Good Read: Highlighting Is a Waste of Time: The Best and Worst Learning Techniques

Latest report summarized by Annie Murphy Paul on best ways to study:

"Spread out your study sessions, rather than engaging in one marathon. Cramming information at the last minute may allow you to get through that test or meeting, but the material will quickly disappear from memory. It’s much more effective to dip into the material at intervals over time. And the longer you want to remember the information, whether it’s two weeks or two years, the longer the intervals should be."

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• Source: Ideas

In a world as fast-changing and full of information as our own, every one of us - from schoolchildren to college students to working adults - needs to know how to learn well. Yet evidence suggests that most of us don't use the learning techniques that science has proved most effective.

Read more at: ideas.time.com