Our second year ITPDies are really busy making their master’s thesis. So busy, that living in studios is a used thing 
That reminded me that exams are coming soon. I recalled my early school days that I relate to tough pre-test days where I had to memorize things in order to pass exam and then to forget 70% after that. I know, not the best way of learning – we humans definitely have more cognitive capabilities than just a memory.
Fortunately memorization without understanding is over for me in education for a long time, but still in daily life it is often necessary to remember some things, as portable devices tend to scare me sometimes about giving them too much of my brain tasks. You lose what you don’t use, right? Luckily I have discovered that memorization can be fun and want to share with you my favorite technique. It really works!
The technique that I have read from pocket book (Latvian version) is actually quite simple and incredibly effective. First - try to remember at back of your head 10 objects below and associate them with respecting numbers. Check if you are able to recall objects in any sequence. Should be easy as appearance of these objects is similar to respective numbers.
From Roland Geisselhart and Christiane Burkart
Second, pick up-to 10 things that you have to remember (shopping list works well). Then remember these things by making absurd and fun stories that associate things with objects above like “I saw a really big candle made from a cheese.” and “A snow-white swan was bringing a beer for me on it’s back” etc.
Finally - try to remember above objects and they will remind about associated thing. I have tried – works, in any sequence!
If you need more than 10 things to remember, just memorize more objects. Works also not only for individual terms, but also sentences (you just have to pick up most important keywords).
What is your favorite memorization technique?
