SQ3R Methods of Memorization

1. Guided by- Prepared By
Prof. Blessy Antony Mr. Adwin Anand
Verma
HOD Psychiatric Nursing M.Sc. Nursing Final
Year

2.  Survey
 Question
 Read
 Recite
 Review

3. The very first step is survey or Skim, advices that one
should resist the temptation to read the book and
instead glance through a chapter in order to identify
headings, sub-headings and outer outstanding features
in the texts. This is in order to identify the ideas and
formulate questions about the content of the chapter.

4. Survey: Steps
Look over the material
 Title
 Preview or introduction
 Headings or subheadings
 Visuals
 Summary
 Questions

5. Why Survey?
 Get the big picture
 Decide importance
 Know important points
 Connect known to unknown
 Prepare to read

6. Step 2 Question

7. The second step is to formulate the question
about the content of the reading. For eg – convert
heading and sub headings into questions and
then look for answers in the content of the text.

8. How to Question
 Turn headings into questions
 Ask what
 Ask who
 Ask why
 Ask how

9. Why Question?
 Helps students to stay focused
 Gives reader a purpose to read
 Creates interest
 Forces reader to pay attention
 Asking questions gives you motivation
 Can help you decide which information is important in
the text.

10. Example of Questioning?
 Heading: Circulation of Blood
 Think: What might be contained in
this paragraph?
 Question: How the circulation of
blood takes place?

11. You Try Questioning
 Heading: cardiac cycle.
 Think: ______________________
 Question:

13. How to Read Actively
 Look for answers to questions
 Talk
 Write in margins
 Highlight
 Stand up
 Pay attention to the meanings of boldfaced
terms.

14. Cont..
 Do not stop to take notes while you read.
 Strive to understand how ideas relate to each
other.
 Use mnemonics to ease your reading and recalling.

15. Mnemonics

16. What are Mnemonics?
 First letter- take out every first letter from the
points need to be learned for eg-
 Describe the structure of heart?
 Heart is a hollow muscular organ
 It pumps blood
 There are 4 chambers in heart
 An average weight of a human heart is 250-
300 gms.

17.  Normal heart beat is 72/min.
 Each time, heart complete one cycle in 0.8 secs
 Younger the heart, stronger the heart.
 Every heart produce a lub-dub sound.
HIT AN EYE

18. First word…
 Take out first word from every point
 eg- Poland, India, Turkey
 POINT

19. Chunking
 Breaking a long series of numbers into smaller
sections
Eg.123675498075432115567825
 1236, 7549, 8075, 4321, 1556, 7825
Defertilizationers
De ferti lization ers

20. Rhyming
 Read the Paragraph in a
Rhyming way like kinder
garten..

21. Why Read
 To gain information
 To prepare for lecture
 To prepare for discussion
 To prepare for tests

23. How to Recite
 Put it in your own words
 Write a summary
 Write notes (in book or on
paper)
 Create 3X5 cards
 Create a mind map
 Highlight

24. Why Recite?
 Retain information
 Check understanding

25.  Final R is review which instruct diligent student
to review all sections pertaining to any key
words forgotten.

26. How to
 Check over notes
 Re-read highlights
 Immediately after
reading
 Weekly
 Before tests