Hello everybody,
 
I'm new to GMS.
I haven't bought the course yet, but hope to do it very soon.
 
Until then, I would like clarification on the questions below.
 
1. I can't speak English very well, but I have read the manual and had 75%-80% comprehension.
   Is it enough to complete the course?
 
2. My primary goal for buying the course is to be able to memorize textual data more efficiently, can
   anyone give me an example on how the GMS system helps me to memorize a book word for word and store
   it for a lifetime. In what way is it better than memorizing a book without GMS?
 
3. Every 4-6 weeks you have to go over the memorized data, how long will that take for a page of
   a book, asuming that I memorized the page word for word.
   I'm talking here about a normal reading book with very little precise data.
   Do I have to go over the support images and repeat the memorized text in my head?  
 
4. In the course a Student will be able to create his own database.
   How large is this database? How many support images will the course offer me, and how
   many elements will I be able to store in the database?
 
5. Is the student area still active?
 
6. In what way does a GMS user memorize textual data that can't be transformed into images?
   Like a song, or an instruction manual (word for word).
 

Thank you for your time.

1. Reading manual is necessary but not sufficient condition to have mnemonic skill. You need to get a lot of practice. But now you have almost all theoretical information how does memory work.
 
2. You won’t memorize books word by word. It’s not necessary if you don’t mean some complicated documents like criminal code or other legislation.
 
You will memorize only sense of information. For example, let the article contain 15 paragraphs. In this case you have only 15 main messages which you need memorize. It will have very compact form in your memory and you need a little time in order to repeat this information.
 
You must keep in mind that you will be studying text memorization technics only in forth part of training. So you will be doing a lot of exercises which don’t concerned with you primary goal.
 
3. Repetition: yes, you have to go over the support images and repeat the memorized text, which will be coming up in your head.
 
4. The size of database you will create is restricted by number of your support images. You have to select support images by yourself in the future. But the course provides you with support images for memorization exercises. In the second part of course you will get almost a block of fourth-level support images system with 100 (not 125) terminal elements.
 
The number of elements you stored in database depends on number of support images and the way you arrange your data. You can record one image or a sequence of images (up to 7-10) to terminal element.
 
5. I don’t know. Perhaps, it alive )
Ruslan M., give me an access to the student area, please. I’ve already done GMS course by myself and I can help other students with their questions.
 
6. What kind of textual data can’t be transformed into images except fictions which its descriptions of nature and various scenes? The more precise and frequent information you have to memorize, the easier you can do it with mnemonics.

Hi,
 
Thanks for your reply.
 
In the GMS manual on page 18, there is a page about a man who memorized a book.
The man is a GMS user who memorized the whole content of the book word for word.
 
This is what's written in the manual.
....
It also occurs to you that this amount of information seems completely impossible to
memorize WORD FOR WORD.
 
So it is possible to memorize books word for word using the GMS system, right?
 
I know the GMS users are provided with a method to form images to store textual data more efficient,
but how about someone who is learning a new language?
That person has to learn a large amount of words and sentences.
It wouldn't be possible to learn a new language by memorizing images that represent the textual data.
 
So how does the course teach the GMS users how to learn new words and sentences in a new language?

Ok, let’s try to understand this example (GMS Manual, p.18).
All information which should be memorized with help of mnemonics is factual. I mean to say that such information (like a historical dates or timetable) contains factual data – numbers, terms and definitions. This information we memorized with mnemonics. All other information will be memorized unintentionally. But there almost no such information in example above.
Timetable: math, drawing, literature… - all of it is a factual data.
 
Word for word memorization is applied only in rare instances when you need to memorize specific type of information (legislation as example) and also to memorize small text in foreign language.
 
What about foreign language. Usually textbooks which help you to learn foreign language contain several types of exercises. From PM course you will know how to perform this exercises efficiency. I need to say that with mnemonics you can provide right conditions for good memorization (for example, how many times and when you should to repeat information). Also you will have an opportunity to keep in mind hundreds foreign words and phrases while you learn it. It helps you during first several days when you repeat new information. This is the main advantage which mnemonic can give you in foreign language studying.
 
I’m studying English at present with mnemonics. It works.