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The
Quiz-and-Recall Method |
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Conscientious students start a day or two in
advance and are able to review everything several times. Less
conscientious students wait until the night before — and are often
still rote reviewing up to the literal last minute before the test.
Indeed, the word “cram” can be defined as: “rapid rote
reviewing.” |
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Here is what straight-A students do
instead: |
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They collapsed their notes into clusters which I
call big
ideas. It doesn’t really matter how they decide this
grouping, it’s enough that clusters are somewhat
consistent.
- They assigned a
one-sentence prompt for each big idea. For
example: How do Gibbon’s ideas contrast with the
scholars of the early 20th century?
- For each prompt,
they attempt to lecture out loud, as if talking to
an imaginary class, the main points from the corresponding big
idea. They do this without looking at their notes. If they are
successful, they move on. If they had trouble, they put a checkmark
next to the big idea.
- After the first
pass, they take a break, and then repeat, only focusing on the big
ideas that got checkmarks. After this run-through, they repeat
again, focusing only on the big ideas that still gave them trouble
in the second pass. And so on.
- This continues until
they finish a pass with no
checkmarks.
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