<p>Just wanted some suggestions & ideas on how to study efficiently and memorize things [speicifically, math and science formulae/equations]. My brain is kind of 'getting tired of' the flashcard method. Ideas/opinions/suggestions?</p>
<p>i rewrite notes until i die.
sometimes i sing the notes (in my head) to a song, haha.</p>
<p>When I saw the title of the thread I immediately thought flashcards, but I have found that making up silly mneumonic devices really work. I memorized all 55 of the countries in Africa that way- hope that helps :)</p>
<p>I haven’t had to memorize anything for a while, but when there is an enormous amount of factual info I am trying to memorize and can’t seem to remember, I make very odd connections in my mind. They wouldn’t make sense to other people; it is just whatever connection your brain makes. Do you know what I mean? It is difficult to describe, but for example, there is a word, phrase, or even paragraph of information. I connect it with something else, usually completely unrelated- be it an idea, color, song, etc. Then whenever I cannot recall the information, what I connected it with pops up in my mind and I can remember. Usually I connect ideas with ideas and words with words. Or if it is a mathematical/scientific formula, as you said, I believe I commonly connect them with images or colors.</p>
<p>I hope this relieves your of your boredom with flash cards!</p>
<p>^^^ I do the same exact thing! Like for example, I want to memorize the order of something, I make a really weird anagram that sticks to me.</p>
<p>So, anyway, I like to connect related ideas and make a song or anagram out of them. It’s a lot of fun and it makes it really easy to study. Flashcards are also helpful, but for me personally, I just read the text once and make sense of it in my head.</p>
<p>I also do what konayuki said. Connect it to something really weird, or really funny. </p>
<p>I also recommend blinking more often when you study. Psychology says that when you do so, you take a mental “picture” of what you read, and you remember it later.</p>
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Don’t call mnemonics silly. >:[</p>
<p>I pretty much pay attention to class, and the night before a test I just go over my notes.
When I take the test, the image of my teacher talking and things written on the board or in the textbook or in my notebook come to head, so I do pretty well (:</p>
<p>I hate flashcards…</p>
<p>However, if you really wanna use them, take a look at your flashcards last thing before you sleep. It helped me with SAT vocab lol</p>
<p>I reread my notes (usually outloud) and sometimes I half read and half teach the information to my sister or a friend.</p>
<p>Connections definitely work the best. It doesn’t have to be connected to anything related, and it can also be connected to different languages.</p>
<p>For equations (science/math) working out problems should be enough… The more you use them the more you don’t need to look them up.</p>
<p>For vocabulary and terms, flashcards (I use quizlet).</p>
<p>Mnemonics don’t help me, but interestingly, it has helped me in the past when I mocked a particularly ridiculous mnemonic someone had created - the mnemonic itself didn’t really help, but I guess making fun of it made me remember it.</p>
<p>I read the notes, set them aside, and try to make myself recite them. Sometimes I draw pictures when I take notes 'cause I’m a visual learner. If I’m straight up memorizing terms, I usually come up with associations for some words to help me remember them. Mnemonics are okay sometimes (i.e. BEAD Gum Candy Fruit, My Elephant Poops Butter). Teaching someone else the information is the best way to learn anything though.</p>
<p>I’m a big fan of making songs and sayings for certain concepts. They are absolutely ridiculous but they stick like cement.</p>
<p>I say whatever needs to be memorized out loud (or, if I can’t make noise, I mouth it). I also try to do my memorizing right before going to sleep, because doing that seems to really help the results.</p>
<p>MAKE and use flashcards!</p>
<p>I read through whatever I need to, and then immediately after stab the nearest loved one in my perimeter. The experience of killing another human being is so traumatizing each time, that of course each moment leading up to the slaying is clear as day.</p>
<p>ahahahhahahahhahha
Deziky, you are brilliant.</p>
<p>Sometimes I record myself reading the notes out loud( I use my iPhone app) & then I listen to them during the day or before I go to sleep :)</p>
<p>I put my head on the book and study via osmosis.</p>
<p>Recitation–with my eyes closed, I repeat what I just learned aloud. Say I have 30+ note cards to memorize: I’ll read #1, recite #1; and then read #2, recite #1 and #2; and then read #3, recite #1, #2, and #3; and then read #4, recite #2, #3, and #4…and so on. At the end of all the cards, I’ll recite all of them.</p>
<p>It’s incredibly time-consuming, but it really engraves the information into your mind for long periods of time. I use it mainly to memorize art history and other detail-heavy subjects for competitions, but I imagine it’d work for math and science as well.</p>
<p>Also, it’s supposed to help if you “store” certain ideas in certain places. For instance, if you’re wearing a striped shirt, you might think really hard about a formula while looking at one stripe (“storing”/connecting the information to the stripe), then place another idea into another stripe, etc. If you wear the same shirt for an exam, it’s supposed to help you remember things. Or so I’ve been told by my psychology teacher. 
I’m afraid I’ve never tried it myself.</p>