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Are you having trouble remembering things? For instance, you have ever experienced forgetting where you parked your car in a shopping mall car park, your mind went blank and empty while taking an exam or test, or you often forget about important meeting or class which makes you missed them out. If you have ever experienced those or other events that suggest you have poor memory, fret not! Today, we will be sharing some tips to help you improve your memory ๐Ÿ˜‰ 
(Again, do keep in mind that these tips are subject to each individual, do adopt which you think you find most helpful and suitable ya!)

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Below are the tips to improve memory performance:

Tip 1: Use mnemonics!

Mnemonic is a technique that significantly aids in remembering information. The first letter of the needed-to-be-remembered term will be associated with the first letter of another word. For example, you can remember all the 7 colours of rainbow๐ŸŒˆ, by using the acronym: ROY G. BIV, which is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet respectively๐Ÿ”ด๐ŸŸ ๐ŸŸก๐ŸŸข๐Ÿ”ต๐ŸŒ‘๐ŸŸฃ.

Tip 2: Rehearse! Rehearse! And Rehearse!

Rehearsal in this context refers to repeating and reviewing over and over again about the information that you desire to remember. It is a fact that we will only remember what we attend to, therefore the more attention, repetition, and rehearsal we pay into the information such as concepts that we need to learn and remember, it is more likely for us to remember them successfully! As a result, rehearsal will strengthen your memory about that topic to the extent that when a person asks you anything about the topic, you can answer it straight away! As saying goes: “practice makes perfect” ๐Ÿ˜‰

Tip 3: Avoid cramming!

As suggested in tip 2: rehearse, you may think that you can rehearse all the information in one night before an exam to help you excel but there might not always be the case. It is true that cramming may work well for some people. However, if you cram everything you want to remember in a short period of time, not only you would not have enough time to rehearse and strengthen the memory of it, you would also result in not having enough time to rest your brain. The lack of rest in your brain would affect your cognitive abilities significantly including your memory performance! Instead of cramming, try to spread out the time needed for remembering things over a number of sessions. For example, distribute your study time into 7 days (1 hour per day). In the end, you would have had accumulated 7 hours of studying while ensuring you have sufficient rest to optimize your memory performance too!!

Tip 4: Matching remembering and recall environment

This tip is about the concept of context-dependent memory. It refers to the improved recall of specific information when the context present at encoding and retrieval are the same. In other words, the key is to match the context in which information will be recalled to the context in which it is learned. Studies have shown that we can remember specific information better when we are in the same environment as the environment we first try to remember or when we first encounter the information. For instance, to improve your exam performance you can try to study in an environment that is similar to your exam room such as a library.

Tip 5: Get! Enough! Sleep!

What? Sleep again? How can sleep improve memory? Yes, sleep is undoubtedly the MOST important factor to enhance our memory performance. As mentioned in the post about sleep quality, not having a good quality of sleep or being sleep-deprived could impair our cognitive performance which includes our memory fucntion❗❗ Hence, instead of trying to stay up late to study it is encouraged to rest and sleep early to improve our memory performance. Remember to have at least 7-8 hours of sleep ya๐Ÿ˜‰!

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Once again, we hope that these tips help you to reduce your chances of forgetting important dates or meetings and get to your car without getting lost after your shopping time! ๐Ÿ˜‰
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