how do YOU remember things :\/

[spunge]

Alot of people have exams around this time, A levels GCSE's and whatever equivalents, what are some ways you use to remember useless crap?

When you have time and effort to remember something you can do all the storyline or location recall, but that doesn't really help with limited time (especially remembering equations)

Best way i've found is typing up a page of somethings i need to know and setting it as the desktop image. I managed to be able to recall about 17 out of 18, as opposed to about 2 before hand, within 2 hours of using the computer in the normal way (barely paying attention except for during program loads / saves etc.)

Suggest some other decent ways to remember ALOT of facts and equations without it taking ages to address them individually

 

[Marinmald]

oh I just sleep on top of my books and absorb the information via osmosis.

 

[jverne]

oh I just sleep on top of my books and absorb the information via osmosis.

man, thats original! :cheers:

 

[JNightshade]

Lawl, I don't. I go into tests with a completely blank mind and work everything out from context. It's worked perfectly for the past 13 years

 

[lePobz]

I can't remember things at all. I forget the things I learn, and the only things I really remember are the things I find out for myself, not by reading a book or listening to someone else bang on about.

I keep track of birthdays via birthdays.txt and the notes/alarms function in my fone keeps track of the rest.

An overdose of absinthe on my 18th birthday (6.5 years ago) fried my memory.

 

[15357]

Lawl, I don't. I go into tests with a completely blank mind and work everything out from context. It's worked perfectly for the past 13 years

Lucky bastard.....

Me:

#17. Complete this equation. E + Cu2^+ blahblahblah

works fine with context, until

#45. Choose the era in which King Whatshisname declared war upon some other dark age nation, and also something else.

#46. Correct the following sentence: "In the Goryeo era, the goverment had initiated taxes which took 5% of the entire harvest, and used about 20% of its revenue to lend crops to farmers in order to stop starvation and to reinforce the Nobles"

and...


#67. Which molecule has 13 electrons? Also write down the Ion for it.



Yeah. Gotta memorize everything.



I remembered mathematical equations by solving literally hundreds of problems, and chemical equations by writing them down on a notebook, and erasing a few parts, while also deducing the effects in real life.

 

[JNightshade]

Well, I generally avoid classes that require remembering lots of asinine dates and figures

 

[mindless_moder]

there is absolutely no need to memorize things , the sooner you learn and accept that the better. theres always a logical way to derive things and theres always a logical reason behind any concept that you may need to memorize. ofcourse deriving formulas isnt always convenient but if you can comit a few of them to memory then you can expand on them and if you understand the concept and the logic behind them it makes it a lot easier to remember them. its extremely hard to remember something when its just an abstract ambiguous packet of data.
ofcourse if its histroy then .... you're ****ed .

 

[Instinct]

Heh, I'm sitting my GCSE's at the moment, so far I've been ok but I have no idea how to remember things. I've tried sticking things to my walls in places that I frequently look, but it just annoyed me so I gave up on that. Does it help to just write it over and over again?

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Remember whaaa?

 

[knut]

I write down all the key factors of something on peices of paper then stick them around my room, usually on the wall behind my computer and to my left on my bedside wall.

Right now, dotted around my room are pieces of revision cards with all sorts of materials and processes of manufacture written on them. I glance around my room all the time so I see them often.

I'm resitting my Unit 1 Product Design exam, so hopefully this tactic works this time around.

 

[<RJMC>]

how I remnber things?

...............dam I forgot

 

[Dan]

The night before the exam I will read the material that I need to know. If I feel like I don't understand it I will read it again. For courses that are entirely exam based I can skip everything and study for about 6 hours from the text.

 

[Terminator]

For most of my exams i didn't revise, i just remembered stuff from lessons for the few bits of revision i did do i just wrote a few things down.

I also used to scratch equations into my fingernails with a pin, just visible enough to read but almost impossible to spot.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

I cheat.

 

[Dekstar]

Lots of revision. About an hour of work to an hour of play, then do that. But I think I only got 50% in my Mechanics 1 exam this year, which is what I'll have to live with. Lucky I don't need it.

 

[Cole]

I have a very set system of logic in my head. I build everything off this logic.

Like I'm very good at handling right triangles. So when I'm asked to find the area of a non-right triangle, i'll split them into two right triangles.

 

[Krynn72]

Lawl, I don't. I go into tests with a completely blank mind and work everything out from context. It's worked perfectly for the past 13 years

I do pretty much the same thing. I just pay attention in class, absorb everything, and then work everything out step by step on the tests. I have only studied for two tests in the past 4 or 5 years.

 

[Viperidae]

oh I just sleep on top of my books and absorb the information via osmosis.

Not original; taken from Foxtrot. Not any less funny though.

 

[Muffin Man]

oh I just sleep on top of my books and absorb the information via osmosis.

Actually, that would be learning by diffusion. Osmosis is the diffusion of water through a membrane. So, unless knowledge is actually water, that doesn't make much sense.

 

[Evo]

For my Uni exams i just read my Uni books and made notes...hope it worked :O

 

[The Brick]

I just don't do a thing and hope for the best. I've been doing that for the past 4 years and atm I'm passing my exams with ease. I'm being called a bastard at school for that. lol.

 

[Dan]

I always curse myself the night before an exam when I am trying to study from my notes and I find a page with something like "stuff goes here" or "get notes from someone else" written on it and drawings of godzilla and robots fighting my prof underneath.

 

[Asus]

Either read my notes or look over the assignments I previously did. Maybe work on more problems. Depends what I'm trying to study. A lot of times I don't bother with studying and I hope that I remember the stuff from when I previously wrote the notes in class. Not always the best. hehe

But in general, writing and then reading those notes or lists can help me immensely.

 

[knut]

I went into my Music Tech Listening exam today completly open minded. Didn't do an ounce of revision and I think I did pretty well if I do say so myself.

Now, on with the Results thread in a few months and we'll see how bad I did.

 

[Bad^Hat]

What was the question again?