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Spacing tips
The purpose of spacing is to practice your retrieval and reinforce information in your memory. Spacing too
frequently tests too early in the forgetting curve and creates unnecessary repetition and work for yourself.
Spacing too infrequently causes you to waste time during each revision because you forgot too much.
A rule of thumb you can follow is to wait long enough until you feel like you are just starting to
forget the material.
Here are some guidelines:
After learning something for the first time, review it later on the same day
Next review 2 or 3 days later
Next review 5 to 10 days later
Next review 10 to 20 days later
Next review 1 to 2 months later
There is no strong evidence to suggest that getting this timing exact, or that expanding the interval
between each attempt (expanding-gap spaced retrieval) creates a significant difference. However,
we still recommend using expanding-gap spaced retrieval because it makes the workload much
more manageable.
In practice, this can simplify down to a schedule of:
Revise on the same day you learned it.

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Do a mid-week revision of everything from the previous 2 days – you can skip this revision if you don’t
feel like there was that much to revise. Often for high school students, this mid-week revision is
unnecessary as the volume of information is substantially less than university.
Do an end of week revision for the entire week’s worth of content.
Do an end of month revision for the entire month’s worth of content.
Do a revision for the entire test or exam’s worth of content in the 1 or 2 weeks before the assessment.
Note about language
The usage of the term “revision” in this lesson and all subsequent lessons may be confusing for some
members outside of Australia, NZ and the UK. Please refer to our glossary of terms to familiarise
yourself with exactly what this means.
Read Our Glossary Of Terms
Task
Take the time to schedule this in to a calendar or app now!
For digital scheduling, we recommend Google calendar, synced to a calendar app on your phone.
The amount of time you need to schedule depends on your revision technique and how much you
have forgotten, but start by scheduling more time than you think you will need. You can always
reduce this time later as you get a better feel for the schedule.
For beginners, we recommend starting with no less than 30 minutes per subject for end-of-week and no less than
1.5 hours per subject for end-of-month.
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Leo Jo
 1 year ago
Dear perfectionists, don’t try to create a perfect revision schedule. There is no perfect revision schedule.
Even highly skilled learners/High achievers constantly refine their revision system.
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theaggog
 Reply to Leo Jo  2 months ago
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Thank you for writing this
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Hemali K
Thank you for writing this
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Ilan Rouson
God, did I need to see this. I would have been all perfectionist about it and think I failed immediately
after my first attempt.
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Chris Lee
I actually needed to read this. Thank you.
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Maria Silvestre
 Reply to Chris Lee  3 months ago
Thanks for the tip. “An idea means nothing, the value is in execution”…I appreciate these
beginner tips. I’m currently “unlearning” bad habits. Thanks Leo Jo…reading your post helped
remind me that at this stage, I’m aiming for PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION. I’m just going to follow
Ashton’s summary suggestion (see below) and tweak my system as I progress through the
lessons: – Revise on the same day you learned it. – Do a mid-week revision of everything from
the previous 2 days – you can skip this revision if you don’t feel like there was that much to
revise. Often for high school students, this mid-week revision is unnecessary as the volume of
information is substantially less than university. – Do… Read more »
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Jose M San Roman Sirvent

 1 year ago  Take Notes
After a few weeks and months, how do you remember which was the material from the first weeks. Just
learn the material from a chronological order? Eg, you wouldn’t recommend starting from week 4, then
week 6, week 1, etc.? But what if the content is not from lectures but study notes from personal revision
such articles, topics from a book? It doesn’t have a date or order to it.Thanks
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Ashton Sheares Admin
 Reply to Jose M San Roman Sirvent  1 year ago
You will see later on that when we learn, it’s not done chronologically. It’s done based on relationships.
So even if you learnt something back in week 1. It’s connected to future topics to help you understand
and consolidate the understanding of the theory.
People often worry about forgetting if they’re learning is heavily based on memorisation and
flashcards, as this has very little retention for concepts. So please do proceed with the course to find
the proper way to study that really helps learn things for the longer term.
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Igor Azkune
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  1 year ago
What happens if the topics are not related and I have to study different topics from a to z to
write in an exam?
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 Reply to Igor Azkune  1 year ago
Hi Igor, I’m not sure what you are asking here, should this be in a separate thread?
I’m not understanding how you are studying topics not covered in the topic’s exam? Can
you please post in a separate thread with more detail of the situation?
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Igor Azkune
Hi.
I have to study 72 different topics. For example: 1. History of Greece. 2.
Climatography. 3. Modern Art… Because eacj topic has his each bibliography.
How can I learn related?
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 Reply to Igor Azkune  1 year ago
First please begin by applying spacing in your revision as shown in this lesson.
Then implement the next lessons and each lesson as you go through the course.
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shripad Kulkarni
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  6 days ago
thanks I was having the exact same question about how much to apply first.
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Cole Beathler
 1 year ago
If you did a mid-week revision (i.e. on Wednesday), you would cover what you learned Monday and
Tuesday.
If you then did an end-of-week revision, you would cover Mon-Tues (for the 2nd time) & Wed-Fri (for the
1st time)… so wouldn’t that be unbalanced?… since you would end up revising Mon-Tues more than the
content from the other days?
Thank you = )
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 Reply to Cole Beathler  1 year ago
Hi Cole, The text underneath the lesson lays out a sample:
Revise on the same day you learned it.

Do a mid-week revision of everything from the previous 2 days – you can skip this revision if you
don’t feel like there was that much to revise. Often for high school students, this mid-week revision
is unnecessary as the volume of information is substantially less than university.
Do an end of week revision for the entire week’s worth of content.
Do an end of month revision for the entire month’s worth of content.
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Do a revision for the entire test or exam’s worth of content in the 1 or 2 weeks before the
assessment.
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Nojus Laucius
Yes, but still wouldn’t that be unbalanced?

Monday and Tuesday(3 times in one week)
Wednesday to Friday(2 times in one week)
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Productimothy
 Reply to Nojus Laucius  4 months ago
ICS has been very clear what we should be doing. Justin warned against “what if”
questions in Rapid Start. It’s a push factor from practice.
Some reasons why it is given this way currently, is because it’s a simple solution for
beginners (assume you’re a beginner). Keeping things simple early on, even if suboptimal,
helps start new habits. Once you’ve tried it for a few weeks, and have gotten a feel for it,
you are encouraged to make optimizations.
Just give the current version some practice, and your questions will be answered.
You got this!
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Shayma Muhammad
 Reply to Nojus Laucius  11 months ago
I think your mid-week revision should be used independently of the end-of-week revision.
But if you do that, then the whole revision process will get too complicated. What I suggest
is you combine a spacing app, such as Anki (it’s not always just a flashcard app), with this
revision schedule that Ashton explained. This way you don’t have to worry about what you
DID revise and what you didn’t. You will go over the Anki app every mid-week, every week,
and so on. You will end up saving time.
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Kieran O'Sullivan
 Reply to Shayma Muhammad  4 months ago Take Notes
How did you get on with using anki in this way? I had the same idea too.
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 Reply to Shayma Muhammad  11 months ago
Whilst it may be useful in the beginning, a reliance on the app takes away skills
needed for scheduling. And after a certain level of proficency (which is not too high),
it becomes much quicker and easier to use your scehduling skills than to rely on an
app like Anki to Space out your scheduled revision.
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 Reply to Nojus Laucius  1 year ago
You can adjust it to the content delivered that weeks so it’s roughly in the middle. It
doesn’t have to be exact.
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Janine Hesse
 1 year ago
Hi everyone,
I love the concept! It is such a waste of time to study something and then forget it again because of not
revising.
However, I’ve been running into the same problem over and over again every time I wanted to
implement a better revision routine.
I stopped using flash card apps, because I find them boring and used to spend all my time on them,
which took the fun out of studying languages for me. But I feel overwhelmed by scheduling revisions
manually, and then I tend to just skip them. How do you keep track of when to revise what, especially if
you learn something new every day?
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Alexander Mathew
 Reply to Janine Hesse  11 months ago
use the studi app (i didnt misspell it)

its a calendar app that you can set custom intervals
i highly recomend it
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 Reply to Janine Hesse  1 year ago
That is so correct about flashcards, people just don’t use them properly and it becomes a deathly spiral
in studying. More on flashcards and the better way to study later, please look forward to it.
For scheduling, it’s actually intuitive and you don’t need to write down everything in detail once you get
use to it. Just revise what you study on the day, and also at the end of the week, and also at the end of
each month. This is the simple way to do it.
If there is a lot of content, you might want to introduce a mid-week study. Then of course if there’s a
test, you want to consolidate the knowledge 1-2weeks before your test.
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Juan Castro
I rely too much on Anki App, i do daily reviews and i don’t know how to stop doing this because
is true flashcards helped me in the past to retain factual knowledge, now im experimenting
diminishing returns so i plan to do only 1 review per week,
My goal is to achieve enhance my deep processing
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 Reply to Juan Castro  1 year ago
It may be hard to initially stop the heavy reliance on flashcards. Do try to slowly integrate
more interleaving and as you progress through the course, you will realise how much
better it is to not rely on flashcards for conceptual information. Keep at it
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Michael Jiménez González

 1 year ago
Imagine this situation. I am learning the alphabet and I have 5 lessons on one week. On Monday, I learn
on class the letter A, on Tuesday, I learn the letter B, on Wednesday, I learn the letter C, on Thursday, I
learn the letter D and on Friday, I learn the letter E.
How should I apply the guidelines you propose to this case?
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 Reply to Michael Jiménez González  1 year ago
Do a daily revision (A), mid-week revision (ABC) and end of week revision (ABCDE). Then at the end of
the month, do a monthly revision (A-Z).
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Tracey Mesadieux
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  2 months ago
Question: Let’s say that I have an evening class (6-9 pm edt) and I sleep around 11 pm edt when
do I do my daily revision ? Between 9-11 I’m preparing for the next day/ bed time routine.
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 Reply to Tracey Mesadieux  2 months ago
Just do it the next day. There is a lot of flexibility with spacing so don’t force it to be on the
same day if you have such a late class.
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Brad
Hi Ashton
Did you mean you do a daily revision (A), a daily revision for (B) a daily revision for (C), then a mid
week revision for (ABC), then a daily revision for (D), a daily revision for (E) then an end of the
week revision for (ABCDE)?
You still come out revising ABC more than you do for DE so it seems a bit unbalanced. Is that an
issue?
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 Reply to Brad  11 months ago
Much easier to just break things down into calendar days. Daily revision is revision for
what you learnt that day.
Then mid week revision for everything in the week so far. Weekly revision for the entire
week’s.
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DE is unbalanced because it was covered more recently. You could Take Notes
compensate by
covering again in the next week’s mid-week revision.

As long as there is progressive spacing, it’s fine to be off by 1 or 2 days.
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Raj Kanchwala
Dear Ashton , thanks for clearing this . more power to you and the team
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 1 year ago
Hi Everyone, This lesson has a task in it towards the end of the text. Be sure to complete the task in order
to proceed.
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Danny Van Nest

Hey Ashton, the “Yes I’ve completed the task” button keeps turning into a 404 error that I can’t click
after about 10-15 seconds on the page. I’m on Chrome on an M1 Mac running Big Sur, I don’t know if
anyone else has had the same problem. I can send you a screenshot if it’s useful
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Andrew Cabuhat
 Reply to Danny Van Nest  1 year ago
I am having the same problem on PC using Chrome. I’ve also tried Edge, same thing.
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 Reply to Andrew Cabuhat  1 year ago
Hi Everyone, we are aware of the 404 error.

Apologies for this, tech is working on this as the highest priority to fix.
Please note this issue doesn’t occur all the time and clearing the cache, using incognito
mode or using another device may enable you to complete the task at the bottom of the
page.  Take Notes
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Charles Campbell
 1 year ago
“An idea means nothing, the value is in the execution. Have you completed the task?”
I was soo close to delaying this one. Thanks for the last line.
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Charles Benedict Cueto

 1 year ago
When doing our reviews, can it be considered as “practice” time, in the 1:5 theory to practice ratio? Let’s
say I study a new concept for 1 hour, and I practice doing it for 3 hours. and then later on the day, I
review it, based on the spacing guidelines, for 2 hours. would those 2 hours be theory or practice?
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 Reply to Charles Benedict Cueto  1 year ago
Generally, revision is practice time since you have already spent the initial time with the theory.
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Charles Benedict Cueto

Thanks for the clarification
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Kevin Zambrano
 1 year ago
Hello, I’m having some technical difficulties, I cannot advance past this lesson, I can’t click on the
“Finished, Next!” button and towards the bottom of the page, above the “How are you feeling?” phrase I
get a 404 error in the box. When I reach 1.2 I get the message to finish lesson 1.1 first
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Amal Shanker
 Reply to Kevin Zambrano  1 year ago
I cannot advance ahead either
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 Reply to Amal Shanker  1 year ago
Hi Amal, We are working on this issue. It appears to work sometimes and not other times.
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Hi Kevin, I see you have progressed pass this lesson and have also finished the next lesson (1.2). Glad it
fixed itself.
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Ron Kuriakose
 1 year ago
Does this schedule mean the only time we revise new content we learnt on the same day, is the 1st day
of the week. And the rest of the new content we learn, we don’t have to revise it on the same day, and it
will just be covered in our end of week or end of month revision?
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Marlon Reyes
 Reply to Ron Kuriakose  1 year ago
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No, I understood that if you learn something new you need to revised it later that day. Ask yourself a
question, how many new things you learn every day? So based on that, if you learn something new
every single day you will revise it or review it later in the day. And then at the end of the week you are
going to review everything worth it from day 1. For example I started this program yesterday. But since
I have 1 week to spend on these 3 mini lessons. That means in one week I will be reviewing all these 3
mini lessons. In 1 month I will be reviewing everything I have learned in one month, probably… Read
more »
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Colin Philippe
 Reply to Marlon Reyes  1 year ago
I think i understand what you explained to him i was wondering I understand you right “For
example I started this program yesterday. But since I have 1 week to spend on these 3 mini
lessons. That means in one week I will be reviewing all these 3 mini lessons.” I am confused to if
the program in your example is different or the same as the 3 mini lessons. So are you spending
1 week on these 3 mini lessons because, this is the end of the week, since you started learning
the concept to the 3 mini lessons and yesterday you studied the program and, its the first day of
the week till the concept will be reviewed… Read more »
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Dylan Shimmi
 1 year ago
What would you do if you have content from weeks before that you haven’t used this technique on?
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 Reply to Dylan Shimmi  1 year ago
Start simple by just starting this now.
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Callum Horsley
 1 year ago
Hi, as a professional who self learns for the purpose of development and improvement – I have no
exams etc. So there’s a few things in this course that feel a bit focused towards students – and I’m trying
to view the material through the lens of my situation. Something I’m wondering
if it is Take
applicable
Notesis
spacing / revision. Lets say I’m reading a book about improving my communication skills. I spend 30 mins
a day reading it and taking notes. Would I also schedule in time for spacing / revision of those notes?
Even though I don’t have an exam to sit, the purpose would be to achieve a higher level of encoding and
make the information more… Read more »
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 Reply to Callum Horsley  1 year ago
Yes, you would still use SIR, because you want to make sure you retain and are implementing the skills
taught. Having no external exam set for you actually makes the onus of “passing” on yourself to set.
You defintely want to revise to make sure what is learnt previously is in your long term memory
through spacing.
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Callum Horsley
Thanks!
”Having no external exam set for you actually makes the onus of “passing” on yourself to set.”
Very applicable to my situation. Is this process touched upon later in the course? If not, is there
any guidance / resources you could possibly share please?
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 Reply to Callum Horsley  1 year ago
Yes, we touch upon goal setting in the marginal gains lesson a bit further down in this
stage. Just proceed a few more lessons.
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 4 months ago
We are addressing revision first because it is higher yield – quicker to implement and results in higher
marks. Lessons on note-taking will be covered in fundamentals 2.
Spacing is for long-term retention like the beginning or middle of a semester. If you exams are 1 month
away, then do as much interleaved retrieval as possible (shown in interleaving tips, which is the next
sublesson).  Take Notes
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Brent R
I disagree. Breaking everything you need to learn up into pieces that fit on a calendar when you don’t
know how long it will take to learn something is a near impossible task. This is especially true when I
don’t yet know which study methods we will be using, which makes it even more difficult to predict
how long something will take to learn.
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 Reply to Brent R  4 months ago
Don’t quite follow why you are posting this in reply to the above comment. Was it meant to go
under a different comment? In order to grasp roughly how long an interleaving technique will
take for scheduling purposes, just take a look at the interleaving technique itself and roughly
estimate how long it will take. After trying it out yourself and getting use to it, you will be able to
better grasp how long the interleaving technique will take for you. Also, you will realise there are
nuances to certain techniques where you can control the amount of time you spend on it. Like
with practice questions (extended), simply by doing more or less questions, you can control how
much… Read more »
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Asendra Singathneththi
 1 year ago
if we follow this schedule but still feel like we don’t remember some of the content is it fine to go through
everything on the 2 days before the exam.
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 Reply to Asendra Singathneththi  1 year ago
It’s best to become 80%-90% familiar with the lesson and its practice before you move on. You don’t
want to move through the course too quickly and not actually implement any of the techniques
correctly.
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Dennis Serrano
 1 year ago
This will be the most interesting part. reviewing what I have learned.
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Aldo Bakijasi
 1 year ago
When we review 2-3 days later it’s also implicit that what we didn’t learn the first time,we get to study it
again, it’s like a 2nd study session right? so we retrieve it from memory and if we retrieve only 40% we
must schedule another study session or continue with it there and then to learn more of that info? and
the same holding true for the next sessions review right?
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 Reply to Aldo Bakijasi  1 year ago
Yes, you may realise you have gaps from your first time studying the topic.
Revision is indeed also used to find those gaps and till them in.
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Kevin Zambrano
 1 year ago
What are your thoughts on SuperMemo’s Wiki about learning?

https://www.supermemo.wiki/en/supermemo
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It’s defintely trying to learn things differently by using technology to facilitate individual learning.
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Tobi Bolaji-Joseph
 1 year ago  Take Notes
As I am currently on holiday, I do not have any material to study from. I was wondering if it is wise to use
spacing to review what you have learned when reading non-fictional books ( Mostly self-development
books).
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 Reply to Tobi Bolaji-Joseph  1 year ago
Just use material that you will need to study next year. Not all “self-development” books are effective
for the learning our course teaches. Those that are content/knowledge based is fine, but not those
that are skills or mindset based. Remember this course is to help you with content-rich learning typical
for subjects in high school and university.
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Tobi Bolaji-Joseph
Thank you. Also, I have been trying to move to the next tips but it doesn’t seem to be working.
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 Reply to Tobi Bolaji-Joseph  1 year ago
Hi Tobi, I have just tested your account and can’t find issues in you moving to the next
sub-lesson. What happens when you press “next sub-lesson” on the top right?
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Lamees Abu Mwise

 1 year ago
Why should I schedule my revision timing when I know that priming and pre-studying are like 10X times
much more efficient to start with? Because this is what I was considering implementing a lot more and
even PRIORITISE in my studying routine so I don’t even need that much time for revision.
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Ashton Sheares Admin  Take Notes
 Reply to Lamees Abu Mwise  1 year ago
What you are describing is encoding, which defintely is important. However it’s useless if you can’t
retrieve this information, which is why revision is also important.
This lesson is just teaching you about spacing in the beginning to plan out your revision because this is
something very quick and easy to implemete that will have a huge impact on your retrieval.
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Enzo Bissoli
 1 year ago
What should I do if revision scope overlaps? That is daily review, end of week revision followed by an end
of month and in the worst case a revision for exams.
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 Reply to Enzo Bissoli  1 year ago
If it’s a double-up then just revise it once.
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Mayesha Muntaha Rahman

 5 months ago
In this revision schedule, in the beginning, should I use whatever revision technique I used to follow or
should I wait and progress through the course and use the ones I learn from the course?
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 Reply to Mayesha Muntaha Rahman  5 months ago
How to study during these spaced sessions is covered in the next sublesson about interleaving.
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John Ursache
 3 months ago
Here it says that we should not have an end-of-week reviewing less than 1.5 hours. Let’s assume that a
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person has 10 subjects at high-school or even if we would just review 3 subjects end ofNotes
the week it
would take me 4.5 hours. It would take me way too much time.That’s how I understood it. If Iam wrong
pls correct me and explain me how I have to apply it.
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Galo Almeida
 Reply to John Ursache  3 months ago
Hey, so maybe I’m wrong on this but I guess given that it’s 1.5 hours only for the end of month review,
that means you should space those reviews. So, if you have 3 subjects, you wouldn’t spend 4.5 hours
on a single day, but over the course of a weekend (and you could add it at the end of weekdays to form
a habit of it, maybe). I’m just guessing, but I’ll try this out. Hope it helps!
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 Reply to Galo Almeida  3 months ago
Galo is correct, 1.5hours is referring to the end of month reviews.

Concentrate on trying to use the interleaving techniques correctly. Some subjects may be
quicker to revise than others. The 1.5 hours usually refers to core subjects where you have 4-
5hours of lecture/teaching time per week on the subject.
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Prithvi Sihag
 28 days ago
Going through comments from before, I get the issue with flashcards for conceptual information. But
aren’t they still the best way to learn factual subjects like biochemistry, pharmacology, and microbiology?
(student of medicine here) Thanks!
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 Reply to Prithvi Sihag  27 days ago
Flashcards are a common trap to learn conceptual information. It’s a trap because it does indeed work
and you gain benefit from the start. The problem is that is not efficient to learn conceptual information
that has multiple relationships/connections to other information.
Flashcards are great for memorising disconnected information, but when you use flashcards for
conceptual information, it’s quite normal for people to run into having hundreds and sometimes
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thousands of flashcards to go through, which is unsustainable and much slower than using higher-
order learning.
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Akshat | F2
 26 days ago
I have a question about practicing the spacing schedule. If I learn something on 03/05/23, then for the 2
days later revision, should I revise it on 05/05/23 or 06/05/23?
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 Reply to Akshat | F2  26 days ago
Be flexible. It doesn’t matter if it’s either, Try out both days and see which one works better for you.
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Akshat | F2
 Reply to Ashton Sheares  23 days ago
Ok. Thank you, Mr. Ashton.
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Ryan Neagle
 1 year ago
Should we schedule monthly revision for all of our subjects on the same weekend or should we spread
them out? For example, one weekend physics then the next weekend chemistry and so on
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 Reply to Ryan Neagle  1 year ago
Hi Rayn, that would depend on your and your schedule. Do try to try out both to see which you are
more comfortable with.
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calvin tang
 1 year ago
I thought if to practice spacing as a habit, we should mark the date we first encounter the classroom
lesson / readings / videos.
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 Reply to calvin tang  1 year ago
Hi Calvin, I’m not sure on what you’re trying to ask here. There is mention that you should revise on the
same day you learned it.
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Joe Kim
 1 year ago
Hello can someone help with spacing and revision. I understand retrival what does it mean by spacing
and revision? Are they saying just keep everything mentally from what you learn and throughout the
week incremntally revisit what you’ve learned in you mind and redo???
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 Reply to Joe Kim  1 year ago
It means to space out your revision of what you learned. The spacing guideline is suggested in the
lesson.
This lesson does not suggest anything about keeping things “mentally” – this question is more about
interleaving and retrieval covered in the next two sublessons.
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Hyonwook Seo
 1 year ago
I am studying before classes even begin. So I am not so sure how to schedule when I don’t even know
how to study material on my own
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 Reply to Hyonwook Seo  1 year ago
Hi Hyonwook, please proceed with the course to find out, we will lay out how to learn being your own
self-guided teacher. Our course is geared towards making you to be an independant learner so you
don’t have to rely on the teacher anymore.
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Doug Lutz
 1 year ago
So far do good
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Julie Lee
 1 year ago
Hello, I am trying to move onto the next sub lesson “interleaving tips” but it will not allow me to go on to
the next one until I complete this one. I am unsure of what I must complete before be able to access the
next one
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 Reply to Julie Lee  1 year ago
Scroll down and read through everything. Make sure you complete the task and click to complete.
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Dylan Castillo
Hey Ashton, for the “Spacing Tips – Task” I’ve completed the task however it doesn’t allow me to
click “Finished, Next!”. Any ideas of how to move on?
Thanks,
Dylan
 Reply to Dylan Castillo  1 year ago
Hi Dylan, I can’t seem to replicate your error. Maybe try opening in incognito mode.
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Louie Patrick Rosales

 1 year ago
My concern is doing the revision. Like I’m afraid the revision I’ll be making is just a regurgitation.
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 Reply to Louie Patrick Rosales  1 year ago
That’s what the interleaval tips and retrieval tips is for.

Please take a look at the next two sublessons.
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Kevin Zambrano
 1 year ago
So for each Retrieval practice, should I try to incorporate a new interleave method?
For instance, if I create a Mind-Map w/ Symbols as part of me storing my notes using interleave, and I
have active recall questions on flashcards for Anki, should I try to add expand upon said information
every time I practice recall?
Ex: If my flashcard asks me “what is the difference between Encoding, Encryption & Hashing?” and my
mind-map is constructed using symbols (interleave practice) to represent this, should I try to expand-on
or modify that mind-map every time I recall? (Would that be SIR^2? lol)
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Please take a look at the next two sublessons that are about interleaval and retrieval.
Your example of using the flashcard is not quite the correct way to use flashcards, this is something
that we cover much later in the course. There are suggestions for Interleaval and Retrieval in the next
lessons you can implement.  Take Notes
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Kevin Zambrano
Will do! Thanks!
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Kevin Zambrano
 1 year ago
Is there no algorithm for the forgetting curve? As skills improve I would imagine it would have to adapt
accordingly, so what do you think of applications like Anki that allow for the use of self-reported
“confidence scores” on how well a flashcard is retained which then adjusts the algorithm on when that
particular flashcard should practiced again? Do you think using these applications could help in spaced
recall practices?
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Everyone forgets in different ways because they have a different level of retention.
Flashcards are easy to report on because it’s about remembering indivudal words on each card so it
can track how well a word is remembered and space out your repetition accordingly.
However please note that using flashcards should be towards the end of actual learning. We will cover
flashcards in detail and how to use them properly, but note that many people are incorrectly using
them, which actually causes their learning to stagnate and be extremely inefficient. You would what
that feels like if you have ever tried to learn a topic and are at a point where you’re trying to remember
over a hundred flashcards.
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Htet Aung Lwin

 1 year ago
Hello, there seems to be a problem occurring for me with the finish go next button. I cannot progress to
the next sub lesson.
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 Reply to Htet Aung Lwin  1 year ago
Hi Htet, I see that you have progressed further than this lesson already. Glad the issue resolved itself.
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Rachel Albuquerque
 1 year ago
Hi, can’t progress to the next stage because the finished, next button doesn’t seem to be working , please
help.
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 Reply to Rachel Albuquerque  1 year ago
Have you completed the task at the bottom of the text?
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Rachel Albuquerque
Hi Ashton,thanks for getting back to me, was unable to progress with my android phone, but
was able to do so using a laptop.
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Rachel Albuquerque
Yes, but I’m unable to press that button , as it disappears.
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 Reply to Rachel Albuquerque  1 year ago
Are you able to send me what’s happening to my email – ashton.sheares
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Isaac Gorman
 1 year ago
I’m unable to advance to the next sub-topic of “Interleaving tips”. Can someone help me?
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 Reply to Isaac Gorman  1 year ago
Have you completed the task at the bottom of the text?
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Isaac Gorman
All good now Ashton. I no longer get the error.

Thank you.
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 Reply to Isaac Gorman  1 year ago
Awesome
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Isaac Gorman
Hi Ashton, thank you for getting back to me.

All I see at the end of the page before the comment section is an Error 404 image.
Am I doing something wrong?
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Caleel Rowe
 1 year ago
I can’t move on into the next lesson, there isn’t a task to compete at the bottom. I sent an email asking
why, please reply and thank you.
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 Reply to Caleel Rowe  1 year ago
Hi Caleel, the 404 error should be fixed now, please try again and let me know if it works.
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Matt Horowitz
 1 year ago
My schedule is very unpredictable with work. I can find time to review and study, but i don’t know when
it will be ahead of time. How do you handle planning out spacing when you have a low likelihood of
actually doing the work a the scheduled time?
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 Reply to Matt Horowitz  1 year ago
You should have flexibility outside of work? If you are studying in uni or high school, please do ensure
you have enough time to study. With our course, you will increase in efficency as you progress through
it, but please do make time to work on your study skills to reach that level.
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Matt Horowitz
Thanks Ashton. I work full time, and I am doing a data science bootcamp in my spare time.
Unfortunately, work can often run from dusk till dawn, which can make it tough to consistently
block off time. Should I just book time for a given day, and then try and find the time as it
becomes available?
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Sounds like everything can be planned out? If you have your schedule for work and
bootcamp, you should be able to plan out the time that you have to study.
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Ikram Picaso
 1 year ago
Hello, so I’m a med student on a end of semester break right now. I know that these tips have to be
practice more than theories only. But right now, i don’t have material to study. What should i do?
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 Reply to Ikram Picaso  1 year ago
Hi Ikram, you can begin by studying for next semesters topics. Or if you want to, you can use it to study
on what you have previously studied on to consolidate the knowledge even more to prepare you for
next semester.
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Rodrigo Ruffolo
 1 year ago
Regarding the review schedule, I was thinking that marking the days on Google’s schedule seems
unnecessarily cumbersome to maintain (I’m not and can’t doubt the effectiveness of the technique, as
I’m not a professional like Justin), as they seem like arbitrary numbers of days, weeks and months since
not everyone encodes information in the same way. I use Anki and I just saw an opportunity for an
alternative use of the program: instead of using it for flashcards, we can use it to mark revisions so that
each card represents a topic for revision (not using as a flashcard) and after the revision is possible to
evaluate how it was (forgot, regular, good and great), leaving the review more personalized.… Read more
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 Reply to Rodrigo Ruffolo  1 year ago

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Highly recommend that you don’t use flashcards to learn conceptually. It is a common trap and will
spiral into huge time inefficiencies and soon you will have hundreds of flashcards that will overwhelm
you.
Scheduling is a good way to control the time you put into tasks rather than having the tasks control
your time.
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Rodrigo Ruffolo
I think I wasn’t clear enough, the idea was not to use Anki’s flashcards to put the topics studied
and review them, but rather to use the tool to build a summary to keep track of the reviews that
need to be done, with the advantage of to be able to assess how well you did on the review of
the specific theme using the Anki buttons, the advantage would be that you don’t need to
schedule reviews in the calendar application one by one, but just build a daily block called
“review”. Anyway, thanks for the reply, maybe I’m complicating it more than necessary.
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 Reply to Rodrigo Ruffolo  1 year ago
You could set up Anki to do all that, but it might be hard to keep track of what was done
when in the past if the app automatically deletes a card.
Also after all that effort to set up Anki, it should be much easier to just put it onto a
calendar.
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Wendy Li
 1 year ago
Can everything under the “spacing, interleaving an retrieval” category be done in one go (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) or
should we leave it for once a day to avoid rushing?
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 Reply to Wendy Li  1 year ago
Hi Wendy, they are quite simple tips, as long as it’s done, it should be quite fast to implement.
William Shiuk
 1 year ago
Helllo, just wanted to ask, that if learned a subject in the first week of the month and reviewed it at the
end of the same week, does my next revision session (according to the example) has to be 3 weeks later,
at the end of the month? If so, wouldn’t I forget most of what I learned?
Thank you in advance.
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 Reply to William Shiuk  1 year ago
Indeed without bad encoding and retrieval, people may forget after 3 weeks. But the idea with our
techniques is that it has much higher retention. So please do proceed with our course to find out how.
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Aakanksha Desai
 1 year ago
Although I made the plan of revision but not able to stick to it. When I am not able to follow the plan time
ends up getting wasted. The 30 day program planning took lots of time today of even revision slots. What
to do in such scenario?
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 Reply to Aakanksha Desai  1 year ago
Try to take a look and reflect on why you weren’t able to stick to it. Were you too ambitious with your
time? Did other events appear that you didn’t account for?
The beginning of planning may meet with a lot of troubles that you didn’t take account for, which is
perfectly normally for beginners.
But now you can learn and adjust to better suit your needs.
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Jeng-Ting Yeh
 1 year ago
In regards to the recommended 30 mins study per subject at the end of week revision and 1.5 hours
revision at the end of the month, what rough ratio of hours of study per subject
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the week
Notesis this
based on? I.e. is this based on 3 hours of content learning through the week on each subject to require
30 mins of revision?
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 Reply to Jeng-Ting Yeh  1 year ago
Good job on catching this. The times are rough guidelines and it’s more important to actually cover the
content rather than stick to arbitrary times. The times that are set is for the typical student in high
school for a core subject, which has typically 3-4hours of contact time. But remember for uni students,
their content is a lot more condensed with less contact hours.
Again, try not to fixate on time as it is a rough guide, but rather just focus on doing things properly. You
will find you will become more efficient with time as your learning skills develop.
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Kenyata Rogers
 1 year ago
I am having a problem with starting with applying spacing tips. I have not had to study in years so just
looking at my current book I’m unsure do I just read it and take small notes then for spacing read it again
later? Then read it again in a few days.
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 Reply to Kenyata Rogers  1 year ago
Please take a look at interveal tips in the next sublesson for some ideas of what to do.
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Sydney C
 1 year ago
Is spaced revision supposed to be a quick recap of everything learnt or should it be more thorough
studying?
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 Reply to Sydney C  1 year ago
It is just about spacing your revision. For what you actually do, please refer to the next two tips in
Interleaval and Retrieval.
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Sydney C
Also, would this technique ‘replace’ normal study sessions because after learning content in class, the
content would be revised in a timely manner rather than randomly?
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Your are aiming for this to be your normal study sessions. Your study sessions need to be
spaced properly to get the maximum benefit from just spacing it properly.
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Sydney C
Perfect thank you!
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Keotshepile Setshogo
 1 year ago
Hii so like I am really finding difficulties in this j need help let’s say I have 8 subjects how do Space them
like I find it confusing and complicated
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 Reply to Keotshepile Setshogo  1 year ago
1 day revision, 1 week revision and 1 month revision is the basic form of revision scheduling that is
spaced properly.
After school, simply do a quick revision everything you learnt on the same day.
At the end of the week, revise everything you learnt in the week.
At the end of the month, revise everything you learnt in the month.  Take Notes
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Keotshepile Setshogo
The thing is I do 8 subjects a day so I that means j should revise 8 subjects daily
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 Reply to Keotshepile Setshogo  1 year ago
Do you have all 8 classes in one day? Then yes, revise those, but I don’t think that’s
normally the case as schools/unis don’t have that many active periods in a day.
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Matt Horowitz
 1 year ago
How far out are people scheduling spacing in their calendars?

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Continuing the course, we make you plan out the next 30-days very soon.
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Colin Philippe
 1 year ago
reading the questions in the bottom definitely helped me with my questions ill just follow the course
now
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Vishakha Tyagi
 1 year ago
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what’s the least amount of time I can put in between the study session and the same-day revision
session?
For example, can I just revise the content immediately or there is recommended number of minimum
hours I should put between the two?
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 Reply to Vishakha Tyagi  1 year ago
Try to put a few hours in between, there is no strict rule, just make sure it’s not in the same study
session.
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Hi Cole, The text underneath the lesson lays out a sample:

Revise on the same day you learned it.

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covering again in the next week’s mid-week revision.

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