How best to remember?

The memory does not always work at fullpower. Sometimes to remember the text, it takes a lot of effort. However, knowing some techniques, it is still possible to effectively memorize the necessary information.

Focus on your type of memory

To better remember the information you need, select one or another memorization method based on a specific type of memory. Memory can be:

• motor,
• visual,
• auditory,
• associative.

So, someone needs to manually copy the text orredraw the circuit to remember them. Someone just needs to carefully look through the information with their eyes - a person remembers the layout of the text on the page, visually fixes pictures, photographs, tables, etc. Someone needs to be read by another person - this will allow you to learn the information by ear. Finally, some people are helped by the principle of memorization, when information is fixed for some close associations and images. For example, the mentioned classification of types of memory can be presented in the form of a flower, where the stem is a memory, and four petals of different colors are a kind of memory.

Highlighting the main points

Great text will be easier to remember if you break upit on logical paragraphs, each of which has a basic thought and auxiliary - explanatory, complementary. Then the memorization will be built according to the following plan:

1. Reading the entire text;
2. Allocation of the main thoughts, summary of the leading citations;
3. Drawing up the text plan on the basis of the "block number 1 (the main idea number 1 + explanatory text), block number 2 (main idea number 2 + explanatory text), etc.
4. Reading the text in blocks with the subsequent memorization of each of them.

Try to focus on the main thoughts - provided that you understand what is at stake, you can automatically recall and explain, supplementing information.

Graphical assistants

Different schemes, tables, sketches will help betterremember information. Need to remember the story? Sip the plot line schematically. For example: Vanya + Katya → a meeting in the trolleybus → held up to the entrance → first date → half a year met → made an offer → married → happy in marriage, two children. You can make such schemes more or less detailed - as you will be more convenient. Draw the links between the elements, highlight the basic information and the secondary colored pastes. You can even draw pictures instead of words - it will take more time, but, probably, will give the best result of mastering the information.

Repeat and retell

It is necessary to understand that information is fastestforgotten after her memorization in a few hours. So regularly repeat the text you need. To do this, you can even print it on sheets of paper and hang it around the apartment or just carry a book with you to the kitchen, to the bathroom, for a walk. Be sure to repeat the information before going to bed.

After this, it is highly recommended to retell the text to the interlocutor or at least to reflect in the mirror. This will help to better remember both the Russian text and the foreign one.

Take information consciously

To understand the text, it is very important to understand it. Known cramming, which does not require thoughtful study of the material, can play a cruel joke with you. Most often this is expressed in the fact that you are obsessed with a word or sentence that is at the very beginning of the text. Once you forget this fragment, you can not remember the rest of the text. So always study the information consciously and meaningfully.

If you need to learn a large amount of text, then you can help advice from our article - How to memorize texts.