🧠 Active Recall Technique
The main idea behind the blurry method is the same as active recall: the brain is forced to retrieve information instead of just passively reviewing it, what the brain does not do is to strengthen the neural pathways.
📖 Read and Close Method
Take a piece of text or notes, read it, shut the material, and then write down everything you can remember without looking at the original source.
🔍 Gap Identification
Take the written recall and the original notes and compare them together in order to know how much knowledge has been gained and what parts need more revision and study.
✏️ Correction and Addition
Use a pen in a different color, to write down information that was missed and to correct wrong facts, this will make the gaps easy to spot for future review sessions where the focus will be on them.
🔄 Repetitive Cycling
Re-do the process a number of times with different topics but pay more attention to the previously missed information until the full recall is achieved every time.
💾 Memory Transfer
Through the repeated retrieval practice information transfer from short-term to long-term memory occurs, which retains the information and also significantly improves the exam performance under pressure.
⏱️ Time-Efficient Strategy
Blurring helps to see what knowledge is already there very quickly, thus the time for studying can be focused on the weak areas and no effort is wasted.
🎯 Topic-Focused Approach
Instead of working with large subjects, focus on one specific topic at a time, this will ensure that the info is in small manageable chunks and will lead to better memorization results.