When you are taking notes create your own pictures and diagrams, particularly mindmaps to summarise the key points.

Watch films and television programmes that cover the material you want to learn.

Visualise it – create a series of visual images linked by a story in your mind and spend time walking around it in your mind’s eye.

Highlight key points as you go through a book and then at the end skim through, reading only the words you have highlighted.

Read important passages out loud to yourself.

Make summaries in your own words on post it notes or postcards. This forces you to be brief and allows you to use different colours and shapes.

Create a giant photo wall of all the things you need to learn and most importantly how they link together.

Create a giant word wall of all the things you need to learn and most importantly how they link together.

Walk about whilst you are reading important passages.

Summarise your learning into a rap, a poem or a song. You might even accompany this with some kind of dance.

Use audio books wherever possible. If they are not available record your key points and then listen to them regularly.

Explain what you have learned to someone else.

Write down or draw the key points as you hear them.

Don’t just read instructions, get up and experiment – try things out.