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August 14, 2014

Shortcut Memory Technique to remember Lists in Current Affairs

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Friends, as a number of our readers have been facing problems in remembering the Current Affairs and Banking Awareness topics, we've decided to post some useful Memory Techniques. As an initiative for that, today we shall discuss about a simple technique which helps you to remember lists. Before going into details, let's take a small test. Read the given list of twenty objects just once-you can take about two minutes to do so. then try to write them, without looking at this page, of course, in exactly the same order in which they appear here. When scoring yourself, remember that if you leave out a word, that will make the remaining words incorrect, for they will be out of sequence. I will remind you later. Give yourself 5 points for each correct one.
  1. Pen
  2. Apartment
  3. Book
  4. Helmet
  5. Air Cooler
  6. Tiger
  7. T.V
  8. Bed
  9. Table
  10. Mobile
  11. Bike
  12. Doctor
  13. Lion
  14. Infosys
  15. Computer
  16. Obama
  17. Chair 
  18. Laden
  19. Mirror
  20. Eifel Tower
Whats your score ? Note that on a paper....

I want to show you now, that you can start, immediately, to remember as you've never remembered before. I don't believe that anyone with an untrained memory can possibly remember TWENTY unassociated items, in sequence, after hearing or seeing them only once. Even though you don't believe it either, you will accomplish just that if you read and study this post. Before going into actual memorizing, I must explain that your trained memory will be based almost entirely on mental pictures or images. These mental pictures will be easily recalled if they are made as ridiculous as you can possibly make them. Here are the TWENTY items that you will be able to memorize in a sequence in a surprisingly short time.

Mental Picture :

Visualize a Golden Pen which is as big as a 10 Storied building standing on a red color Apartment. This apartment all of a sudden converts into an oxford book and it was dancing with the red colored Helmet  and is blasted and a big Cooler  appeared from the blast and it fell on a Tiger. You are watching this on T.V and suddenly the tiger came out of the T.V onto your bed & you immediately jumped towards your study table  and picked up your mobile to call your Friends. But suddenly your mobile changed into a Pulsar Bike  & you are driving it. Suddenly you met with an accident with a doctor. Immediately, the doctor became a Wild Lion and entered into the Infosys  office and switched all Computers and started video chat with Obama. Obama threw a silver Chair at Laden and Laden turned it into a Mirror which is dancing at the top of Eiffel Tower.
Ok ok. Now stop staring at me like that... I know the above story is completely stupid and makes no sense. BUT, before cursing me and closing this page, please try to recollect the names in the list in an order, by using my stupid story.

Whats your score now ?

Unbelievable ?? Yes! But, as you can see, entirely plausible and possible. Why not try making your own list of objects and memorizing them in the way that you have just learned ? I realize, of course, that we have all been brought up to think logically and here I am telling you to make illogical or ridiculous pictures. I know that with some of you, this may be a bit of problem, in the beginning. You may have a little difficulty in making those ridiculous pictures.

However, after doing it for just a little while, the first picture that comes to mind would be a ridiculous or illogical one. Until THAT HAPPENS, memory and observation do go hand in hand. You cannot possibly remember anything you do not observe; and it is extremely difficult to observe or remember anything that you do not want to remember, or that you are not interested in remembering. Anyways, this is the end of our first lesson in Memory Techniques. In our next post we shall discuss five simple rules that help you to remember followed by another important technique called "Peg System". Happy Reading :)

Homework :
Well, we have a simple Homework thingy for you.... If you feel the above method is useful, then Take a pen and paper. Write names of any 10 random items. Make a funny story with them (as I did above). Post your list and funny story below in comments section...  Eagerly waiting to read your stories. See you soon with another technique  :)

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37 comments:

  1. Well how about this...start associating words- lyk if u have to remember Beniwal & Mizoram...BENten +ZOMbi...associates names with ur frns or rltvs..like HEPTULA---MINOR PPL NEED HELP>>>Minister of Minority affair.....MANEKA GANDHI= MAAN EK hota he mom and child ka so Women & child Dvelopment....This helps indeed!!!

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    1. Wait a lil friend. We've planned to post this technique as the Lesson 3 :)

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    2. Mam I am not good in English..how can I improve my English...can u plz suggest me a good English book for upcoming ibps Po as there is very less time for preparation..

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  2. Fun and Knowledge at the same place.. Gr8Ambitionz... I'm loving it :)

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  3. Thanks gr8 team.. Its helpful

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  4. very much informative....thanq

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  5. hi mam i too think like that with different situation before seeing your explanation but i remembered first 11 words ... after that i read your way then i realized why i could nt recall the other 9 words ... this happened because my fluctuation of my mind ... i want to steady my mind first ....... plz post some tips for this tooo...

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  6. but these are simple words how to remember those typical names of book and authors and also that of foreign ministers and their countries etc.

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    1. This is an introductory post friend. You will get shortcut techniques to memorize dates, books & authors lists soon...

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    2. thanks for the reply :)

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  7. Dear Shivani Mam,

    Can I know the author of this article??? Very well written.. Thank you team! :)

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  8. Yes it was working....
    But post remaining lessions as early as possible
    And please dont post one lession in one day
    Post ar least 3 lessions per day

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  9. BEL PE 2014 Result has been declared.
    Admin,please let the others know about it. Make a post regarding this.
    I am not shortlisted but i want to know the cut off.

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  10. Useful post....well done. To concentrate u can try meditation in the morning even that works...

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  11. Good work team. Please post something to remember important dates.

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  12. mam plz cabinet ministers and books authors k name k liye b koi tricky solution bta deejiye as it is so hard to remember all my paper is on 16 aug

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  13. Here's my funny story, my words are CALENDER , GUITAR , FLUTE , RAINING , SUNSHINE , PINK BIRD, SUIT , SUITCASE , BUSINESS CARD , Ms.Kamla Beniwal , ARCHITECT : I woke up in the morning & looked for calender to check the date. Calender was having Lord Krishna photo over it & surprisingly Lord krishna had Guitar in his hands rather than flute. I went outside my house & it was raining heavily with bright sunshine in the sky. Further , I noticed a pink bird flying in the sky wearing a formal Suit { Coat Pant} with Suitcase hanging on her feet. A business card fell from her pocket , her name was Ms.Kamla Beniwal & by profession she was an architect. :)

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    1. Happy to see this friend :)

      Feeling proud

      Good Day :)

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    2. shivani mam i dont have obc ncl crtfcte as per the last date in the ibps po v..am so worried abt that..so sad mam.

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  14. Hi Shivani Mam,
    Can you post a stupid story to remember union budget?

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  15. words: JUG DOOR LIGHT TRAFFIC SUN TREE ANT HAND STICK TEMPLE
    story: I felt thirsty and began to search for a JUG. Suddenly, a knock at my DOOR.I switch on the LIGHT and opened it. I found TRAFFIC near my street where the SUN is just above the TREE. I saw an ANT crawling on my HAND, with the help of small STICK i made it to fell on ground and the bells in the TEMPLE began ringing.

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  16. nice one mam. thanq

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  17. so nice of you mam

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  18. When I tested, I recollected all the twenty words in the first time itself. the secret is, unknowingly I used the method you suggested in your article

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  19. Thank u ma'am.. It's a really useful technique.

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  20. u r awesome mam, thank u sooo much madam..

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  21. Thnks mam dis technique is awesome..very useful..

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  22. in such sort time for preperation for po of english, only focus on passage, rearrangement,passage filling, line filler. parctise more,score more

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