Advice request from "words" memorizers, to memorize mind maps/keywords! PEGs/PAO system for words, does it worth the effort?

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Hello,
The post is in three sections: general view, main_problem and a suggestion for it.

General view:
I am a student trying to perform better at college. Usually grasping a concept is not a problem, actually, relatively I might perform above average in problem-solving.
But when it comes to a problem/question that requires (memorized) systematic multi-steps - or in general many details to memorize - I usually become very slow or not able to recall these details that I fail the year.
One way I hope to deal with that is after studying each chapter, I create a summary and from which I create a mind map that contains important (keywords) and focusing on memorizing these.
That’s why I became interested in memory techniques that help in memorizing words.
I think using the linking method might be more effective than memory palace for me, because I will probably need to memorize a lot of facts.
I hope I have about six months period to train myself on memorizing words.

Main problem:
(Very long time at encoding words)
I tried memorizing pairs of random generated words using the linking method for eight time each time is 30 minute.
On average I succeed in memorizing 25 pairs with accuracy of 90% and retrieval time of one second.
Most of the time is consumed in “finding” a person/object that is related to the word I try to memorzie -specially if it is an abstract word- and then linking these objects/persons together in an “image”/very short story in my mind.

Ideas/Suggestions:
Assuming each word is already linked to an object/person in mind. Then when memorizing words, I will only make the linking between persons/objects, I will save time
that is used in “finding” and object/person for each word, it will be already memorized in my mind. It is just like PEGs/Dominic System/PAO system but for words not numbers.
Of course that means a huge number of memorized objects, and that requires regular memorizing, spaced repetition using a software like Anki, and a lot of time.

1- So opening the dictionary, linking almost every word to a unique Person/Object, to save time in memorizing keywords from mind maps. Does it worth the effort? Do you suggest a better way?
2- Any advice relating to memorizing words / using memory techniques for study is appreciated.

Thank you.

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Thank you for the reply.

If I study the material well before creating the summary/mind map, I hope these keywords will act like a hint to remember the details I need.

Indeed I should have clarified what I meant by ‘pairs’.
For now the idea is training myself on linking between two keywords, so that if one is a hint, I can recall the other and vice versa.

One keyword act like a keyword for a question while other act like a keyword for the answer.
example:
Question: What is the name of first planet near the sun?
Answer: Mercury

Then the pair here might be (first, Mercury)

So I gave myself 30 minutes to memorize pairs as many as I can. I did that eight times, on average I can recall the linking between 25 pairs,
meaning if you show me the word ‘first’, I’ll remember ‘Mercury’, and vice versa.

So by memorizing 25 pairs, I do not mean I can recall them all from memory. I mean by giving me any word, I’ll remember the other word linked to it.

I totally appreciate your suggestions, specially the priority keywords advice and converting words to Persons/Actions before starting the actual memorizing … it is like splitting the task into two tasks, “converting to Person/Action” and “linking” … thank you very much, with God’s will I’ll try to find a software that does that for Arabic PDFs, thank you again.

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