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Sphygmomanometer – To measure blood pressure Sphygmomanometer- Pig memna (Lamb) meter

Imagine: A pig is measuring the blood pressure of a memna (Lamb) with a meter.

Pyrometer – To measure high temperature Pyrometer –Pyre meter

Imagine: You are measuring the temperature of a pyre with a meter.

So, finally your wait is over and its time to meet Kalia. You had been waiting eagerly for this moment since the last four chapters – and now that moment has come. Kalia is here to help you like a true friend.

Just learn the techniques of these memory improving methods and be a master of all your subjects. Yes, I agree, this requires practice and that you must do regularly because, as we all know, practice makes a man perfect.

As the first step to Kalia, memorise the corresponding code in front of the letters given on the next page. In this Kalia method we shall leave the vowels and convert the consonants into letters. For example:

Number code How to remember

0 s 0 is round as sun. So imagine first letter of sun (S) for 0

1 t if you remove the cutting line of t, then it looks like 1

2 n 2 looks like n.

3 m 3 looks like m

4 r r looks like char ( ) in Hindi

5 L L stands for 50 in Roman. Here we will show 5 with L.

6 g 6 looks like g

7 K if you juxtapose two 7s, it looks like

K

8 V image of V would look like 8 in water.

9 p mirror image of p looks like 9

You can memorise these numbers by connecting them with consonants. Use following methods

O, you have been rather quick in befriending Kalia. Now we have to see how Kalia helps the students of Arts, Science and Commerce.

1) Suppose you have to remember that the melting point of ‘lead’ is 327⁰C.

You often get confused if it was 327⁰ or 237⁰. Now let us convert this into letters with the help of Kalia.

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M N K M o N K e y

If you read the letters MNK together, the word ‘monkey’ appears in the mind. You can forget 327⁰ but you cannot forget monkey. Now we have to connect ‘lead’ with ‘monkey’.

Memory Picture: Imagine that you are writing with a lead pencil. A monkey snatches it and runs away.

II. You have to memorise that the atomic mass no. of mercury is 201⁰.

2 0 1 2 0 1

N S T N e S T

As you join all the consonants you will get a word that will automatically lead to a clear mind picture NST would lead to 'nest'.

Memory Picture :You have a mercury thermometer in your hand and you are keeping it carefully in a nest.

Probably, you doubt the power of memory pictures. What if we forget despite the memory picture? I can say this through my own experience that memory pictures become so much a part of us that it is impossible to forget them. If I ask you what did you see in the car in the last chapter? What was filled in the car instead of petrol? I am sure you would easily tell me that the car was full of biscuits and cold drink was used to fill the car instead of petrol. Anything with which you get emotionally connected and anything that you visualise with the help of a memory picture, gets firmly lodged in your memory and you do not forget it easily.

Once my friend Rajesh asked me to come over to his house. He told me to note down his address. I replied:

"Instead of noting your address in the diary, I would write it in my mind.

You just tell me the address.”

He told me that his house No. was 357.

Immediately I used my formula.

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M L K M i L K

MLK takes us to the word ‘milk’. So his address is secure in my memory as the word ‘milk’.

Memory Picture: I made a memory picture with

‘MLK’. I imagined that when I reach his house and knock at the door, the door opens and I find Rajesh bathing in ‘milk’.

Rajesh said, “Don’t forget I live in E Block.” If I had not used my technique, probably I could have forgotten that Rajesh lived in ‘E’ block but I went back to my childhood alphabet books and made a mental note of E for ‘elephant’.

Memory Picture: Again I created a rather funny mind picture. I imagined that Rajesh is transformed into an elephant after drinking milk. I go and shake hands with his trunk.

Do you still think that after this kind of visualization, you are still likely to forget? Come, let us conduct an experiment. Imagine the face of a friend. Presume that you have stuck an elephant trunk on his nose with fevicol. Now what will you see when you meet him next? Obviously his ‘trunk’. Whenever I meet Rajesh I tell him, ‘you live in ‘E’ block, don’t you’? He asks me how do I remember it for so long. I tell him that it was written on his face. He gets totally baffled but I know and understand the secret behind my memory.

If you also make a habit of creating such memory pictures, connect people with events and use your imagination. I am sure it will be very easy for you to remember things.

III) Suppose a student of C.A. has to learn that section 147 applies to publishing rights. (Here we shall use the Kalia method).

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T R K T R u c K

TRK takes us to the word ‘truck’.

Memory Picture: A publisher is screaming on the top of his voice, “Take away all my publishing rights, I have renounced everything.”

People load his books in a truck and take them away.

After this, whenever the word ‘truck’ comes to your mind, you will remember section 147.

IV. Section 217 – Provision for divorce

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N T K

Here I would like to share another trade secret with you.

While using memory improving methods you will benefit more if you use more than one language. When I went to compete for the world record, this was the edge that I had over others. They were using a single language in their imagination whereas I had the vocabulary of three languages – Hindi, English and Bangla at my disposal. You can also give it a try. Think in more than one language, it will help a lot in enhancing your memory.

Let us now have our Kalia digits in Hindi

If we write this section in Hindi

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N T K

  

This shall yield ‘natak’

Memory Picture: A husband and a wife are fighting and you tell them to bring this ‘natak’

to an end by taking divorce.

(V) Section 222 – Transfer of judges

2 2 2

N N N

  

Memory Picture: Imaging that the judge is saying “No No No” emphatically

“even if you transfer me I shall not go”.

It often happens that the students of history have to learn and memorise lots of dates. This gets very irritating and uninteresting. The memory improving methods can be of a big help here. These can evoke interest in an otherwise uninteresting area like this. You can make memory pictures and mind pictures will make learning of dates somewhat interesting. For example:

(VI) 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre

The students of history have a fairly good idea about the century when a particular event took place. So we need not remember two digits pertaining to the century and we can focus on just the two digits of the year.

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T P T a P

T P gives us the word 'tap'.

Memory Picture: You are in Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

There is a tap in your hand. You fix this tap on the barrel of the English soldier’s guns. Instead of bullets the guns are now throwing gentle water showers. The Indians are merrily dancing and enjoying the scene.