Cramming for an exam

Video

Cramming for an exam video explains how to prepare for an exam in a week. In involves creating a collection in a hurry, and massive learning with the use of various strategies. After the exam, the material is redistributed in time for rational incremental processing. Individual elements will be polished, dismissed, or deleted over successive months and years. The core of quality knowledge acquired during cramming can be retained indefinitely.

Warning! Cramming is bad for your learning. It undermines your passion for learning. Use the described hurried techniques only as a last resort. You should always make sure learning is fun!

Skills

Cramming for an exam video describes the following skills:

• importing questions from a test exam
• adding explanations and summaries from Bing
• processing texts with cloze deletion
• extracting portions of pictures ("picture cloze")
• add to outstanding for topics and items
• using text size sort to prioritized unprocessed tests
• merging collections
• redistributing the material after the exam (with Spread)

Comments

It does not look like cramming

"Definite cramming. Look at the time span, number of items and topics, and the mess in content. Clozes made on one-page topics with hurried cleanup at repetitions. In addition, this does not look like learning with passion. It is a brutal transfer of test knowledge into the student's head with little attention to goals and passions. Obviously, it does not mean that this knowledge is useless. Time will tell. There is always the Delete button"

Handling after the exam

Ref: video comments at Pleasurable Learning

An exam collection should be separate from "good knowledge". it is a form of pollution. Once cleaned up (after the exam), it may be integrated. A good rule might be to allocate it as much space as much value there is in the knowledge. Perhaps 1% perhaps more. There is some fun coming from the fact that exam is not going to waste. This way, having one repetition per week is almost certainly fun. Even if the item is awful in terms of formulation or knowledge value. It is a reflection on time spent. For example, it may prompt a re-think: do I want to be in that school? Do I need that MSc or PhD? It may also do the opposite: it may start a new investigation into knowledge that previously seemed boring and useless.

This text and video are used to explain SuperMemo, a pioneer of spaced repetition software since 1987. For other videos see: SuperMemo Video