The most important mission of the school is for students to learn how to learn and how to consider, to enable students to learn high-power, learning as much common sense in a limited time.

Retaining information can be such a challenge, particularly if there are too many topics to mind of. However, you can make it easier by using tools such as quiz cards and mnemonics. Use these two tricks to help you prepare for tests, exams, panels and even job interviews!

1. Create Quiz Cards

Create quiz cards according to subjects.

Even quiz cards can still cause information overload, especially if you are presented with cards of a variety of subjects. Because there is a good chance you will take an exam per subject, it makes perfect sense to create separate quiz cards according to subjects or even subcategories of these subjects.

Update your quiz cards.

How do you reflect the progress of your subjects? Of course, you can do that by also updating your quiz cards. The beauty of these cards is you can immediately add new questions. What’s more, you can make use of quiz card apps, so you will be able to use them no matter where you are.

Let somebody else test you with them.

Is it possible to use the quiz cards all by yourself? Yes, you can! Just make sure that the answers do not face you. You can also shuffle the cards or pick the questions randomly. Nevertheless, the quiz cards are more ideal for interaction. For example, you let a friend or a family member to pick the cards for you; then you can provide the answer. Your partner can then verify the correctness of your reply. Quiz cards are also great for group studies. You can even make it more fun by holding quiz or trivia nights.

2. Use Mnemonics

As a student, you are faced with thousands of data that soon you will find them very hard to digest or retain in memory. Fortunately, there are a lot of techniques to improve the retention process as well as make storing memory so much easier and even more fun. These strategies are often called mnemonics.

Acronyms or Abbreviations

Normally, when you hear the word “mnemonics,” you immediately think of acronyms or abbreviations. A perfect example is ROYGBIV. It may sound like a person’s name, but it is actually an acronym of the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. A lot of people prefer these acronyms and abbreviations since they are very easy to remember and shorter.

Sentences

It is also possible to come up with mnemonics of sentences, like “My very educated mother just served us nachos,” where the first letter of the words represents the first letter of the 8 planets according to their placement from the sun. You can, of course, come up with your own variations, depending on what sentence structure feels comfortable to say or even remember.

Rhymes

Not a lot of people implement rhymes because they are quite long and thus tedious to memorize, but if you love the play with words and how they roll in your tongue, you will surely love this mnemonic technique. Here is a classic example: I before E except C, which tells you how to correctly spell receive.

So improve your study habits while having fun in the process with mnemonics.