This document provides various tips and strategies for improving memorization abilities. It discusses lifestyle factors like sleep, diet, and exercise that can boost memory. Several memory techniques are outlined, including understanding concepts, self-testing instead of rereading, spacing out practice, writing and reciting information, using multiple senses by connecting words to pictures or sounds, rhyming pegs to associate numbers with concepts, and using a memory palace of familiar places to store information. The document encourages readers to evaluate their current memorization approach and willingness to improve, then choosing new strategies to try like those described.

1. MEMORIZATION TIPS &
TRICKS
Discover how to improve your memorizing abilities

2. Facts
Do you know that you can adjust your lifestyle to help improve your
memory?
 Having enough sleep; 6-8 hours
 Eating right
 Exercise
 Be intentional
Blueberries, fatty fish, broccoli, nuts are some examples

3. Memory tips and tricks
■ Try to understand first
■ Self-test, don't just reread
■ Sleep on it
■ Repeat verbally
■ Make a connection that relate to your interest
■ Create meaningful group that simplify what
you are trying to learn
■ Use Spaced Practice
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4. OTHER STRATEGIES TO HELP
IMPROVE MEMORY

5. Strategy 1: Write & Recite
Helps you more deeply encode information
because there is a direct connection
between the hand and the brain
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6. Strategy 2: Use your senses
Using multiple senses when learning helps increase memory

7. Visual
■ Turn words into pictures which are easily
encoded in the brain making it easier and
quicker to remember
■ Mind maps, drawings, spider diagram
■ Example- make a sheet of paper with your
visuals to the bedroom wall—scanning it in
the morning and in the evening will quickly
absorb it into your memory

8. Auditory
Adding auditory input to visual input
will further enhance the learning
experience and significantly
improve the ability to recall.
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9. Olfactory
■ Associate smells to help you trigger your brain’s memory
of that association
Example: Wearing a particular perfume while studying can
help recall that information later triggered by the same
smell

10. Strategy 3: The Rhyming Peg
Uses visual imagery to provide a ‘hook’ from which
to hang or associate your memories

11. Strategy 3: The Rhyming Peg
 Learn the peg words list and visualized
each of those rhymes against the number
 Associating the items you want to
remember with the visualized memory
‘pegs’ you already have

12. Strategy 4: The Memory Palace
Visualizing a familiar place and using
it as a place where you can deposit
concept-images that you want to
remember

13. Memorization Strategies & Improvement Plan
H o w h a v e I b e e n m e m o rizin g ?
H o w m u c h a m I willing t o
i m p r o v e ?
o H o w eff ectiv e is it?
o W illing n es s t o i m p r o v e
o 1 2 3 4 5
o 1 2 3 4 5
H o w a m I g oi n g t o i m p r o v e m y
m e m o r y ?
o 6- 8 h o u rs of slee p
o E at rig ht
o D aily Ex ercis e
o Int e nti o n al
W h a t n e w str at egi es d o I w a n t
t o try?
o W r it e a n d R ecit e
o U s e of m y s e n s es
o R h y m i n g p eg
o M e m o r y P ala c e

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EVENTS
■ Ineffective Study Routine
■ Test Preparation
■ Note taking

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