Hifz - Surah Kahf Memorised - Some learning points

So I've memorised Surah Kahf over the last few months. Initially I wanted to just practice tajweed through it but my teacher (a young Qari from Al-Azhar) said to start memorising.

A few learning points:

• It's always better with a teacher. When I knew I had to read to him, it automatically brought me to a focus. Having said that it's also been very difficult with my changing shift patterns and booking locum work at weekends to keep regular appointments with him.
• The Arabic during Hifz helps immensely. I can't stress this enough. When you know what you are memorising (even if its a very superficial, basic vocabulary level) it makes a huge difference. 
• It makes memorising easier. 
• It makes retaining easier, 
• When you are thinking 'what is the next verse?' when you think of the meaning it often comes back to your memory what the following verse is. Admittedly some verses appear not to flow from one to the other (to the layman like me anway) but for 90% of the time they are intertwined.
• You are constantly practising your Arabic.
• As mentioned my grammar/sarf is weak. I'm having to ignore those enquiring questions in my head as to why why why is this word in this form or why is it jarr here when it should be nasb. For now anyway. When I learn some new grammar in my Arabic course I then start implementing. If I start researching the grammar of everything then I will never any memorising done.
• I try and put all the words I will learn/am learning into ANKI in advance and memorise the individual words in advance.
• I remember people mentioning previously (those who memorise(d) the Quran without knowing Arabic), that they would try and relate Quranic words to things in their own language i.e. doing what anyone else to try and learn something - that is to relate the unknown to something they do know. To me, my logic is, learn the vocabulary in advance and you will relate what you then memorise to the actual meaning rather than some arbitrary 'hook' in another language.

• Timing improves efficiency. When I time myself to memorise each segment and try and speed up memorising each line everything is more efficient. You cant day dream, you cant lose focus. And in my 30s I am now much better at focusing than in my 20s or teens. 

• My method of memorising:
• Read a line, memorise it.
• Repeat it 5 times from memory with no mistakes
• Do same for line two.
• Combine line one and two and repeat 3 times from memory.
• Once I finish the five lines I repeat the whole portion 5 times from memory with no mistakes.
• The memorising becomes easier. I am memorising 5 lines a day. Initially this would take me about 30-35minutes. Now I can do it in 20minutes. 

• The new memorised portion:
• Initially I would sometimes leave this until the end of the day - bad idea.
• You need to, or at least I need to, memorise this first thing in the day and then repeat throughout the day. I use a simple tally app and make sure that I repeat the new portion 10 times during the day and that they are spaced out throughout the day.