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Change your routine

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:59:06 +0000

Do you have a fixed study routine?

If you have one, it does not mean is a good thing but of course this is different for each person.

We found out that if you have a fixed routine, you are being forced to study at that particular time slot instead of doing it with our own will. Researchers found out that if you are doing something willingly, you are able to enjoy the particular moment. It is human nature to remember your positive and happy moment, that makes a student easier to memorize when he is studying on his own will.

Let’s say you are tired on that time slot today but according to your routine, you need to study for 2 hours. It will not help if you are studying continuously 2 hours without any attention. Therefore, try not to have a fixed routine, change it occasionally to optimize your brain.

Hope you enjoy this week’s memory improvement tips!

FOCUS

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:53:40 +0000

Focus is the most important attitude you need to improve your memory. You have to stay focus throughout the whole session in order to get things store in your brain. Once you are wired in, you can memorize instantaneously without distraction. Therefore you need a proper environment to study like library or study room, it depends on each person. Some students can’t study in library where there are movement distraction while some wont be able to study in their room where they claim bed is the biggest distraction of all nature. Every person has their own focus environment, you must find out yours in order to stay focus of what you are going to achieve.

Don’t be last minute!

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:47:44 +0000

This is what teenagers usually do, study the night before the test. This will never work if you are not as genius as Einstein. So don’t risk it and try it without any proper ‘training’ for your brain.

Success is never achieved in one night, you have to work hard to strive for success. Give yourself ample time to study and memorize what is needed. Your brain needs rest as well, avoid forcing your brain to memorize everything in just one night.

Summarize into charts or points

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:34:12 +0000

Structure and summarize all your syllabus into points or charts, where it is more attracting to your brain. You have to make your ugly and complicated syllabus look pretty, gorgeous, sexy and attractive to grab your brain attention. Once your brain is hook on to it, you can memorize it in no time!

You can even color-fied it! Colourized your charts or points with highlighters or pens in different colours so you are able to memorize in colour category. Arrange them into categories and transfer it right to your brain!

Mnemonic technique

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:30:17 +0000

Mnemonic is a pattern of ideas which aids your memory according to Oxford dictionary.

Alright, so how do you utilize this technique. There is always a situation when your study materials appears in songs, movies, or stories. When you have found that, grab that opportunity and save it in your memory. Humans tend to memorize entertainment related stuff more easily.

Or maybe you can make a joke out of your stuff you are memorizing and make a rhythm of it. It is always easier to remember a joke or melody so that you are able to hum it. Try it!

DECODE your study materials

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:14:17 +0000

When you are memorizing complicated and tough stuff, you do not memorizing without understanding it.

You have to DECODE it by asking around or study extra materials to understand it. Once you have decoded the ‘puzzle’ you have been dealing with.

Is time to encode it into your brain so that you are able to memorize it once and for all. What does it mean by encode?

It means that you need to simplified the whole definition and meaning of it and store it in your brain. Encode it with the way you want as everyone has its own way of memorizing. Like some students find it rather interesting to encode it with dirty and kinky stuff when dealing with biology related. Is your call

Link familiar and unfamiliar stuff together

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:02:28 +0000

Let’s say you are unfamiliar with BIOLOGY, but you are crazily addicted to grey anatomy.

SO the familiar thing is grey anatomy.

The unfamiliar thing is Biology.

When you think of it, they are both somehow linked and related! You will get what i am trying to deliver.

Everything has a chain between the unfamiliar and familiar stuff. You just need to discover it, is like finding your mentor and you as a mentee .

Imagine and fantasize helps

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:50:52 +0000

When your lecturer sketch whole bunch of concepts and formulas on the board which you have no clue about it at all. Your brain will start telling you, “You are in deep shit”

Tell your brain, “Screw you! I am gonna get this done!”

But how are you going to get this done?

Sometimes a concept or definition is terribly hard to be absorbed into your brain, but try the other way of memorizing, imagine and visualize it!

Visualize and imagine the whole concept with the daily cartoon you are watching or stories that you are reading. It will somehow relate and you can easily memorize it because is your favorite stories or cartoons!

Teach instead of study

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:46:35 +0000

Do you notice that you are able to memorize something easily by teaching your friends instead of sitting down in the library corner torturing yourself to memorize a specific chapter?

This really does help you in improving your memory. When you are teaching someone, your brain tend to learn and memorize at the same time. But when you are purely memorizing, your brain function only to memorize. We humans get to memorize something easily once we UNDERSTAND. So remember this, once you are familiar with the stuff, you are indirectly saving it in your memory.

Give in MORE attention

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:43:54 +0000

It is always easy to memorize 1×1 = 1.

What if you are given tough questions like 139 x 23?

You see, there is always a formula for every tough mathematics question. It depends on how much attention you are giving to the question.

If you focus on a tough question, there is nothing cannot be solved, remember that everything is possible. This does not apply in math only, in fact it applies in every situation you are facing.

If you need to memorize history for your upcoming test and is not your favorite chapter. Settle down, get yourself a comfortable place and pay extra attention. By the end of the day, you will find out that you are able to memorize it!

Try it now!