If you repeat information more often in the first few days, it’ll stick longer in your brain
Published in · 5 min read · Sep 4, 2019
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The above graph is based on the research of Hermann Ebbinghaus, who was among the first scientists to perform experiments to understand how memory works. The research is maybe 100 years old but it’s as relevant today as it was back then.
I used to forget things just as the above graph demonstrates. You probably do too. It’s only human. What I want this article to do for you is give you my method of not forgetting the stuff that’s important to you and that may be helpful for an exam. Of course, it’s not feasible to remember everything you read, but surely, you can memorize the majority of it.
As a student, the biggest problem I encountered was forgetting information. I would learn something from a textbook and forget almost half of it by the next day. That resulted in lower grades, which further led me to believe that I wasn’t a good student because I had a very short-term and weak memory.
All of that changed last year. I met a brilliant student, befriended him, and he held out his hand to pull me up from the dark pit of lower grades. He introduced me to this 7–3–2–1 formula, for which I will remain eternally grateful. My…
