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Learn How to Memorize Anything


Quote:Typical study methods like lectures, cramming, and re-reading are ineffective. According to scientific research, they don’t help students retain information over the long term. What works is spaced repetition: “You test yourself on a fact repeatedly, spacing out your repetitions over time.” Coder and writer Nicky Case explains further in their interactive comic How to Remember Anything Forever-ish. This half-hour-long web comic, complete with flash cards, is probably the funniest thing ever written about study techniques.

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