How did you improve your memory?

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  • #165549
    Anonymous
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    If I want to pass on my next REG attempt, I need to seriously consider finding a way to improve my long-term memory. Small details that are important to remember for this exam keep slipping away. For example, PHC test, S Corp requirements, Sec 179, Startup/Organization Costs, etc…. Yes, I can study those now and have them memorized by the end of the day. In fact, I know these now. But when I start to study my weak areas and try to become proficient there, I start to forget simple things. One day, I’ll do a set of practice questions and get a question on the PHC test. And I’ll be like, “Oh, I knew this.” So, that small little thing that I used to know has to be looked over again in order to put it back into my memory. And the cycle will keep going. I remember details and later on when I try to study new stuff, the old material gets tossed out of my brain. And so on…. As you can see from my REG grades, I’m not studying enough. I need to studying everything and remember everything. But my brain refuses to cooperate. Half of the people that take this test each window can pass this, so this shouldn’t be THAT difficult. Not sure why this keeps happening to me.

    Is there any way to prevent this from happening. How can I study and store this stuff in long-term memory so I never forget it?

    Just one more test to pass and I’m a free man. I want to do this!!!

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  • #421064
    rezaking
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    repetition

    BEC - Passed
    REG - 7/21/2012
    AUD - 8/18/2012
    FAR - 11/10/2012

    #421065
    Anonymous
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    Already tried that….

    #421066
    Anonymous
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    Keep doing MCQ every day on those topics you're having troubles on and write them in flash cards you will not forget them.

    The problem with Regulation was the topics where I didn't study but was heavily tested. Those are the kind of questions that get you.

    #421067
    Anonymous
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    I've bougth 16gb of memory..lol

    #421068
    Anonymous
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    ^^^^we need a like button in this forum..lol

    #421069
    Anonymous
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    You need to figure out what works for you — is it mnemonics? flashcards?

    I made big-print copies of all the major tax forms on colored paper, hung them up in my study space, and carried another set in my briefcase that I pulled out and stared at every spare moment.

    I also made up scenarios in my head, e.g., there was the Exemption-Credit Family, with a blind granny in a nursing home, a married college student, an adopted kid, etc., and Joe and Moe, my two partners who kept putting property in and taking (mortgaged!) property out of their partnership, and the mysteriously wealthy S Family, who tried to turn their whole family into an S corporation, gave everyone in sight $13,000 in cash for the holidays, and set up a bunch of trusts to avoid taxes. I also imagined a fake business whose sole purpose was to have one of every corporate AMT preference and adjustment — it was a print shop that sold magazines (circulation costs!) and printing presses on the installment plan. They were also drilling oil for a special ink . . . and of course had an overseas branch. The whackier my scenarios, the better I remembered them.

    For the MCQs you are getting right, if you are starting to memorize them, try to reword the questions to make each of the wrong answers correct.

    #421070
    rknight21
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    cpaterminator cracked me up….. honestly tho, try eating plenty of seafood……

    #421071
    Anonymous
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    No, no, no the key to passing is…..wait, what was that point I was going to make? It's right on the tip of my tongue….. 😀

    Repetition is key and writing out answers and mnemonics and key points over and over again commits it to memory. Also when taking notes, I write in block letters instead of cursive. Writing in block letters takes much more time and your mind has to think the thought multiple times while writing a sentence in block.

    But I'm with you, the stuff I learn today seems to push the stuff I learned yesterday right out of my mind.

    CPAPending

    #421072
    Anonymous
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    Writing and rewriting works best for me.

    #421073
    Anonymous
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    I did struggle with FAR a lot, but REG is OMG!

    I'm so bad at memorizing stuff out of nowhere and some of it is pretty similar and after a while it's a big mumbo-jumbo.

    I think I'm having a nervous breakdown lol

    #421074
    Soproudofmyself
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    dianepage lolololol that was really funny! I'm gonna try that…but it might take me forever to come up with scenarios lol

    the key for me is repetition….make it your life!!!!

    #421075
    Anonymous
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    Thanks guys. Oddly enough, all the enormous amount of material in REG is finally clicking and sticking on my brain. I guess my brain works in mysterious ways. You keep repeating and it never seems like it's sinking. Then one day, everything clicks. I got this. I'm going to kill REG on the 25th. It is going to die a miserable and bloody death!!!!!!!!!

    #421076

    Well what I personally practice for improving memory is reading and try to play Quiz games as much as possible I can.

    #421077
    Anonymous
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    Getting enough sleep. I don't know if this ever happens to any of you, but if I try to survive on 5 hours of sleep my memory goes.

    Oh just forgot what I was about to say sh….

    #421078
    Anonymous
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    Getting enough sleep. I don't know if this ever happens to any of you, but if I try to survive on 5 hours of sleep my memory goes.

    Oh just forgot what I was about to say sh….

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