Length of Knowledge

I believe that once you know something you will always know it. If you can fully understand something, you may not be able to retrieve it, but you possess on at least one level, the knowledge. If on a test you cannot remember that x2+y2=r2 on a test, but still understood the fundamentalities of a triangle, you will know the concept behind the pythagorian theorum. Everything you know is connected to something else, generally what is thought about, remembered, or learned before during or after the gain of this detail. This shows the importance of studying and repetition. If the fact that the sin squared of a number plus the cossin of the same number is equalled to one, was only mentioned once in class, and you'd only heard of it once, than only that one stream of thought could be drawn to grasp this answer.

In order to study better, this could entail you mixing the necessarry data in with other forms of data. Take a song that is constantly running through your head, try to work with this problem. Rewrite the song with your facts.

Well no one told them life would be this way.

But with free time they watched sports rode bikes, and loved to play croquet.

The problem with the pol bosses is something ew should still fear

Those involved could not escape after a day, a wee, a month, or even a year, but...

You get the idea. This involves the Gilded Age, and I actually used this on a test. I did pretty well. I'm getting sidetracked here. If I had forgotten any of that, I would have known it, but not able to recall it. The most annoying part of this surrounds when you can't recall what you need. Recently I took a test in Analytical Geometry, where a question was something like: when a graph has its two axis inserted, these four areas are created, labeled ____________ I through IV. Now this is a stupid question. I should have known it immediately, but I could not recall, I remembered it had something to with the four parts, but nothing wherefore. So I went over similar words in my mind. Quadrilateral, Quatro, Quart, Quads, Quadrants. Quadrants! That's it. Next question.

When you have trouble remembering, look for various paths you might have left the fact on. Look anywhere. You may have stored it in a totally irrelevant place, using mnuemonics. E.G, I was in third grade and taking a geography test. "Name the seven continents." Easy, I'd been studdying all week. N. America, S. America, Eurasia, which helped me to remember both of them, Antatica, other A...Africa, and one more. God, what was it? Oh no! (I was in third grade; I didn't swear.) I got incredibly nervous. With my buck teeth I nibbled on the top rigth corner of my test. The teacher kindly pointed out what I was doing, and I stopped. What was it? I became frantic. I thought about anything. I was born in Chicago, my brother's from Baltimore, my father's from Texas, my mother's from Arkansas. Her father was from Arkansas. His father was from Austria. Austria! Austria-Australia! I quickly marked it on the test. (I got a ninety-six on it from that and other panic.)

My point is, you don't forget a fact. You forget where you left it. You forget how to recall it.