What research shows about how people learn: memory, practice, attention and critical thinking.
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Recorded lectures let you speed up, rewind and watch any time, and that very convenience leads many students to watch a lot and remember little. How to use spee
Learning Science
You can solve every end-of-chapter problem, yet when real data or a real situation poses the same problem in different clothes, you do not recognise it. How to
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Plenty of well-prepared students still blank when they see the paper. Anxiety crowds out working memory, exactly what you need to solve problems. Research-backe
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A study group can be the best session of your week, or three hours of chatting while one person lectures everyone else. The difference lies in preparation, clea
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Most students read the grade, skim the comments and file the essay away. Feedback only has value if it changes the next piece of work. How to sort comments, kee
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Sketching a process as a diagram forces decisions about what connects to what, decisions that reading text never demands. How to match the right kind of visual
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Students routinely misjudge their exam performance, and the weakest are often the most confident. How to train your self-assessment so revision time goes to wha
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Novices learn to solve problems faster by studying good solutions than by struggling alone. Past a certain point, though, the same solutions start to get in the
Learning Science
If you follow every sentence but cannot say why any of it is true once the book is closed, you have memorised, not understood. Self-explanation turns each passa
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An all-nighter feels like maximum effort, but the material you cram never gets the chance to be stored. Here is how sleep consolidates memory and how to plan re
Learning Science
Visual versus auditory learners, the learning pyramid, left-brain and right-brain people, Mozart for brainpower. These ideas spread because they sound right. Wh
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Procrastination is rarely laziness. It is usually a way of dodging an unpleasant feeling: a vague task, fear of doing it badly, or not seeing the point. Knowing
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