The conventional method for identifying material parameters is classified into the inverse and direct formulations. The direct method can be applied to any type of problems because of its simplicity. However, it has been reported in the literature that poor convergence may occur if the direct method is used to identify simultaneously Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio. In this study, some auxiliary methods, such as BFGS method for searching the minimum value of the direction and combination of DSC method and Powell's method for determining the step size, to enhance the direct method. The proposed method was then used to analyze the examples presented in the literature. Compared with the results in the literature, the proposed method yields a good convergence. Since the nonlinear soil model can be simulated with incremental linear model, the proposed method can be used in the nonlinear soil model as well.