Memory Mastery

Do you find yourself forgetting names? Do you forget what you need from the grocery store once you actually get to the store? Are you about to take your driver’s license renewal test and can’t seem to get those nit-picky rules straight in your head? Well, the trusty rope around the finger only goes so far. There are a few tricks to help you “cheat” your way down memory lane. Here are Grading Girls’s two favorite, sure-fire brain-boosting tricks. These tricks help pertinent details transcend from your short term memory to your long term recall:

Memory Mastery Tip #1 ~

Use acronyms to help remember names, sequence, spelling definitions, the possibilities are endless with this trick.
An acronym is a word or sentence formed from the initial letters of a name, such as TLC for Tender Loving Critic; or, by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging. Acronyms can be great for remembering names, sequences, details, you name it . . .

“A Rat in The House Might Eat the Ice Cream” is a sentence that can be used to remember how to spell arithmetic.

“Every good boy does fine” is a sentence that can be used to recall the lines of a musical staff – e, g, b, d, g.

Memory Mastery Tip #2 ~

Organize information so that details are brought together under one main idea or concept that connects them. This can help diminish the all too frequent times you come home from the grocery store only to discover you forgot item.

For instance, it’s much harder to memorize this group of words . . .

Horse
February
Red
Monkey
Asparagus
September
Apple
Brown
Elephant
August
Yellow
Banana

than this group of words:

February
August
September

Red
Yellow
Brown

Asparagus
Banana
Apple

Horse
Monkey
Elephant

Now you too can wow your friends at your next party while rapidly rambling the names of the 50 states, the signs of the horoscope, the first paragraph of the Constitution . . . use that brain matter!

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