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Mnemonics are of various forms like:

Rhyme mnemonics

In this form of Mnemonics, the given information is transformed into a poem.

For example: Do you remember when Columbus sailed to America?

In Fourteen-hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

Wouldn’t it be easy to recall now?

A commonly used Rhyme Mnemonic for the number of days in each month is:

30 days hath September, April, June, and November.

All the rest have 31,

Except February, my dear son.

It has 28 and that is fine, But in Leap Year it has 29.

Similarly, mnemonic for memorizing the year in which three new states named Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand, and Jharkhand were formed in India could be:

2000 was the date,

When India got three new states.

Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand, And then followed Jharkhand.

The three Battles of Panipat can be memorized as The first battle of Panipat,

1526 was when it was fought.

Thirty years later(1556) again it happened, That was Panipat battle number second.

1761 was battle number third, Which was won by Ahmad.

If you learn things like this, you will be able to remember it for a longer period of time. Adding a rhyme to any given text adds to its recall value.

2. ACRONYM (First Letter Mnemonic)

In this, the first letter from a list of words is taken to form a new word. That new word is called an Acronym. Acronyms are used in many fields.

Some common acronyms you must be aware of are:

UNO: United Nations Organization

LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation AIDS: Acquired Immunedeficiency Syndrome

ATM: Automated Teller Machine

We can make our own acronyms by taking the first letter of each word in a list of

items to be remembered which can serve as a mnemonic. This is especially useful when you have to remember a short list of words in a particular order.

For example, in my childhood, my mother made me remember the seven colours of the rainbow by using the word VIBGYOR which involves the first letter of seven colours in a sequence (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red).

I also used this technique in the beginning of the book to introduce you to the three laws of memory by forming the word AIR.

AIR: Association, Imagination, Ridiculous Thinking

Just by remembering the word AIR, you will be able to recall the three laws easily.

Some other examples of learning through Acronyms are:

PEDMAS—To remember the order of functions to solve an algebraic equation in Mathematics: Parentheses, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition, and Subtraction.

HOMES—To remember the Great Lakes of North America: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.

FANBOYS—To remember the coordination conjunctions in English: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

PVT.TIM HALL—Essential amino acids: Phenylanine, Valine, Threonine, Tryptophan, Isolucine, Methionine, Histidine, Arginine, Leucine, Lysine.

BHAJSAB—To remember the rulers from the Mughal dynasty-Babar, Humayun, Akbar, Jehangir, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb, and Bahadur Shah Zafar.

When it is not necessary to remember the information in a sequence, the letters can be rearranged to make a more meaningful word. For example, body’s excretory organs are Liver, Kidneys, Skin, Lungs, and Intestines. The initials are LKSLI which can be rearranged to form a meaningful word SKILL. Now you can easily relate it by saying that body has a skill to excrete wastes. It’s important to connect or associate the acronym with the topic of the information to be learnt (in this case, excretory organs).

CAUTION: While making new words, it is important that you are familiar with the words whose initials you are using. For example, you must know the names of the great lakes of North America, and only then will the acronym HOMES be useful to you. If you don’t know the names, then other methods like the PNN and

chain method can be more useful.

3. ACROSTICS (First Letter Sentence Mnemonic)

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In this form of Mnemonic, the first letter of each term is taken and starting from those letters, some new words are formed in such a way that they make a meaningful

sentence. This is the most commonly used mnemonic popularly known as Acrostics.

Such mnemonics are generally used when you have to memorize a list of items in a specific order.

For example:

Planets The order of planets according to their distance from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, N eptune

Acrostic My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles

Oceans Oceans of the world: Indian, Arctic, Atlantic, P acific

Acrostic I Am At Peace

Zodiac Signs

Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, P isces

Acrostic As The Great Cook Likes Very Little Spice, She Carefully Adds Pepper

In this particular case, where two zodiac signs, Leo and Libra are starting with letter

‘L’, a person may mistakenly relate ‘Likes’ with Libra instead of Leo. To avoid that misunderstanding, one can make an association with the spelling of the two. Leo has

‘e’ after L and Libra has ‘i’ after L and since e comes before i in alphabet, so Leo comes before Libra in zodiac signs.

Continents Europe, Antarctica, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, S outh America

Acrostic Eat An Aspirin After A Night S nack In the above example, as letter A is repeated, we have taken the first two letters of the words to differentiate.

Carpal

Bones Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetral, Pisiform, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, H amate

Acrostic Some Loving Teachers Play Tennis To Create Harmony Or She Looks Too Pretty, Try To Catch Her

Seven levels of thinking ability

Recall, Translation, Interpretation, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, E valuation

Acrostic Road To Intelligence Allows Ample Space for Exercise

Seven Qualities of Soul Bliss, Knowledge, Peace, Love, Happiness, Purity, and P ower Acrostic Benign King Peter Loved Honouring People Power

The Music world has long made use of mnemonics to help students in remembering the orders of notes. There are many fine examples; I will list a few.

FACE— The order of the spaces in the treble clef.

All Cows Eat Grass (ACEG)—The order of the spaces in the bass clef.

And then one for memorizing all the various types of scales:

I Don’t Play Like My Aunt Lilly

(Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolodian, Aeolian, Locrian)

4. MUSIC MNEMONICS

There is a popular belief that learning and remembering information can be enhanced by setting the information to music. In a country like India, where hundreds of movies are released in a year and each movie has an average of 4 songs, music plays a very important part in our lives. Advertisements on radio and TV use music to help

potential customers remember their products when shopping. It has been noticed that with sufficient repetition of ads, the shopper starts reciting an oft-repeated phrase from the commercial or starts singing the lyrics of the promotion melody. This has resulted in increased sales of the product.

The most recent example is of the new advt. of ‘Honda’ in which the brand is promoted through a song ‘Dekho dekhe yeh zamana…’ This song has a great recall value not just with grown-ups but with kids. As soon as they hear this song, they know it’s a ‘Honda’ ad.

Some other examples of famous advertisement slogans are:

Amul : Utterly butterly delicious! Amul!

Cadbury : Kuch meetha ho jaaye!

L’oreal : Because you’re worth it!

McDonalds : I am loving it!

Thumbs Up : Taste the thunder!

Siyaram : Come home to Siyaram.

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From the time we are two-years-old, we learn how to memorize things by singing mnemonics, For example, everybody knows the ABC song! We learn to

memorize ABC at a very young age. According to an online survey at

squidoo.com, when memorizing the ABCs, 67 percent used the ABC song, 12 percent memorized it with a rhyme, while 7 percent with no rhyme or song and just with flashcards.

By putting a simple melody to the ABCs, we were all able to memorize twenty-six letters in no time, that too at such a young age! So why can’t we use this technique while memorizing when we are older?

In India, it is a common trend to compose devotional songs to the tunes of popular Bollywood numbers. Has it ever happened with you that while listening to that

devotional song, the original song comes to your mind? You can recall the exact lyrics of the original song just by hearing its tune. Similarly, in case you have to memorize a lot of text in a short time, you can put it as lyrics of your most favourite song and sing it over and over again. So whenever you will think of the original song, the new lyrics will come to your mind.