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Friday, July 06, 2007
How To Memorize ANYTHING
Retired at 21: "In total he had remembered a whopping 23,000 words, and he got 100% on the test. So how did he do it? He claims to use a technique called stacking.
This method seems to be a very good way (if you have the time and willingness, since it seems that this memorization technique would take astronomical quantities of both)to force large quantities of information into one's brain for a short amount of time. However, it also seems like a very vulnerable method, since if one forgets (for example) the twenty-second sentence out of a hundred, the next seventy-eight might be lost as well, since the sentences have become so inextricably linked. It also seems that a person would not necessarily have any kind of understanding of the information, much less of the connections between facts that are generally more important than the facts themselves. Overall, this just seems like a really good way of cramming for a test that doesn't benefit one past the test day.
I've done similar practise for my biology test, but it did not work for me. After reading this article, I feel like I should be able to memorize the whole 7 chapters, but i doubt it. i think this strategy will work for certain people. However, if someone can focus and concentrate really well, this strategy will work perfectly for them. I should try this strategy to see if it really works for me.
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What is stacking?
This method seems to be a very good way (if you have the time and willingness, since it seems that this memorization technique would take astronomical quantities of both)to force large quantities of information into one's brain for a short amount of time. However, it also seems like a very vulnerable method, since if one forgets (for example) the twenty-second sentence out of a hundred, the next seventy-eight might be lost as well, since the sentences have become so inextricably linked.
It also seems that a person would not necessarily have any kind of understanding of the information, much less of the connections between facts that are generally more important than the facts themselves. Overall, this just seems like a really good way of cramming for a test that doesn't benefit one past the test day.
I've done similar practise for my biology test, but it did not work for me. After reading this article, I feel like I should be able to memorize the whole 7 chapters, but i doubt it. i think this strategy will work for certain people. However, if someone can focus and concentrate really well, this strategy will work perfectly for them. I should try this strategy to see if it really works for me.
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