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3. How To Study: Two SERIOUSLY Powerful Ways To Improve Memory

Exam Study Expert: ace your exams with the science of learning

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Retrieval Practice and Spaced Practice

When psychologists talk about spaced practice, what they mean is rather than doing all your studying for a particular topic on the same day, you do the equivalent number of hours. Take those two hours and spread them out. Come back to it again in a couple of days time, again in a week, and then again in a month. If you're using flashcards, what I love to do is I'd make the flashcards, and then at the end of the session of making some flashcards, I'd take five minutes and just test myself and all the ones I just made. Go away, have a little break, come back,. Then at the start of my next session of making

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