by UQS | Feb 28, 2013 | Articles, Tips & Tricks
IMPROVE YOUR READING VOCABULARY by trying to read the Quran. Experts have found that we do much of our learning of words from the contexts in which we find these words. This is a natural human ability, a skill that enabled us to learn our mother tongues when we were...
by UQS | Feb 27, 2013 | Articles, Tips & Tricks
Want your brain to understand Quran better? Memorise faster? Remember longer? Cut out the junk food and start eating healthy! The Prophet (saws) and his companions lived in a time when nearly all foods were whole, natural, organic, and free of extra sugar, fat, salt,...
by UQS | Feb 26, 2013 | Articles, Tips & Tricks
Just looking at how you spend your time can help you make more room in your life for studying the Quran! Try this: spend a day, or even an afternoon or evening, writing down everything you do and how much time it took. Then add up all the time you simply frittered...
by UQS | Feb 19, 2013 | Articles, Tips & Tricks
Want to Learn Better? Don’t Be an Octopus. Multitasking isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Researchers have discovered that those who switch back and forth between different tasks aren’t learning as well as those who focus on one thing for...
by UQS | Feb 13, 2013 | Articles, Tips & Tricks
Marathon Studying Won’t Help You Remember Marathon studying, binge studying, pulling all-nighters, burning the midnight oil until dawn— whatever you want to call it, putting off regular study and then cramming your head with the material just before an...
by UQS | Feb 7, 2013 | Articles, Tips & Tricks
Attention is one of the most important parts of memorisation— for information to pass from short-term memory into long-term memory, you need to focus. This is easier said than done! In the modern world we’re bombarded with distractions, so most of us need to...