Writing the information down and using flashcards can be an excellent way to remenber infomration. ![]() Make a schedule to review important information.This is where spaced repetition comes in. The million-dollar question: how do you slow down the process of forgetting? To bore you with some history, Hermann Ebbinghaus ran a study on himself and found that information is lost over time if there is no attempt to retain it. Typical Representation of the Forgetting Curve – By Nheise at English Wikibooks, CC BY-SA 3.0, īy the second week, only about 25% of the information has been retained, and by the 4th week, probably only 10% of the information has been retained. It is not like I hadn’t been through the material and taken notes: I had, but clearly, I had forgotten a lot of what I had been through, and I would need to go back over the notes to address the weak areas.Ī fact of human life is that when we learn a new topic or subject, we will only retain around 50% of what we learned by the end of the first week. I just felt like there was no way in the world I would be able to pass the exams. ![]() In the allotted 2 hours and 15 minutes, I had only completed 20% of the questions (and got most of them wrong). After covering all the course material, I remember completing my first practice exam on general nav.
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