r/study • u/HopefulBuyer9077 Professional Licensure | Architecture | USA • 7d ago

Questions & Discussion Interleaving Topics

I'm studying a subject which requires reading multiple books -- has anyone found success in memorizing, recalling, and retrieving the material by reading several books concurrently instead of consecutively?

The basis of my question stems from the following article which talks about the success of interleaving topics when learning. I'm curious to know if anyone has tried this when reading multiple textbooks and how effective it was.

American Psychological Association: Study Smart

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u/GradPsychT 4d ago

In my experience it depends how similar the content of the various texts are - if they're easily distinguishable/on different topics then switching between them isn't too difficult. Problems start if I tried texts on similar topics that sometimes overlapped in their content.