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I've never actually hypnotised anyone who wanted to be able to remember information for an exam, ever. Anyway, I was asked this morning: "If you hypnotised someone who was about to sit an exam and gave them 100 answers to 100 questions they would 'definitely' be asked in that exam, would they remember them?"
Anyone got any vast experience in this area and would like to comment?
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I've noticed there have been 33 viewing of the above post but no thoughts on it. Thus one might suspect no knowledge of it? This might suggest that not one of the viewers had any experience or knowledge of this phenomena. Fair enough, thanks for having a look. But it begs the thought: Just how many actual hypnotists/hypnotherapists frequent 'You Are Getting Sleepy'.

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I have hypnotised (as an experiment) a subject and quizzed him on information he had been taught but could not remember. He answered the questions I asked him, but unfortunately the answers, while delivered with confidence, were guesses and were frequently wrong. All hypnosis did was give him confidence in his guesses. Hardly a scientific test, but my feeling would be you could do far more for the candidate by teaching him simple nmeonics for the information he has to memorise. 100 bits of information should be easily memorisable in a few hours that way. I don't think that hypnosis is the answer.
Also I have read of studies into learning which indicate that recall is easiest if the conditions of the learning are recreated. So if someone learns drunk (an extreme example) then he will recall that information best while drunk. So your client might need to be hypnotised for the exam if he studied under hypnosis. Instinct tells me it won't work, but I am open to correction.
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Hypnosis for exams works. Mostly because it soothes nerves which get in the way of recall. A sort of stage fright or performance anxiety.

I would recommend a memory system to "file" the information away. Hypnosis can also be used to wire in the best state for learning absorbing the info.

Usually anxiety both in the learning studying phase and the recall or exam itself is why students don't as well as they should. You can also make brain entrainment tracks that can do this along with suggestion...

I have used hypnosis and memory systems to get high scores in exams. I didn't even fully understand the info and quickly forgot it soon after the exam.
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Mindpunisher is right - hypnosis will make a big difference to anxiety levels, which will make a correspondingly big difference in the exam result. I used to meditate before exams for this reason. But nmeonics are the best for the actual learning. A combination of the two will supercharge the learning process.
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The thing about nmeonics (god I'm glad tony spelled it before me) is you can store a huge amount of info quickly without even having to understand too much of it. Which I'm not sure if its good or not but fir learning abstract info its great.

There is also such a thing as a "learning state". This is a relaxed state where your analytical faculty is subdeud a little. This is supposed to be the best state for absorbing info at lectures etc.

However self hypnosis and visualising yourself absorbing info at incredible rates (however you represent that)and recalling info at the exam being relaxed and in control at all times, with post hypnotic suggestions saying something like " When ever I study I will be relaxed but not to relaxed - just right level to absorb everything I need in order to pass the exam exactly the way in the visualisation".

Do something similar for the exam too - rehearse both the studying and the exam adding suggestions that you are finding it fun and easy..

Another good thing to finish the session is to imagine or get the person you are working with to imagine a croweded room of people they know all applauding them and cheering them because they passed their exams. Get them to enjoy the applause.

Another good thing to do is to get them relive in their minds memories of achieving something they worked hard for and anchor those feelings. Then fire them off while doing the above visualisations.

The above will associate good and resourceful states and feelings to learning and taking the exam which will make it infinately easier.

Creating an mp3 with brain entrainment binaural beats so they can use it repeatedly would be useful for them.
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All good stuff, thanks.
Yes nmeonics are fantastic. I trained through Bruno Furst (very embarressing if I've got it wrong) for memory and I do know this stuff works. I'm also in agrement that they need to be in the correct frame of mind and confident.
I'm dissappointed that there are no magical reports (like we see in the movies) of the hypnotist zappin them and they remember everything but I'm a romantic I guess.
Interesting what Tony said about the subject whose memory was no better but was more confident in his answers. This reminded me of a post I made in here maybe 6 months ago about a stutterer who kept thankiong me throughout the evening for fixing their stutter whilst there seemed no real difference. In other words they confidently believed it was. I kept looking into the guys eyes to see if he was taking the p--- but no, he was genuine. Here's the second ionteresting part of it: When I brought him round, for a full 20 secs or so he truly spoke perfectly without any hint of the stutter. I guess we all want to heal/fix people and because I witnessed this phenomena, then lost it, I found it quite depressing on the night.
Mindpunisher might remember the TV doc of a wee Glasgow girl who had been blind since birth, had an op which gave her vision but then lost it again within a couple weeks. I believe it was called: 'It's Great To See'.
Anyway some good replies, ta.

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It's actually spelt...'Mnemonics'

Hope that helps!
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You will have to start a new thread for that then we can debate it..
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Yeah Martin, you've been nothing but trouble since you got in here. Although Tony needs to share in the blame and MP too for going along with it. All in all I can't help feeling that my post has been totally ruined. I feel.... soiled!
Anyway Martin, whilst you're here, you got any new ideas on this topic? We're all out.

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The bad spelling is probably my fault. In a former life I was a journalist, and they are knotorious - sorry, notirous - sorry, well-known for not being able to spell.
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Yes and Im just lazy...
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Hypnosis CAN help with memory... IF they already know the information and are having issues recalling it. Most issues with memory is caused by nervousness. In fact, most issues with MEMORIZING things are caused by nervousness.

Using hypnosis to give them a trigger/anchor to help them relax will do wonders if they use it before they begin studying and use it again before they start the test.

It's hard to remember things when put on the spot. Much easier to remember things when you're just chillin.

Accelerated Learning is a GREAT book for learning fantastic learning techniques. Most of which can be enhanced with hypnosis.
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Actors who get all methody use basic mental anchoring to recall emotions for the stage or screen, generally more genuine performances on screen, and I suffered for this a while because I found forcing myself to remember something upset that I'd largely got over a bit stupid and clumsy. However, I used physical anchoring for a while to bring in the emotions, forcing myself somewhere (wierd, actors who struggle to appreciate their characters' emotional context may do this at times), and anchoring it to an simple action, NLP style.

Off the basis of that, and thinking of the vast volumes of formula I had to memorise (and fail to!) for maths and physics, I'm curious to know if visual/pictorial recall of things like formula could be anchored to similar actions... Could that work?
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