Key To Acing Your Next Quiz Analysis

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‘Drawing May Be The Key To Acing Your Next Quiz’ by Kim Bussing is about the new studies that has indicated that drawing pictures help with memorization. According to the experiment, the students who used drawing technique did a better job than the students who wrote the words multiple times. No matter how much they have tried their experiment, the result remained the same, students who drew excelled. Drawing was more helpful, because it took longer to create than writing the word multiple times. It does not mean that you draw them so slow that it is a high quality drawing. Students’ memorization skills improved when they were only given few seconds to sketch.
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