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In our day to day life we face problems in learning and remembering difficult words, long phrases, spellings, names etc. for examination purpose or in office or in our daily routine life. Today I will discuss a Memory Technique that is much helpful to remember long sequences, spellings, and other difficult and complicated things. This technique is use of Mnemonics. This technique can make remembering lists or names almost automatic. And it takes only some effort and some practice in using these techniques.
Use this to develop your memory, and see big difference in your abilities and achieve success in exams and in life.
So, you must practice this technique. Use it when the teacher is teaching in the class. Use it when you are at home. Use it to remember names of all players in any game. Use it for any list of names. Use it for any mathematical formula or use it anywhere it will be always effective. By recent research, it has become known that the brain Works most efficiently when you combine the left brain and the right brain for mental activity. The traditional techniques like repeating a list many, many times use only the left brain where as this technique helps to use both left and right brain. So what it is:
Mnemonics
Mnemonics use associations to remember some specific things. They associate what you want to remember with something that is easier to remember.
For example, you can take the first letter of each thing or name and make an interesting word or sentence. Here are some example.
The seven colors of a rainbow
Take the first letter of each of the seven colors in the rainbow and arrange them as VIBGYOR. Now you need to remember only this word “VIBGYOR” and you can easily recall the seven colors as;
Mnemonics use associations to remember some specific things. They associate what you want to remember with something that is easier to remember.
For example, you can take the first letter of each thing or name and make an interesting word or sentence. Here are some example.
The seven colors of a rainbow
Take the first letter of each of the seven colors in the rainbow and arrange them as VIBGYOR. Now you need to remember only this word “VIBGYOR” and you can easily recall the seven colors as;
V- violet
I - indigo
B - blue
G - green
Y - yellow
O – orange
R – red
Planets of the solar system
We can remember the names of all the planets in the solar system by remembering the following sentence.
Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Night Purposes.
Here the first letter of each word in the sentence represented the first letter of the planet. In addition notice that the first word “Men” represents Mercury and it is the closest to the sun. the second is “Venus” remembered by the word “very” in the above sentence.
M –MERCURY
V – VENUS
E - EARTH
M - MARS
J - JUPITER
S - SATURN
U - URANUS
N - NEPTUNE
P - PLUTO
Here is another sentence that you can use to remember just the 9 planets in increasing order of increasing size.
Men Plan Many VENUS Jumps.
As in the above example, the first letter of each word represents a planet, except the word “VENUS” for which each letter represent a planet.
M – MERCURY
P – PLUTO
M - MARS
V - VENUS
E - EARTH
N - NEPTUNE
U - URANUS
S - SATURN
J - JUPITER
I - indigo
B - blue
G - green
Y - yellow
O – orange
R – red
Planets of the solar system
We can remember the names of all the planets in the solar system by remembering the following sentence.
Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Night Purposes.
Here the first letter of each word in the sentence represented the first letter of the planet. In addition notice that the first word “Men” represents Mercury and it is the closest to the sun. the second is “Venus” remembered by the word “very” in the above sentence.
M –MERCURY
V – VENUS
E - EARTH
M - MARS
J - JUPITER
S - SATURN
U - URANUS
N - NEPTUNE
P - PLUTO
Here is another sentence that you can use to remember just the 9 planets in increasing order of increasing size.
Men Plan Many VENUS Jumps.
As in the above example, the first letter of each word represents a planet, except the word “VENUS” for which each letter represent a planet.
M – MERCURY
P – PLUTO
M - MARS
V - VENUS
E - EARTH
N - NEPTUNE
U - URANUS
S - SATURN
J - JUPITER
So you see how powerful this technique may be for remembering difficult words, long lists and sentences. This technique can be employed anywhere you want. In my next article we will discuss how we can use it to learn Trigonometric ratios. So keep reading.
Rajesh
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