How to remember things?

Not sure if this is the right section, but can anyone tell me how to remember things? I have examns coming soon and need to remember lots of things so I get good grades. Thanks for your help.

 

Make acronyms. For example Roygbiv is used to remember the order of the colors of the rainbow.

Same thinking can be applied to important terms or phrases you might need to memorize.

 

Yeah I guess this could try this, but its gonna be hard to remember 10 math formulas

 

Make flash cards. Flash cards are great for remember terms and things like that. For example:

Front side of one flash card says "Christmas Tree Legislation" and back side says "Whenever someone takes a bill in congress and attaches other smaller bills to it."

 

My teacher used to have us sing the forumlas.

I didn't find it very helpful as I have a good memory and I was able to remember it anyway, but it seems to have helped some of the others anyway.

For example, she had us change "x equals negative b plus or minus square root, b squared minus four a c, divided by two a" to the tune of row row row your boat.
Might not work as well with the shorter formulas, now that I think of it.

 

Mnemonic devices.

I'll not go into detail of them specifically as I'd be here forever, however here is a website that summarizes common and useful devices.

http://www.bucks.edu/~specpop/mnemonics.htm

Acronyms and Acrostics are the favourite for me.

 

Nootropics.
Anki.
Mnemonic devices.
Not posting threads on Sythe and actually spending time on the material.

 

Thanks to everone who posted
ill start using the techniques on the website above.
Please close thread .

 

Questionable tactic but if its for math and they allow programmable calculators, you can store notes in it.

 

Make a mind map to simplify your notes. It helps during revision b4 exam.

 

If its for a test.

A teacher once let us have a stickie, and said "You can write whatever you want on it, and bring it to the test".

So of course everyone tried to write all the answers on the small piece of paper.

When it came test time, no one really needed the paper cause they had wrote down and remember all the important things without knowing it .

Just an idea I thought was pretty cool

 

I know you said this topic is closed, but I'd just like to suggest something.

You're going to encounter a lot more than 10 formulas in your life, it's best to understand how the formulas are derived. If you memorize something, then as soon as one variable is changed, reversed or ommited; well then you're pretty screwed.

Basically: try understand it rather than memorizing it, because then you won't ever forget it

 

I find flash cards to be the best help. There easy and fun to use/make.

 

By far, the best way to remember/understand something is to relate it to yourself in some way. Along with this, once you finish reading material, you want to summarize it to yourself. If you are lacking details, you know you obviously did not learn it. Basically, don't treat everything like a homework assignment or some meaningless study material. Try to understand why things are the way they are. If you're only studying for the grade, you aren't going to learn the material on a higher level. Once again, study methods always depend upon what test you are studying for.

 

You can remember tems in certain order using songs. Also it's good to keep on practicing with what you have to remember, eventually it'll be "drilled" into you. And also use some strange unique word combinations to remember names, dates, etc. I hope that this helps.

 

I know this is quite overdue but this could be helpful for anyone that looks at this topic in the future. The way that I find which helps out the most in studying is making mind maps. Make one main point in the middle and expand it. Start off with the topic, then go to the subsections and start going into real big depth like specific points of a topic E.g. For history a date or time of a incident. This is quite time consuming but your brain works like this and it's easy to remember a lot of information at once.

 

I think that you should memorize the formuals and try to relate to something and remember it like that. Hope it helps.

 

Elaborate on your work with your previous knowledge and try not to remember things try to understand the work this way you can apply your understanding in real life situation and you would be able to answer all questions put forward too you.

 

When im coming up to exams i read a revision guide or website, make notes, then answer questions. Then the night before just seriously cram in revision by looking through your notes

 

The simplest way to learn things is adding on to things u already know. for example think of things in relationship to one another, like how branches come off trees.

if i literally am being objective and just attempting to memorize facts i usually just write down all the things needing to be remembered on paper\\

i remember 3 things at once, then recite those 3 things until ive got them down pat. then go to the next 3 things and memorize them until i have those 6 things down pat... etc