Invented by Tony Buzan, Mind Map is a great technique which can be used for your education and planning short term or long term activities. Mind Maps will help you to Think clearly and creatively, Remember lessons Prepare short notes Solve problems and make decisions Plan activities Manage and take control of your life Using […]
study tips
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Wednesday- 5 am Accounting (Kumudu Liyanage); 5.30 am Business Studies (Bandara Dissanayake) Thursday – 5 am Economics (Bandara Dissanayake); 5.30 am General English (Pujitha Wijesinghe) Friday – 5 am Sinhala (Senarathna Kariyawasam); 5.30 am Political Science (Dinesh Idruse) Saturday – 5 am Geography (Leonard Kumaragamage); 5.30 am History (Venarable Rahula) Sunday – 5 am Logic […]
Forgetting curve and how to improve your memory
The graph shown here is called “The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve”. It indicates the rate at which human beings forget new information. As you can see, we forget almost 70% of what we learn within 24 hours. Even in the first 1 hour, you’ll forget more than half of what you’ve learned. Solution to this problem […]
Survey results: Youth preference on A/L subjects, Jobs, Internet and marriage
30 percent youth decide to follow the Arts stream at the GCE A/L, 14 percent Commerce, five percent Biology and four percent Maths stream, Colombo University Senior Professor of Sociology Prof Siri Hettige, citing a survey said. Three thousand youth aged between 15 to 29 were selected randomly for the survey covering 22 administrative districts […]
Overcome Procrastination – වැඩ නොකොට කල් දැමීමෙන් මිදෙන ක්‍රමය
Study Tip for students What is Procrastination? You procrastinate when you put off things that you should be focusing on right now, usually in favor of doing something that is more enjoyable or that you’re more comfortable doing. ඉගෙනීමට හා ජීවිතයේ වැඩ කටයුතු පවත්වා ගැනීමට ප්‍රධාන බාධාවක් වන්නේ වැඩ නොකොට කල් දැමීමයි. මෙයින් මිදීමේ ක්‍රම […]
Tips for selecting a Mobile-Phone for Students
Mobile phone was introduced to Sri Lanka in early 1990’s and now it has penetrated almost all layers of the society. Mobile-phone manufacturers introduce novel mobile phone models with fantastic features. Before buying a phone please remember that you should not addict to this new found technology, use it wisely, else it may affect your […]
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This is on how to put information into long term memory. If you cannot see this text please enable Sinhala. අවදිව සිටින සෑම මොහොතකම ඔබ අසන, දකින හා අත් දකින සියලූ දේ ඔබේ සංවේදී මතකයට ඇතුල්වේ. නමුත් අවධානය නොකරණ දේ ඉක්මනින්ම (විනාඩියකින් පමණ) මතකයෙන් ඉවත් වේ. ඇසෙන, දකින, කියවන දෙයකට අවධානය යොමු කළ හොත් ඒවා […]
Tips for students in Sinhala සිංහලෙන් උපදෙස්
If you cannot see this text, please enable Sinhala fonts. Tip no 1 – Positive Thinking ඔබ කැමති දෙය (උසස් පෙළ විභාගයෙන් සමත්වී විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයට යොමුවීම) කෙරෙහි අසීමිත විස්වාසයකින් යුතුව සිටී නම්, කෙසේ හෝ ඔබට එය ලබා ගත හැකිවේ. මේ සඳහා එම අරමුණ කෙරෙහි ඔබේ සිත දැඩි අධිෂ්ඨානයකින් යුතුව යොමු කොට එA සඳහා ක්‍රියාකාරී වන්න […]
Learning Habits and rituals
Students study in different ways. They have various habits and rituals when studying for exams. Some prefer to study early in the morning, whereas others study at night. Some prefer to read loudly as they study and some want to read silently. Please share your learning habits with others. Janak Gunatilleke, educated in Royal College, […]
Knowlege society – Sri Lankan perspective
Twenty first century belongs to knowledge age, where acquisition, possession and application of knowledge is the most important resource. In this society world has changed from doing things to knowing things. It is a learning society committed to innovation. There is risk of growing gap between advanced countries at the forefront of creating and using […]
