Topic
What the learning research actually says about revision, and why almost all of it contradicts what feels productive. Retrieval, spacing, and the gap between recognising an answer and being able to produce one.
Practice questions are not the check you run after studying; they are the studying. Students who answered from memory remembered about half as much again a week later as re-readers - and predicted the opposite. Read once, shut the notes, answer, read the explanation, come back a few days later.
How to Study Part 1
How a study session feels while you are in it is no measure of what will still be there next week — and the methods that feel best are the ones that reliably lose the most. Students who reread were the most confident and remembered the least. Read once, then make yourself recall it.
