Mnemonics: A Quick Memory Hack

There is a really important topic for your exam that has a high probability to be presented as one
of the questions in the paper. However for an unknown reason, you aren’t able to memorise that
particular topic. This could affect your confidence and affect the preparation with the remaining
topics. How to cope with it? This is something not recommended, but can work as an exception:
mugging up. But even this takes quite some time. One of the best ways is to curtail the time you
spend on it by using a technique called Mnemonics.Mnemonics is a smart way of memorizing big
chunks of information by creating rhymes from the high points or forming acronyms from the high
points, unique terms or the initials of the words.At SMES School Mahim, a CBSE school with smart
classroom, we encourage our students to incorporate such techniques while memorising that makes
us unique as not just one of the best creative schools in Mahim but also one of the
best CBSE schools in Mumbai. Let’s take a look at some examples of  mnemonics to
understand the idea that’s being discussed here.
VIBGYOR: You have been using this example before you may have even read about mnemonics.
This brilliant mnemonic not just helps us to remember all the colours of the rainbow,
but also remember their sequence in the natural order.
BODMAS: One of the primary rules of solving mathematical equations that help us solve by following
the standard order of the mathematical operations.Above are the examples of making acronyms
out of the initials. Probably the best application of it can be found in the various versions made by
all your classmates while memorising the Periodic Table of elements to memorise the elements,
their sequence and their atomic numbers.
There is another technique that does not involve incorporating acronyms but is equally effective:
correlation. One of the best examples is memorising the days in the 12 months using the knuckles
on our hands, in which when both are knuckles are juxtaposed, the crests are the 31-day months
and the troughs are the 30-day months with February as the exception.
Go ahead and set your creative self free. Make your own mnemonics and help your buddies
learn quickly as well!
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