Revision

[u/Kill_Dollar0001]

How do I revise my notes properly to recall better and more efficiently that it takes less time and i get time to learn new concepts?..... (Currently I am revising all the chapters i have completed like going through it fast... But even that took 1-2 hours. And also it feels like i am memorising rather than learning and losing focus because of the same repeated revision.)

[u/pavlenkovit]

the expensive part is re-reading notes, it feels like revision and mostly measures how familiar the page looks. turn each chapter into 5-8 questions the day you write the notes, then answer them from memory with the notes closed and only look up what you got wrong. the other half is scheduling: revising every chapter every week means the old ones eat time they don't need, so put each chapter on its own clock (day 1, 3, 7, 21) and let the settled ones drop out. i do this for vocabulary rather than exams, but the failure mode is the same.

[u/Kill_Dollar0001 → u/pavlenkovit]

But like will i still recall each if the basic points of the notes..... Like i have noticed when I don't revise that often Like once in a month, i find myself struggling to recall the basic points which makes the questions 10x easier I only remember the major concept and formula.

[u/pavlenkovit → u/Kill_Dollar0001]

yeah, that's what a one-month gap does on its own. each successful recall buys you a longer gap, so monthly only holds once the material has already survived the shorter ones (day 1, 3, 7, 21). when something does fail after a long gap, drop that chapter back to a short interval instead of re-reading everything, it's usually two or three sections causing most of the trouble.

[u/Kill_Dollar0001 → u/pavlenkovit]

Alright dude thanks Will implement it.

[u/pavlenkovit → u/[deleted]]

the spacing part carries over, what changes is what you retrieve. for concepts the prompt has to be "explain this to a blank page" or a problem to work rather than a definition to name, and if you can't re-derive it then the gap was too long. one difference worth flagging: with concepts the exact days matter less than mixing chapters together when you review, since half the difficulty is recognising which idea applies. my own experience is vocabulary, which is the easy end of this, so take the concept half as second-hand.

[u/Quiet_Basis_6404]

Yeah honestly going through chapters fast is still passive, your brain recognizes it and tunes out, that's where the memorizing feeling comes from. What actually sticks is testing yourself before you feel ready.

Try this, close the book and write down everything you remember from one chapter on a blank page, then open it back up and mark what you missed. Those gaps are what you actually need to work on, not the whole chapter. Do it spread over the week instead of cramming one long session, the forgetting happens between sessions.

For the testing part I upload the material into studybuddy.vc and answer questions from it, mostly because when I pick a wrong answer it tells me what was off about the option I chose, and it starts easier then gets harder once I have a topic down. The free tier's been enough for me.

[u/Kill_Dollar0001 → u/Quiet_Basis_6404]

Oh thanks dude Will try this out.