How do you study for multiple subjects? Well, the answer may surprise you.
If you follow the active recall applications, you will be exposed to the following four modes of learning regularly: pretests, lectures, after-class reviews, and homeworks.
1 understand it may be intuitive to schedule all four modes on the same day because the concepts will be fresh in your mind, and you'll have an easier time getting through the work.
For example, you may take a math pretest, attend a math class, review the math class's material, and do the math homework all within the span of several hours.
However, there are two main issues with this method and are most likely the reasons why you are studying way more than you need to.
The first issue being that it is too easy. When a concept has been recently taught to you, it does not take much cognitive effort to apply that knowledge soon after.
Hence, you may complete the work with less trouble, but the information likely will not be stored in your long-term memory effectively.
Once it's time for an exam, you will need to heavily review the material again in order to achieve the level of comprehension necessary to perform well, especially on inference questions.
The second issue being that you'll forget the information before you next revisit the material. Once you enter higher education, you won't have the same classes each day, meaning that it could be days, maybe even a week, before you have the class again.
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If you were to only practice with the material the same day you have class, the forgetting curve suggests you will not retain any significant amount of knowledge.
Therefore, you may feel behind in each of your subsequent classes and grow frustrated when you realize you have to relearn most of the information come exam time.
Interleaving modes of learning becomes a great alternative approach to resolve both of these issues. See the following schedule for a very basic example: Dan a
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