Super Memory: Super Student is a book by Harry Lorayne, a writer and memory training specialist. This book is a guide for students to be able to remember information for many subjects, using a few very useful techniques. We read this book to help us specifically in Chemistry, but it can be used in a myriad of different subjects. Lorayne wrote this book to help students remember things. I think, personally that only some of the techniques worked for me, but I can see why they would work for others.'
The book establishes a couple of key strategies for remembering vocabulary, as well as some specialized memorization for numbers and foreign language. Later on, Lorayne introduces smaller techniques and applies them to school subjects.
I think that the Link System of Memory and memory by association practices are very useful. These are very common practices, and hey are used in many areas, and many people use mnemonic devices and such. The link system is used in the book to connect different words, and to be able to think of words and ideas based upon those links. When you think about it, those links are the essential aspect of how our brains make connections, one thing setting off an internal link within our brains. Another thing, the association strategy is used by thinking of sentences or words to help you remember individual lists and the things in them. When you associate one thing strongly with an idea or word, your brain automatically starts to strongly associate the two, and you will think about that thing that way by default. This strategy is simply getting us to control what associations we make before we make them.
I don't think that the strategy for remember letters based on numbers really works for me. First of all, I think that the idea that there are only basically 10 consonant sounds and you need to associate those numbers with sounds to help you remember. I think that it is harder to go through the process of remembering the sound and associating it with the number than it is to just remember the number or sound alone. Secondly, I think that the added step of thinking of words for those numbers is an even farther step away from remembering the original number or word. All in all, I got more confused going through this process than it would be just to try to think of the word or number.
I also think that the explanation of some of the key processes were too vague, and things in this book need to be fully explained for them to work and be followed. For example, Lorayne uses the term Peg Word a lot, and he never really introduced this term fully, and that made it harder for me to grasp certain chapters because I couldn't find the full use for that term. Another example would be some of the association techniques he used for associating dates. He was too vague about how the association method works for dates, and the examples he used only made it more confusing than just committing the date and name to memory in a different way.
Overall, I think his main ideas were sound and helpful, but some of the more detailed and specific strategies were lacking in detail. I think that if he went into more detail and was more simple with his strategies, they would be easier to grasp and they wouldn't make things harder rather than easier.

Book Review



The memory techniques in this book Super Memory can be helpful to certain people in some subjects of study and can be applied to real life. The author's name is Harry Lorayhe and the title of the book is Super Memory Super Student. The theme of this book is to gain new memory techniques. The thesis of the book is there is no learning without memory.
In the first technique he taught us to transfer number to letters. This works because the base numbers are similar to letters. For example 1 is to T, 2 is to N, 3 is to M, and 4 is to R. 1 is to T because of the one line up to the T. 2 and 3 are for the lines going up in N and M. Overall I think this technique is probably the best one in the book.
The next technique is to use the letters for dates in history. For example, 1776 can be TKKJ. Next I then turn those letters into words. This Kaplan kindly jogs would be a good way to memorize it because my last name is Kaplan and I am incorporating something that I can relate too. Overall, this method works very well in world history.
The last technique is changing harder vocabulary into other words you can remember. For example, blaśe means to indifferent. You can remember this by linking blaśe to blaze and remembering that the two words are different. This is a easy trick to link two words together to make it easier to remember. Overall, this book was really helpful to me because it allowed me to explore other methods of memorization.

What if it was found out grades could be raised drastically within a month? According to Super Memory by Harry Lorayne, grades can be raised in 30 days, using simple memorization strategies that are widely known, but it is not known how effective they can be. This book gives a fascinating exploration about the process that lets students raise their grades in some of the hardest subjects, such as, History, English, Chemistry, and so many more. In Super Memory, many ways of teaching effective memorization strategies are summarized, such as the Link System of Memory and Mnemonic Devices; the main purpose of Super Memory is to help students raise their grades.
In the book Super Memory by Harry Lorayne, there are three main subgroups of school subjects: English, History, and Math and Science, and different memorization strategies for each subject. First, there are a few chapters on how to memorize information relevant to English. In Chapter 8, which is entitled “Vocabulary”, word association is revealed to be a helpful strategy for memorization in English. Secondly, there are some chapters on History. In Chapter 12, “American History”, word association, letter association, and number association are talked about as helpful strategies to memorize names, numbers and dates. Finally, there are many chapters on Math and Science. In Chapter 21, “Chemistry, Biology and Genetics”, it is revealed that letter association and word association are very helpful when it comes to memorizing elements, acronyms, and elemental charges. Super Memory is mainly divided into different school subject categories, and different memorization strategies can apply for each subject.
tThroughout the book, the Link System of Memory is shown to have a positive effect on students by associating items that it is necessary to know with ridiculous images that can be visualized easily. The author describes why not to use logical pictures for the Link System, “Don’t use a logical picture…[it could be] possible, logical, probable--and it won’t work” (16).
This chapter constantly reminds the reader not to use a logical picture when trying to associate items with the Link System of Memory because ridiculous pictures pop into the mind easier than normal and logical ones. Another example are how bad memories are more memorable than good memories, showing that items that are bad or ridiculous stand out more than items that are good or logical. Chapter 5 gives us a description on how to use the Link System with word association, “The Link is based mainly on the reminder principle. I’ve taught you to force one thing to remind you of the next...so you can visualize [non-visual objects]” (30). Humans are hardwired to have the reminder principle. The reminder principle causes one thing to remind you of another, and of another, and it ends up going on for a long time. The reminder principle is used every day by almost every human, and the narrator is describing how to apply it to academics. In Super Memory, the Link System is shown to work with students by associating items with ridiculous images or phrases that are easily remembered.
In this book, mnemonic devices are used as a helpful way to memorize long sequences of information; this strategy also uses word and letter association. The author describes that when the Peg system of memory is learned, it is almost permanently embedded in the mind, “And you’ll be able to use [the Peg system] over and over again--forever. If you know the sounds of the Phonetic Number/Alphabet, you can come up with a word that will represent any number” (41). The key of the Peg system of memory is that the system permanently embeds in the brain, so items can never completely be forgotten. The Peg system also uses the reminder principle, by using sounds to conjure up numbers and other information. Chapter 3 reveals that in order to study smart, it is needed to be able to consciously associate items, “...you [already study] subconsciously, without thinking about it, realizing it, or having control over it. Your goal, now, is to knowingly and consciously...be able to associate [items]...the [systems of memory outlined in the book] will enable you to do just that” (13). Many of the strategies that are talked about in this book, such as: mnemonic devices, the Link System, the Peg System are already known by the reader, however, the reader does not realize that they are using these systems. Once this realization is established, it becomes much easier to study effectively, and put these memorization strategies to use. Throughout Super Memory, mnemonic devices and other memorization strategies are used in order to make memorization easier.
In conclusion, throughout the nonfiction work Super Memory by Harry Lorayne, effective memorization strategies are given to the reader. There are many purposes of Super Memory, but the main purpose is to help students raise their grades in challenging classes that require a lot of memorization. The Link System of Memory works because it allows people to associate ridiculous images with important terms that need to be memorized. Mnemonic devices let people associate silly combinations of words together in order to remember a difficult concept. Within mnemonic devices, the Peg system comes in handy, in order to permanently embed items into the mind. Super Memory gives great advice on how to use effective memorization strategies, and it should be a required book in all high school curriculums due to the book’s helpfulness. This book is very recommended, and will help students raise their grades and increase their academic performance.

Super Memory by Harry Lorayne is a book that contains various methods on how to memorize efficiently, easily, and quickly. Harry Lorayne is a specialist in the training of human memory. The Super Memory book provided many memorization techniques that made memorizing chemistry terms and topics fairly easy. Harry’s goal was to communicate easy to learn memorization methods to the readers of the book. I believe this book has truly provided me with useful methods to memorize chemistry terms i had a hard time remembering. I plan to highlight how the book has successfully and easily taught these various methods.

The main chapters of the Super Memory Book include chapters one through six, eight through ten, eleven, seventeen, and nineteen through twenty one. Within chapters one through six, Harry Lorayne provides various examples of how he makes memorization fun and manageable at the same time. On page 4 Harry Lorayne mentions that he wants the reader to engage in his book, “ I want you to be actively involved; I want you to answer questions, fill in blanks- amaze yourself”. Harry makes his objective clear that he wants to involve the reader in his methods of memorization. Chapters eight through ten chapters serve to help the reader remember various forms of vocabulary. Harry Lorayne intended to provide easy forms of memorization methods for vocabulary within these chapters. Lorayne writes, “ Assume you never heard the word “Barbeque” before and you wanted to remember not only its pronunciation but also its meaning. What does “Barbeque” sound like. Barber Q” (54). Lorayne then places a picture of a barber cutting a Q’s hair as a form of a memorization tool. Lorayne uses this tool throughout all three of these chapters because he feels it will be the easiest to utilize when studying.
I believe this book provides easy to learn memorization methods. Harry Lorayne begins talking about how creating an image for yourself may help in memorization. He says “ See the silly picture that only you can see. A felled star looks like a gigantic quarter (quartz), or quartz of liquid pour out of a felled star” (32). Harry Lorayne tries to make memorization fun and easy to learn. He incorporates fun within his methods because he tries to get the reader to have fun while learning how memorize. This process makes learning more memorable and easy. Not only that, but also the idea of having an image that only the reader can see will greatly help the individual memorize more efficiently. Harry Lorayne later brings the same method of using pictures while memorizing, when the reader hits the Vocabulary section of the book. He says “ What does barbeque sound like? Barber Q (or cue) of course” (54). This method also incorporates the use of sounding out words within finding an image that is similar to the sound. He does this because it most definitely allows the reader to use his/her imagination to create an image that is easy to remember and use when the time comes. This tiny bit of imagination can truly allow the reader to have fun while studying. Towards the end of the book, Harry Lorayne also incorporates the use of acronyms within his memorization methods. He then says “ I see Dick Hackin (HC2) a ham (H3) that you own (O2)” (140). Harry uses his creativity to form unique sentences that correlate with him. Through this, he can easily memorize formulas for various compounds in chemistry. Through this he achieves his goal of encouraging creativity, easiness, and fun while studying.
tHarry Lorayne provides valid explanations as to why each method will help in the process of memorization. Harry Lorayne starts off by explaining what method we will be using in the chapter and why. He says “ Applying the Substitute word technique to foreign-language words or phrases is practical. The systems are self-perpetuating: the more you use them, the more use you’ll find for the and the more useful they’ll be”(56). Knowing that most people will find studying boring, Harry Lorayne states that each of his methods are self- motivated, in the sense that if the person practices them often, then they become useful. He does this so people could become encouraged to study. He wants them to be encouraged because that is how his methods work, through determination and imagination. In the next chapter, Harry mentions the utmost importance of memorizing vocabulary for the SAT. He continues to say “ Those “tricks” are fine for those who don’t know the material, although the Educational Testing Service suggests that encouraging students to rely on “what they see as tricks”. Let me show you a way to know the information” (65). Although Harry encourages the use of his memorization tricks, he see’s the tricks given to students by others are quite inefficient. He rather focuses on the actual memorization of the material, rather that the temporary memorization they get from doing zed tricks. This proves that he is truly dedicated to accomplish his goal of getting the reader to memorize things permanently rather than just for a brief moment. Harry Lorayne later mentions the Phonetic Number/Alphabet device. He states “ In math and science you’re expected to know metric measurements and equivalents. It’s so easy. Form an association between Milly and sum up mug” (129). Harry starts by saying that we will find this method useful because of the significance it has when memorizing the metric measurements. He emphasizes this, so he can get the reader to understand that his methods are all relevant within school. He wants the reader to understand this, so that he/she feels inspired to learn his various methods. Finally, Lorayne wants to get the point across that his methods are tools in the real world as well as in school.

tI would like to conclude that Harry Lorayne accomplished his goal of providing me with efficient and easy to learn methods within his book Super Memory. Not only did the book provide me with easy to learn methods, but also examples of the methods, so that I could learn to utilize them myself. I also noticed that his explanations of why his methods were important, served as encouragement for me to use these methods within my daily life.As a final thought, I would like to conclude by saying that he caused me to truly enjoy memorization and studying through his creative methods.

Super Memory Super Student is written by Harry Lorayne. The book talks about a bunch of different studying methods used to remember information. The book was written for the purpose of helping students memorize information given out in class.

This book uses very good examples and explains things very well like, specially designed memorization for numbers and vocabulary. It does not only explain them really well but it shows you how to apply it and use it in your school work and studies.

Harry Lorayne explains and shows the link system very well. The link system connects words and letters to things like a number of symbols and can make memorizing things a lot easier. He goes very in-depth into this and explains it very well and makes it really easy to understand even if it is a far-fetched idea.

A lot of his methods are kinda weird and sound kind of crazy like the link method but he talks about and dedicates a whole page to talk about sticking with it no matter if you think it's weird or crazy which I think is very important.

I finally really like how he states that it is all up to the reader if he or she would like the methods that he explains in the book. He talks about that the reader needs to fully engage and dive into the methods so that these methods actually work which I think is very important for mastering the methods.

Overall I felt that Harry Lorayne did a great Job writing his book and explains all of his methods very well and uses a lot of details making them really easy to understand even if like I said they sound very crazy or weird.

Will Garlington
Dr. Halkyard
Chemistry I
10/18

Super Memory Super Student by Harry Lorayne is a book focused on helping students using several methods to memorize a variety of things. He is a famous author credited with several other books exploring the same topics. This is a review assigned by my teacher. I think that this book can work for many people within a select audience of students but many people including me would find the methods confusing and distracting.
tThe chapters are mostly the same, with some different memory devices, but a majority of the book can be summed up with devices focusing on relating words to numbers, and relating words phrases or any number of things with vivid imagery. I think that this can work for some people but when I try to think of numbers when remembering a word it just confuses me with all the intricacies of the decoding methods he recommends. I think that remembering the number combinations and the patterns to relate them to other things is much more effort than just remembering the word itself. The same could be said for the numerous methods of using creative imagery for thinking of of numbers and other languages.
tThe whole book seems like it uses the same exact strategy for everything and Harry just repeats the same thing for different subjects. The chapters in which he uses the Idea is frequently reused in chapters 4, 8, 9, 10, and 11. These chapters are about very different things but he uses the same trick for all of them. In some of these chapters he uses images to think of a single word. This is totally counterproductive as now you have to remember multiple words just to remind yourself of one word. Once again I think that it would just be easier to remember one word that's a little more complex.
tThe other type of memory device is using numbers to think of things that are not numbers, or using things that are not numbers to remember numbers. This makes absolutely no sense because it forces you to do extra thinking and memorizing than is needed. A glaring example of this is in chapter 6. In this chapter he shows you a way to remember numbers ,he replaces the numbers with letters which is nonsensical. Not only do you have to remember the exact same amount of characters but they are coded. The device he uses does not reduce the size of numbers just replaces them with proxy characters. Not only will you need to remember the exact letters for the number, but you also have to remember the numbers each letter corresponds to.
tThese are just some examples of the shortcomings of book. This book just doesn’t work for me for these reasons. I’m sure many others have had the same experience.

Good techniques, the applications just weren't that relevant to me.

Great book outlining the associative memory tricks and exercises. Like with anything, to benefit from the author's methods the exercises require practice.

Super Memory-Super Student by Harry Lorayne can be very helpful, but you need to have the right mindset, you need to be mature enough, and interested enough. The book is simply to help people be able to memorize things easier. When you think about school, a huge part of it is being able to memorize things. The book has a great intention because students need to be able to memorize things for almost every class if not every class.

tThis book can be really helpful to people. However, if you are going to read this book, I suggest that you take it very seriously. If you were to look through the book and not really care too much about it, than you probably should not read it because it may be a waste of your time. The goal of the book is to help you be able to memorize and be a better student. If you do not have the mindset of really wanting to get better, than it doesn’t make sense to read it. It requires time and focus… if you do not give those things, you will not get much out of it.

tIf you want to be able to memorize, this book is perfect. It gives tactics to help you be able to memorize things. Another thing about it is that a lot of the tactics it gives you, I noticed I do some of them sub-consciously. It is like getting your sub-conscious tactics on paper and making them clear to yourself. For the most part, It is very helpful and it can make you into a better student.

tIn conclusion, this book requires a large attention span but if you can focus it can really be a great tool. It is essentially a book full of tools for memorizing. The rest is up to you. Are you going to take this book very serious and use it to your advantage? If yes, I suggest to get this book and utilize it. In all, I recommend this book to certain people.

Book review
In this story Harvey Lorayn attempts to give you methods to remember sequences mainly corresponding to learning foreign languages and Chemistry. Harvey has been called the "memory Yoda," but personally I don't find his methods effective. His teachings would pertain to those who have very poor memories but are incredibly organized. This book goes over many things but especially retaining sequences in your mind by connecting words, letters, and numbers. It will help you remember a few things if you really try, but I believe there are more effective methods to retaining information.
When Harvey says "it's important that you apply the technique entirely on your own." Without help this is nearly impossible."(91) the amount of information you have to remember for his methods is probably more than what you were trying it memorize. The book is overall time consuming and not productive in my opinion. Of course book reviews are completely opinion and I respect any other opinions on this subject.
Harvey also claims that his teachings are " the academic equivalent of giving steroids to an athlete." Except that steroids enhance performance almost immediately while his methods prolong the learning cycle.(86) As you can see my view on this book was negative because of the disappointing experiences I had with it. My opinion is shaped by experience alone.
I would recommend this book for those who have bad sequence memories and are very visually organized. Other than that you should not buy this book and just try to memorize whatever you trying to memorize on your own. My negative experience with the book should be enough to discourage you from purchasing it, but if that's not enough see for yourself. With this purchase you are throwing away money and I recommend you make a smarter investment than Super memory Super student.

Book Review: Super Memory Super Student: How to raise your grade in 30 days by Harry Lorayne

tIn Harry Lorayne’s Super Memory Super Student: How to raise your grade in 30 days. Harry Lorayne is a resident of New York and he is also the world’s leading authority on memory training. The main theme of this book is to help the reader understand useful tactics for gaining a better memory and learning interesting memory devices. Lorayne uses many helpful mnemonic devices and he uses methods that are quite confusing, but, when putting it all together, his methods come together.
tThe best way to summarize this book is by saying this book teaches you good lessons for memorizing. It goes from mnemonic devices to his own way memory devices to further help the reader learn these methods. He uses a lot of repetition to prove his point that his methods can be effective towards everyone.
tHarry Lorayne uses good mnemonic devices to help the reader to really understand how important mnemonic devices actually are for memorizing. Mnemonic devices are very helpful to most students. For Lorayne, he shows the reader how to use it in many different subjects, but only one real topic is touched on in this book review. The topic is memorizing vocabulary. Vocabulary is the base of all languages, not even in an idiomatic sense, but a scientific form as well. For example, for learning spanish vocabulary, he uses this example: “Corbata-Necktie. There is a large applecore around my neck instead of a necktie and i’m hitting it with a bat.” (61). This is just an example of this type of the mnemonic devices. His mnemonic devices are emphasized a ton in this book. Another time Lorayne uses mnemonic devices is for using vocabulary words for important standardized tests, an example in the book, for the word meander (which is to wander) it says: “Me and her are wandering slowly” (67). This is just another example of how he uses this device, and how he emphasizes that the device is important.
tHarry Lorayne has some pretty confusing confusing methods, but when you put them together, it makes a lot of sense. Harry chooses a method where he memorizes words using numbers. On page 47, there is a table of all the words that Lorayne uses in his own method to memorize. By showing his own methods in this book, it gives the reader motivation for creating their own way of memorizing words with numbers. Specifically, he says, “The word ‘bomb’ transposes to 93” (37). Lorayne does the same method, but he switches it around a little bit, by using letters to memorize words, that in the end makes up words. Now, it sounds confusing, but when put together, it is helpful.
This book’s purpose is to help the reader with their memorization skills. The main highlight in the book, in my perspective, is the the whole emphasis on mnemonic devices. For me, taking on studying that way is very effective. Lorayne shows the reader how important that device is. Harry has opened up a new idea, way of thinking about my studying. It showed me to think deeper in my studies. Lorayne did a good job showing the reader good ways to remember.

Jorim Powell
Mr. Halkyard
Chemistry 1
10/6/15

Book Review
The author of this book, Super Memory Super Student How to Raise Your Grades In 30 Days, is Harry Lorayne. Harry Lorayne is an American magician, memory-training specialist, and also a writer of course. The main theme is it teaches good study habits. So, it offers a variety of methods to memorize things. He wrote this book to offers anyone his advice to the best ways to a greater memory. It goes into great details and has many examples for the reader to try. The book has at least one method of memorization that will pertain to anyone.
The Peg System of memory is the best system to use in the book. The Peg System of memory matches one of the ten basic consonant sounds to the ten digits. It allows cooperation with all the other systems and it is also the easiest to memorize. For instance in chapter six and chapter seven make references saying that this system is easier to perform because it's based off of phonetic sound and it's also much easier to make a number into a word. I have actually applied this in my life, and out of all the systems it was the easiest to remember and apply.
However, I don't believe the Peg Word system is also a very good method to use. Unlike the general Peg System, the Peg Word matches a number to a whole word instead of one letter. Even though you can make your own affiliations with things, the books suggest that the number three is "Ma" and the number 3 is the Peg word for "Noah". It's very hard to memorize one specific word to one specific number. It is much easier to memorize one letter to a number. I have also applied this to my everyday life, but it wasn't as profitable as the regular Peg System.
In conclusion not every single memory trick he offers will be of assistance, but at least one will be able to help any person. These methods he provides are the shortest and easiest way to memorizing things easier. These ideas can be applied in school, a job setting, almost any place in a person's daily lifestyle. However, the reader should always at least try every method to know which work and which don't. It's the only way for sure to know how his/her brain works.