A Sanity Check for Effective Study Techniques

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Every time you study, imagine the Grim Reaper is gonna show up at the end of your session to quiz you on what you covered, and if there’s any question you can’t answer correctly, you die.

Whatever study techniques you’d use in that situation, you better be using them already.

(I should emphasize that getting stuff wrong occasionally is totally okay and expected. The thought experiment here is more about the actions than the results: truly optimal study strategies would be conserved even in the theoretical highest-stakes scenario.)

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