Memory Improvement Exercise: 5 Tips To Increase Memory Retention

There are actually a lot of memory improvement exercise available on the internet today. And as a student, to increase your memory retention is very necessary in order for you to retain those what you have learned in the class. Sometimes, you need to take food supplements that nourish your brain if you feel that you really have poor memory retention where you can forget even the most significant events.

Different people have actually different approach about memorization. They may have used some of the effective way to memorize things or they may not. We are after for the effective way and smarter way where we can make use of our time. If your study habit is very time consuming, you may not even have time to play basketball, soccer, or whatsoever hobbies do you have. You must have to change your style of studying. Use some special techniques to memorize things easily. You can also refer to the best-selling e-book Best Grades which have a lot of strategies and guides to help improve your grades.

Well, some of these tips to help increase your memory retention are given:

Tip # 1: Transformation to Images

One of these techniques to memorize things easily is to convert the information you want to memorize into images – images that will certainly remain in your memory for a long time. For example, you may remember the term “flash drive” as a car being driven in a flash within a certain car race. You need to visualize words like the “flash drive” which is a computer term to make it retain in your memory for a long time and retrieve it if needed. Anyway, it is always better to understand everything first before trying to memorize it and to associate with images.

Tip # 2: Make another Story

When you are memorizing a certain story or event, choose a word or phrase on each sentence or paragraph and compose another story, perhaps your own story that you will be familiar with. Make a good association with words so that it will link the main and secondary ideas.

Tip # 3: Comparison and Contrast

Comparison and contrast is very effective when you are trying to memorize or remember other people’s name. This is where certain famous names are being compared to someone or something you already know. You may remember Albert Einstein with your best friend Albert who is already eighteen. Or Newton with your new cell phone tone. The same goes when you wish to remember important places and things. Such things in comparison or contrast to the one you want to retain in your memory should be the most relevant and most familiar to you. In this way, there is a greater chance that you could even remember it for a lifetime.

Tip # 4: First Letter Coding

I guess this is the most use and most common technique in memorization. You will simply get the first letter of each word that you want to memorize. For example:

G - Government

S - Service

I - Insurance

S – System

So, to remember Government Service Insurance System you only need to note GSIS. Well, in my networking subject I use to memorize the OSI layer with this one:

Layer 7 – Application - Anymore.

Layer 6 – Presentation - Physics

Layer 5 - Session - Study

Layer 4 – Transport - To

Layer 3 - Network - Need

Layer 2 - Data link - Don’t

Layer 1 - Physical - People

As you can see, I try to construct a sentence using the first letter of each OSI layer. So, in order to memorize this seven layers easily, I only have to remember the sentence; People don’t need to study Physics anymore . Of course, you still need to study Physics. Its just a code.

Tip # 5: Memorizing Abstract Ideas

Abstract ideas are harder to memorize than concrete objects. How would you picture out ‘honesty’ anyway? These things need more concentration and investigation. You need to discover its secret, a secret that you will find effective in memorizing those abstracts ideas. A trick to this is to really associate it to objects in your surroundings that you’re already familiar with. Or you can even do a little rhyming with those abstract ideas.

The information in your memory could stay longer or even shorter. That actually depends on how well you performed you memorization. How well you memorized information really depends on how effective and efficient your memorization technique to perform a quick retention and recall.

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