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Don’t Forget It! Use The Peg System

Using the Major System has its limitations when remembering content. This is where the Peg System comes in.

The Peg System ties everything together and make it easy to remember all kinds of things. I usually call both these systems just the Peg System. Once you get the basics down, it’s not that hard to use and it makes it much easier to remember content, especially numbers and dates.

Watch the video below and see how I use the Peg System to remember a small list of items. You can review the Major System in my previous post here.

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Here’s a Quick Way To Remember Einstein’s Birth Year

I use the Major system to remember dates of different scientists in class. Once you know the Major system, it’s easy to remember because the picture sticks in your head and it is also easy to translate.

Here are the basics of the Major system and how to learn it.

Remember, when translating, it always goes by how it sounds and not the spelling.

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