Hi everybody,iam kind of a begginer in this,but,i really want to learn,and i really practice a lot…Iam using the method of loci for memorizing texts…And i would like know what i can expect of much practice of the method…
So,my question is simple…How many pages of a book you guys could memorize ??Be it by day, by a number of hours,doenst matter…
I wanna know from everybody,but i would like to you to tell me if it is word by word,or the concepts…Because,of course,theres a big difference between both
So,everybody,be it a super master in the method of loci,or a begginer…
it depend on the size or number of pages of the book.the type of information like a novel or science text book.
science books have words like homeostasis and transport through cell membranes.i was testing my mnemonics and it took be 20mins just to memorize the chapter names.still now i find it easy to think up images for words.also know the in between word like (and the of in on) is quite difficult.usually you just use an image for the key points.i memorized the intro to V for vendetta.it took like 50 minutes and the next day i had forgot 6 or 7 words or i have mixed them up.it was quite difficult because i had no idea what the words meant.i put all 126 words on my journey of 30 stages.i hope this was helpful i am not a beginner but i don’t practice enough to be something else.so i know how to use the methods but i am just to lazy.the word i mixed up were (and has,of a,this,vicious,vivified).
Thanks for your reply man…And memorizing the science text books,how many pages you could make in one day, if only trying to memorize the concepts(and not word by word),do you have any idea??
depends on the contents say if u spent 6 hrs with breaks and the contents were dense not many if say you have a lot of things like the nitrogen cycle or formula or (an)aerobic respiration( that could take you anywhere from 5mins to 30mins to memorize.for a fast time u would have to have outlined the contents you wish to memorize on each page.but some pages might not have any useful info at all
i guess if your really really relaxed and pick out the most important things quickly outlined and you could make images for formula (if it’s physics).then i reckon maybe 30 or more if your remember that chucking is important and to continually review so read osmosis is (water passing from an area of high concentration to and area of low concentration through a semi-permeable membrane) then when you learn something like nitrogen n2(nitrous drag race) then nitrogen fixation(person staring[fixated]on a tank of nitrogen)no3(niall kicking a ball to a policeman) then repeat the whole lot together.
just look into your journey or room and check each time that the info is correct.if not make changes to the images or make a mental note.but i cant image 30 straight page having serious info you would have to break the book into like exam topics if thats the goal and answer the most common exam questions.
you could easily memorize three or four years of exam answers.i once memorized three categories answers i biology once when the teacher was testing our ability to answer exam questions.i never studied to be honest and because i did that i got a d1 in higher for the leaving cert.i still remember some of the answers vaguely.i can see a brewery(what industry uses fermentation),Lucozade(what would be a another good control for the fermentation experiment =glucose[i think]).you get the point also i used an elevator technique for the different years(i image the room had three floors each with an exact copy of the room,i’m shocked this worked but it was a kinda big class so i could fit the entire nitrogen cycle i remember it perfectly.now i understand it way more unlike before i had used mnemonics)
Again i would need to now what type of science book like a text book or study skills book(but i never really read a study skills book)or is it third level with topics I’ve never heard of.Does the book/s have complex formula or does it have definitions or both.also a story might help with some parts or a song if there is an order to perform tasks e.g. put the solution in the beaker.then but the beaker over the Bunsen burner.don you have to memorize the book or are u just curious.again sometime it has taken people an entire day to memorize the periodic table of the elements or even longer with symbols and atomic weights.
i’m sorry if this wasn’t helpful.but i hope my guess of 30 or more isn’t way of i just don’t have a science book with me.it depends mostly on if you have enough journey or stories or links.i reckon that if you had help for motivation and to make the stories you might be faster.also it could be way more pages.but formula i alway have trouble remembering.
Iam not a science student, i was just using this example because you said about science books,so i tought you were one…But lets forget about the formulas,i was thinking just in the texts really…And yes,your comments are being really helpful…If you got something more to tell me,you will help again…And if someone wanna contribute,will help too
Other thing,i forgot to ask…This leaving cert(im from another country,i dont know very well what it is)…But it is a test that has Math,Biology,Physics,and everything,and the d1 was the grade for all the test right?Not just the biology part?So you pretty much knew everything about biology in that exam?
The Leaving Cert is the leaving exam in the Republic of Ireland, it’s the final exam that Irish students sit in their last year of high school to decide their grades. They usually do 7 subjects and they have a choice to choose, except Irish, English and Maths is mandatory.
D1 is a mark of 50-55%. D1 was the grade for Biology only.
Each individual subject gets its own grade on the Leaving Cert(ificate), so when they get their results, they have a break down of all the subjects that would say something like:
English HL- C2
Irish HL - B3
Maths OL - A2
Biology HL - D1
…
and so on for 7 subjects, possibly more if they wish. OL and HL is Ordinary Level and Higher Level respectively. Higher Level is just what it sounds like…a Higher Level, kind of like AP classes in America.
thanks hype what i was saying about the d1 grade was i didn’t do any serious study for the exam except that one class i memorize the answers.and i still passed.sorry about my assumption that your a student.a grade of d1 is very low in my opinion.i was and still am very lazy so i never really but in the effort or had good attendance but i wanted to see if i could memrize what the teacher was saying and i did that was over a year ago and i still have an image for something called sodium di-cromate (spelled wrong)
the thing i notice was you could think up small mnemonics for things like the bases adenine, cytosine,thiamine and guanine.so adenine goes to thiamine(the A-team) and cytosine goes to guanine(i think of my friend conor grehan) very easily i think these are bases for DNA but i could be wrong.also not all the questions i memorized came up just some of them.also there are websites with the past years question and answers like examinations.ie so i could have done way better.
i guess if you really want to know you will have to test yourself and see how much you can memorize(start with a page and time yourself thing mulitply that by the number of page and add time for review dr yip memorized a dictionary but he is a grandmaster there is a video on this site).i have never memorize an entire book but wesselj and janardhangunjal1989 have.but if you read a book like a novel it should generate places and scenarios that you mind will fill in and you can use these places as palaces later.so if some breaks into a house and hurts someone in the book you remember that and see it as you read.you may not be aware of this on till you try to recall a scene and see visually what happened.(this is from personal experience)
the thing i notice was you could think up small mnemonics for things like the bases adenine, cytosine,thiamine and guanine.so adenine goes to thiamine(the A-team) and cytosine goes to guanine(i think of my friend conor grehan) very easily i think these are bases for DNA but i could be wrong.also not all the questions i memorized came up just some of them.also there are websites with the past years question and answers like examinations.ie so i could have done way better.[/QUOTE]
You’re close to right. Thiamine is vitamin B1; thymine is the DNA base.
A whole book word by word?or they memorized just the concepts?
This guys that you told me about are your friends??and you think they would talk with me???I really would like to ask some questions to them…
And i was searching for this guy that memorized the dictionary…He used memory palaces,right?
And,last,but not least…YOU ARE AWESOME,thats exactly the kind of thing i wanted to know!!!If you know more,please,tell me more…its being really really helpful…
they’re on this website i don’t really know them i just came across their post and journals.but dr yip memorize the entire 1774 page dicationary. https://artofmemory.com/dr-yip-swee-chooi-dictionary-2359.html copy this link into your browser if it doesn’t work.he memorized it in like 3 month thats like 300 and somthing words and there meaning and spelling a day.just use the search box for installing a book in my mind to find wesselj’s post try to send one of them a message on this site if you click on there name on one of there posts you should end up on there page. https://artofmemory.com/users/wesselj this is wesselj page i think. https://artofmemory.com/blogs/wesselj/memorising-7-habits-progress-update-916.html try this too.
This is all very good man…I really appreciate…If you remember more things that you find interesting,tell me too!Thank you very much…And i already send a message to them(the guys you told me)
