1. Take notes with pen and paper.
To speed up your learning, skip the laptop and take notes the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper. Research has shown that those who type in their lecture notes process and retain the information at a lower level. Those who take notes by hand actually learn more.
The act of writing out the information fosters comprehension and retention through muscle memory.
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