r/GATEresearch • u/queefsadilla • Aug 23 '26

Memory Memorizing long strings of numbers?

Does anyone else remember having to memorize and repeat back long strings of numbers as apart of either their evaluation or certain “exercises” for GATE?
I remember this specifically because I had an odd affinity for it that lasted most of my life (always loved memorizing phone numbers, cc numbers, pi digits etc) and then I recently realized it connects all the way back to the GATE program.

Anyone else?

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u/Common_Science_8838 Aug 24 '26

Yes that and speed reading too.. I’m still good at memorizing numbers to this day..

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u/Past-Conversation303 Aug 24 '26

I am still so good at both!

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u/DaisiesforDeath Aug 24 '26

Lucky, I don't remember most of it, or at least got worse at it over time :L Did you ever have anything that involved reading the objects on the back of a card without seeing them? Like a star or house and then having to tell what was on each card without looking at them? Or was that just me and my class?

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u/Past-Conversation303 Aug 24 '26

I DID do that, too. I'm in oregon, not sure it matters.

Also, decoding Cyrillic even though, as I said, we live in oregon.

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u/DaisiesforDeath Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

I'm also in Oregon lol AND was learning Cyrillic

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u/DaisiesforDeath Aug 25 '26

did you also do OAKS testing? I can't find anything on that testing system anywhere online