Smart Study Skills

Study smarter, not harder

Study smarter by using methods that have been scientifically shown to help you remember more, for longer and better connect learning across subjects.

This web site is designed to help you understand and begin to use highb quality study skills that will make the studying more effective and help you succeed at school.

Skills

Retrival Practice

The act of trying to remember ideas, through techniques like flash cards to practice tests, actually helps make it easier to remember those ideas and connect them to each other.

Spaced Practice

This simple method of spacing out your studying makes a big difference in helping to form lasting memories.

Elaboration

Use your own words and add details to the concepts you’re learning to make them your own and make it easier to recall them later.

Interleaving

Instead of studying the same things in the same order over and over, try mixing things up with Interleaving.

Concerte Examples

It’s easier to remember ideas that we can visualize and connect to ideas we already know. Learning and creating specific examples of abstract concepts does just that.

Dual Coding

Combine visuals like pictures, diagrams or your own drawings, with text gives your brain more to latch on to and more pathways to remember.