The Wrong Way to Study
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Here’s why you can study for hours and remember almost nothing: Thing is, a lot of students study like this. They study by reread the chapter, highlight your notes, watch the lecture again…
I mean, everything feels familiar, right? So you feel like you know it.
But then you close the book, you’re trying to explain it back to yourself, and you’re just at a loss for words. Like nothing’s coming out.
It’s like, it, it’s almost as like your, your mind got wiped and if that’s your study technique, then that’s a totally normal experience because that’s what happens when you’re just consuming information.
You feel like you got a lot of it stored up there.
You’re filling your brain with it, and then pff, just gets wiped you barely remember anything and the solution to this problem: If you want something to really stick in your brain, you gotta practice retrieving it.
You gotta solve problems from memory. And if you really can’t, you can look back, and then close the book again and then try again, just look back for a little hint, then close the book, go back to the problem, keep pushing it as far along as you can.
Don’t just keep passing information over your brain. You gotta practice pulling it back out.
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