Testing, to the many sighs and grunts of students, is one of, if not the best method of testing your understanding. Despite this, testing has only been seen largely as a measure for grades instead of a study method.
Learning is related to the efforts in attempting to understand new information.
Elizabeth and Robert Bjork coin the term Desirable Difficulty. When learning, make sure it's not too easy to be boring, but not too hard that it's incomprehensible.
You can learn how to study. The most effective learning methods, interestingly, may not be intuitive.
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Make It Stick aims to help offer a new perspective towards memory retention, from which more effective study methods can be adopted.
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