How to revise effectively! - retrieval practice
Channel: Kit Betts-Masters
Date: 22/10/2020

If you're aiming for the very highest grades you need to make sure that your memory is working well. You need to make sure that you are retrieving facts rapidly and accurately. And just like learning any skill, to do that you need to practice.

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Check out some of the evidence:  Most popular is least effective.
https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2016/06/learning-memory 
https://www.titaniumtutors.co.uk/post/how-to-revise-for-exams 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22565912 
https://aliabdaal.com/3popularrevisiontechniquesyoushouldavoid/  avoid re reading, highlighting, and unless trained, avoid summarising.

https://youtu.be/3d73Qsr-Hm4
https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/dunlosky.pdf 
https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/rgoldsto/courses/dunloskyimprovinglearning.pdf 
https://skhs.queensu.ca/default/assets/File/Undergraduate/Culture%20of%20Learning/Ineffective%20Study%20Methods.pdf
https://www.penguinprof.com/uploads/8/4/3/1/8431323/what_works_what_doesnt.pdf 

Learning means coding something accurately into your long term memory. It's alright that you get it, and that you understand it in that lesson, when your teacher has just taught it to you. You feel confident with it all whilst it's there in your working memory. But if you don't practice retrieving that information again, you'll find that a few lessons later that information has been pushed out of your short term memory!
It's like learning to drive. You don't learn to drive by reading a book about it, you get behind a wheel and you practice! You practice first with support, until you've tested well enough to show you can do it on your own.
The very act of trying to retrieve something from your memory, even if you don't get it, helps to code that memory so that you can retrieve it more rapidly and accurately next time.
That’s why so many teachers recommend retrieval practice. It really does help! It keeps you active, rather than passively reading over your textbook or class notes.
When you quiz yourself you realise what bits you do and don’t know, and you code them deeper and deeper into your long term memory. You also develop strategies to access that fact quicker the next time you need it!
You also check whether you are retrieving the information accurately, and we know that one wrong word can mean the difference between getting the mark and not getting it.


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