Memory retrieval practice
If you want to learn something do not study it over and over, practice retrieving the information. If you want to learn a word list do not look at the word list, have someone ask you question from the word list. Use flashcards to learn the list, but passive listening is not the most effective way to learn.
A study at Washington University in St. Louis has confirmed this. After 150 years of memory study it appears that the way to improve your memory is by testing and retesting but studying and restudying.
Therefore, poor test takers take note: intelligence, judgement, understanding has less to do with test scores that your simply ability to retrieve information. You want to memorizes something or commit a word list to memory, simply do flash cards or test and test yourself and you will have it in your memory.
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