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How to defeat the forgetting curve - a practical guide to revising for your exams

In total, I spent something like 18 years in formal education. That's a lot of time, and over those years, I learned many things, working all the way up from the alphabet to writing a master's thesis. One thing that I don't exactly remember being taught is how to organise one's work effectively. Certainly, there were versions of this along the way: being given a homework planner at secondary, and project management lectures at university - but these never quite laid out a system for organisation, and especially revision, that stuck with me. In various 'how to revise' sessions at secondary school. Invariably, these involved some external speaker (presumably charging cash-strapped schools a healthy fee for the privilege) where they showed you this diagram: image/svg+xml