MNEMONICS

Examinations or Pub quizzes: Geography facts are everywhere.

You can use this simple PocketMem to help you learn the following:

Geography 1

• The Seven Hills of Rome
• The Seven Continents
• The Four Oceans
• Longitude and Latitude
• The Tropics

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These PocketMems offer a quick, effective way to boost your learning.

Follow the Optimum Plan and you will find that by the time the PocketMem is looking worn, you have the information locked permanently in your memory.

PocektMems
Download - Print - Fold (instructions) - Learn. That's it.

Geography Facts

Mnemonic acronyms or rhymes have stood the test of time. They have proven themselves to be a highly effective way to ease the learning and recall of mundane or troublesome facts - just ask any doctor. The medical profession is rife with facts, lists and acronyms; consequently, medical students use around 60-100 mnemonic devices just to get through their course.

However, mnemonics have their problems. Retention is sometimes weak; what goes in to your memory quickly, tends to fade quickly too.

As with all memory work, the effective grasp of the information will fade if it is not used (or revisited) at intervals. To do this, we recommend two things:

• our Optimum Plan
• our Mnemonic PocketMems

Optimum Plan
Experience has shown that if you learn information and follow this plan you will retain it - permanently.

You can create mnemonic devices to help you remember anything.

They are particularly effective if you utilise all of your senses, simply repeating the mnemonic is often not enough. You really have to see, feel, hear, smell and (yes, even) taste it!

Here's an example taken from geography. Imagine you need to recall 20 Countries and their capital cities. A good strategy would be to create a memorable image that connects the name of the capital city to the Country. For example:

The capital of Australia is Canberra. Australia has a unique and memorable image already associated with it; the Sydney Opera House. So, link the image of the Opera house to an image that will remind you of Canberra. How about imagining the Sydney Opera house covered in cranberry (Canberra) juice. It's a red sticky mess, people leaving the building find the juice dripping in their hair and covering their clothes. See it, hear it, smell it, feel it.

Now stop! Forget the image...

Okay, so you just walked into a room and forgot what you went for. These 'senior moments' happen to most of us… and the good news is that they are not (in themselves) a sign of old age. The ease with which we forget simple things is related more to our attention, than to our age. You were probably distracted en route, or the item you wanted to remember wasn’t important enough to be registered completely in your mind.