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The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
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2. What to Study and How to Do It
Once you have figured out how you are going to space out the time now its time to see what you have to study. You are going to want to study anything that is necessary for your test. Learn it to the best of your ability and then use "the testing effect"
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The Testing Effect
The testing effect is simply to test oneself. For example using flashcards or questioning yourself with questions you expect on the test. This is the best way to remember and comprehend what you are learning because you must retrieve the information to the answer from you...
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Transfer-Appropriate Processing (TAP)
This basically means that the more your practice resembles the exam, the more your practice efforts will transfer into actual results. Which means whatever material that you use to study, the closer it is to the test the easier the test will be when done.
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The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
This is when you this that your understanding of something is a lot deeper than it actually is. You need to know the difference between what factual knowledge you have in order to build of of it. There are ways to avoid this however, the best one is to us the Feynman tech...
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The Feynman Technique
I will not expand on this except the fact that this is one of the best ways to understand material for any subject. Here is a link to the video that I recommend Feynman Technique - Thomas Frank.
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3. What Kinds of Practice to Do
- Mock tests and exams
- Problems
- Self-generated questions or writing prompts
The best kind of practice is called transfer-appropriate processing. In short TAP. The nex...
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4. Make Sure You Really Understand
A deep understanding of you material is required as memory alone will not help you in some cases.
Understanding material is > than memory
Do not fall in the trap of "the illusion of explanatory depth"
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1. When to study and how much?
You should also not study very late the day before the test. Late night studies are going to make you very tired the next day and not have the right mindset to be ready to take a test. Instead, you can study briefly before you go to bed and then in the morning you should ...
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1. When to study and how much?
We all know studying a lot can lead to a great mark. However, if you cram it all it will be difficult to comprehend. So, we need to know how to space out our study times. Spread out study times beats crammed by a significant amount. This is because when you study and then...
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5. Beat Anxiety by Simulating the Exam First
The solution to beat anxiety is to do a full stimulation of the test. For example, same seating posture, materials and, most importantly, the same time constraints.There’s three benefits to doing full simulations:
- You increase your temp...
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Illusion of explanatory depth
We think understand complex phenomena with far greater precision and depth than we rally do. We are are subject to an illusion.
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The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
When knowledge is put to the test, our familiarity with things leads to an (unwarranted) overconfidence about how they work.
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The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
We are overconfident about what we think because we're familiar with the material.
We think we know more than we actually do because it's available to us. And when knowledge is put to the test, our familiarity with things leads to an (unwarranted) overconfidence about how they ...
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