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
Learning Science
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
Learning Science
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
Learning Science
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
Learning Science
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
Learning Science
Twenty problems of the same type in a row feel like mastery, but exams never label which method a question needs. Interleaving trains the skill blocked practice
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Rereading makes material feel familiar, then the exam asks you to produce it from nothing. Retrieval practice flips that: harder while studying, sturdier when i
