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Articles on how to study: spaced repetition, active recall, exam plans and focus, each with named sources and a note on how strong the evidence is.

• How spaced repetition works: Where spaced repetition comes from, what Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve and later spacing research actually show, and what a scheduler does with it.
• Active recall versus rereading: Rereading feels productive and tests of your own memory feel hard. Here is what Roediger and Karpicke and others found when they compared the two.
• How to study for a cumulative final: A cumulative final covers the whole course. List the units, work back from the exam date, mix topics in practice and review early material on a schedule.
• How to study for finals in one week: One week is short but usable. Triage what to learn, retrieve instead of rereading, spread each topic over a few days, and know what cramming cannot do for you.
• AP exams: a 6-week study plan: A week-by-week plan for an AP exam: take a diagnostic first, split time between content review and timed practice, space your reviews, and taper in week six.
• How to make flashcards from a textbook chapter: A step-by-step way to turn a textbook chapter into short question-and-answer cards, what deserves a card, and what research says about making them.
• Turning lecture notes and slides into flashcards: Raw notes make poor study material. Turn lecture notes and slides into short question-and-answer cards, and see what the research does and does not show.
• Interleaving and mixed practice: Why mixing problem types in one session can beat practicing one type at a time, what the research shows, and why it feels worse while you do it.
• The Feynman technique and explaining to learn: What the Feynman technique is, where the name really comes from, and what research on self-explanation and teaching says about explaining ideas to learn them.
• Pomodoro, breaks and focus: what the research says: Pomodoro is popular, but research on it for studying is thin. Here is what studies on breaks, attention, phones and task switching do and do not show.
• Sleep and memory for students: What research says about sleep and memory, where the evidence is thin, and how students can schedule review around sleep. General information only.
• Cardvoo vs other study tools: an honest comparison: A fair comparison of Cardvoo with shared study-set sites and free spaced-repetition programs: where each costs you time and which fits which kind of study.

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