Good habits make for good work, and a good routine.

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Find a nice comfortable place to work where you have access to everything you need and that is quiet, try to use the same location everyday, make it a habit. Try to follow a routine, for example review your most recent notes first, then make a quick review of the entire course notes. Write out or research areas that you are unsure about, and then finally review everything again.

Steady repitition will slowly but surely increase the amount of information that you retain.

Good luck!

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I find that mnemonics* are a great way to remember information and also great fun to invent.. For example remember the order of the Solar System planets** with the mnemonics: My Very Easy Method Just Set Up Nine Planets or My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

* A device, such as a formula or rhyme, used as an aid in remembering.

** Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

Yeah, I love this, if anyone has some useful mnemonics post them here, if we get a few I'll start a new thread...

Havent I heard in the news that scientists have removed Pluto from the list of planets? This means a whole new rhyme for the next generation!

This is true, how about: "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing"?

The first one of these I can remember was as simple as..

Never Eat Shredded Wheat

When I was taught the points of a compass as a child, North East South West.

25 years later and I am still using them, I remembered one for maths from school...

Silly Old Hitler Couldnt Advance His Troops Over Africa

Last week I was doing lighting calculations without calculator or computer (a nightmare!!) where angles and distances of triangles are essential. The one above means:

Sin = Opposite over Hypotenuese

Consine = Adjacent over Hypotenuese

Tan = Oppostite over Adjacent

All of which are used in trigonometry to work out angles and distances in triangles

I love the way the brain latches on to these things!!

Haha - I remember this from school also, although we were taught:

Two Old Aunts, Cynthia And Harriet, Sitting On Horses.

I even remember a silly conversation we had with our teacher; someone suggested that it would be more fun to remember if she had given us:

Two Old Aunts, Cynthia And Harriet, Sucking On Hedgehogs!

To this day I remember both, even though I do use it them often. In fact to be honest I find pointing my lights any which direction without resorting to trigonometry more agreeable!

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