Comments on: How to memorise an entire essay or speech

By: Solomon

Solomon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:33:26 +0000

Any advise on how to use this technique in order to memorize 100-200 “rules” for a law school exam? (rules can be anywhere from a few words to a couple paragraphs depending on the complexity of the rule) Unfortunately, in law school exams, you have to use these memorized “rules” and apply them to a given fact pattern, usually a couple of pages, written by the professor. Since this fact pattern cannot be known in advance, memorizing an essay in this fashion would not help.

Thanks!

By: Shatwan

Shatwan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:52:48 +0000

Nice article.

You shouldn,t make it so long, after all it is students who are going to be reading this right?

By: Steven Aitchison

Steven Aitchison — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:00:29 +0000

Hi Raymond, I don’t know why this is not working for you. are there any distractions at all? TV, computer, music, family noise all of this would interuppt your learning pattern and the information being processed. This is the method I have used over the years and have taught my family and friends and every single person says they are astonsihed that it works.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:08:18 +0000

Hi Steven,

For some reason, your guide doesn’t work efficiently with respect to time. I can’t memorise 500 words in 3 hours, or even 500 words in 60-90 minutes (this seems incredibly impossible). I do manage to memorise the essay in the end, but it takes hours after hours after hours…(no exaggeration there).

Also, this method:

“Now memorise the bottom of the sheet of paper with the first few words of the essay and how many sentences are in each paragraph. This should only take 10-15 minutes at the most.”

I’m not sure if it works for others, as each sentence doesn’t logically flow from next to next (which is far more easier to memorise).

I hope you can get back to me asap because I’ve got an exam really soon. Thanks.

By: Steven Aitchison

Steven Aitchison — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:40:18 +0000

thanks for the comments bibliophile. I have used this with great success over the years and taught it to my family and friends and it hasn’t let me down yet.

By: Bibliophile

Bibliophile — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:37:03 +0000

I absolutely loved this memorising guide! I was looking for memorising techniques and I was glad I found this method. I hope this helps me with my exams next week. =)

Thanks!

By: Essay Writing

Essay Writing — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:27:31 +0000

Very nice essay! Great writing style! Looking forward to hearing more from you.

By: Steven Aitchison

Steven Aitchison — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:26:53 +0000

Hi Reshad

Good luck for tomorrow and let us know how you get on with the exam.

Steve

By: Reshad

Reshad — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:55:08 +0000

And now I have to write it at least three times (the whole creative) and recite the parts continously that I keep forgetting. And I’m prepared adequately for tomorrow . Wish me all the best.

By: Reshad

Reshad — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:44:49 +0000

Tomorrow is my creative writing exam. I have prepared it, and since I’ve used this guide, I have memorised 700/1000 words so far. If I manage to integrate my response into the question appropriately, then I’d be looking for a A range.

Thank you for this guide. It has helped me a lot. I’m going to add this page to my favourites