The document discusses several mnemonic techniques for improving memory and recall including the peg method, method of loci, link method, story method, first letter method, and keyword method. The peg method associates lists with numbers. The method of loci relates items to familiar locations. The link and story methods create vivid images or narratives connecting items. The first letter method uses the first letters of items to form a sentence. The keyword method connects new words to familiar ones through rhyming or interaction.

1. MNEMONICS
Mnemonic is a learning technique that
helps us organize, retain and
remember information, by making
recall easy.

2. • Mnemonics can be used by
teachers in school to help students
remember and learn lists, words,
concepts that are otherwise difficult
to remember and recall.
• They are also used by all of us in
our daily lives.

3. PEG METHOD
• The peg method is used for memorizing lists.
• A list of words are learnt by associating them
with a number. These objects are then called
pegs.
• When a list of objects needs to be memorized,
it is done by associating it with the pegs that we
have already learnt by heart.
• The same list of pegs can be used every time a
set of objects needs to be memorized.
• This method can be used by us in our daily
lives and by students and teachers in school to
memorize a list of objects.

4. How I would use this method
I recall this rhyme we sang
as children, on spotting
I can associate these
black birds:
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1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 for a letter
4 for a toy
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a secret never
to be told
pegs with a list I need
to memorize.
 A sorrowful looking
apple
 A smiling faced dish of
noodles
 A letter that is written
on a dish washing
cloth.
 A bread in the shape of
a toy car and so on.

5. METHOD OF LOCI
• This method uses visualization to organize and
recall information.
• This method works on the assumption that oit is
easier for us to remember locations that are
familiar to us. If we relate objects to these, it
becomes easy for us to memorize them.
• Think of a place you know well (say your
house) and mentally go through it. Associate
each object with a location in the place.
• When the list (objects) need to be recalled,
simply think of the house and all the locations
that you had thought of.

6. How I would use this method
to remember the shopping
list….
• I ENTER MY
HOUSE
• I turn the key in front
door and enter my
bedroom.
• I place the keys in a
vase.
• I open my cupboard
to put away my
sandals.
• I enter the washroom
to wash my
hands……..
• There is key I put in
the slot is an apple.
• The flower vase has
Hakka noodles in it.
• I open the cupboard
and put away the
washcloth.
• I enter the washroom
to wash the loaf of
bread….

7. LINK METHOD
• This method is also called the chain method.
• It works on the concept of creating a vivid
image linking the different elements of the list
that has to be memorized.
• It is similar to the story method.
• My list of Apples, Wash cloth, noodles, bread
and butter can be remembered this way…
• I visualize a fat me ( like an apple) with a
wash cloth on my head, holding a pack of
noodles in one hand and bread in the other,
with the butter balanced on it!

8. STORIES
• The story method is similar to the link method.
• Here we create a story with the elements of
the list that needs to be memorized.
• It helps us to remember events in a logical
order.
• The story I have created with my shopping list
is as follows: Gita was standing in front of her
house eating an apple, Arrived a beggar girl
with hair like noodles, and a dirty wash cloth
in her hand. She said she was hungry. Gita
gave her some bread and butter to eat.

9. FIRST LETTER METHOD
• The first letters of a list that needs to be
remembered are used to make a sentence or
a poem that can be remembered easily.
• This is the most commonly used mnemonics
in schools.
• For learning trigonometric ratios, I learnt as a
child: Sulakshana Pandit has curly brown
hair to produce beauty.
• Another first letter mnemonic students use to
remember resistivity of resistors:
B B Roy of Great Britain has very good wife.

10. I am citing an a Mnemonic that students
use for learning the Activity series in
chemistry.-ACTIVITY SERIES
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K-Potasium
Mg-Magnesium
Na- Sodium
Ca-Calcium
Al-Aluminium
Zn-Zinc
Fe-Iron
Sn-Tin
Pb-Lead
H-Hydrogen
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Kedar
Nath
Ca
Mali
Alu
Zara
Feeke
Se
Pakata
Hai

11. KEY WORD METHOD
• This method is very helpful in learning
new vocabulary and foreign
language.
• It works by rhyming the word to be
memorized with another word and
creating an interaction between them.
• This is one of the most common
methods I have been using to learn
and remember new words, specially
when I learnt Russian in school.