Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/zach-highley-how-to-study-more-in-less-time-3-mistakes-most-students-make Companion Article: https://zhighley.com/how-to-study-more-in-less-time-3-mistakes-most-students-make/ 0:00 Intro 2:18 Summarizing 2:48 Highlighting 3:48 Rereading 5:15 Active Recall 6:29 Practice Testing 9:05 Summary and Implementation Evidence shows summarizing, highlighting, and rereading are poor techniques when it comes to retaining information. Active Recall and Practice Testing have been shown to be significantly better in regards to improving content retention. In this video, I outline the "evidence," and why I study the way I do. Articles Referenced: 1. Dunlosky et al., 2013 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26173288/ 2. Karpicke et al., 2009 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19358016/ 3. Callender and Macdaniel, 2009 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0361476X08000477 4. Morris et al., 2005 - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/acp.1115 5. Augustin M., 2014 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4031794/ 6. Hartwig et al., 2012 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22083626/ 7. Palmer et al., 2019 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31871348/ Other Places I Post: 💌 Weekly Newsletter - https://zhighley.com/newsletter/ 🌐 Website - https://zhighley.com/ 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/zachhighley/ 🐧 Twitter - https://twitter.com/ZachHighley 𝐅 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ZachHighley The Gear I Use to film videos: https://zhighley.com/resources/#_YouT... What I'm Reading: https://zhighley.com/resources/#_Books

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