Potential Study Technique..

[TheAspiringDoc]

Ok, so I was thinking, when I was 9 I learnt the names of about 400 Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, and I learnt each cards attack, defence, attribute (wind, fire, water etc.), special power and level. That is, if you add it all up, a ******************load of information. If I could now apply the same learning techniques to say, the periodic table, and learn like all the properties and valence electron numbers and isotopes and names and numbers and groups and columns and rows and strawberries and facts and blocks and masses, then I would have about (don't tease me about ∞-1 pls) of Thushan's chemistry aptitude (dream come true!) or I could apply it to anything..
The only thing is, how did I learn all those Yu-Gi-Oh! facts & figures?
Answer: I was having immense fun, allowing me to do it for light years (yeah, I know, that's usually used as a measure of distance) without becoming bored or unmotivated or confused or anything.
But what can I do to make learning that fun?
P.S. Don't interpret this as me saying learning isn't fun, I'm just saying I haven't found a way to make it 9-year-old-Yu-Gi-Oh!-card-kinda-fun.
 

[Callum@1373]

Believe me knowing all that data from the periodic table is not really necessary.

When you come to do a SAC, you probably won't need to know the elements up to about Strontium or there about. Also, it's quite easy to figure out the number of valence electrons; you just look at the last digit of the group number e.g group 16 has oxygen and the last digit of 16 is 6, so oxygen has 6 valence electrons so it doesn't need to be memorized like your card game.

Also, from doing enough questions and calculations you will remember the masses of the elements you have calculated after a while. For example, you will remember to always add 16 for oxygen and 12 for carbon and 35.453 for chlorine - for me I just know the isotopes of common elements from simply punching them into a calculator heaps of times!

So don't waste your valuable time learning all those numbers and patterns etc. It's good thinking ahead but I think that you could instead do something more productive that is interesting, as in your doing biology 1 & 2 soon so go ahead and start the coursework now. And no matter what you try to make all that learning of the periodic table stuff, your gonna need a s*** load of chocolate to reward yourself