Techniques for straight memorization?

[MUN2005]

I've taken a course that taught us heirarchies, mnemonic systems, etc. but does anyone else have any good habits for memorization??? I'm taking one course this summer, first year bio, and I'll be ashamed if I don't get a decent mark. Any takers??

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[Assassin]

here's a foolproof 2-step method:

1. read
2. recite
*repeat as necessary

works like a charm <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" />

 

[racergirl]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by MUN2005:
•I've taken a course that taught us heirarchies, mnemonic systems, etc. but does anyone else have any good habits for memorization??? I'm taking one course this summer, first year bio, and I'll be ashamed if I don't get a decent mark. Any takers?? •••••mnemonics work very well for me. For complex systems, I just have to draw them out over and over. When I took biochem, I had this notebook with the Krebs cycle drawn out like 30 times! In endocrinology, I became an expert at sketching the pituitary gland. Just figure out how you learn. For many people flashcards work well, but not for me--I can't just look at something and remember it. The act of writing it down is what helps me remember.

 

[moo]

Yes, you have to be active. Keep writing things out until they become ingrained in your mind so you don't have to think about it.

 

[Street Philosopher]

repetition, but also repetition through different modes (e.g. reading, writing, saying out loud, visualizing). my theory is that if you repeat the info through all these different modes, one of them will stick.

 

[Tweetie_bird]

This is going to sound hilarious but I'll risk being ashamed for it...

Organic Chem--I bought myself some poster paper and had all the main reactions (not single reactions, just trends etc) on that ONE POSTER....any time I was in the room, while watchign TV....before bedtime, I kept looking at it passively and somehow it worked. On the bus, I did notecards, in similar format to the poster.

Biochem--had all the main Krebs, ETS blah blah drawn out like a little diagram (do NOT copy from book, write it in a way that YOU like it, sorta like you're coming up with your own formula) again on poster paper that hung on my bedroom wall for about a year.

I kicked some rear end in all of those classes. Obviously, something worked!

 

[RLMD]

cram the night before exams... always works for me