Oscar Cheng (9) | Staff Reporter
Committing knowledge to memory is a crucial part of our lives that allows us to succeed at school or work. In terms of methods, songs and acronyms are some of the most popular ways to remember important information. Although memorizing seems like a daunting task, with the right approach, it can become easy as pie.
Songs are a great way of organizing and sorting information into a comprehensible format. They can store a lot or just a little information for all needs. Additional rhyming schemes and alliteration of information can make remembering even easier.
Although songs take some time to remember, singing or hearing it a few times should make the information more familiar. However, the forté of songs is that once they’re stuck in your head, it’s going to be there for a while.
Making a song from scratch may take a while, but it aids the process of storing information. While writing a song, information is drawn and processed, making it more familiar to the creator. Writing an original song can prove even more effective than pre-written ones and may even get stuck in your head quicker than others.
In terms of organizing information, acronyms are excellent tools too. For things such as key terms or ordering, acronyms make remembering short bits of information much easier. Bigger ideas can be simplified and rearranged down to a few letters.
Remembering acronyms is much simpler compared to memorizing pages of text. All it takes is remembering a few short letters to add a string of terms and concepts to memory.
Coming up with an acronym from scratch is also quite a cursory task. All that needs to be done is shorten the main ideas into letters that represent each or a short saying. Custom self-made acronyms can also make recalling and remembering information more effective than one found from another source.
Ultimately, using songs and music improves memory and active recall of information. Songs are unique in that their content can have literal and interpretive meanings, making them great for reviewing and memorizing content. Although everyone has their own way of remembering, don’t be afraid to try a song when feeling stuck or experimental.
