Spaced Repetition: The Secret to Long-Term Memory
Why cramming fails and how spacing out your review sessions can improve retention.
15 Nov 2024
Key takeaways
- Review a topic soon after first practice, then extend the gap as scores improve.
- Prioritize low-scoring topics instead of repeating what already feels easy.
- Use history and results to decide what should come back into the review queue.
- Keep reviews short and frequent; three 10-minute sessions beat one hour of cramming.
- Let accuracy decide the gap: easy topics move further out, weak ones stay close.