First-Letter Association Technique
What are the notes of the musical scale?
I bet that in order to come up with the answer, you thought of
something like, “All
cows eat grass”, or “Every good boy does
fine”.
Most of us used rhymes and acronyms as children to learn things in school. Remember these?
· Never Eat Shredded
Wheat (for the directions on a compass)
· TGIF – Thank God It’s Friday
The key is to create a link that you can associate the new
information with.
You can use this acronym for
remembering the great lakes: HOMES – Huron,
Funny thing is that sometimes an acronym is used so much, and for
so many years, that people sometimes never learn what the letters originally
stand for! Did you know that:
· AT&T = American
Telephone and Telegraph?
· NASA = National Aeronautic and Space Administration?