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Flashcards are incredibly good at helping you memorize. Just go buy stacks of index cards and start filling them out with definitions, words, chemical names, formulas, anything you need no matter how simple or detailed! They work really well because you are essentially testing yourself while you use them and it will raise your confidence level.

Protip: Create electronic flash cards on www.Quizlet.com and then, using one of the hundreds of flashcard apps available on your smart phone, you can download the flashcards from the Quizlet database. Simply search for them by “creator” name which would be your login name. This way, you could simply download and study your flashcards onto your phone. (On test days I will purposely take the bus instead of car or bicycle so that I could be on my merry-way, testing myself with the flashcards on the phone while the bus drivers takes me.)

Use mnemonics to help remember lists. The most common mnemonic is to take the first letter of each list item and make an acronym, sentence or name out of it. For example, Roy G Biv is commonly used to memorize the order of the seven colors of the rainbow. But often times acronyms aren’t going to work , so what do you do? YOU GOTTA GET CREATIVE!!! For example, how do you remember that the tarsal bones are in your foot (as opposed to the carpal bones being in your hand)? Because you get TAR on your SOLES! See what I mean?