Testing yourself is studying — retrieval practice beats rereading and students keep choosing rereading because it feels easier

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Spaced repetition software like Anki works because it schedules review right at the edge of forgetting The spacing effect is one of the most replicated findings in psychology and almost no curriculum is designed around it Sleep is when memories get consolidated — all-nighters delete the very thing they try to cram Ten thousand hours is a headline rather than a mechanism — Ericsson's actual finding was structured deliberate practice with feedback Working memory holds about four items — every theory of learning and instruction has to live within that budget Desirable difficulties: making learning harder in the short term makes it stick in the long term Unlearning costs more than learning — replacing a fluent wrong method is harder than building a new one from scratch Spaced repetition changed how I acquire and retain new material — cramming never stood a chance The forgetting curve does not care how motivated you were — Ebbinghaus measured the decay in 1885 and we still schedule studying like it does not exist Flashcards build recognition rather than understanding — the trade-off every med student discovers around exam season

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