I use a combination of all of these and Anki-fy whatever makes sense to do so.
Anki is a digital flash card app for phones, so I guess they convert whatever they’re learning to the Anki format.
No OP, but Anki is an app that you can use with your own custom flashcard packs, or find them online. You review a card and mark how well you remember it, with the hardest ones resurfacing more quickly and easiest ones more seldom.
Spaced repetition is more efficient because it is based on refreshing something in your memory at the (theoretically) optimal intervals to transfer it from short-term to long-term memory. So at any time, the app should surface the cards you need to see the most.
It does actually work and isn’t pseudo-science. It got me through the bar exam after law school.
I’m kinda old-fashioned, I just remember things.
Wish I could do that.
I’ve had to come up with a spiderweb-esque system where each thread leads to the knowlegde, notes, calendar items, google searches etc.
Last time I tried the Feynman technique I was escorted from the building for impersonating a professor.
Seriously though, back in college I used the Leitner system until I was comfortable enough with the info that I could explain it in layman’s terms. Though back in the day I just called the Feynman technique the rubber duck method thanks to my brother who was in IT and actually got everyone rubber ducks one year as a gag stocking stuffer.
Supplementary tips:
- Study under similar conditions as you will be tested (mimic lighting florescent/LED/Incandescent? Dim/Bright?, ideally study in the same room or in similar seats/room, sitting ofc, if you drink alcohol studying, drink for the test too - bad idea tho), ever leave a room and forget what you’re doing? This effect applies for studying too
- avoid listening to music with lyrics (or anything with talking in it except study partners/TTS Textbooks etc.), significantly hampers brain efforts
- Associate your studies with a scent (ie: a cologne you only use for this purpose) and have that scent on you when you are being tested, scent is primal portion of brain strongly associated with memory
- be gratuitously friendly just before studying and writing a test (pay someone a compliment that makes them smile, hug a friend or willing colleague, etc…) this reduces stress and allow your brain to be less fight or flighty
- similar to previous, avoid caffeine. Ideally you should be well rested for both study sessions and the test, but if you insist (I understand completely if you do trust me) use it for both per the first point.
- be well hydrated for both studying and the test (don’t forget to urinate before it begins though :P)
Be cool if y’all did an ADHD version.
