Space it out

Today's action · 5 min

Take what you tested yourself on yesterday and schedule two short reviews: one in two days and one in a week. Write them on your calendar now.

Why it works

Cepeda and colleagues reviewed hundreds of experiments and found that spreading study sessions out over time leads to better long-term memory than cramming the same amount of study into one go.

Source: Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis (Cepeda et al., 2006)