Space it out
Come back to a topic over several days instead of studying it all at once.
You may know this as spaced repetition or the 2357 method.
- Day 1Learn it, book closed first
- Day 2Bring it back, 2 minutes
- Day 5Bring it back again
- Day 12Once more
Short returns, spread out. Your plan sets the days from your test date.
How to do it with your own book
- 1Study a topic today, book closed first.
- 2Bring it back tomorrow for 2 minutes, from memory.
- 3Bring it back again a few days later, then again the next week.
- 4Keep each return short. Several short returns do more than one long night.
Why it helps
- Across 29 studies, spacing practice out beat doing it all at once. (Latimier and colleagues, 2021)
- The exact schedule matters less than you’d think. Gaps that grow did no better than even gaps; how many times a topic came back mattered more. You don’t need a numbered rule. (Latimier and colleagues, 2021)
- The best gap depends on how far away your test is. That’s why your plan starts from your test date. (Cepeda and colleagues, 2008)
These studies were done with students in other settings, not cosmetology students. They show why the habit is worth trying, not what your score will be.
In your Lisensa plan
Your plan does the spacing for you. Topics you’ve studied come back on set days, and not-yet topics come back sooner.
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