Improve Your Memory and Recall

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IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY AND RECALL
Success Planner
Student Planner and Study Guide
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Develop Memory and Recall

• Once you gain knowledge it is likely you will
  forget information over time
• If you revise that knowledge you can regain the
  data again
• Continuous revision can recall data faster and
  longer

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Develop Memory and Memory Skills

• We forget what we learn very quickly.
• We remember things much better if we (1) go over
  them very soon after we first learnt them.

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Recall

• Fact
• If you are to revise that knowledge once gained,
  then you will be able to (2) recall that data
  faster and retain information for a longer period
  of time.

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Recall Information Over Time For The Typical
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Recall
1st Semester Exams
Final Exams
Topic Test
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Initial Knowledge Gained
Revision
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Time
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Strategies to Retain and Recall Information

• 9 Useful strategies a learner can use to retain
  and recall information when it is needed

(3) Visualise
Categorise
(4) Repeat
Rhyme
(5) Acronym
Abbreviate
Acronymic Sentence
Pegword
Keyword
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Acronyms

• Forming an acronym is a (6) good strategy to
  remember information in any order that can be
  remembered.

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Memory Triggers

• Acronym is a word that is formed from the (7)
  first letter of each fact to be remembered
• For example (8) Roygbiv

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Memory Triggers

• Acronyms

R Red
O Orange
Y Yellow
G Green
B Blue
I Indigo
V Violet
Colours of the Rainbow
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Memory Triggers

• Mnemonics similar to acronyms but instead of a
  word you (9) remember a phrase.
• Usually the phrase is nonsense and the craziness
  of it helps you to remember it.
• For example The order of classification for
  living things
• K, P, C, F, O, G, S

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Memory TriggersExample (1)
K Kingdom
P Phylum
C Class
O Order
F Family
G Genus
S Species
K Kings
P Produce
C Crowns
O Only
F For
G Galant
S Soldiers
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Memory TriggersExample (2)
K Kingdom
P Phylum
C Class
O Order
F Family
G Genus
S Species
K Kings
P Play
C Chess
O On
F Fine
G Grained
S Sand
Kings play chess on fine grained sand