As a student of any institution or field of study all over the world, there
is absolutely no way you are going to progress into a higher level or grade
until you sit for an examination. Examinations are to test the individual
student’s capacity if he or she understood what has been taught in the
past classes and lectures.

It is meant to examine the student’s ability to recollect theories and
practical work and/or relate them to the physical world.These examinations
often come in form of oral or/and written quiz. In this situation, the student
is left on his own with only his writing materials and any other objects allowed
for the examination.

It is often reported that most students who to their personal understanding,
prepared well enough of the said examinations but yet find it difficult to make
an average result. As a result, I’ve compiled three easy to use strategies that
will help student remember whatever it is they read in the past.

Here we go…

1. Mnemonic

What is Mnemonic? According to google search, it’s a system such as a pattern
of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something. This
method is more helpful when it comes to remembering a list of items, names of
people, places and other things alike. Here is how it is used.

Let’s say we have a list of items that needs to be memorizes for the upcoming test. Example:

Names of Vertebrate Animals in the Isolation Room.

1. Lion 5. Shark
2. Antelope 6. Tiger
3. Monkey 7. Alligator
4. Bear 8. Raccoon.

In order to remember the names of animals according to their numbering using
Mnemonic, I coined the word LAMB STAR. If you observe closely, I took the first
letter of each animal in order to form a name my brain could easily remember
anytime, any day.

Note: this method of memory aid is also helpful when it comes to tests and
examinations that will require you to list and explain steps and processes of
something in a chronological/sequential order.

2. Visualization and Association.

Humans all around the world both sane and insane are blessed with the ability
of visualizing things, events, and scenarios through the power of imagination.
The human mind is built in such a way that it can draw a mental picture of
what happened in the past even when it is evident that the one visualizing
never experienced the incident first hand but rather read it on print, was
told about it by someone else or plainly through observation.

If you’ve read books or seen movies on Sherlock Holmes, you’ll understand
what I’m talking about here.

So how then do you use the power of visualization to your favor?

If you are always in the habit of forgetting names, places, facts, events
or you are just not so good when it comes to cramming, please pay keen
attention as it would help you on a long run. It will mostly favor you when
you are given a question to give an account of something or to narrate/describe
in your own words.

Whenever you pick a book or reading text to study, don’t read at a stretch.
Rather, take time to play those things you read in your head over and over
again till it sticks. If possible, associate some words/data with your personal
experience or places and things that are connected with what you are currently
studying.

Most people tend to be crazy when it comes to associating things to what they
are reading. For instance, Shehu is a 200level student of Medicine in a higher
institution in Nigeria. He often finds it difficult to remember the word “MONOZYGOTIC.”

He can only regurgitate the meaning and its possibility not until he remembers that word.
So, here is what e did. He took is time to let the word mono to stick to his brain. After doing
that, he pictured a z-shaped maggot and a tick on the head of a dog.

The process let to Mono + Zygot (z-shaped maggot) + Tic (Tick).

There’s no shortcut to success. You need to remember that these strategies will work
only when you invest your time to study.

In the words of Sunni Brown, the Author of the Doodle Revolution: visualization is a muscle.
It can be grown and strengthened, stretched and flexed. The reality is that we can teach our
brain how to see more clearly and we can teach them how to show.

So, over to you guys. What are the strategies you personally use(d) that enables you to
remember things more faster?

cc:
seun
lalasticlala
mynd44
fynestboi

Who go fail go still fail

It is only the student with FACT ,have a FAT mark(David Oyedepo)

Nice one. OP, take this small change and buy gala for yourself!

hos4x:
Who go fail go still fail

lol very correct.
I used mnemonics even before I know what it's call.I also learn visually also. I can close my eyes and see formulas I need.its all just how much time you spend studying YOURSELF and not just books alone.

[quote author=hos4x post=76606708]Who go fail go still fail[/quotT
hmm word

hos4x:
Who go fail go still fail

No be lie sha.

But understanding ones strength and weaknesses when it comes to reading matters a lot.

chukwuibuipob:
It is only the student with FACT ,have a FAT mark(David Oyedepo)

FAT mark! That got me.

Funny enough, most students lose marks in examinations and tests not because they don't know the answers to the questions but because they failed to include the specific date of event, facts, and even some jargon in the field of study.

Abee79:
Nice one. OP, take this small change and buy gala for yourself!

Baba why na?

You Don forget say all my guys are ballers. This one no go do me o...

flames007:
lol very correct.
I used mnemonics even before I know what it's call.I also learn visually also. I can close my eyes and see formulas I need.its all just how much time you spend studying YOURSELF and not just books alone.

Isn't it funny how the mind works? We often underestimate the power of our mind not because we lack the ability, but because we are too lazy to involve ourselves in the process.

mozele:


Baba why na?

You Don forget say all my guys are ballers. This one no go do me o...

Sorry, abeg just manage this one. You know say Bubu say this next level go dey tough

fsd

Las Las school na scam

icebird25:
Las Las school na scam

Lol. why you talk so?

The best solution is to fully understand what you are reading.