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Originally Posted by benza  Yes, I too have a problem implementing memory techniques into my college studys. I guess that memory systems like peg aren't design for memorizing whole bloks of text. |
Benza, you are right. Pegs would be a very inefficient way to remember the text passages. What you could do it use the chaining. You start with the fist word and make a picture of it, then, while keeping the first picture in mind think about the second word and about how the first picture can change to accomodate the picture of a second word.
For example, let's take the definition of the derivative from Wikipedia:
Derivative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
"In mathematics, a derivative is defined as the instantaneous rate of change of a function"
First word is "in". I imagine a dark space bound by some walls. Second word "Mathematics" - the picture zooms out and I realize that the space before was between the pages of a math textbook I had in school. "A derivative" - for my bilingual ear this sounds like "tree (or wood)" in russian and "TV" in english - my math textbook is crushed by a wooden TV set, which is a bit fuzzy, because of the "a" article. "defined" - opposite of fined - tv shows the burning speeding ticket (I skip is here, because it is suggested by the sentence structure). "as" - the donkey or something more rude jumping out of the tv set. "the instantaneous" - The "going to light speed" effect from Star Wars. "rate of" - rat with e on the end is a french rat, so it will be giant rat leaning of the Eiffel tower and showing me the rude gesture at the end of light speed travel. "Change of" - a lot of pennies falling from above with Lincoln showing rude gesture. "A function" - the pennies bounce of a roller-coaster shaped as a graph of a sin(x) function.
Basically it goes like this. It took me several minutes to write down, but la few seconds to make it up, while I was reading the text. This can be fun, you can have whole movies for the long passages. But the beauty is, that after some practice, you won't need to recall the whole movie to recall the text, the move will play in background of your mind while you will be reciting the passage.