Again, the goal is to not waste time going through flashcards that I’ve already memorized. When I go through a stack of flashcards and hit a card I know so well that I have immediate recall when I see the prompt, I put that card in a separate stack that I’ll only go through once a week or so. The idea is that you’ll see a new word a number of times during a lesson, but for words you’ve already learned, you see them much less frequently, just enough to keep from forgetting them. This is a technique that is popular for language learning. Technique 2 - Do staggered reviews of cards This also helps you to commit flashcards to memory. When the cards get jumbled up a bit, you need to think more to remember correctly. When you always see the cards in the same order each time, you may remember cards just because you remember the card before it. This way, you spend a lot more time on the difficult cards that you haven’t memorized yet.Īnother benefit of this technique is that it ends up mixing the cards for a particular paper. You’ll see the cards you don’t know multiple times (maybe 3 or 5+ times) before you remember them correctly to put them in the discard pile. When you use this method, you only see the cards you know once each time you go through the stack. Keep going through until ALL of the cards in the stack are in the discard pile. If you don’t know the card, put the card back to the bottom of the stack you’re going through. If you know the card, put it to the side in a separate, discard pile. Grab a stack of flashcards for a particular paper or section of the syllabus.
Otherwise, you waste a lot of time reviewing cards you already completely memorized. Ideally, you want to see the cards that you don’t know a lot more often than the ones you know really well. The problem with just going straight through a stack is that you see each of these types of cards with the same frequency. The problem is that in a stack of flashcards, there are three types of cards:Ĭards you know REALLY well and have immediate recallĬards you know well enough and can recall without looking at the backĬards you don’t know and you need to look at the back for the answer Technique 1 - Don’t go straight through a stack of flashcardsīy default, I think a lot of people take a stack of flashcards and then just flip through them in order, from top to bottom. Below are three techniques I learned along the way that I think will save you a lot of time when memorizing all of the lists and formulas.
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Over the years I tried different approaches to figure out how to memorize flashcards more efficiently and effectively. I’ll be honest, I always hated the tedium of memorizing flashcards. When you get to the last month or so of studying for an exam, besides doing as many practice problems and practice exams as possible, you’re probably also focused on memorizing an intimidating stack of flashcards.
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