I have about the worst memory known to man kind...just a few steps above an Alzheimer patient. With that said, I actually didn't have a very hard time memorizing the EP's, including notes, warnings, and cautions verbatim. My method was to break out the PCL each night and memorize a couple EP's each day. To break it down even more, I would memorize each EP sentence by sentence. Once I had the first sentence down, I moved onto the second and so forth. I also reviewed each EP I memorized the day before until I had it down cold. Now this works great for the pure memorization but you still have to practice it to be efficient in the A/C. For that, just memorize the actual procedures and practice them over and over again...chair flying or practicing in the sim. The actual procedure actually aren't that difficult. If you do this, I can guarantee you will be able to spit out the entire EP word for word in the plane...which equates to "5's".