Spaced Practice

Space Practice

Success doesn’t come overnight.

Refresh You Naturally forget information over time. But if you refresh your memory periodically, before you’ve forgotten.

Well-Travelled Path: To use our jungle path analogy, spacing increases the number of times you walk down the path. It also spaces out when you do the trips. Doing a number of trips over a period of time helps you to really remember the path.

Let the information set: if we compare learning to building a wall, spacing allows time for the mortar for a layer of bricks to set before we add the next layer of bricks.

One way is to use your calendar to write down times to study. Whether you use paper or digital calendar give yourself set times to practice for a test in the weeks before the test.

Set up consistent, short study sessions over time instead of cramming the night before.

As you might guess, this technique works best when you have time to study before you need to remember. You’ll need days at least, weeks at best.

Use this in combination with other study techniques. Spacing just spreads out when you study. Make sure to use the other skills on this site when you do study and don’t just reread your notes.

Block out realisticamounts of time to study. Don’t schedule 2 hours if you won’t be able to actually do that. Even scheduling 15–30 minute blocks that are spaced out will give benefits.

[website] The Learning Scientists: Retrieval Practice https://www.learningscientists.org/retrieval-practice
[website] How to Remember More of What You Learn with Spaced Repetition https://collegeinfogeek.com/spaced-repetition-memory-technique/ This page also has a video that is linked above The Most Powerful Way to Remember What You Study.
[web app] SRS Scheduler https://xferguson.github.io/srs-scheduler/
[web app] Anki https://apps.ankiweb.net/This is a spaced repetition study app. The online and desktop versions are free as is the Android app. The iOS app costs $25 and that cost is used to pay for development of the platform.