196: Memorization Techniques for Law Students

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're talking about some creative, evidence-based ideas for remembering the material required for your law school exams.

In this episode we discuss:

• Why you should memorize important information even for open book exams
• How learning the law properly plays into memorization
• How to immerse yourself in law concepts in your everyday life
• The value of acrostics in making studying lighter and more fun
• Using visualization to make remembering the details easier
• How to trigger your memory of a particular topic using narrative storylining
• The memorization value of good old handwriting

Resources:

• Higher Levels of Immersion Improve Procedure Memorization Performance (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eed2/afc90442484b1bd2ef6ff9c089bd27bcfe7a.pdf)
• Memory and Study Strategies for Optimal Learning (https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED320347)
• Brain Basics, Part One: The Power of Visualization (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gifted-ed-guru/201211/brain-basics-part-one-the-power-visualization)
• The Link and Story Methods (https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTIM_01.htm)
• Writing and Remembering: Why We Remember What We Write (https://www.lifehack.org/articles/featured/writing-and-remembering-why-we-remember-what-we-write.html)
• SketchyLaw (https://www.sketchylaw.com/)

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