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Old Oct 13, 2013, 07:57 AM
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I would combine studying with something else I enjoyed more? If you like to write see if you can write a decent poem or story using 10 terms

See if you can create a mental "game" where terms are the bad guys that can only be destroyed with the weapon of knowledge (sorry, corny, but I'm on a budget here :-) or line up facts behind each as if they have armies and are going to do battle. Make a TV commercial, movie, something to get you to read, understand, and use the material in a way that isn't straight, dry, studying.

Do something utterly silly and put information on 3 x 5 cards/slips of paper and go out and hand them to strangers, throw them one-by-one into separate trashcans as you walk/learn them; do two sets and go out and "hide"/leave each card a certain place and go home and test yourself and make yourself go to the place you left the other card and retrieve it if you forget that particular information, etc.

Get a grease pencil or children's bath crayons and play in the shower, writing stuff and cleaning it off as you learn it

Buy a roll of butcher block paper (or cooking parchment paper?) and work on the floor, writing, drawing, illustrating points (buy many/varied magazines and see what points you can find pictures of).
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