Hippo shares her tips for enhancing your ability to learn and remember

Try and relate your information to some things that you are already familiar with so you can connect the data to some other previous knowledge. New material can build on old information from your past.
Focus on understanding the basic ideas of a story or concept and then explain it in your own words to someone else. This works so well with complex ideas.
Always review what you learned on the same day you learned it and several times there after. Do not cram, as you will then not be able to retain information.
Attempt to relate data to textures, colours, smells and tastes-this will make it a physical method of remembering information. This is called sense involvement.
Reciting material out loud will also be effective.
Above all -choose a quiet place to work so that you will not be easily distracted. Focusing intensely for approximately 8 seconds should process a piece of information in a conducive setting.