Spaced Repetition §

Learning Technique for remembering things, forever!#technique

Often used by medical students.

Example §

Imagine having learning cards, and putting them in different boxes. Each box will be revised on a different time. Daily, every other day, every week, once a month and so on.

Every time you get a card right, it moves into the next box. Every time you get it wrong, it goes into the first box again.

Spreading out revisions over time makes you remember it long. If you revise just before you forget, you will remember it most effectively. The forgetting curve flattens out if you revise in increasingly spaced intervals.