Active recall Puns

Hi everyone.

I'm going to be a first-year student next year and I really want to fix up my studying technique for university.

In high school I just studied by memorizing things, doing practice problems, and then using spaced repetition every few days. Apparently that isn't the most effective way to study. It's active recall.

If anyone uses active recall as their main study method in university, could you please comment below as to:

1)How it works

2)How you incorporate it in your studying

3)How you take notes during lecture

4)How you study for exams using it

5)If it actually work for you

If you use an alternative study method let me know down below.

Thanks.

Hey there,

I have to study a lot of plain definitions and was wondering if there is a better way of studying them. I try to understand most of them instead of learning them word per word but sometimes the academic jargon makes it very hard. I often times illustrate them through drawing, however I need a more effective approach. Most of the time revising those definitions I score pretty bad.

If you have any thoughts on this, please let me know. Thanks a lot.

In June 2021 I purchased a new BMW X3 PHEV for ~$60k. I haven’t had a problem with the car but went in for the first oil change and was told there is a recall without a known fix.

It turns out the recall is for a faulty battery which can explode. It also appears the recall was issued in the fall of 2020 for cars with production dates between February and September of 2020. The car we purchased in June has a production date within the range of the recall.

While at the dealer for the oil change they informed me not to plug the vehicle in, keep the battery drained, and only use it in hybrid mode. Today I received a call from BMW corporate telling me the same information and offering $1000 for the inconvenience.

In most scenarios I’d be happy with the $1000, but I think there is a bigger problem here. As far as I know, and please correct me if I’m wrong, it’s illegal to sell a new car as “new” if it has an active recall and hasn’t been repaired. The dealer sold me the car as new and never disclosed the recall nor can they provide any timeline for repair.

I bought the car because it is a PHEV. Now I can’t use the electric part of the engine due to an undisclosed recall at purchase.

Any advice on how to approach this issue with the dealer?

Now there have been lots of diccussions that schools should introuduce more concepts/topics that could aid a students' future such as how to handle money/taxes but how about how to quote and apply the knowledge for present/future usuage?

After reading books and watching videos i just can't help but wonder why schools make you use this generic formula of just copying notes from a textbook/teacher's slide for hours straight as if it won't induce burnout and just not very effective in the long run. i didn't know what pomodoro was until i saw a youtube video about it for revision and it's helped me way more than just "revision tips" by teachers such as excess homework and very big guidebooks.

The only explanation i have to change my view is maybe these techiques may be hard for students to grasp at first but it can easily be broken down into small steps first.

I have some of the worst intuition that I know of, and haven't seen much improvement over the years; my active recall lacks so much that I end up forgetting important moments and critical commodities that wouldn't normally go awry if my judgment and alertness were up to scuff. For example, say I plan ahead for a future event that I constantly remind myself to keep in my memory banks, but if something were to distract me long enough and keep my mind preoccupied, it's most likely I'll forget whatever it is I had planned prior, and forget entirely until the deadline is overdue.

I can't stand living with this setback, and it's constantly coming back to haunt me in the most inconvenient situations. About a year ago, I had my dorm room keys, and ID card attached to a necklace that I always wore on me and rarely ever put down; one time I stupidly decided to take it off and leave it unattended while playing a game of pool with my friends. After a few games and a couple of hours of playtime, we headed back to their room, and I was left completely blind-sighted when I took off the necklace, leaving it there and losing it in the process.

Is there any way for me to improve on these aspects, and how I can retain information for much longer without the risk of forgetting until after? Thanks for any helpful and constructive feedback you may have.

I’ve been trying to find an answer for really long but nothing regarding this question on the internet. Would appreciate if you share your opinions!

Even though I'm stationed in CA, I still would have had to drive over 3 hours to get to my polling station. This made it way easier, so shoutout to CA!

The following post was first made on r/medschoolanki, but at this point I need all the resources I can :)

Tl;dr I take to much time learning my new cards and I think it’s because of active recall

Okay, so I’m a baby in this wide world that is Anki and after hearing so much good things about it, I decided to give it a try…

Wasn’t the best idea apparently :’)

To throw a bit of context, I’m an European student and I’m supposed to get the equivalent of the MCAT (?) at the end of the year (one exam/semester).

The thing is that there’s not a lot of pre-made decks in my language, meaning that I had to make my flashcards myself.

But you know what, that’s not even a problem anymore because I managed to find a way to create them pretty quickly (about an hour for a 55 slides course).

The thing is that I take WAY too much time learning new cards, like I’m not kidding it’s actually scary.

If I take the course of 55 slides I mentioned earlier, I literally took about 9 HOURS finishing the cards.

9 HOURS…

Like what the hell am I doing wrong?

I obviously don’t have time to do enough practice questions (if I can do them at all) which, of course, is kinda problematic.

I have about 80-130 flashcards per courses and I don’t think I put THAT much information on them (since I’m supposed to be learning basically everything from the slides anyway).

Can y’all tell me how long does it take for you to go through around this amount of cards ?

And do you re-read your slides again or watch the video first or something?

I don’t most of the time because it feels like a bit of waste of time but I do when there’s something I don’t understand.

Anyway, I’ve been doing active recall since pretty much high school (without even knowing what it was), so I just know that passive reading is not for me because it just feels like I’m not retaining anything.

That being said people who just read their notes/slides do take way less time from what I’m seeing, like they don’t test themselves about everything so yeah I guess it’s less time consuming even though it might not be the best way to retain info.

So anyway I’m pretty pretty pretty lost here so if someone could help me pass this year, without me going through some kind of depression (or just pass, at this point that’s cool too), it’d be amazing.

Tl;dr I take to much time learning my newest cards and I think it’s because of active recall

Hi! I wanna know your thoughts about this because I am planning to practice this one if it can help me remembering stuff i learn haha

Background: As a stressed and anxious IB2 student I want to improve on my studying habits since I need +40 points in order to go to medical school. Overall so many studies show how active recall is the way to go in terms of studying efficiently so I definitely want to implement it in my routines.

The issue is that it always seems too overwhelming. I have a lot of IA´s, the EE, G4-project, and finals to worry about. There are also so many topics to cover with active recall so I just get so overwhelmed and lose motivation to complete any work because I am so discouraged. Do you guys have any tips relating to using active recall in a realistic manner?

Here is the link to my notion active recall notes. I'm still working on a few topics I did not properly take notes in. But with the exams coming up in less than a month I'll have to postpone that till a week or two after it. I don't want people to go through making their own notes because trust me, it's painful. So here it is (click here). Just a quick note, some notes may not make sense because it made sense to me, so if you're using the bio ninja active recall notes, please scheme through bio ninja to get the bigger picture of the questions asked. These are not questions from the questions banks, but rather questions I made up myself from reading the bio ninja website. Enjoy! Let me know what you think. You can be brutal :-) Also! SORRY FORGET TO ADD, MAKE SURE YOU DUPLICATE IT! Good luck with your studies <3 I will explain how the notes work in detail later on

I'm studying Japanese and most of my cards are passive recall (as in Japanese word on the front, English translation on the back) for two reasons 1) to practice Kanji recognition 2) when a word in English has a lot of translations, it's more manageable to review like this than trying to review specific words that aren't due yet.

Now my problem recently is, there's a lot of words that I just forget before the next review date. I look them up in my deck then I find that they were already in my review cycle and it's due at a much later date but they slipped out of my memory way too soon. One example had me looking up a word where the next review is supposed to be a year from now but right now I completely forgot about that word.

I'm wondering if the algorithm is just messing with me or if it's only effective for active recall. After all, you're more likely to retain information with active recall and if it's being tested rather than with passive recall. Or maybe I should press Hard for the passive recall cards to give me a shorter review interval. I'm just annoyed with the algorithm because if it says the next review is 1 year and it necessitates me to have seen or used that word sometime before that 1 year to ensure that I don't forget it, then the algorithm is just lying to me as to when I'm supposed to forget that word.

Is reading and then stopping and trying to write as much as you can from memory a good active recall technique?

Or would you recommend something better?

So I’m entering medical school soon, and I was wondering if your grades went up by using the active recall method or was it just a waste of time?

I've been thinking that active recall is useful only if you want to memorize something, but nowadays you can access quickly to all the information and it's not necessary to retain names or facts. In my opinion it's less stressful just read a paragraph or chunk of information and think about it, and read it some days later to avoid that information becomes rusty. And also you save more time creating the cards.

I wanted to ask this because I read a lot of "active recall without space repetition" (cram), but not this point of view.

I just bought a a 2011 Santa Fe from CarMax a few days ago. Verified the history and everything. Checked NHTSA to see if there are any open recalls. No active recalls.

But on MyHyundai, it shows that there are 2 active recalls.

How do I know if these recalls have been addressed?

Lookinf for SP to do active recall of FA 1-2 hours a day and discuss the difficult tables

Hi everyone! The reason I’m posting this is because I’m looking for an alternative for Anki. I think the concept is great and I really saw the results of it right away but, since I’m an engineering student it really consumes my time doing the flashcards and making sure that everything is there, in some cases the flashcards end up being really long because of formulas or step by steps,etc. The thing that also It doesn’t really works for me is the time it really takes to study the decks (ex. a deck for one midterm ended up having 180 flashcards and by the time I finished doing the flashcards, I had like a week to study all of them and I ended up not studying from Anki). So, is there an alternative? Something that works like Anki in terms of scheduling the revisions of chapters to study for a test?

I understand the concept behind active recall and spaced repetition for like chemistry and biology but how am I supposed to apply this to Irish when we just have 5 page essays and pros and poems to learn off. Like re-reading seems like the only way but that’s obviously not ideal. Preferably using something like anki

How to combine the 2? Benefits of active recall are obvious and benefit of highlighting is faster review.

I have a ton of documents I'm hoping to study with. I was wondering if there are any tools on Adobe/ Word/ etc which would allow someone to place an occlusion of some sort over parts of a sentence.

For example, the sentence would normally read like this:

"Johnny is black."

But is there a way to occlude part of the sentence like this, so that only when I tap/ hover the answer appears?

"Johnny is . "

Thanks in advance!

So, I've been struggling with studying for years and years and years thinking of giving up because I thought I was just dumb so studying was a waste of time for me but the truth is, I never actually tried different methods before calling myself dumb and thinking I have the memory of a goldfish so that's what i'm doing right now, and you know what? Active Recall is hard.

I have watched A LOT of videos and read a lot of articles about this but I still have some doubts and I wanted to share them with you hoping that someone who already tried this method can help me.

After watching all those videos I tried to create a list of things to do before, during and after the lectures and I wanted to have your opinion on that so:

BEFORE

• Reading the things that will be discussed before the lecture.

I don't know if I'll always be able to do it since most of the time teachers don't publish the lesson slides before the actual lesson but if I can I'll surely do it.

DURING

• Making (digital) flashcards while the teacher is explaining.

So, i'm not really sure about this one. Almost every person I saw using active recall basically don't take notes during lectures, they only write questions that they will try to give an answer to after the lesson to know what they actually remember and what they don't. (Since for some reason all these people were med students maybe for their subjects this method is easier to use?)

Since not taking notes makes me anxious especially because our teachers when explaining usually also add informations that aren't on the slides or on the textbooks I thought about a middle ground: FLASHCARDS

Goodnotes 5 has a new function that allows you to write your own digital flashcards and also review them using the spaced repetition method so I thought, instead of only writing questions, why don't I also add the answer? This will help my need to take notes but it will also let me apply the active recall method at the same time, what do you think? Do you think it will be effective?

AFTER

• SPACED REPETITION, that's all.

When I come across questions I don't know though I'll go back to my notes or textbooks and find the answer, read it again and then using another active recall method to remember it, trying to explaining it out loud as if someone is listening to me but with the book closed.

Now, for the questions, will the flashcards method be effective for every subject? Since I don't think so do you have any alternative for taking notes using

I'm doing active recall and I've noticed that most of the things I usually get wrong or completely forget are enumeration type questions.

Example: What is the function of rough endoplasmic reticulum?

- Responsible for protein translation, folding and transport

- Stores glycogen

- Responsible for sequestering calcium in the muscle. AKA sarcoplasmic reticulum.

I would always forget one of them or maybe I practiced active recall and then the next day, it's completely gone. How do you handle enumeration type questions?

Thanks.

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Read here of recall: https://repairpal.com/when-i-fill-up-my-gas-tank-the-gauge-goes-to-empty-for-about-45-miles-381

Can I still get this fixed for free?

2006 4x4 off road 220k

What do you guys use for active recall on a computer