- Five senses - When reading through text, try to involve as many of your five senses as possible. Highlighting is one way to do this because it gets your arms and eyes involved and adds a color. If you get a fruit scented highlighter, that is even better. Highlighting is good for marking things to remember later, of course. However, the key is to put more of your body into the process which helps in remembering the material. Highlighting is one way to do that.
- Repeat - Another good tip for memorizing is to repeat the important items back. If you can see, hear it, and say it out loud that helps involve your five senses as well.
- Chew gum - Another way to help memorizing is by chewing gum while studying. This helps make your brain more alert and aware. Another thing to try is to chew the same gum while taking the exam. This can help you remember. Scientists call this state dependent recall. Memory recall appears to be state-dependent, at least to some extent.
- Reminders - When studying, ask yourself: What does this remind me of? This is a lot like this other thing or this is just like that when you remove this one piece. This helps because we remember things by association. Every piece of information in our memory is connected to other pieces in some way or another.
- Study guide - Keep a separate page or more of important things that are important to remember. Keep reading and re-reading those until you have remembered them all. Quizlet has a lot of this done but you can make your own study guides.
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