#spaced practice

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Spaced Practice 

What is it? 

Spaced practice is the opposite of cramming. Space your learning, you take that same amount of study time, and spread it out across a much longer period of time. Doing it this way, that same amount of study time will produce more long-lasting learning. For example, five hours spread out over two weeks is better than the same five hours right before the exam.

How to do it! 

Start planning early – the beginning of the semester, or even earlier. Set aside a bit of time every day, just for studying, even if your exams are months away. 

Review information from each class, but not immediately after class. A good way to do this is to reserve some time one day after each of your classes meet. 

Spacing your learning doesn’t mean you won’t be studying at all right before the exam. You can still study up until the exam – but instead of only studying then, spread it out so that you’re studying days and weeks before the exam as well. You’ll spend less time and learn more, in the short-term and in the long-term.

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Blog Prompt #2: Learning Strategies Reaction

There are two sayings that come to mind as I start this blog post.

Practice makes perfect

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

I think those two phrases can almost perfectly express the conflict I had trying to commit to my chosen learning strategy of spaced practice.

After two weeks of setting aside half an hour almost every day during the weekdays to review and plan, I found the results to be surprisingly pleasant. My original goals were to feel more confident in my methods of studying and to be as prepared as I could be before entering a test and not having to stress about forgetting to study something. Being pressed for time was one of my worst assets, and with just 30 minutes set aside to review, I didn’t feel that kind of stress once a test or major assignment was announced in the coming days.

The best feeling during this whole project was seeing the results showed spaced practice actually worked and turned out as I hoped. I improved the way I learned and understood information I reviewed. I was finally able to make sense of some complicated concepts and practice my knowledge to retain most of what overwhelming amount of knowledge was received that day. On the first day of the trials, after much debate, I decided to change the focus of this strategy for a subject that required more memorization of material, whereas physics needed more applying. And so, I chose the wonderful science of chemistry. 

I’m glad I made the shift, though. My grades for chemistry rose more than I expected. Though some days were set aside for physics, a majority of my time was set upon chemistry as a test was decided to take place during the last few days of the trial period. As that test date neared, though, I noticed that with spaced learning, there was much less cramming on the night before than I had expected. For the first time in a long time, I felt confident when walking into the test room.

The best part? That confidence followed me out.

Now that I’ve addressed the good, let me address the bad. There were days when I had to shorten the review session or delay it as projects and ISPs for physics and other courses were set all at once. There was a sudden rush of work that I had to do and so finding the time to set aside to review became increasingly difficult. I know, it may sound like excuses you’ve probably heard before, but those excuses had to come from some place of truth, didn’t they? 

Another problem was it was harder finding a place at home to have as my own study space because of the clutter and noise that surrounds my home. Although, it wasn’t the worst problem as simply swiping some things to the side for space and stuffing some earbuds into my ears muffled out the noise of my brother attempting to become a lead vocalist and my mother almost yelling into the phone.

Now there’s the ugly...as a matter of fact, I don’t think there was anything truly ugly about this experience. Maybe there was the fact that I had to break a few old habits of mine to try and get this new one started, but that would a pretty good ugly, wouldn’t it? 

But maybe the ugliest part about this experience is that, knowing me, I will most possibly slip some bad habits back into my life because that’s the way I have been functioning for all the stressful years I have been in high school. Old habits are hard to break, and that is the worst part about this all. It’s that no matter how much I may try to maintain the streak of spaced practice I have been keeping up, once obstacles are thrown into my face, I may return back into the old way of things.

I believe this experience has taught me to be much more organized and efficient, though, and I am positive those traits will be carried on for as long as I can manage it. With every day that came increasingly difficult to maintain, I managed to persevere and that is what I am most proud of during the past two weeks. I am proud to learn more about myself and realize I can keep going forward if I truly reflect bring it upon myself to do so.

Besides, I’ve seen it: you can always teach an old dog new tricks as long as you do it through practice.