...make up problems where all the persons' names started with the same letter, etc.
My worst nightmare. I've figured out that I compensate for a lot of my attention-related memory "quirks" by remembering not entire words, but word patterns and initial letters. I'd get through multiple choice/matching vocab tests by remembering, "Oh, yeah, that's the long word that starts with a p and has a double consonant in the middle."
It took me an embarrassingly long time to get mean/median/mode straight, not because I couldn't do the calculations, or because I didn't understand which was useful in which situation, but because THEY ALL START WITH M! YOU MEAN I HAVE TO REMEMBER THE WHOLE WORD?!
Brain quirks, I have them.
