Why Flashcards Beat Mnemonics for Studying
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6 min readJun 12, 2023
Suppose you have to memorize a lot of material — vocabulary words in a new language, terminology for an anatomy class, legal precedents, or dates of historical events. Which strategy will lead to better performance: mnemonics or flashcards?
In the small and strange world of studying strategies, mnemonics techniques receive a lot of attention:
- The keyword method…