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2007-10-03
Next time I won't forget the spanner.
There's something about not being able to answer a question when you feel you should. When the answer is on the tip of your tongue but you can't get it. I find that quite often, once I've been given the answer and kicked myself for a while, I can then remember that again when next I need it.
Like the time when someone in my maths class had built me up as some sort of invincible test fiend, and I managed to get invalid answers (not just wrong: completely off the scale) for practically all of it [Geek-Fu: In the quadratic formula I forgot to square the b in the discriminant, so almost all the roots came out imaginary when they were all supposed to be real.]
I remember that Fairground Attraction were responsible for Perfect, due to a pub quiz back home.
After failing to win (in the strictest sense) a game of Trivial Pursuit at the weekend, I'm not going to forget that one of the weapons in Cluedo is a spanner. I might forget the five I could remember on the night, but I'll probably remember the spanner.
No promises though.
I'm sure there's a valuable lesson in it somewhere, but it doesn't lend itself to a reliable learning technique, at least not as far as I can see. After all, it only works on the things you should know but don't: if it's something you happen to remember this time you've done little to cement that, nothing more than just reading the fact or similar.
Besides, maybe it's just me.
There's something about not being able to answer a question when you feel you should. When the answer is on the tip of your tongue but you can't get it. I find that quite often, once I've been given the answer and kicked myself for a while, I can then remember that again when next I need it.
Like the time when someone in my maths class had built me up as some sort of invincible test fiend, and I managed to get invalid answers (not just wrong: completely off the scale) for practically all of it [Geek-Fu: In the quadratic formula I forgot to square the b in the discriminant, so almost all the roots came out imaginary when they were all supposed to be real.]
I remember that Fairground Attraction were responsible for Perfect, due to a pub quiz back home.
After failing to win (in the strictest sense) a game of Trivial Pursuit at the weekend, I'm not going to forget that one of the weapons in Cluedo is a spanner. I might forget the five I could remember on the night, but I'll probably remember the spanner.
No promises though.
I'm sure there's a valuable lesson in it somewhere, but it doesn't lend itself to a reliable learning technique, at least not as far as I can see. After all, it only works on the things you should know but don't: if it's something you happen to remember this time you've done little to cement that, nothing more than just reading the fact or similar.
Besides, maybe it's just me.
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