I don’t know about you, but my memory is pretty useless a lot of the time! It can be quite embarrassing when people ask you questions for which you should know the answers to – especially when there is that uncomfortable “silence” for a couple of seconds whilst you try to recall some important information!
Maybe it’s a sign of adulthood, or the result of participating in certain activities in my youth that have affected my grey matter, but whatever the reason it takes me a while for my brain to retain details about various matters.
In life, we have to memorise all kinds of information for a variety of reasons, and one such occasion relates to the preparation needed for the driving theory test. Although a part of the test involves multiple-choice questions, you still need to know the correct answers in order to pass!
If your memory is pretty bad and you need help memorising information, here are some unusual yet successful ways to remember the answers to those all-important theory test questions!
Connecting and linking
The first way of memorising information is simply to create associations by linking items to images in your head.
For example, the phrase “hazard perception” could be an associated with an image of a road scene where you are driving a car and a few yards in front of you is a child that suddenly runs into the road without warning.
Making a story
This is similar in a lot of ways to the connecting and linking method that I just mentioned a moment ago.
Using the same example above, you could create a story in your mind where you have to drive your car to the shops and you are about to drive past a school. Because there is going to be a number of children walking outside the school and crossing the road, you need to perceive those hazards.
The Loci method
You may not have heard of the Loci method before, but, in a nutshell, it refers to the process of associating items with familiar locations.
For example, to remember that you have to give way to your right on a roundabout, you can associate this fact by linking it to the time that you slept in a weird position and woke up the next morning not being able to turn your head to the left!
As absurd as this association is, this is one of the best ways of remembering things!
Memorising numbers using the Peg System
If you have trouble memorising numbers, or perhaps you suffer from a condition such as dyscalculia and it is affecting your ability to memorise the correct number of items for certain things relating to your theory test, you can associate numbers with items that rhyme.
Examples include:
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One = sun;
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Two = zoo;
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Three = brie (cheese);
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And so forth.
I hope you have found this blog post useful. Let me know if you have any suggestions for other ways to memorise things in preparation for your theory test. Good luck!
