How to learn effectively

Guides to remember more, based on memory research.

Rereading a lesson feels like knowing it, but it is not the method that works best. These guides explain what research says about learning: testing yourself, spacing your reviews, grouping information and using memory aids. Each guide cites its sources and suggests exercises to do on Mnemoz.

• How to learn effectively: the techniques that really workRereading is not enough to remember. Here are the techniques research supports best: self-testing, spacing, mixing topics, self-explanation and sleep.5 min read
• Spaced repetition: revise at the right time to remember for longerReviewing at ever longer intervals helps you remember for the long term. Forgetting curve, sample calendar, Leitner method and the tools on Mnemoz.4 min read
• Testing yourself to remember better: the testing effectWhy recalling what you have read sticks better than rereading, how to test yourself without any tool and how to use the quizzes on Mnemoz to do it.5 min read
• Remembering capitals and flags: methods and exercisesWhy capitals are forgotten, how to learn them in small groups, on a map and with flags, then how to test yourself with the games.4 min read
• How to remember dates and events in historyWhy isolated dates are forgotten, which landmarks to fix, how to place a century and practise putting historical events in their order.5 min read
• Memory techniques: acronyms, memory palace and chunkingAcronyms, mnemonic phrases, chunking and the method of loci: what studies say about these techniques and how to combine them with Mnemoz.5 min read