I'd like to share some my thoughts that bother me last time. I've found that I can remember some CR and RC for a long time and only a few words are enough to recall all passages and even answers on questions. But sometimes I cannot recall main information even after repeat reading. This phenomenon enforced me to recall an old psychological trick. Once my friend in the school said me that he had an unique memory and can remember any 50 words that I would tell him. I thought it was a joke, but to my great surprise he repeated all 50 words in the same sequence without any mistakes! After this amazing show he told me a secret..... Maybe somebody want to try? no more than 2 sec per word to remember 35 words: ~1 min. pear, car, church, mixer, notebook, parachute, cheese, luster, chief, Sun, bug, hair, water, house, cat, MBA, brick, elephant, death, library, hole, book, dean, dinosaur, soldier, cherry, shop, bus, window, rat, ball, food, iPod, salary, table. minimize the window with the post and write out all words in the same sequence.... ..................................... are there no mistakes? Congrats, you are a brilliant man!!! Do not read next text. I will tell you later the secret of the perfect memory and my thoughts about relation between this trick and GMAT RC/CR..... Yours Walker :wink:

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I remembered 19 but I couldnt repeat them in my head, I could only write them down, a pic of the word would just pop in my head and then I would write it down, is that weird?
anyway interesting technique.

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Hmm this is not easy as expected, got to have a lot of practice ... thanks for the technique...

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wow an old thread but just saw it!!great trick!!thanx a lot!!

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well i think i got to 14 and i think i'll never forget this story: or may be not until i sleep today, anyway...

This is so cool... thx walker

Once there was a PEAR who drove his own CAR and went to CHURCH and on his return one day got crushed in a MIXER and came out as a NOTEBOOK and landed on the floor with a PARACHUTE where he got eaten by a giant CHEESE which had LUSTER and who was the CHIEF of the SUN kingdom and he ruled over the BUGS with long HAIR and his kingdom was surrounded by WATER in which his HOUSE floated...

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