Shortcut Technique to Remember Names for Current Affairs

Friends, people have been frequently asking us to share a technique to remember the names in lists. So here is a simple technique to remember names in a story / sentence format.

What this technique about?

Just try to make a short story with the given names. In most of the times the names resembles some objects, animals, name of your friends etc. So according to them you can make a story. Of course, it may sound stupid... but the more stupid the story is... the easier to remember it. Now let’s have a look at this technique with an example. All of us know that recently the winners list of Nobel Prizes for the year 2013 was declared. Let’s have a look at the winners list.

List of Nobel Prize Winners 2013

Chemistry

l Michael Levitt

l Martin Karplus

l Arieh Warshel

Physics

l Peter Higgs

l Francois Englert

l James Rothman

l Randy Schekman

l Thomas Suedhof

Peace

l The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

Literature

Economics

l Eugene Fama

l Lars Peter Hansen

l Robert Shiller

Now see. There are 13 names and 6 categories. Try to make up a sentence with them.

Michael started on Car to chemical war, while English Piggs injured physically, Thomas, Rat-Man, Snake-Man given medical treatment and peter, eugen and shiller supported economically. But the problem not resolved so opcw banned chemicals in war for world peace ..Aliens wrote a book about this war and got Nobel prize for that.

Now lets see. What this sentence helps us to remember...

Michael (Michael Levitt) started on Car (Martin KARplus) to chemical (for chemistry) War

(Arieh Warshel), with English Piggs (Englert and Peter Higgs) he injured physically, Thomas, Rat-Man, Snake-Man (Thomas Suedhof, Rothman and Schekman) given medical (for Medicine) treatment and peter, eugen and shiller supported economically (for economy). But the problem not resolved so opcw (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) banned chemicals in war for world peace .. Aliens (Alice Munro) wrote a book about this war and got Nobel prize for that.