Approximate speed of notecard memorization

[Josh7]

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Hey,

Does anyone know how quickly the average person would be able to memorize the definitions of ~110 vocabulary terms/authors?

Just trying to get a feel of how much time I should allot to studying for my gen ed final. Right now I've allotted ~11 hours of studying over the course of one week.

Assume the person doesn't know what any of the words mean...

 

[Life Sucks]

That's too many variables to factor in. A person's memory bank, skills,reading spead, processing speed, etc....

Wooo, that's a big plate for an exam. Yo tendre un examen de espanol en martes.

 

[0TopCat0]

d00d, ur a t0tal nurd

 

[Josh7]

That's too many variables to factor in. A person's memory bank, skills,reading spead, processing speed, etc....

Wooo, that's a big plate for an exam. Yo tendre un examen de espanol en martes.

Yep, only two exams for this course but they're both 100% memorization based (There really isn't even a reason to go to class). The downside is that it's a lot of memorization but it should be a pretty easy overall.

 

[MedPR]

Hey,

Does anyone know how quickly the average person would be able to memorize the definitions of ~110 vocabulary terms/authors?

Just trying to get a feel of how much time I should allot to studying for my gen ed final. Right now I've allotted ~11 hours of studying over the course of one week.

Assume the person doesn't know what any of the words mean...

Let's see.. ~110 words at ~110 words per minute results in it taking me about 3 seconds to memorize all that.

 

[Josh7]

Let's see.. ~110 words at ~110 words per minute results in it taking me about 3 seconds to memorize all that.

Should've used Wolfram. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=110+words+at+110+words/minute

 

[as1212559]

If 11 hours doesn't do the trick I'd be stunned. It will take 2 hours or so to make them probably. From there you should already have a decent base, because you had to go through the material to make them. Then, pack it in. If you already have them made I would think 4-5 hours should cover a gen ed easily. The ones you have down set aside, and focus on the ones you struggle with. Then put them back together. Vary the approach/shuffle them etc. so you aren't building patterns. Or just build patterns, who cares. If you start to see what card is coming next and think about it... you win and gen ed class loses.

 

[PreMedOrDead]

Should've used Wolfram. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=110+words+at+110+words/minute

Also, welcome to anatomy. Your terminology probably has a very distinct lettering and definition. Just wait until the naming is quite garbled and the definitions are indefinably mixed and intermingling. I'm looking at you, actions, origins, insertions, and innervations.

 

[Josh7]

If 11 hours doesn't do the trick I'd be stunned. It will take 2 hours or so to make them probably. From there you should already have a decent base, because you had to go through the material to make them. Then, pack it in. If you already have them made I would think 4-5 hours should cover a gen ed easily. The ones you have down set aside, and focus on the ones you struggle with. Then put them back together. Vary the approach/shuffle them etc. so you aren't building patterns. Or just build patterns, who cares. If you start to see what card is coming next and think about it... you win and gen ed class loses.

Haha, Good idea, thanks!

 

[deleted303591]

Notecards are pretty inefficient, unless you can take a screenshot of whatever you are trying to memorize and paste that image in to the notecard.

Or, if you have a word list, you could scan the list on to your computer, optical character recognize (OCR) the document so that the words become text, and then copy and paste the words on to a note card program.

I recommend Anki. You can access it anywhere.

 

[Fivo]

11 hours for 110 words should have been more than enough time OP. Heck, your average premed could have memorized double that in the same amount of time.

I'm sorry but you're going to be a terrible doctor.

 

[Josh7]

11 hours for 110 words should have been more than enough time OP. Heck, your average premed could have memorized double that in the same amount of time.

I'm sorry but you're going to be a terrible doctor.

Looks like I'm going to the Caribbean.

Notecards are pretty inefficient, unless you can take a screenshot of whatever you are trying to memorize and paste that image in to the notecard.

Or, if you have a word list, you could scan the list on to your computer, optical character recognize (OCR) the document so that the words become text, and then copy and paste the words on to a note card program.

I recommend Anki. You can access it anywhere.

I basically have an online word list. I'll look into Anki for sure, it looks like they have an Android app.

 

[PreMedOrDead]

11 hours for 110 words should have been more than enough time OP. Heck, your average premed could have memorized double that in the same amount of time.

I'm sorry but you're going to be a terrible doctor.

 

[I'm No Superman]

Under 12 parsecs

 

[ShenanigansMD]

If you have an iPhone/otherPhone:

iflipr.com

Saves a lot of time, and helps with foreign languages, in addition to that pre-med stuff.

 

[Bangersandmash]

Also, welcome to anatomy. Your terminology probably has a very distinct lettering and definition. Just wait until the naming is quite garbled and the definitions are indefinably mixed and intermingling. I'm looking at you, actions, origins, insertions, and innervations.

Oh boy, I'm in the middle of that process now for my lab final. There's just absolutely no good reason why my brain can't encode all of these O/I/A's after hours and hours of looking at them.

 

[Sill]

GFlashPro is a really great program for this also. Typing them is much faster and this program will test you on the ones you get wrong rather than all of them.

Going through them once a day for a week will not take anywhere close to 11 hours and ill get you there.

 

[Ashley1989]

Hey so I just want to say that I downloaded the app "smartr" on my computer and it works really well and is free. I stopped using flash cards even though they worked great for me because they took so long to make but this solves that problem

 

[DavetheMD]

11 hours for 110 words should have been more than enough time OP. Heck, your average premed could have memorized double that in the same amount of time.

I'm sorry but you're going to be a terrible doctor.

Thou shall not invoke Burnett's Law.