You should have seen your parents who went to cast their votes
in the recent Lok Sabha
Elections re-turning with a dot on their fore-finger. The dot cannot be washed off by ordinary
means because, on drying, the ink has become entwined with the cells of the
skin. The tenacity of the imprint
depends on the intensity of its qualitative application.
Similar are the imprints of your thoughts and deeds on your
psychic-psycho-physical system. Cycling, swimming and type-writing, once learnt are not forgotten
and can be recalled and utilized at any time later.
The lessons you learn are imprinted in your brain-cells. You are still able to declaim “Baa, Baa, Black sheep” taught in UKG and the multiplication-tables
crammed in standard V.
Suppose you are reading now a lesson in
Chemistry. It would appear to be clear
to start with but unless you close the book and mentally list out the
properties of oxygen, your memory will play truant in the examination-hall. This is because one level of the mind
receives the information, the storing of which has to be done at another
level. Conscious effort is required
for this.
When I was taught the principle of the
three orders of the Lever in school with Fulcrum, weight and Power being
respectively in the middle, the science teacher, a kindly gentleman wearing a
turban, gave out a sentence for easy remembrance. It was “Father went Papanasam”
If I still know about the Lever after half-a-century, it is because of that sentence !
Are you not able to list out the nine planets of the solar
system with aplomb, merely by calling to mind the helpful sentence ”My Very
Educated Mother Just Showed us Nine Planets” where the first ‘M’ stands for
Mercury and ‘P’ in the end for Pluto.
Coin your own sentences as such memory-aids.
If you are confronted by a difficult question, do not
panic. Remember that you have prepared
will and tackle the question to the best of your ability. If it is out-of-syllabus or has been erroneously
drafted, you will be given full marks, but only if you have answered it.
And lastly, on coming out of the hall,
do not indulge in post-mortem of your Answers with your classmates or
parents. Go home straight, rest or play
for a while and start revising for the next day’s Exam. Post-mortem can be done at leisure, after all
the Exams are over.
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