Test yourself: recall before you reread

Add a question and its answer. When you test, answer from memory first, then check, and mark whether you got it.

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Why this works

A review of ten common study techniques rated practice testing as one of only two highly useful ones: it helped learners of different ages and abilities, on many kinds of material and tests. Rereading and highlighting were rated low (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).

The review rates how widely a technique helps, not one fixed gain, so this tool makes no promise about marks. It just makes recalling, rather than rereading, the easy thing to do.

  • Source: Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58. doi:10.1177/1529100612453266

Worked example

Three Networks cards
QuestionAnswer
Thevenin resistance of a network with only independent sources?Turn the sources off and find the resistance seen at the terminals
Condition for maximum power transfer to a resistive load?Load resistance equals the Thevenin resistance
Time constant of a series RC circuit?R times C
Mixed practiceList the topics you are practising and how many problems from each.Spaced revision schedulerAdd a topic and the day you learned it.Time estimate checkerEstimate a task in minutes, do it, then add how long it really took.

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