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Memory Improvement Skills (cont.)

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Link/Story memory technique:

The next memory technique is a natural progression of the last one. Again, it’s ridiculously easy to learn, and should help you to remember short to medium lists of information. It’s called the Link/Story memory technique and here’s how it works.

I’d like to use the OSI layer to illustrate this method - you’ll come across this in Cisco, Microsoft and Comptia exams. While it's relatively easy to remember these layers without resorting to memory techniques, it does offer up a good example for this method. Using the link/story memory system you create associations for each item in a list, and string them together to form related objects or a story that will help you remember

The 7 OSI layers are as follows…

Physical
Data
Network
Transport
Session
Presentation
Application.

The story that you create can be as arbitrary or make-believe as you need it to be - again, the more absurd the better because you remember it easier. In this instance I used something like this:

PHillip’s DATe with NETtie went well. They took the TRAin to town to the early SESSION of the movie where he PRESENTed her with APPLes.

Stupid, yes. Easy to remember, definitely. Use words and associations that mean something to you so they will jog your memory at a later date. I know a couple by the name of Phillip and Nettie so those names mean something to me, and thus was easy to remember. When you practice the story in your mind, emphasize the words that are related to the words in the list. That way, when it comes time to recall the information, you’ll naturally say the sentence with the words emphasized so that you know they are the keys to the information that is to be recalled.

If you didn’t know of those two memory methods already, I hope they will assist you sometime in the future with your exams. There are many, many other methods devised to help train your memory to recall information at will, but like with most things in life, they take practice and dedication to master. If you're interested in learning more about memory improvement there are many books and other material on the market by experts in the field - go have a look around Amazon, or somewhere similar, to get a feel of what's on offer in the field of memory improvement.

Good luck with your studies.

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