Tips for Improving Your Memory

1. Try and give your work your full and undivided attention. Don’t multitask or flip between activities when it is important to retain what you are learning.

2. Study over a number of equally spaced sessions instead of cramming the week before exams. That allows you to gradually consolidate your learning.

3. Organize your material in a related and logical way as it’s easier to memorize your work in chunks.

4. Use mnemonics to aid with recall. For example, rhymes, jokes and images can often help with this.

5. Relate new material to previous stuff you’ve learned. This establishes a relationship between the old and new.

6. Use visual materials – such as photographs and tables - to help you memorize numbers, dates and facts.

7. Share what you’re learning with someone else. Trying to teach others can highlight any flaws – or bits of the material you don’t know very well.

8. Spend extra time studying material in the middle and the end of the textbook. Also, allocate more time for more difficult work, or material that’s hard to really grasp and understand.