How To Easily Memorize Enumerations, Lists, Categories?

How To Easily Memorize Enumerations, Lists, Categories? Is there any way to answer to this head aching stuff? Yes there is! To make myself clear what first is meaning of Lists, Enumerations and Categories?

Lists are group of words, phrases or even just a simple lists of kinds of dogs, kinds of  constitution, etc.
Enumerations are simply enumerating lists, categories, groups, or any other kinds of something, etc.
Categories just like the lists and enumerations are the one that contain a lists or enumeration items.

Example of a List (Numbered List)
Example of Animals

1. dog
2. ox
3. rabbit
4. eel
5. chameleon

Example of a List (Unordered List)

Example of Plants with Carbohydrates

• rice
• barley
• wheat
• sweet potato

For many examinations, quizzes or just a normal "on the spot test". The enumeration type of tests are very common. Enumeration type of test or exam is done by enumerating particular answers to a particular question. And this type of exam is actually a gimme (very easy). But this type of exam is very tricky also because you have to memorize all the items that are included in a particular category or list.

Now here is the technique to make your memorizing of the enumerations that you expected that your professor or teacher will give in your exam easy.

1. Enumeration types of exam/quiz/test do not require you to answer in order, meaning, you can answer an enumeration exam in any order of all possible answers.

Given the sample list above - the example of animals.

1. dog
2. ox
3. rabbit
4. eel
5. chameleon

The technique to memorize these items very fast and easy is to MAKE AN ACRONYM of all the items that are included in the list.

Examining the list, the following common and easy to memorize acronyms are created.

• DECOR
• CRODE
• CODER

For the acronym DECOR;

D - dog
E - eel
C - chameleon
O - ox
R - rabbit

The good thing here is you only have to remember the ACRONYM you created. You are doing this so that when you forget an animal on the list, you can use the acronym as your hint to remember it. Try it for yourself and it will help a lot for your studies.

IMPORTANT NOTES

• If you cannot create or made an easy acronym as long as you can create a group of letters that can form a word it will also work.
• If you also cannot create an acronym that can form a word (for example there is no vowel available), you can still create an acronym that sounds familiar to you. For example the acronym WWRW. The more familiar acronym you can create is the WWW, then just add R forming the acronym WWWR which is more easy to memorize.

This technique are some of my ways to memorize my enumeration items more easily. Because when I was still studying, I was the type of student that hates memorizing. So I made my own style of memorizing and it worked for me. Study well and reach your dreams. God bless!

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