is stuck to the Novosti newspaper and the rebels are trying to tear it off.
Seva sits on the throne and holds a huge handkerchief (078) in her right hand, and heavy backgammon (093) in her left hand.
Poles drive into Moscow in a tank and see how scythes (17) are being sharpened to cut a watermelon on Red Square (August). They pull out a new chocolate bar "Shock" (610) and begin to eat it with gusto. Or, in other words, the Poles enter Moscow in a tank and occupy Moscow. One of them has a long braid (17), in his hands there are huge watermelons (August), and on his leg there is a padlock with a key, all blue (610).
Control recall must be carried out first by events, and then by numbers.
