Spaced Repetition

Studying early and consistently when preparing for an exam is essential for retaining the information you need to excel. When you procrastinate until the last minutes before a test, you increase anxiety and sacrifice sleep that is essential for optimal test performance. Additionally, without reviewing material in manageable chunks over time, you’re likely become a victim of the dreaded "Curve of Forgetting". 

The Curve of Forgetting

Spaced repetition is a learning technique where you review material and increasingly spaced intervals to improve long-term retention. Intentionally review material over time, instead cramming right before a test, reduces your forgetfulness and, best of all, reduced the overall amount of time required to prepare for an exam. While each person is unique and there is no perfect method of spaced repetition, let's look at an example of what it might look like in practice next.

 

Resources:

• Spaced Repetition Shiken Template Links to an external site. - This resource is developed by Shiken AI (an AI learning platform) that will give you a spaced repetition schedule based on the date you first learned information. You can utilize this by making a tab for each course and tracking the concepts learned, that way you have a general layout of when you should review that information. 
• Spaced Repetition: Remembering What You Learn - Article Links to an external site.