Get going with Spaced Repetition
Spaced repetition is your best friend when studying. Presto remembers all the revision questions you got wrong or were not sure about, and then asks them again.
Spaced Repetition is one of the coolest ways to train your brain, relax and remember more!
Watch our info- comic on how spaced repetition actually works and is supported by cognitive science.
Spaced repetition is an evidence-based learning technique that is usually performed with flashcards. Newly introduced and more difficult flashcard questions and study points are shown more frequently, while older and less difficult flashcards are shown less frequently in order to exploit the psychological spacing effect.
Spaced repetition is simple, but highly effective because it deliberately hacks the way your brain works. It forces learning to be effortful, and like muscles, the brain responds to that stimulus by strengthening the connections between nerve cells.
Repetition is a key learning aid because it helps transition a skill from the conscious to the subconscious. Through repetition, a skill is practiced and rehearsed over time and gradually becomes easier. … Another important aspect of repetition is the interval at which a skill is repeated. This is why helping students manage Spaced Repetition is so important. Being reminded of what you don’t know, goes a long way to remembering.
Previous studies have shown that repetition learning significantly increased the memory performance for detailed and associative information, and at the same time, increased the recollection contribution in associative memory (Barber et al., 2008; Yang et al., 2016).
The SM-2 algorithm, created by SuperMemo in the late 1980s, forms the basis of the spaced repetition methods employed in Presto.
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