@kwkingdom123,
kwkingdom123 wrote:What is the best way to memorize most of a 1000 page Biology textbook in 2 weeks?
What method would be the best way to store a vast amount of information quickly
and efficiently in your short term memory?
The following is what I did to memorize the content of statutes in preparation for
forthcoming examinations in law school, many years ago:
1. I read the full statute, marking it with a hierarchy of symbols
to indicate to myself how important this particular text was.
So much of it as was not important was left untouched.
If it had more than ordinary importance, I underlined the words,
or if thay were several lines, then I put a vertical line in the left margin.
A
DOUBLE underline means more importance than single underline.
Different
colors of ink can have such meaning as u
assign to those
colors.
A curved parenthethis to the left of a paragraf of text
meant
more important than a straight vertical line.
A square bracket outranked (in importance) a curved vertical line.
A French brace outranked a square bracket.
A
colored star next to a French brace drew my attention to text
of singularly greater importance. Multiple stars meant: remember
THIS, especially.
2. After resting,
I read the statute a second time; this was much faster,
because it was already qualitatively mapped out.
Maybe pause to insert some marginal notes, if appropriate.
3. The 3rd reading went much, much faster than b4;
the text by then was familiar, like the face of a friend.
4. If u bother to read it again, it goes like lightning,
with the mapping coding. Such was my experience.
That proved to be
very competent test preparation, with superb results.
David
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