Month: November 2019

By Jesse Boyles

Having trouble with memory loss in your studies? Definitions just not sticking in your brain like they used to or have they never been able to quite catch on? Hi, Jesse Boyles here with a new product (method) for you! It’s called the method of loci and it is here to change your study and memorization methods from a messy, cluttered headroom to a memory palace! This method is a powerful mnemonic technique that can enhance retrieval of knowledge through a specific and distinctive coding style that helps reduce proactive interference, the disruptive effect of prior learned knowledge and makes you forget more recently learned info; the things you need to succeed (1). This method is very good at helping you memorize information for a test. In addition, the method of loci is the oldest identified mnemonic strategy. Basically, the method of loci is like a folder that can store all of the information you memorized as well as information you can later recall (6). Also, that folder allows you to store an unlimited number of details in a set order. I will explain the method of loci to you in more detail shortly! With this bad boy of a technique, you can remember all kinds of things!

By Kelsey Klein

Imagine this: you’re a freshman in college who just graduated from high school. Each year of your high school career, you were able to get by with taking a quick glimpse of your notes before a quiz or exam. Even though you didn’t put much effort forth when it came to studying, you still managed to get a relatively good grades in all of your classes (shocking). Although you know that you will have tougher teachers and harder classes when you get to college, you think you will be able to get by just fine with the way you study now. When your first test rolls around and you use the same techniques as you did in high school, but you get the test back and your grade is not good, oh boy are you surprised. 

If anyone ever told you that once you get out of college and your teachers will be relatively relaxed, they are not wrong. However, just because they are laid back does not mean you can slack off. It also does not mean that they will go easy when it comes to their tests. Even though people may have been lucky to get a teacher who is very chill, people still tend to freak out when a quiz or test comes sneaking up. Skimming your notes a couple minutes before the exam or quiz won’t cut it. Even hoping that studying quickly before you go to bed is wishful thinking that something will stick with you. Although it is not ideal, college is much different than high school, which means that you need to find new studying techniques that will help you excel when tests and quizzes come around.