Abstract The research is concerned with the effectiveness of the peg method (mnemonic device). The aim of this research is to find out if the use of the peg method is effective in helping college students remember information easily as compared to the imagery method. It was to find out whether the subjects who used the peg method to recall information we’re able to recall more words than their counterparts who used the imagery method. The findings of this research support that, the peg method mnemonic strategy is effective in the recall. The research concludes that memorization by sequence plays a role in forgetting. An enormous range of mnemonics devices has been developed since the ancient Greek period. Mnemonic devices are simply tools that help a person to remember a list (EzineArticles.co 2009) As observed by (Yates, 1926) in (Rodeiger 1980), mnemonic devices have been developed ever since time immemorial to assist in recall whenever it is impossible to use the retrieval cues from the immediate environment. Since mnemonic devices aid in the recall of information, they have been extensively used by those people who have been exposed to academic training. According to Carlson, Kincaid, Lance, and Hodgson (1976) mnemonic devices are usually divided into two classes; the peg technique and the loci technique. Bower (1) in Carlson, Kincaid, Lance, Hodgson (1976) has demonstrated that the use of the loci method dates back to the ancient Greek period. Cicero, for instance, divided the Loci into two; the selection of the Loci and the construction of the Loci. The Peg method on the other hand has been considered to be a system where words to be learned are clipped onto the peg words. According to (How stuff works 2009), the peg system is the best of all the memory systems. According to Shirai 2007 the peg strategy operates like the keyword method where the target word is remembered by a picture or a scene. This strategy is said to have been developed by Henry Herdson in the mid-1600s. Unlike the other methods, the peg strategy is not dependent on the retrieval of items in progression. Rhyming pegs or visual pegs are the ones that are widely used. In this strategy, one is required to memorize the words that rhyme with the numbers from 1-10. In the“peg strategy,” an individual memorizes a set of hooks on which he will later hang the information to be memorized. For instance, the learning scheme could have two things; One, a bun, and two, a shoe. In this case, if the word chair is to link with two then we could have “chair” visualized with a shoe hanging from it. Past research has demonstrated that personal differences in the learning and academic performance can be credited to different learning strategies. One of the best learning approaches involves the use of mnemonics. This is so because research that has been in the past reveals that mnemonic as a learning strategy has been linked to better-quality learning and recall or otherwise what is known as memory. Rodger (1980), demonstrated that mostly mnemonics are in form of memory aids that generally center on a given imagery instruction to a group of subjects. This group of the subject is encouraged to represent the material that is supposed to be remembered in the form of mental images. Apart from the most u