How can you memorize something in a relatively short period of time?

Question

I need to memorize 18 lines out of a book I'm reading for class, then recite it in front of my class. I can't seem to memorize it though, all I've tried to do though is read it over and over again but it doesn't work.

Answer 1

Learn each line separately. Take the first line and repeat it out loud until you know it than add the second line and so forth until you know all 18 lines. This takes practice but you can do it.

Answer 2

What I do is just read the poem or story over and over again until I know the whole thing. I start with the first few words, memorize those, and then work on the next few. After I memorize a lot, I'll go back to the beginning and recite what I know, without looking at the book.

Answer 3

It's been a long time since I had to memorize something but when I was in school I found that "writing it down" in parts....helped me take a mental picture of what I had to learn. I focused on each section as if it was the whole piece. Then moved on to the next part. That way all of it was learned I just had to put the parts together. I hope you will give it a try. After it's all over drop a line and tell me how you made out....I'd love to hear all about it. Happy new year from Mama Jazzy Geri .......([e-mail])

Answer 4

I am a really slow learner and I have taken 2 college success courses, in them both I learned that I am both a hands on and a visual learner, there are also audio learners, so there are several ways that you can retain something if you really want it...1) Read it out loud and record it then play it back 2) Read it, write it and 3) Flash cards. The most important thing to remember is that What ever way becomes the most comfortable for you, is once your set that it is in your short term memory, review it once more within the next 24 hours.. Then it starts to become part of your long term memory--Good Luck

Answer 5

When I have to remember something, I read the whole thing first. Then I go through and remember ther first and last words of each line. Then I keep rereading. When you get ready to recite just think of the first and last words and fill in the blanks with what you've read.

Or you could easy make up a rhyme or think of it as something that has happened to you and pretend you're telling a friend exactly word from word what happened.

Good Luck!

Answer 6

Memorize it line by line. Example:

Memorize Line One

Memorize Line Two

Recite Line One

Recite Line Two

Memoraize Line Three...Untill you do all Eighteen then you try to Recite them all.

Answer 7

Mnemonics (memory tricks)

such as Roy G. Bov for the colors of the rainbow and FOIL for the quadratic formula.

If you want to memorize a list, like a grocery list, make a picture.

For example, eggs, milk, water

All you have to do is remember eggs. EGGS come from chickens who live on a farm. Imagine the chickens next to the cow pasture, where MILK comes from. The cows eat grass, and WATER helps grass grow.

Answer 8

When I had such a task, I would write it on the left side of a sheet of paper and then cover it up with another blank sheet of paper and then try to say it or even write it on the other side of the paper over and over, covering it up as needed but revealing it if you forget, over and over and over. If you forget, you can always easily peek at only the part that you have forgotten. I think it worked fairly well for me.

Answer 9

Break it up, first into a small 2 line section, learn them, then do 4 lines, subsequently building up.

Answer 10

by not procrastinating