🃏 Flashcard Systems
Make flashcards with question and answer, and test yourself frequently. Also, use spaced repetition applications to automate the timing of your reviews in the most effective way.
📝 Blank Page Technique
Shut your notes and write on a blank page everything that comes to your mind. Go over the notes to find out what you don't know later, the point where gaps are.
❓ Self-Generated Questions
Post reading the material, formulate your own questions regarding the major concepts. Then, answer them without looking at the notes first.
🗣️ Teach-Back Method
Articulate concepts clearly to yourself or to others without using any reference material. Teaching requires recall and exposes the areas of misunderstanding.
📋 Practice Testing
Solve sample problems, take old tests, or answer questions at the end of each chapter in a simulated exam situation. Only check your answers after you have tried all of them.
🎯 Cornell Note Recall
Employ the question-writing technique of the Cornell method's cue column. Conceal the main notes and periodically answer hints from memory.
🔄 Spaced Retrieval Schedule
Use the active recall method with increasing intervals for reviewing material: one day, three days, one week, and then monthly for the best retention.
💭 Mental Elaboration
While studying, frequently stop to recollect what was in the previous sections. Associate new knowledge to the memory of the previously acquired knowledge without peeping back.