How can I use memory techniques to study for an exam or learn a foreign language?
How easy is it to get a good score when I use memory techniques to study for an exam?
How much time can I save?
How many words of a foreign language can I memorize in how many hours?
How can I use memory techniques to study for an exam or learn a foreign language?
What kind of training is needed to make it into long-term memory?
You should click the magnifying glass at the top of the screen and search for some of these questions, there’s a gold mine of old posts that will never lose relevance. Many old users won’t be around to answer you directly, but their wisdom is left behind.
Some of those questions can’t really be answered, save for the most frustrating, wishy-washy reply there is: It depends.
How easy is it to score good? It depends. If you have a handle on the technique, study the right information, and take the exam when your mind and body are decently ready it should be easy.
How much time can you save? That really depends on how hard it was to learn the specific kind of information in the first place. The mind palace, for example, let’s you put something into long term memory right away. The things you place there aren’t guaranteed to stick around and you will have to occasionally review them so they become semi-permanent.
How many words can you learn in an hour? Impossible to say. I could probably manage a dozen, for you it might be one or a hundred.
You don’t truly learn something until you actually use it. Memory is very important, but it’s impossible to know your way to mastery.
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You can teach yourself things. And study that. Your explanation.