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About - Explains that the site emphasises the study of memory lessons for exams

Intro - Explains that I have spent time developing a memory system based on psychology

Photographic memory - Looks at the 'ideal' of photographic memory

Study habits - Looks at a small list of good study habits

Flashcards - Encourages the use of flash cards as a memory aid for revision

Flashcards - Encourages the use of audio learning as a memory aid for revision

Prompts - Shows that a lesson can be recalled from just a small prompt

Acrostics essay - Shows that acrostics help you to recall a sequence of prompts

Single digit acrostics - Advice on memorising a PIN number, etc.

Images - Making a dramatic visual story of prompts helps you to remember them [ads for books by Dominic O'Brien and Tony Buzan]

Chunking - Making an image to represent more than one piece of information

Numbers in images - Using images to represent numbers

Math people - Images of people can represent maths results of the times tables

Alphabet images - Images may represent letters or groups of letters of the alphabet

Calendar History Math System

BLOKES System - a simple way of remembering a list of items in order

BLOKES System - An educational peg system using images of cities

Shorthand - Introduces a simple shorthand method

Calendar - Images can represent dates in the year

Peg lists - Images can represent a position down an ordered list

Peg lists eg - Exploring that idea about peg images

DDDD values - A library of images may be built upto represent 0000-9999

Actions - Visualising actions can represent information too

Flags - Using mnemonics to memorise flag colors, vertical or horizontal order

Memorising Foreign Language

Put a Name to a Face

Longer word prompts - Applying the DDDD images to represent syllables

Cards - Ways of memorising a pack of cards [link to Ben Pridmore method on Memory Sports]

Card Pairs Peg System of 2704 pegs

Matrix biography people - Using people and actions as peg positions in a list sequence

Biography action scenarios - Explores that idea

Backdrop images - Images of a background may represent information

Memorising Verses and Sentences (Koran, Bible, quotations, etc.)

Memorising Text

Origins of memory systems - Explores the history of mnemonics in outline

Math - Expands the idea of using mnemonics to solve mathematics questions

Math - A mnemonic approach to doing big multiplication

Math - Learn 100 digits of pie without even blinking an eye!

Sciences (Medical mnemonics)

Links - Other sites concerned with education in mnemonics. eg. the Major System and phonetics

What Next - Suggestions about what to study next

Medical Mnemonics and chemical elements and molecules

Rubik's Cube Mnemonics - Beta version


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or, look at a list of simple memory prompts at Amanda's Mnemonics