Lots of details on each page, 7 books should be memorised, help.
1 Like
Use the first letter method
2 Likes
I think you’re just focusing on the wrong thing. Fretting over 7 books and how much content is in those books when the school year just started is counter productive. Learning anything takes time and repeated exposures. That includes learning to get particularly good at memory techniques, and learning itself.
If you focus on keeping momentum, taking good notes, experimenting, and simply trust that you’ll get better as the year rolls on you’ll have a much better time of things.
2 Likes
Skim them all over and over. Test yourself regularly.
1 Like
How much time do you have?
What memorization techniques are you already comfortable with?
What is the situation that led you to determine that you needed to memorize 7 books?
What will you use the information for? Do you need to recite long passages? Evaluate situations with highly specific knowledge scattered amongst these books? Pass written tests in school?
What do you mean by memorize? Do you need to memorize every word of every sentence, and be able to jump into any part at any time? Or do you need to understand the concepts, terms/definitions, events/dates, procedures and syntax?
How much do you actually need to memorize to meet your needs?
The answers to these questions will guide what technique(s) you use to memorize information. Without having a clearer idea of your needs, people will throw out suggestions that might not be helpful in your situation.
2 Likes
for school, need to memorize at least 80% of them. time i have is 3 weeks. my technique is getting 2-5 images for each page. but that is too much cz 300 page will be at least 600 image, and thats just one book outta the 7. i will be glad to hear any ideas that may help, thanks
1 Like
If you post more details about what you’re trying to memorize it will be easier to offer suggestions.
The more specific your questions are, the more specific the answers usually will be.
For example:
- Post the titles of the books so that people can look them up and see what you’re trying to learn.
- Upload a picture of a sample page from one of the books, and make a list of what you need to be able to remember from that one page. In as much detail as possible, explain what you’ve tried so far.
1 Like
Well, they are mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, and others. regardless of them i feel that memory palace is… idk i dont wanna admit that my plan to memorize my books is weak, i trust memory palace and had alot of hope, but doesnt seems like it doing anything or mabye im just an idiot. thanks alot tho
Well no, that doesn’t make you dumb. You might be expecting too much out of yourself though. Are you reviewing the memory palaces? They work well to get something into long term memory right away, but that doesn’t mean permanent memory. Ever come back from summer break and have to relearn last year’s math?
Don’t be afraid to ask your teachers for advice on what parts of the book are necessary to study, and for samples of prior years’ tests to inform what you focus most on studying.
Check out Beau’s advice on a similar thread. Studying for a test with 1500 multiple choice questions in 12 days ;( - #2 by beau2am
2 Likes
One major takeaway from beau2am’s post that Noan linked to is that part of what you should do is re-organize the information in a way that you understand, that prioritizes what you need to learn and is conducive to the skills you have. In other words, put some effort into making the information easier to understand and memorize.
This boiling down of the concepts to something you can more easily memorize/learn sounds a little like the Feynman Technique. From Wikipedia:
[…] write an explanation of some information in a way that a child could understand, developing original analogies where necessary. When the writer reaches an area which they are unable to comfortably explain, they go back and re-read or research the topic until they are able to do so.
2 Likes
TLDR: you’ll probably have more success with a different approach. 
———
I memorize plenty of textbook material.
Could I memorize 7 textbooks in 3 weeks?
For the moment, let’s just pretend that I could. 
To do so, I would require:
- a clear, written plan
- a good sleep schedule
- healthy food
- and a wide-open schedule for memorizing, exercising, and napping.
- Plus the 7 textbooks
But…
At the end of 3 weeks my biggest weakness would be that I would not understand the material.
Yes, I might be able to spout off any definition, formula, or other given details I memorized, but the process of understanding would not have happened.
Why?
Because understanding comes from making the effort to discover the relationships of the memorized information.
Important words in that sentence:
-
”making the effort”
- effort requires:
- time
- and energy),
- effort requires:
-
“to discover” [the relationships]
- discovering requires:
- time
- and energy
- discovering requires:
And all of my time would have been spent on creating memorable mnemonics to “cue” myself so I could recall the details I memorized from the textbooks.
Memorizing—what averages out to—a textbook every three days?
Where would i also find the time or energy to enlist towards the “discovering” process?
The guy who won the French Scrabble competition in 2015 doesn’t even know how to speak French. He has all the words of French memorized and doesn’t know how to speak a lick of it.
Nor does he care to speak it. So he didn’t make any effort to explore the relationships between the words outside of what wins a Scrabble competition.
Memorizing is not understanding.
Personally, I memorize things specifically so that I don’t need to have a book, or chart, or other physical object present while I discover and explore the material. I can explore the material anywhere and anytime that I have time and energy available. I don’t even need my hands to be free.
In my humble opinion, that’s the beauty of memorization.
3 Likes
I completely agree on @intranetmouse’s point. Why would you deliberately try to memorize such an amount of material when you can implement a more effective strategy making sure you take what you really need out of those books…?
2 Likes