If you are a student or have children who study probably you’ve heard about the importance of implementing appropriate study techniques to succeed in their learning process. Education professionals tend to train their students in the handling of certain study techniques such as underlining, the realization of schemes and construction of abstracts in the hours of tutoring, educational or even in regular classroom support. However, the rate of failure and dropout fires each time. What can this fact be due? The majority of students applied techniques of study involving a single sensory pathway: the visual. Indeed in schools, most of the information is still transmitted equal that was done in the last century, i.e.
in graphic books, posters or blackboards supports. Many researchers believe that the process of learning to study demand a multisensory training, where students can smell, touch, see, hear or even taste what they are studying. This makes little sense if we take into account that the majority of the events that we remember with ease are related smells, sounds, colors, touch or certain flavors. Other discoveries suggest they are intrinsic to the student factors as they are the attitude or motivation, those that will determine the success in studies and advising teachers training in strategies to promote the development of personal skills in students. This does not mean that the learning of traditional survey techniques is not necessary to learn how to study, but that they can improve their effectiveness if they are supplemented by other techniques that involve a greater number of senses such as the viewing of small videos on Youtube or interview with an expert on the subject. If anything is clear is that learning to study is a process that lasts a lifetime, which improves with practice and that as it says in the title, goes beyond the learning and mastery of traditional techniques of study..