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Facts about Studying

1. Losing one night's sleep can impair reasoning and memory for up to 4 days!

2. Learning can be a spectator sport.

3. Step away from the highlighters!!!
-Highlighting, underlining, rereading, and mnemonic devices have actually been found to be largely ineffective. The ever-popular strategy of highlighting may even get in students' ways, leading them to emphasize individual facts rather than make connections between concepts.

4. Start studying early...but not TOO early.
-Psychologists have found that the best time interval between two study sessions is 10% of the time between the final test and the second study session. So, to remember something for a year, you should review it about a month after you study it for the first time.

5. Don't get too cozy in the library.
-We learn by making associations between the things we're learning and our environments, and varying our surroundings creates more of these associations. Studies repeatedly show that students who study the same material in two different rooms test better than those who stick to the same location.

6. Foreign languages aren't just sexy. They grow your brain.
-Foreign language students — but not science students — showed growth in their brains' hippocampus and cerebral cortex regions after three months of studying. Such growth is believed to help us retain new information and keep us sharp as we age.

7. Getting your ass out of your chair is as important as buckling down.
- Physical exercise improves learning ability by growing new neurons and slowing (or even reversing) cognitive decay. Lab animals who use a running wheel show better cognition than sedentary critters.

8.Get down to serious study business right before bedtime.
-Sleep expert Dan Taylor claims that studying the most challenging material right before sleeping makes it easier to recall the next morning.

9. Give yourself a friggin' break!
-Research shows that chillaxing for longer periods between study sessions achieves better recall than cramming. Scientists posit that we may "relearn" studied material each time we revisit it, reinforcing memory and comprehension.

10. "Multitasking" is really just "multidistracting."
-It may feel like you're getting a lot done, but research shows that distractions while studying significantly reduce accurate recall.

11. Variety keeps your brain on its toes.
-Research shows that studying different kinds of information in a single session leads to better retention. This may be because we subconsciously find deeper patterns among the varied material.

12. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
-Testing not only assesses knowledge, it also trains your brain to retrieve information from memory. A study showed that students who studied material and then took a practice test retained the information longer than students who studied the information twice.

13. Early morning cramming is a dangerous sham.
-Sleep expert Dan Taylor warns that waking up extra early can disrupt the REM sleep crucial for solidifying memory.

14. The harder something is to remember, the harder it is to forget.
-Struggling to retrieve information from memory lodges it deeper in our minds.

15. And if you're not the sharpest tool in the shed, don't fret.
-IQ ain't no thang! Our knowledge and abilities are thought to reflect how we study more than "fixed" intelligence. So buckle down...your academic fate is in your hands.

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