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1) Spaced Practice
Evidence shows that studying your material in several sessions spread out over a long period, rather than repeatedly learning stuff in a short period, really helps to retain the material.
Importantly, it is better to overshoot the duration between your revision than to undershoot. If an exam is 2 months away a minimum of 10 days is recommended, it can get 12 but 8 is not fine. It gives us a false perception of mastery which may not pay off later.
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2) Interleaving
One strategy for learning is blocking. It involves practicing one thing at a time before the next ( Learning topic A before B, before C forming the pattern AABBCC), in interleaving you mix several topics together (forming the pattern ABCABC)
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The Infamous Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
This curve typically shows what happens to our memory of something in a week after learning something new.
The ultimate goal to maximize our efficiency to remember something is to reduce the effects of forgetting curve.
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4) Elaboration
Elaboration is where are you enhance the information of the learning material by relating it to other information that you already know so that you think about it differently.
This strategy makes you ask more in-depth questions about how and why things work; deepening your ...
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6) Stay Curious To Learn More
Stimulating curiosity creates more effective learning experiences. This means the more interested or curious you are about something, the better.
If you find a topic boring try connecting it with something that you do find interest...
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3) Retrieval Practice
The only way to know if your practice is working is by testing yourself. Evidence shows that testing is one of the most important factor to aid your revision and it can drastically improve your memory.
While initially it may seem better to study more, over time you are much...
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5) Link Information To Expand Your Memory
When we are learning new information that we do not want it to interfere with what we have previously learned. If this happens it is called retroactive interference. When this happens the memory that you have stored previously for some reasons cannot be retrieved. This is more li...
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When to Study
Studying time is more efficient if it is spread out over many sessions throughout the semester, with a little extra right before the exam.
Cover each piece of info five times from when you first learn it until your exam. It will enable you to retain the information with minimal effort.
Scientific Backed Ways To Learn Better
- Learn faster and retain more by imagining that you have to teach someone else what you are learning.
- Sleeping between two learning sessions greatly improves retention.
- Changing the way you practice a new motor skill can help you master it faster.
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