how to remember better?

Question

idk y but i got really bad memmory...how can i remember stuff better?....i read this novel but i couldnt remember the whole thign in there....even i tried....but short short story...sometime i do sometime i dont....and idk y...please help me how to remember better?....cuz i dont wanna fail on my quizzes or tests

Answer 1

i fyou are trying to remember stuff for a test, you can write it down several times and repeat it outloud it works really well.

Answer 2

Hi, to help you remember your stuff better, it is important to make notes for yourself while reading the novel, on each chapter, or section. Then you can reread your notes you wrote about the novel, and that will help you remember what happened in the novel. Same thing for a short story, just make some notes on the basic events of story, and also reread them. That is what you have to do is reread your notes, read the teacher's notes on the subject, kind of on a regular basis, and even while you are doing the summary of each chapter, or section, that alone help you learn. So the more often you look at your notes from the novel or from the short story, the better you will remember. That is what I always did. If you have to do math, or get ready for a math test, I suggest you always pay attention in class, and if you don't understand something raise your hand to ask the question to help you understand, that goes for everything, all subjects and all things at school. So to prepare for a math test, you pay attention to what the teacher is saying and write notes that he or she writes on the blackboard or where ever they write it. Also do your homework in math, and that will give you practice. If there is a question you don't understand, or have no idea how to do it, just ask the teacher to explain, you could ask after class too, not just in class. If there are any smart people in your class, you can also ask them for help, that you don't understand something, that is another technique I used. But remember the more you look at your work, and your notes and go through the math problems over and over until you get it, the better mark you will get on quizzes and tests. So looking at your work and reading it or in the case of math, redoing it, this is called studying. This is a good habit to get into. Keep rereading the stuff you wrote and go over what you learned each day, even with a friend, or by yourself. You will see how easy it will be to remember everything on tests and quizzes after that. Just keep it up. Maybe another reason you think you have a bad memory, is because you never really had to use it before, so it is all new to you. So don't be hard on yourself, since it is all new to you, you will get the hang of it, just keep rereading your notes and your homework everyday and redo the math problems sometimes just for practice, to make sure you still know how to do it. Good luck, and enjoy the novels and short stories now, with my techniques. Also it would be helpful if you printed or wrote clearly and underligned each chapter name, with a different color if you have it. Best Wishes.

Answer 3

The brain can be compared to a muscle, which, when exercised, can be forced to perform more efficiently, but there are limits. Thus, it helps to learn methods, tricks, and procedures to strengthen memory.

You never forget. With the exception of injury and disease, the brain never loses anything. Forgetting is either 1) the failure to store information in the first place, or 2) the inability to retrieve the information, or 3) the failure to store it in such a way that it can be found when needed. Remembering and forgetting are fairly big issues in academics. Experiments suggest that we forget all kinds of information all of the time. Although there are several theories which attempt to explain forgetting, much about the neurobiology of the brain remains unknown. What is known about memory is that it works more effectively when conscious effort is required vs. more peripheral routes to learning. Intention, motivation and interest are critical. That is also why novel information is more easily recalled.

Here are some tips on how to improve that memory:

1) Pay attention to get information right the first time. It's difficult to replace wrong information with the right information
2) Make certain that you understand a concept - its very difficult to recall what is fuzzy. Read and then reread before class, ask questions and try to explain the concept to someone else during your review session.

3) Use chunking, there are limits to how much we can recall, but these limits expand when the material is meaningfully organized, e.g., what are the three key concepts of the chapter and how are ideas grouped under these key ideas. Cluster ideas around a heading or category. One item may serve as a cue to another during the exam.

4) Be selective - condense and summarize. This helps to make the time requirements more manageable. Use outlines, flash cards. Try the Silver Dollar System for reviewing notes. Put a $ in the margin next to ideas that are important. Read only the notes marked $. Select ideas from this material that seem particularly important and mark them with a second $. Make a final pass through your notes and read only the ideas marked $$ -- only those which are truly significant.

5) Mnemonic devices can serve as organizers for new information, either classic acronyms such as such as Every Good Boy Does Fine to represent the lines on the musical staff EGBDF, or individualized ones that you design for yourself. Be sure to memorize completely as a small error will create difficulty when utilizing these techniques.

6) Create a peg on which to hang the information you want to remember. It might be a rhyme, an unusual image or maybe a sequence, e.g., remember your grocery list by visualizing going through the aisles in the market.

7) Eliminate distractions

a) Use a "cue" - e.g., when you are wearing a certain baseball hat, you are not to be disturbed. Use your desk to read, review, write letters but use your bed only to sit on for a relaxing break.
b) Remove obstacles, a sound or visual background which is unobtrusive may help to screen out distractions

c) Have all of your equipment available before you begin, lamp, pencil, good comfortable chair, books and paper clips, etc.

d) Record stray thoughts on a note pad, but don't act upon them. Call this your worry pad, e.g., personal tasks that need to be completed. Make your to do list for the week before you start, or as a study break, to get random thoughts out of your head.

8) Check your concentration as you go - generally toward the end of every other page, but more often if the reading is dense in terms of facts, definitions, equations, etc. Test yourself on identifying the main idea, restate in your own words

9) Use all of your senses, e.g., draw on the board, trace it over and over, look for unique visual patterns, talk it out to somebody, rehearse it in the mirror

Answer 4

I try to associate things with things. For example, if you have a character in your book named Ted who is a dentist, you would try to think of something that that related to in your life. Like your dentist is named Rob. You know that Ted and Rob both have 3 letters, and that someone robbed your teddybear when you were little...silly stuff like that. Hopefully that works for you...GL!

Answer 5

write notes about the thins u learn and study them alot. any chance you get, it works for me...