I’ll just say what we’re all thinking: studying takes too much time.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and naturally you’d like to use as many of them as possible for sleeping
and, I don’t know, drawing pictures of robot bears or something. To achieve that goal, you need to find a
method that lets you spend less time studying while retaining the same amount of information.

Here’s the solution: repetition. But why? Does Repetition Improve Memory? Well, not right. But it can
help you learn something new faster.

It all depends on the information you want to memorize. For example, if you deal with numbers or
verses, you have to repeat word-by-word and consistently. But when it comes to the content of
textbooks, every time you’ll repeat the material in a different way.

There are special techniques to improve the efficiency of information storing:

 Active repetition. To remember something for long, you have to make the process of repetition
conscious; in other words, it must be accompanied by a comprehension of the material studied.
To intensify this process, set additional goals – for example, answer questions, find or come up
with examples of life corresponding to memorized facts, etc. This way you will activate attention
and associative memory, which makes the process of remembering much more effective.

 Retelling. It’s also an element of active repetition. During the retelling, we activate verbal
thinking that helps us not only to memorize information but also to store the way of its
reproduction.

Well, if you need to memorize a lot of information accurately word-by-word, consistent repetition of all
the material will be ineffective. To achieve good results, you need to:

1. Break all of the material into smaller parts and memorize the resulting structure.

2. Repeat each part separately until you learn all the parts.

3. Try to successively recall all the material.

If you forget something, note it on a sheet of paper and come back to it later. This process activates your
memory and the associative links of your mind.

So, what do you think? I am right? Anyway, I think I convinced you. You also need to know that the
human memory is an amazing thing, and what’s even more amazing is that we’ve learned to understand
it in enough ways that we can “hack” it for our own benefit. Certainly, repetition itself is a great
technique for remembering things. However, knowing that you can combine repetition with other
memory-related techniques will provide more benefits than either of these skills would on their own.
Hopefully we’ve been able to teach you some new stuff today. Repetition is a very basic technique, but
it’s not one to be underestimated. If you use this technique to your benefit, you will certainly notice
some significant improvements to your short- and long-term memory.