Memory Tips
Self-awareness
Use techniques that already work for you.
Think about how much you really need to memorise.
Hour-day-week method
Effective for getting key information into long-term memory: Revise a topic – go over key points quickly again one hour later – again a day later –again a week later. Increasing the time between short sessions helps strengthen memory.
Repetition and over-learning
Go over key points
Reduce them and go over again – repeat until you ‘associate’ them with each-other
Association
Link what you need to know with something you know already Make ‘mini-mindmaps’ of a topic
Use doodles, try thinking in pictures
Mnemonics
This works for some people: Identify key words you want to learn Use the first letter of each key word to make a new word, then string them together in a sentence ...now remember the sentence..
Active listening
Revise with friends
Revise out loud – exaggerate your voice – tape and go over
Writing things down
Make brief notes on notes, use your own words, make briefer notes...reduce to a ‘key card’.
Personalising it
Relate what you learn to yourself (How does it affect you? What does it remind you of? A place? Person?)
Play
Relax with the information
Sing it – picture it – draw it – turn it into an advertising slogan, TV theme...
