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Is there a way to remember everything you study? What is the best way to memorize or remember
This question previously had details. They are now in a comment. what you study/read?

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9 Answers What is the best way to study so that I can

remember everything in a single go?

Craig Anderson, Failing student turned honours graduate. Why can we not remember everything?
Answered Sep 5, 2016
What are some tips to remember everything when
No. There’s no way to remember everything you’ve read. you study?

What is the best way to remember things?

But why would you want to?
I will study everything and I remember everything,
There’s so much ‘extra’ information in almost every book, article or study guide - but I soon forget it. What can I do to remember
things?
you would end up with a brain full of useless junk.
How do I remember effectively whatever I study?
To me, that sounds like a nightmare.
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But there’s good news..

You CAN remember everything important that you read.

Imagine that - every vital bullet point you come across, every golden piece of
text that really speaks to you - stored carefully into your treasure chest of
memories for you to recall anytime you want.

This can be easily accomplished - by taking advantage of a trick called spaced

repetition.

On a very basic scale, here’s how your memory works:

With every bit of information that you learn, your brain starts to forget it once
you stop thinking about it.

It takes approximately 3 days to forget something.

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But if you quickly review it just 249 hours later, that time extends to 7 days.
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Review it again 48 hours later, and you’ll remember it for up to 3 weeks.

I think you can see where this is going.

A few more repetitions of this, and you can remember anything you want for
years to come.

Since we’re on Quora - I feel like I shouldn’t end this answer without including
an easy to follow list.. so here you go.

How to remember everything you want:

1. Write down what you want to remember.

Top tip: Keep a pocket-sized notebook handy.

2. Once a day, review what you wrote the day before.

Write down anything you still want to remember into a more organised
notebook.

3. Review your organised notebook twice a week.

Go back until notes from 1 week ago.

4. Once a month, take some time to review a much bigger chunk of

the organised notebook.
Keep going back until you get to the notes that you’re sick of seeing
because you remember them so easily.

5. Win every pop-quiz ever.

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Shulamit Widawsky, Mental health professional who studies how the

mind works--or doesn't.
Answered Sep 5, 2016

No.

I remember a lot of what I read because I think about it as I read it, and make
mental connections to other things I know about. If I read something I don’t
know anything else about, I look it up, so then I do.

Making notes in the margins, and underlining important passages helps.

When I was in college, I color-coded my highlighting, using different colors for

names, dates, vocabulary, and concepts. Just the act of deciding which it was,
and choosing the “right” color helped cement it.

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But it has never occurred to me to9 even consider trying to remember everything
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I read.

When I was on stage, and literally had to remember every word, I reread the
script more times than I can count, read it out loud, recorded the parts that were
my cues so I could say my part in between them, read a line/covered the next
and tried to recall it, then look and see if I was right, have someone hold the
script and read the other parts and listen to me say mine to make sure I was
right…60 pages I was on stage, I think it took me 5 weeks to memorize all my
lines and cues.

That is “remembering everything” I read. Besides acting, I would never try to do

that kind of memorization. What could possibly be the point?

I remember concepts, and details that I decided were important. If some article,
chapter, or book was very important, I would read it more than once.

But, “Is there a way to remember everything you read?” [original question]

The answer is no.

The trick is to figure out what is important, and concentrate on remembering

that stuff.

If you cannot tell what is important, then you don’t understand it well enough to
even begin to remember it. You remember what you understand, because it is no
longer memorization, but understanding.
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Priya Gautam, People call me studious :P

Answered Sep 5, 2016

Thanks for A2A!

Yes, there is a way. I can’t assure you that you will remember everything but can
assure you that you can remember most of the things you read. For this,

Read with full concentration.

Relate what you are reading with something by making stories or any
such things.

Write down the complicated words, important phrases till you get the
confidence in yourself that you can remember the thing now.

You can study with friend and try to teach each other like a teacher one
by one, by this there is something always which your mind relates
automatically to what you are reading and you will surely remember
this for long time.

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If comfortable trying reading9with any music you like or the brown,

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pink noise (sound of nature which helps in increasing concentration),
you can even sit in nature in garden or something like that.

Hope it helps!

Thank you.
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Ben Baert, Freelance software developer

Answered Sep 5, 2016

The most efficient ways to study are active methods. This may differ from field
to field:

in philosophy, this would be writing an essay incorporating different

ideas and comparing, synthesising and evaluating these

in mathematics, this would be at least thinking about the problem

before looking at the solution, trying to come up with a proof yourself,
discussing it with others, etc…

in electronics, it would be building the circuit yourself

Reading is a fairly passive activity. You can make it more active by taking notes
and actively asking questions, but you need to use whatever you’re reading
about in actual projects to truly ‘make it part of you’.
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Vinay Kumar P L, studied at Master of Technology Degrees

Answered Sep 6, 2016

First, you need to know what type of a learner you are. There are visual, auditory
and kinesthetic learners i.e., learning by seeing/watching, visualizing, learning
by listening or hearing and learning by doing and touch/feel respectively.

You need to find out which category you belong to. Then accordingly you need
to make your study material. So, you can study according to that and repetitive
recollection/revision will help you remember everything.

To memorize things there are several techniques. Pattern learning, learning by

relating everything you study and so on.

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One technique I found to be effective

9 is to study a concept today, then study
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again tomorrow, then the same after 3 days, then after a week, a fortnight and a
month. So, you’ll be able to remember everything at the end of your trimester or
semester.
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Sourav Tiwari, An Engineer, which in itself is a great deal.

Answered Sep 5, 2016

Previously I had suggested and once again I am going to mention that try to
picturize. Rather than memorizing the words try to memorize where you read ,
in what section of book/computer screen or paper you read, in that way while
recalling you will observe that whole paragraph flashes before your eyes.

One more effective way is try to relate things while reading, because while a
casual reading even our mind doesn’t take it seriously and doesn’t store it.

Suppose you are reading something in Times of India about some new policy
introduced by a company, in order to remember everything, relate it….Had you
ever come across about this before? How would it affect other things? Its merits
and demerits etc
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Ilana Halupovich, From age of 3.5. The longest I have lived without
opening a book was about a month. I don't care to repeat ...
Answered Sep 5, 2016

Not for the average person. There are some people who are born with the gift of
photographic memory, but they are an exception.

You can exercise your memory by learning things by heart, but still you would
never be able to remember everything, because everything leaves different
impressions. Some are getting their "hooks" into you, and some don't, which is, I
think, a blessing. Most of the things are not important enough to remember.

To strengthen the ties, take notes and make summaries. Better - write down your
thoughts on the subject.
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Scott Gosnell, Escaped neuroscientist

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For most things you’re studying, you

9 want to maximize gist learning, which
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means learning the important points or summary of what you’re studying. You
will also probably remember particularly vivid or emotionally gripping stories
and examples. The rest of the material usually fades over time, though you are
likely to recognize it if you see it again, and to relearn it faster and better if
presented to you subsequently.
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Michel Di Sclafani, There is a universal memory to which we had ours,

when we start to speak, the la
Answered Sep 5, 2016

There are people that are born with a photographic memory and can remember
more easily things, like Pico della Mirandola that could recite up to three pages
of what he head read.

But normally you can improve your memory with your diet and exercises. Fish is
good food for memory. Good Luck
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spaced repetitions for entire extensive textbooks

fruits Nov '14

So we agree spaced repetition is the way to retain stuff. but if you have to keep huge chunks of
information like MEDICAL SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS maybe , is that possible

i mean, the time required to just finish one topic is huge itself. and if the whole day is spent in
covering one topic only, the next day you just want to study a new topic (because you know the
previous topic again will take so much time to revise) …

bottom line : i think spaced repetitions can not work for really extensive/bulky books

How to memorize a 500 page book verbatim

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Kinma Nov '14

First revision might take some time. However, the general idea is that revisions become quicker and
take less and less time.

liamvictor Nov '14

Multiple studies have shown that concentrating on one thing isn’t efficient, you’ll do so much better if
you mix up your studying. Read Strengthening the Student Toolbox .

You might like to try incremental reading techniques.

It’s 1 am here so I’ve got to get some sleep but I will try to come back to this entry and post some
ideas.

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@liamvictor sure thankyou that would be of much help … looking forward to . regards

liamvictor Nov '14

I don’t happen to have nay medical textbooks so I did a little search and quickly came up with the US
Army First Aid book which I thought might be useful to me, so I’m going to talk about that so we have
a specific example:

The link is here: http://armypubs.army.mil/doctrine/DR_pubs/dr_a/pdf/fm4_25x11.pdf .

The first thing I would do is have a look at the Chapter and Appendix titles and get a good overview
of what the entire book is about. We see here eight chapters and two appendices. In your memory
palace I’d devote the first room to the chapter headings. Looking at that again, I see that the second
chapter actually is three major sections, so I’m going to store those in the core room too.

I end up with the following as the outline of the entire book:

CHAPTER 1. FUNDAMENTAL CRITERIA FOR FIRST AID
CHAPTER 2. BASIC MEASURES FOR FIRST AID
Section I. Open the Airway and Restore Breathing
Section II. Stop the Bleeding and Protect the Wound
Section III. Check for Shock and Administer First Aid Measures
CHAPTER 3. FIRST AID FOR SPECIFIC INJURIES
CHAPTER 4. FIRST AID FOR FRACTURES
CHAPTER 5. FIRST AID FOR CLIMATIC INJURIES
CHAPTER 6. FIRST AID FOR BITES AND STINGS
CHAPTER 7. FIRST AID IN A NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL, AND CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER 8. FIRST AID FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTIONS
APPENDIX A. FIRST AID CASE AND KITS, DRESSINGS, AND BANDAGES
APPENDIX B. RESCUE AND TRANSPORTATION PROCEDURES
GLOSSARY

So that’s 14 loci for the overview. Depending on the palace you use, that could be one or two rooms,
lets say one for this example.

You first goal is to get a good overview. You need to learn that first. You don’t have to be word perfect
or anything like that, but you need to understand where the book is going, the subjects it will cover.
It’s really useful in everything apart from fiction to read as though it’s a newspaper. Headlines, then
opening paragraphs. Then take another look through, see if there are summaries of the chapters,

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perhaps “what we will learn” sections. Knowing what will come later in the book can help you store
the fundamental knowledge it requires.

Ultimately when you’re done, you can enter your palace you can pop into the first room and see the
entire book structure. From there you will be able to get to specific rooms that give you a deeper view
on the subject and eventually you’ll get into the nitty gritty details of each.

I would learn by spending 15 minutes a day on a section. Write out what you can for five minutes
then turn the paper over and see what you remember. When you’re spent, then turn the paper back
over and see what you’ve missed. Circle errors, write out the corrections. Then try once more and
mark yourself again. Continue to do this until you’ve spend 15 to 25 minutes. Don’t do any more than
that as after a maximum of 25 minutes you wont take any more in. 15 minutes is better still in my
view as you don’t exhaust the limit of your concentration.

The next day you test yourself first, again mark yourself. See where you went wrong and mark
yourself.

Now schedule a retest for two days time. Always test yourself first. If you look at the material and
then test you’re not really going to gain as much as when you test first.

Aside: This is a very simple paper based spaced repetition system that I use to shove stuff into
my paper diary. If you use Anki or Supermemo all the better. The system is easy to calculate like
so. For each revision (n) we calculate the next test time by the formula 2 ^ (n-1). First review
looking at a section (first time you encounter the material) - next test is 1 day later. (two to the
power of zero (day 1 - 1) = 1. Second time through a section if all goes well then review in 2
more days (2 ^ (2 - 1)) Third review, if all goes well then review in 4 more days (2 ^ (3 - 1)) Forth
- review in 8 more days (2 ^ (4 - 1)) Fifth - review in 16 more days (2 ^ (5 - 1)).
If a section doesn’t go well then review in half the time shown and keep the same review count.

If you completely fail then review the next day and start the process and review count again.

/end of side track!

Having studied the overview on day one, the next day I’d then start on the first chapter. Just the
oveview of it. In you second room you’d have six loci and
Then I’d take the first chapter.
CHAPTER 1. FUNDAMENTAL CRITERIA FOR FIRST AID
1-1. General
1-2. Terminology
1-3. Understanding Vital Body Functions for First Aid
1-4. Adverse Conditions
1-5. Basics of First Aid
1-6. Evaluating a Casualty

The third day, tackle the first section of the second chapter overview.
CHAPTER 2. BASIC MEASURES FOR FIRST AID
2-1. General
Section I. Open the Airway and Restore Breathing
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2-2. Breathing Process

2-3. Assessment of and Positioning the Casualty
2-4. Opening the Airway of an Unconscious or not Breathing Casualty
2-5. Rescue Breathing (Artificial Respiration)
2-6. Preliminary Steps - All Rescue Breathing Methods
2-7. Mouth-to-Mouth Method
2-8. Mouth-to-Nose Method
2-9. Heartbeat
2-10. Airway Obstructions
2-11. Opening the Obstructed Airway - Conscious Casualty
2-12. Opening the Obstructed Airway - Casualty Lying Down or Unconscious

Day four, you’d do chapter 2 section 2. Each day just add that one more little bit. Then schedule your
review and keep track of the review counts for each section. As you review the time spent is greatly
reduced, so whilst the initially study might be 15 minutes per section after a few goes round the
reviews are likely to only be a few minutes long. Due to the way they space out you’ll never be
spending that much time per day. If you conversantly estimate that the reviews would be 15 minutes,
then 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5 (reducing by about 20%) you never get to more than 63 minutes a day even
going as far as 150 sections!

Eventually you’ll have a palace of 15 rooms, the first is the book overview, then a room for each
chapter or major section.

Now you need to start tackle each chapter section. For Chapter one we have as shown before:
1-1. General
1-2. Terminology
1-3. Understanding Vital Body Functions for First Aid
1-4. Adverse Conditions
1-5. Basics of First Aid
1-6. Evaluating a Casualty

What you can do now is go through the first section, 1.1 and turn all the sections into questions.
These you can put into Anki / Supermemo and start to truly learn the material.

See this article by the Supermemo creator http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm

I’ve got to make some supper and leave for the evening, feel free to ask questions and I’ll try to get to
them tomorrow.

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Updated Jan 22 How do I forget my ex after everything we've
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Q: “How can you remember something you have read?” How can I improve both my reading speed and
comprehension?

How do you read and retain all that you have

read?

I want to start reading Batman comic books.

Where should I start? Mention the issue numbers
along with the titles.

How can I remember the things I read? I read a lot

of books but I can’t remember anything after a
few weeks. What can I do?

How do I forget someone whom I once loved

deeply?

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This is caused by a word you went past that you did not fully understand.
In Other Languages
When you locate the word, and define it, you will remember what you read.
En español: ¿Cómo recuerdo todo lo que he leído?
You need to learn how to define words properly, with a dictionary: How to Use a
Auf Deutsch: Wie kann ich mich an alles erinnern, was
Dictionary: Picture Book for Children: Ron Hubbard: 9788177691726: ich gelesen habe?
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A good way to avoid this is, before you read a page, you scan the page very
quickly for any words you don’t fully understand. If you spot one, you write it
down quickly, and then continue scanning down the page. When you have
finished the scan then you have a list of the exact words on that page that you
know you do not fully understand. You define each of them, starting with the
first one, properly with a dictionary. Then read the page for understanding.

If you are “doing well”, that means you are flying along, feeling brilliant,
enthusiastic, fully understanding what you are reading, without stress or
strain, able to apply what you are reading. Then you can scan a page like
that. If not, then you have to go back to when you were doing well, and starting
from there, find the word you missed.

A good way to do this is have a tutor, or someone called a Word Clearer help you.
The best way is to be doing well, is to have the Word Clearer do something called
Method One Word Clearing. This is where words from all subjects are
systematically located and defined resulting in you having the ability to be

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“doing well,” in all subjects, including

9 reading. It also returns your entire
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education to you, because you will now be able to recall all of your
understandings in those subjects. It returns your ability to learn in any subject
where you have become unable to learn. If you are in high school this should
only take a day or two, 8 to 16 hours. If you are in college it might take a week or
two.

There is a course called The Student Hat Course. It includes all the basic
knowledge and skills, from the subject of study including how to keep yourself
flying along, doing well.

Best regards,

Leon
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Robert Levy, Owner

Answered Oct 3, 2018

Originally Answered: How do I read and remember everything that I have read?

One of the ways to remember what you’ve read is to try and make real world
connections with characters and places similar to your own.

However, you’re not going to remember everything. That’s the beauty of books.
They’re in your possession to read as often as you like. I read The Alchemist
three times and found something amazingly different each time. I’m about to
read another wonderful novel, Jesse and the Caterpillar Who Got Its Wings,
again because I want to have a thorough discussion with my son, who also loved
it.

Books are amazing and at your disposal to read as many times as your
imagination allows.
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Malavika, Voracious reader of many genres

Answered Jun 10, 2017

MAINTAIN RECORDS!

Create the habit of writing down on a diary. It could be all about your day, or it
could be maintained as just a journal of the books you’ve read!

If writing too much is not your thing, just try to maintain a list of the books you
read. Jot down the title, with a couple of lines describing what attracted you
most about the book- what kept you hooked enough to read until the very end.

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Maintain a separate list of articles9 and other reading material you’ve chanced
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upon.

You can either put this down by hand on a notebook (yes, I’ve heard of people do
that), or save it up in cloud storage, so you can keep it safe for all eternity.

Hope that helped. Happy reading!

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Wes Browning, works at Writers and Authors

Answered Jan 20

Originally Answered: How can you remember something you have read?

I trained as a research mathematician. I have a poor memory for text passages.

But I could remember all the mathematics I read because I played with the ideas
on my own. If I read a method for solving certain kinds of problems, I’d make up
some of those problems and use the method. If I was reading proofs of lemmas
leading to a proof of a major theorem, I would pretend I was writing the book
and try to come up with the needed lemmas myself. I ended up proving a great
deal of the mathematics I learned before seeing written proofs. For instance I
came up with my own proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra two years
before a proof was ever shown me in a class.
These habits spilled over into other reading with odd consequences. Most novels
came to bore me because I would prefer the version I cooked up while playing
with the story ideas, to the version the author himself laid out. Exceptions are
highly imaginative books that stay ahead of me, like LOTR or H2G2.
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Sabira Kabeer, Born to learn forced to study

Answered Jun 7, 2017

I suggest you write book reviews after each book you read. You can include the
name of the author, the date you started reading, the date you finished reading,
your experience and thoughts while reading the book, your favourite characters,
favourite quotes, you can even write a summary of the book. This not only helps
you keep track of each and every book you've read but also improves your
writing skills.

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I've been doing this since i was 14 and now i have a collection of 80+ books. If
you are not into writing manually you could type your work or even create a
blog.

Hope this helped :-)

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Robert Esposito, former Retired consultant at Acme Casket and Condom

Co. (1985-2013)
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Originally Answered: How can you remember something you have read?

How can you remember something you have read?

The basic never changes. Think in vivid, active pictures and attach them to what
you already know.

The common use of this is putting a name to a face.

Maybe you meet Alice, who gives you the cold shoulder. She might be “All Ice”.

do it your way.
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An approach to memorize a dictionary

So, I thought of an approach to memorize a dictionary in a very organized way, and I'd like to have
some opinions on it.
It is based on http://mt.artofmemory.com/forums/gavinos-massive-memory-palace-system-31...
(http://mt.artofmemory.com/forums/gavinos-massive-memory-palace-system-3189.html?
_ga=2.41181282.1520959160.1556832357-809792541.1554753640) and letter pairs.
First, you start with a main memory palace. This memory palace would have 26 loci. Each of these 26
loci would have a letter associated with them, and 2 page numbers(the beginning page, the ending
page). This letter indicates the rst letter of the words. Now, each of these loci would lead to other
inner memory palaces. These memory palaces, let's call them "B", would also each contain 26 loci. On
each of these loci would be 2 letters indicating the rst two letters of the words(to make an image for
that, you need to know letter pairs) and 2 page numbers(the beginning page number-the ending
page number), along with a link to another inner memory palace, which, if it's big enough, would be
the nal inner memory palace(otherwise, you can continue going inner and inner). This nal memory
palace will contain words along with de nitions. Of course, you can use the list of letters pairs that
you have memorized to make it easier. If this nal memory palace ranges from page K to K+1, you
would use the rst locus to indicate that from there onward, you are looking at words on page K.
Once you nish the words on that page, you use another locus to put K+1, which indicates that from

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there onward, you are on page k+1.

Example:
Your initial memory palace will contain 26 loci. The rst locus, for example, would have an alligator
drinking tea and eating a man (to indicate that the words starting with the letter "A" range from page
1 to page 32). Of course, it would also somehow be linked to another inner memory palace.
In this inner memory palace, you would have 26 loci. On the rst locus, for example, you would have
Noah shooting with an Anti-aircraft gun shooting tea (Anti-aircraft gun stands for AA - from
http://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/List_of_letter_pairs
(http://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/List_of_letter_pairs) - Tea stands for 1, Noah stands for
2). That locus would obviously have a link to a memory palace. This memory palace would have
plenty of loci, of which the rst would be linked to Tea. You would have words, like "a" or "aab"
(whatever words) that are on the rst page. Then, once you're done with the rst page, you link the
next locus to "Noah" to indicate that you reached the second page. From there on, your words start
with "aa" and are on the second page.
Now, if, for example, the memory palace for "AB" contains too many words to put into a single
memory palace, you can make more inner memory palace. For example, you can create 2 locus in
the mini memory palace "AB". One is linked to "j" and the other to "z"(and of course the 2 page
numbers and the other inner memory palace). That indicates that the rst inner memory palace of
"AB" contains words starting with AB followed by letters from a to j, and the second inner memory
palace of "AB" contains words starting with AB followed by letters from j to z.

In the minimal case, you would only need 26*26+1 = 677 memory palaces.
I hope you get the idea.
I do know that once you are in the inner memory palace for the letter "A" you do not need to use
"AA" or "AB" but can simply use "A" or "B", but I thought it would be less confusing to have it like that.
Plus, why not? If you have the letter pairs system which is extremely useful in some cases to
memorize some words, why not use it?
I feel like this is more advantageous than Dr. Yip's way, because you have the words organized by
letters rather than organized by pages (letters are the priority here). This makes the reverse search a
lot easier. If someone tells you the word "ABACUS", you'd just search and nd it in the "AB" memory
palace. You'd also have the page number in that memory palace, somewhere in a locus behind it.
But, you can also easily search for words on a page. If someone gives you page number 27, you'd
simply nd that the locus of A in the main memory palace contains words that range from page 1 to
page 31. You'd go in the inner "A" memory palace. In that memory palace, you'd maybe nd that
words starting with "AK" range from page 26 to 28. And nally, in the inner memory palace "AK",
you'd nd the word.

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The Glossary Technique

Almost Every textbook in this world has a few pages at the end which we never study. No, Iʼm not talking
about the Appendix, but the Glossary.
Be honest. Do you ever pay attention there?
It lists certain keywords (example: Electrophile) and in which pages they occur.
This information is not much use unless we need to find that word in the book.
But that gave me an idea.
What if I make my own glossary which is much more useful? And so I used a particular method that Iʼm
going to teach you today. It is very useful in JEE preparation as it teaches you to learn actively.

It can help you learn chapters easier than ever. And make your revision so quick, you can revise the book
3-4 times more than you do now.
The key idea is simple.
The first book you are going to pick for any chapter is the NCERT, not your reference book. Go to the
chapter you want to learn. Do not start reading the chapter just yet.
First, we will note the keywords. I will show you how to find them.
Step #1. Find out the keywords in the chapter.
Alright. Now letʼs see how to find the keywords. Follow these steps.
#1: READ SUMMARY FIRST, THE CHAPTER WILL COME LATER.
The summary is short and always contains some keywords. I have attached an example for you.

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This is from the Solutions chapter (XII) and hereʼs my keyword list now.
Keywords: – Solutions Chapter
Homogeneous mixture, Lowering of vapor pressure, Binary liquid solution, Positive and negative
deviations, Azeotropes.
In the image above you see them highlighted in yellow.
#2. CHECK THE OBJECTIVES OR INTRODUCTION SECTION.
You will find more keywords here. Hereʼs an attached example.

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Add these to the list of keywords you have.

#3. ANOTHER PLACE TO LOOK FOR KEYWORDS ARE THE HEADINGS INSIDE THE CHAPTER OR
ANYTHING THATʼS IN BOLD LETTERS.

Alright. The complete list now looks something like this:

Keywords: Homogeneous mixture, Lowering of vapor pressure, Binary liquid solution, Positive and
negative deviations, Azeotropes, Henryʼs Law, Raoultʼs Law, Deviations, Colligative Properties, Abnormal
C.P., Osmosis, Osmotic Pressure.
Once you have the list, what do you do with it?
Step #2. For every keyword, ask these questions.
What does it mean?
Have I seen it before? If yes, in what chapter?
What do I know about it?
Donʼt skip this. This is important as your brain is recalling the facts you already know about that
concept/keyword.
Step #3. Read the chapter now.
And once you find a keyword, read it actively and ask yourself this question.
What new knowledge have I gained after reading this?
After you are done with the chapter you will find that you are more aware of the concept. You have
actively learned the chapter and will remember it longer.
Action Step for You: Try it Out!
Use this method for at least one chapter. If you see the benefits, ( I think you will ) practice this strategy.
You will get better at it soon.
How does this technique help in revision?
Reading something once is not the only goal for this technique. It helps you revise better too.
Keep the list of keywords in a short notebook. Whenever you want to revise the chapter, look at this list.
And revise only those sections which you canʼt explain very well.
You will remember it effectively. Try it
Upvote if you like.
Ramya :)
Image source: My textbook, google
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This is the method that I use to remember information word-for-word. If you work with this method
you will be able to remember any written information with ease. You can use it to remember quotes,
poems, definitions or verses from religious text.

Remembering information verbatim can help you in presenting, negotiations or meetings. You can
also use it to hold on to information so that you can call upon it when you need a bit of inspiration. It is
also helpful in exams to remember key definitions of key concepts.

As an example of my method I will be using a quote called Success that has been attributed to Ralph
Waldo Emerson. The first element of this memory method is to find the key words that will help you
remember the rest of the text. 

Have a look at the key words that I have picked out in bold:
Success
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to
appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by
a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life
has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Once you have found your keywords, the next step is to create images out of them and place it on a
location that is already in your long-term memory. To demonstrate this let’s use a tree to remember
the key concepts. Why a tree? Because  it is a location in your long-term memory  and it represents
growth for me.

This may seem silly but just do it, it only works if you work with it:
Now imagine the roots are laughing and intelligent people (you can imagine Einstein) are sitting
at the base of the tree. Imagine children hugging the trunk of the tree (affection of children), and on
the branches you can imagine a nest (honest) full of critics.  Review: To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation
of honest critics. You will notice that we have connected the first few key words to your system, and
with a bit of repetition you will have it all in place.

If you choose, you can continue to connect the rest of the information to the leaves, thorns, and the
fruit or to a park where the tree is planted. Once you have the key concepts connected to your long
term memory peg then you need to read through the material a few times. The key word images will
make the text ‘stickier’ and your knowledge of English will help you to remember the syntax. Make the
material come to life and you will remember more!

One of the biggest enemies of learning anything is overwhelm. You don’t have to memorize the whole
book, you just have to remember one paragraph at a time.

My friend, the late great Creighton Carvello, memorized Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and
the Sea and each word's numerical position. For example, you might have asked him the 6th word on
Line 15 on Page 8 and he could name it. He did not use rote learning; he used a method similar to the
one I have just shown you.

Like with anything in life it takes a bit of practice to be able to remember text with ease. When you
master this, you will be able to remember any information that you need for your business or your life
word-for-word. When you really know the information, you can then act on it.

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Anuj Agarwal, Founder Feedspot.com

Answered September 11, 2012
Originally Answered: How can I remember more of what I've read?
Forgeting what you have read is common.
1. everyone experiences it
2. It is not a deficiency
3. It can be fixed
Following all or some of these tips should help.
Environment
1. reasonable quiet
2. good light
3. desk and chair are very important - bed is for sleeping, relaxation, and other activities - not reading
textbooks and studying - you need to be comfortable but you also need to have some body tension in
order for you to stay awake.
4. reading rate increases if the book is held upright, instead of leaning over the book
5. no tv or radio, visual and auditory distraction makes concentration impossible.
Getting your timing right
1. Time of day - Think about when you work best (morning, afternoon or evening). When you need to learn
facts, try to revise when you are most alert and focused.Taking breaks - 
2. Take regular breaks to let your memory recover and absorb the information you have just studied. You
will learn best if you revise material, have a sleep and then review the material the next day.
3. Pacing your learning - You will learn best if you spread your learning of a particular topic over an
extended period of time. Rather than focusing on similar information for a whole day, change topics
completely. When you next pick up a revised topic take a short time to recall what you learned previously
and then build on it with new information.
Plan
1. do a survey/prep/prior knowledge of the material just like you would do for a movie or jogging (you want
to know what movie you are going to see and you stretch before you are going to run)
- look at the number of pages
- look at the pictures, diagrams, graphs, charts, etc.
- look at the bold face items, subsections, italics, summaries
- look at definitions, chapter question, problems
2. know your reading rate for each class, every class is different and your reading rate is different for each
class. I may read math faster and more efficiently than I read chemistry, which means that I may be able to
finish a chapter in math much faster than in chemistry.
3. plan time realistically
4. set realistic goals, do not overdo it
5. practice until it comes naturally
Focus methods - Mentally
1. plan to focus
2. surveying increases anticipation
3. use bold face and headings to form questions which will direct your attention
4. where there is no bold face type or heading, use the first sentence to make your question
5. repeat answers to yourself
6. what, why, and how questions are the best
Focus methods - Physical
1. keep key words, questions for clarification, definitions in the margins (use pencil)
2. keep separate notebook for each class
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3. take notes on the reading so you never have to go back to the textbook unless you have a question
4. put the notes in your own words
5. date your notes in class, as well as the reading notes so that everything can match up later on
Reading is NOT studying!
1. read for information - not to commit to memory, studying is for reviewing and putting material into your
memory
2. you are unrealistic with yourself if you expect to memorize everything you read and look at
3. be fair to yourself
Testing yourself
The revision cycle - To get the most from your revision, test yourself again and again but with increasing
gaps between tests:
. 10 minutes after learning something (e.g. at the end of the 10 minute study break which you take
after learning the topic).
. 1 day later at the beginning of a revision session.
. 3 days later...
. 1 week later....etc
Recalling the information 
. Remembering Practice planning lots of answers to old exam questions. You don't have to write
the answer out in full. Practice plans will get you used to interpreting questions, then choosing
and ordering what you know in order to answer them. During the exam this will help your ability
to retrieve information quickly and see how to apply it to the particular question.
. Stay calm During exams stay calm. If you can't remember something move on to another topic.
Your mind is likely to remember the information once you stop searching for it.

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We can memorize anything by building a memory palace

1. Decide on a blueprint for your palace. While a memory palace can be a purely imagined place,
it is easier to base it upon a place that exists in the real world and that you are familiar with or
you can use some places of your favorite video game. A basic palace could be your bedroom,
for example. Larger memory palaces can be based on your house, a cathedral, a walk to the
corner store, or your town. The larger or more detailed the real place, the more information
you can store in the corresponding mental space.
2. Define a route. If you will need to remember things in a certain order, it is essential that you
follow a specific route through your palace, both in the real world and in your mind. Thus,
once you’ve decided what your memory palace is, decide how you will travel through it. If you
don’t really need to remember things in order, this step is unnecessary, but still useful, as it
makes memorizing your palace easier
3. Identify specific storage locations in your palace or along your route. When you use your
memory palace you will put individual things to be remembered (a number, a name, or a part
of a speech that you will be giving, for example), in specific locations. Thus, you need to
identify as many locations as you think you will need. Walk through your structure or along
your route and really observe it. If your palace is actually a route, such as your drive to work,
the storage locations can be landmarks along the way: your neighbour’s house, a crossroads, a
statue, or a skyscraper, for example. If the palace is a structure, you can put things in the
different rooms. Within rooms, you can identify smaller locations, such as paintings, pieces of
furniture, and so on. The key is to make sure the locations you choose are distinct from each
other so that no location can be mistaken for another.
4. Memorize your memory palace. For your memory palace to be effective, you need to commit
it to memory perfectly. The best way to do this is to actually draw out a blueprint (or a map, if
the palace is a route) which shows the landmarks or storage locations you have chosen. Try
visualizing the palace when you are not there, and then check your mental image against the
map to make sure you have remembered every location and put them in the correct order.
Picture the landmarks in as much detail as possible: make sure your mental image includes
their colours, sizes, smells, and any other defining characteristics.
5. Place things to be remembered in your palace. Once you have constructed your palace and
have it firmly implanted in your mind, you are ready to use it. Put a manageable amount of
information in each place. For example, if your palace is your house, and you are trying to
remember a speech, you might place the first few sentences on your doormat and the next few
in the keyhole of your door. Don’t put too much information in any one place, and if certain
things must be kept separate from others, put them in different places. Make sure that you
place things along your route in the order in which you need to remember them, if applicable.
If you are a beginner, it is not a wise to pick up same kind of objects from different places of
your mind palace to put different information as it may confuse you
6. Use symbols. You don’t necessarily need to put a whole string of words or numbers in a given
location in order to be able to remember it, and trying to do so can be unwieldy and
counterproductive. Generally, all you need to store in each location is something that will jog
your memory, something that will lead you to the actual idea you’re trying to remember.
Thus, if you are trying to remember a ship, picture an anchor on your couch. If the ship is the
U.S.S. Wisconsin, picture the anchor made out of cheese. Symbols are shorthand and make
memories more manageable, but they also can be more effective than picturing the actual
thing you are trying to remember.

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7. Be creative. The images you put in your palace should, obviously, be as memorable as
possible. Generally, images will be more memorable if they are absurd (out of the ordinary)
[see warnings] , or if they are attached to some strong emotion or personal experience. The
number 124 is not particularly memorable, but an image of a spear shaped like the number 1,
going through a swan (which looks like the number 2), and splitting the swan into 4 pieces is.
Yes, it’s disturbing, but that’s part of what makes it stick in your mind
8. Stock your palace with other mnemonics. There are many simpler mnemonics that you can
use in combination with the memory palace. As an example, suppose you need to remember a
great deal about music composition. As you enter your kitchen, you could see a little boy
eating a piece of chocolate fudge, which would evoke the first-letter mnemonic “Every Good
Boy Deserves Fudge," which would in turn allow you to recall the order of notes on the lines
in treble clef (EGBDF).
9. Explore your palace. Once you have stocked your palace with evocative images, you need to
go through it and look at them. The more you explore your palace, the more easily you will
recall its contents on demand. In your mind you want to see James Joyce, for example, sitting
on your toilet as if he belonged there and was really an integral part of your bathroom décor
10. Use your palace. Once you have memorized the contents of your palace you can recall them
simply by mentally walking through it or looking around it. If you need to give a speech, just
follow your route in order as you do so. If you need to remember that your girlfriend’s
birthday is March 16, simply go into your bedroom and see the soldiers “marching" on the
bed to the tune of the 80s cult classic “Sixteen Candles." With practice you will be able to start
anywhere in your palace or along your route to recall a specific piece of information.
11. Build new palaces. A memory palace can be reused over and over again if you need only
commit things to memory for a short time. Just replace the existing contents with new ones,
and you’ll soon remember only the new ones. If you need to remember the contents of your
palace for a long time, you can keep that palace as it is and create new ones in which to store
other information as needed. If your house contains the phone numbers of everyone you
know, you can walk to your workplace if you need to remember the order of a deck of cards.

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liamvictor Feb '15

Firstly, lets take a moment to think that learning a text VERBATIM is normally completely
unnecessary. If you want to recall a book then use a memory palace and store the core ideas as
images related to the concepts.

I don’t want to appear an arse, but this method seems far too much work to be practical. If you can
do it, good for you, I applaud your effort but I do think other methods may give as good results, and
with less work.

My comments here gives an idea for breaking a book down over several sections and then using a
palace and spaced repetition to learn the material: Spaced repetitions for entire extensive
textbooks . And Bateman has the Guide to memorizing a book which goes through several steps

of increasing depth.

Learning (developing understanding) material from a book is often best done by testing, see the 20
rules of formulating knowledge in learning . Really truly comprehending data will trump verbatim

recall with little understanding every time.

My own technique for learning VERBATIM is to reduce the sentences to initials and then read back
the initials, this gives a “tip of the tongue” moment which is important in learning and you also don’t

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just practice reading the material but have to recall it. I take the sections of about half a page and
read the encoded material, only looking back at the original where necessary.

I then test myself, most often using Anki for spaced repetition using a variety of styles of cards of
increasing difficulty.

The entire sections of initials I also schedule using the 2 ^ (n -1) so I keep reading the entire sections
through. As I get better I combine sections together so half a page becomes a page, then two and so
on. After several months I’m reading back half a dozen pages per test.

I also use other techniques as necessary, such as adding movement to difficult passages to help
cement in parts where I get confused or forgetful. Gesturing makes learning last: Susan Wagner
Cook, Zachary Mitchell, and Susan Goldin-Meadow . I also try to break up my study habits so will

test in different environments and at different times.

Learning a piece verbatim is really only necessary for actors, rabbis, immans, priests and those
needing to perform word perfect recitals. Normally comprehending the material is far more useful.

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Let me appeal to deep thinkers: 
 
1. The question: What is ­­­> the fastest way of learning. 
 
A.  Answer: The fastest way to learn, is to learn how to learn. 
 
2. What is learning? 
 
A. Learning=input. 
B. Input must be retained, input = memory. 
C. What drives memory? 
 
3. Memory 
 
A. Retained knowledge depends on meaning, motive, and drive. 
B. Meaning, motive, and drive decides what knowledge is retained, therefore.... 
 
4. Learning is personal and dependent upon: 
 
A. What you want to know 
B. Why you want to know it 
C. What you have to gain or lose 
 
5. Archetypical principles: 
 
A. This video is about memory tricks, but the usefulness is limited. We learn that which we seek, and we seek what 
matters the most. Therefore, motive is principal in learning....it can't be conjured through mental gymnastics, it's 
internal. An insatiable curiosity to understand gives meaning, insofar as the discovery serves a personal purpose. 
Period. Without motive, learning is artificial, stagnant.  
 
6. Failed learning. 
 
A. Failure to learn is indicative of inadequate passion/motivation. 
 
7. Solution: 
 
A. Motive/passion ­­­> subject matter ­­­> memory ­­> learning ­­­> proficiency ­­­> career. 

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