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Essential concepts for mastering high-stakes exams. Understand the science behind how you learn.
A learning principle where you stimulate your memory for a piece of information during the learning process, as opposed to passively reviewing it.
A learning technique that incorporates increasing intervals of time between subsequent reviews of previously learned material in order to exploit the psychological spacing effect.
Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes; essentially "thinking about thinking".
The United States Medical Licensing Examination, a three-step examination for medical licensure in the United States.
A free and open-source flashcard program that uses spaced repetition, widely used by medical students for memorization.
A theory that suggests learning is hampered when working memory capacity is exceeded.
A hypothesis that describes the decline of memory retention in time. It shows how information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it.
A state in Anki where a card's Ease Factor drops so low that the algorithm schedules it for review excessively often, causing study inefficiency.
A study technique where students mix, or interleave, multiple subjects or topics while they study, in order to improve their learning.