Study Tips: How to Improve Your Learning and Retention

Ever read a page and immediately forget what you just read?

Try the Feynman Technique!

Explain the concept like you're teaching a five-year-old.

If you struggle, you don’t understand it well enough.

Simplify, rephrase, and fill in gaps.

Bonus: Your imaginary five-year-old now knows quantum physics.

You're welcome!

Cramming the night before?

Bad idea!

Spaced repetition is your best friend.

Review material in intervals—1 day, 3 days, a week.

Your brain loves patterns, and this method locks in knowledge.

Think of it like watering a plant.

Too much at once?

Drowned.

Just enough over time?

Thriving!

Highlighting everything?

That’s just coloring.

Instead, use active recall—close the book and test yourself.

The struggle to remember strengthens memory.

It’s like a mental gym workout.

No pain, no gain!

Unless you enjoy highlighting, then by all means, make that textbook a rainbow.

Music while studying?

Only if it’s instrumental!

Lyrics hijack your brain’s processing power.

Classical, lo-fi, or nature sounds boost focus.

But if you insist on blasting pop songs, at least make sure your essay doesn’t accidentally include song

lyrics.

‘To be or not to be… baby, hit me one more time.’