Tackling articles in incremental reading
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Subject: Priority, Applicable knowledge, Cost-Benefit Analysis
Question:
I have lack of determining about knowledge priorities because my college materials, they are really big to handle. Could you explain step-by-step how to determine the best knowledge that have criterion of highly applicable while using cost-benefit formula?
How do we tackle this articles using supermemo methods and determines which segment are important and meets cost-benefit criterion, then convert it to be highly applicable knowledge for day-to-day activity? For example, I am learning about Nutrition from Wikipedia.
I am not good at math, and i still have nothing about CBA theory. I hope you could explain it in as simple as possible. I am interest to article that said about "determine whether remember opening hour of gym is really need or not using CBA Theory."
Thank you for your attention. Im sorry if my English is bad.
Answer:
Answer 1
See this video to learn about mastering articles from Wikipedia (with incremental reading).
You probably read about cost-and-benefit in some theoretical articles. In practical applications you just (1) generate cloze deletions, (2) prioritize them (to show which are most important) and (3) review as many as you can in your daily session with SuperMemo.
Answer 2
For university, one approach to prioritising is to split knowledge up into 2 parts:
- things I want to know forever,
- things I want to know for the next exam (and then forget)
Only work hard to put number 1 in SuperMemo. With Number 2 you can just cram using normal study techniques. Trying to manage all your college materials in SuperMemo, when they are not all easy to incrementally read (e.g. textbooks, PDFs, powerpoints, etc.) and when you are not an experienced user, will most likely result in you learning a small part of the course really well and scoring low on your exams.
Answer 3
Theoretical equations (like CBA theory) are interesting, but it's the habits and SuperMemo tools based on those ideas that are the real way to make decisions
Answer 4
Cost-Benefit Analysis is mentioned here: CBA in incremental reading. However, it is presented only as a justification of why learning with SuperMemo makes sense. In practical applications, you do not ponder costs much (they are similar per item). You mostly focus on benefits. Only you know best what you want to remember and what benefits you can expect from a memory. This is why you usually make all decisions fast and instinctively. Perhaps that instinctiveness takes some time to develop. Once you create a cloze deletion, you usually wonder if you need to change it priority away from the default. If not, SuperMemo takes over from that point. You only need to give it a bit of time of your day.
This text and video are used to explain SuperMemo, a pioneer of spaced repetition software since 1987. For other videos see: SuperMemo Video