What do you remember the most from school?
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I remember I hated P.E. and that I got a doctor's order so that I wouldn't have to jump on the trampoline. I remember a P.E. coach standing 2 inches from my face and hatefully yelling at me to stop getting in the back of the line so I wouldn't have to play the game of volleyball. Or the time I walked off the softball field and everyone (including the coach) angrily screaming at me to throw the ball. I just casually put it down on the grass and went to the locker room and got dressed for the next class. I love that moment. I felt so free.\nI hated sports with a passion.
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Anything that you have a true interest in and the desire to delve into deeper.\n\nDoesn't matter if you are great at it, that's why you are in school.\n\nFrankly, everyone needs to learn 1 thing a day no matter how small & what the person's age is.
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MY BEST QUARTER I WENT HOME EACH NIGHT AND REWROTE MY NOTES IN A SPIRAL NOTEBOOK. WHAT SURPRISED ME MOST WAS THAT I REMEMBERED SO MUCH MORE, WITH THE INFO FRESH IN MY MIND, AND THAT BECAME MY STUDY NOTEBOOK.\n\n\nGOD BLESS
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Know the material covered in class, it's really that simple. I've found I remember the most when I try and absorb as much as I can when it is actually being gone over in lecture. Often times for me, this means not taking any notes (typically all that you need to know is covered in your class text) and focusing on understanding the concepts being gone over.
547196
Currently, the School of Life. This one is tough, more so than my other former schooling.
769312
In high school, my friend would open up the dictionary and find the first word that caught her attention. One time it was colloquial. She would read the defination, write the word on her hand, and use correctly as much as possible throughout the day. She had the best vocabulary by the time we took the SATs and graduated.
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I had the good fortune to attend a one-room school for the first two years of my education. One of my most fond memories was a "nature walk" We teamed up, old and young, as partners (often the same family, but not always) and the teacher lead us through the playground and a neighboring wooded area. The teacher pointed out different birds, plants, and trees. \n   She also had us find specimens like clover, lemon weed, fallen leaves, goldenrod, plantain (Broadleaf plantain) and others. We then took them back with us and saved them in shoe boxes. Leaves were pressed between wax paper, etc. and then we reported to the class on what we had found and how to identify them. Sometimes even the teacher was "stumped" at an identification and a contest was held, first person to identify it got a prize (usually an apple).\n    That one hour "nature walk" could extend into weeks of research and work. The memories of it have certainly extended into my adulthood. (That was 42 years ago.)
360242
Repetition does not guarantee memorization. Do you remember poems or speeches you had to give from memory in high school? I don't. The best way to improve memory is to associate the item with as many things as you can think of. Anything, sights, sounds, smells, words, feelings. The more the better. Saying it and hearing yourself say them is also important. But all in all, if you don't use it regularly, it will soon be relegated to your mental trash bin.
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Yeah, at school in year 5 I think it was, I forgot I'd done that, that was cool.
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Keep using your mind, play memory games.\n\nAssociate between names, faces, objects, smell, feelings.\nTie-in your senses with the memory.\n\nYou can also try mnemonics, debeloping visual or verbal stories about waht your memorizing
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Simply put, just memorize more and more often. Look at something every day for 30 mins and chances are, you will remember it.\n\nYou can also use visual cues to memorize something. For example, if you have to go golfing, out to dinner, and buy a hat, you might think about a guy wearing a hat, swinging a golf club, with a piece of food in his mouth, then you'll remember all three.\n\nAlso, understanding is an important part. If you understand what a definition means, then you'll remember it better. Write down that definition and say it aloud just as often as you read it, and you'll remember 3x better than if you had just scanned it over.\n\nAs for diet, it doesn't really matter. Try to eat something healthy, that will get the body fuels pumping. Plenty of sleep, and you'll remember.
858663
well I just know that in one class I used to have..when I was youngish...my teacher would let us all scoot our desks into a circle and we would sit on them and do a spelling bee or toss a ball around and we'd have to say a fact about some subject we were studying.....I thought it was really fun
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Memory is linked to emotional/personal value (think about your clearest memories...usually there's intense sensory or emotional stuff going along with it). Depending on what you want the student to remember, bringing in music, dance, games such as hand clapping patterns, etc. all can help tremendously. Repetition is a big key, too, for fact recall, so drill, drill, drill!
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I am an MD. Yes, there is an enormous amount of memorization in med school and afterward. But the others are correct, you must also be good at understanding concepts. I was told that Medical school is like trying to take a drink from a firehose. I agree with this.
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now or it will only go into you short term memory and when you go into the exam you will forget it. go over and over facts that you need to know and they will go into your long term memory
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Graduation.  \n\nBut then at that time you'd wish you're back in school.\n\nTreasure your school-life, my friend.  It won't last forever :)
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It depends upon the way you think. We're all different.\n\nFor me, the best way was to always write stuff down. Even if it was a little incoherant. For me, the process of writing makes me remember stuff more. Others remember by saying - so use notecards. Hope this helps.\n\nGood luck.