1. How to remember what you have learnt!
Falmer, 1-2pm
Room D222 Checkland
Memorisation techniques
Effective reading and notemaking for recall
Organising information

2. Memorisation techniques
What ‘memory style’ are you? – it’s helpful to recall what ‘learning style’ you have a preference for
How do you remember the following:
- your friend’s phone number
- your first day at primary school
- what you were wearing yesterday

3. Memorisation strategies
Fact strategies – using sequence or rhythm
- visualising or hearing the number
- drawing or writing the number
Event strategies - associations with feelings
- strong memorable associations
- smells, noise, visuals
data
sensory

4. Left Brain - Right Brain
Sequence
Logic
Analysis
Numbers
Lyrics
Language
Names
Calculations
Sense of time
Reasoning
Formulae
Holistic view
Metaphor
Synthesis
Image/ colour
Tune/ rhythm
Faces
Intuition
Emotion
Imagination

5. Stages of the memory process
Information
Taking in
Absorbing
Retaining
Short-term memory
Encoding
Interacting
Long-term memory
Recalling
Retrieving
Conscious
Sub-con
Stages of the memory process
Maximise on each stage of the memory process

6. Organising your notes into memorable format
Lists
Time line
SWOT analysis
Grid
Mindmap
Diagram
Post-its
Index cards
Quiz

7. Recalling facts and cues
Mnemonics
Story
‘Pegging’
Journey
Rhymes
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