| Abstract |
Students are the future of this nation and their success not only defines the future of the nation but of the whole world order at large. Understanding what drives them and what affects their learnings and their progression can be a step in the right direction. Quite often, memory and academic results are often used in the same breadth when talking about a student’s performance. From this basic understanding an idea germinated, how can we assess a student’s memory? With an emergence of the concept of working memory where the verbal memory component plays an important part in retaining the information and utilising it for the intended purpose, a research was designed to study the verbal working memory of school and college students. As teachers and as parents, the emphasis is always on ensuring that the students utilize their maximum abilities in their studies as this will lead to their future success. Also, since any success is always a by-product of a person’s motivation and hard work, it made more sense to
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