How To Revise: The Silver String Technique

An Overview Of The Silver String Technique

The Silver String Technique combines three well established memory strategies into a harmonious blend of exam slaying goodness. Even if you think you don’t need to learn how to revise, I urge you to read on. The Silver String Technique is a new way of approaching revision.

Perhaps the most significant aspect of The Silver String Technique is that it equips you with a small handful of memory-jogging ‘mind keys’ that you can scribble down at the start of your exam.  You then use these mind keys to plan your essay answers without ever having to worry about forgetting a ‘chunk’ of relevant information. But that’s just part of it. By mapping these helpful little mind keys onto mental ‘films’, existing only in your mind, you will have at your disposal a system of scanning your memory for relevant information that is comparable to opening a textbook and scanning the contents page. Through the wonder of visualisation, the fine details of each ‘chunk’ of information will be accessible to you in your exams. In other words, you’re likely to be able to remember every single bullet point in your revision notes. Furthermore, you will be able to commit information to memory in much less time than usual.

Organisation and association are key to memory recall. The Silver String Technique is about making revision notes in a systematic and organised way, condensing key facts, associating revision material with fantastical and bizarre imaginings, and then ‘looking up’ information quickly and efficiently during an exam. It’s a phenomenally useful technique that can serve you through your child and adult education. The book “The Silver String Technique: Revise Smart, Achieve More” provides a complete walk-through of The Silver String Technique as well as a quick round up of the most useful general revision and exam advice.