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Don't know where to post this but I thought I'd let my mathchan friends know about this great thread I found on great studying methods https://warosu.org/sci/thread/S9152271
Quoting one guy in particular:
>[The best study method is] retrieval practice. Read this guy's papers (Jeffrey Karpicke - they're free on his website) and you'll see that it's better than any other method. I suggest starting with his 2008 Science paper
http://learninglab.psych.purdue.edu/publications/
>also here's an interesting lecture that you might enjoy, by his PhD supervisor (who also does research in memory and learning) Henry L Roediger, who is the co-author of pic related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqae85jbfbE
>Don't want to affirm the consequent, but from anecdotal experience, after reading all their papers, I went from below-average (GPA wise) to 3rd in my year
>[...] retrieval practice works on what is called semantic memory, which is (basically) the memory of facts. If you have trouble remembering things like derivations, formulae, and empirical facts from the natural sciences, then this will help.
>For things like the application of intelligence to solve novel problems, you want to work on your procedural memory (which is basically "cognitive skill"). Here's a paper on how math ability might be related to procedural memory - but note that this area is not yet as deeply researched as retrieval practice.
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01318/full
>One other thing (this doesn't come from empirical studies, so take it with a grain of salt): A good friend of mine, who went to the international math olympiads in high school (and got silvers all the time) told me the Chinese kids had an excellent way of prepping for the olympiads.
>Any time they would get stuck on a math problem, unable to fix it, and they would be told the answer (or the solution to that particular step) later, they would take a small break and ask themselves "Where should I have figured that out from?" and then written down the explanation. And then they would basically go over the explanation and think about it for the next two or three days, once or twice a day. Basically, just burning into their memory what they should have thought of to solve that step they couldn't manage to solve then.
>And he said they told him it worked pretty well. It would make sense from a crystallized intelligence/procedural memory point of view - you're developing your math skill by constantly reminding yourself where you got stuck and what you should've thought of when you got stuck - so if that happens in the future, you're really likely to remember what you need to do.
This thread is for people to discuss studying in general.
