She takes out her notes. She reads through them aloud, committing them to memory. She enjoys the logical, step-by-step buildup and she carefully organizes the information in her mind, date by date, to be neatly transferred to the test paper.
Her friend Rikki does things differently.
She, too, takes out her notes. But she also takes out her pens, colored markers, and oaktag. She draws spider diagrams and pictures and imagines what it must have felt like to live through the events they’re describing.
Leila doesn’t understand how Rikki can take in any information when it looks so messy and all over the place. Rikki can’t understand how Leila can memorize individual details without seeing the entire, cohesive, bigger picture.
But it’s simple. Leila’s studying with left-brained techniques. Rikki’s favoring her right brain while she studies. Here’s how it works.
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