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Reаding 4 Think yоu knоw hоw to study? Reseаrch suggests thаt much of the common wisdom about good study habits is wrong. For instance, most study skills courses insist that students find a specific place, a study room or a quiet corner of the library, to do their work. Yet in one classic experiment, psychologists found that college students who studied a list of 40 vocabulary words in two different rooms—one windowless and cluttered, the other modern, with a view of a courtyard—did far better on a test than students who studied the words twice, in the same room. Later studies have confirmed the finding, for a variety of topics. Another research finding that goes against accepted wisdom is that it is better to vary the type of material studied in a single sitting than to concentrate on just one skill at a time. For example, in one recent study, researchers taught a group of fourth-graders four equations, each to calculate a different dimension of a prism. Half of the children learned by studying repeated examples of one equation. Then they moved on to the next type of calculation, studying repeated examples of that. The other half studied mixed problem sets, which included examples of all four types of calculations grouped together. A day later, the researchers gave all of the students a test on the material, presenting new problems of the same type. The children who had studied mixed sets outscored the others, 77 percent to 38 percent. Researchers have found the same in experiments involving adults and younger children. These findings undermine the common belief that intensive immersion is the best way to really master a particular skill. Scientists do not deny that honest-to-goodness cramming can lead to a better grade on a given exam. But they liken hurriedly jam-packing a brain to speed-packing a cheap suitcase. As most students quickly learn—it holds its new load for a while; then most everything falls out. On the other hand, when the mental suitcase is packed carefully and gradually, it holds its content for far, far, longer. As dozens of studies have shown, an hour of study one night, an hour on the weekend, another session a week from now: such so-called spacing improves later recall, without requiring students to put in more overall study effort. No one knows for sure why. It may be that the brain has to relearn some of what it has absorbed before adding new stuff—and that that process aids recall. In other words, forgetting is the friend of learning. That’s one reason scientists see practice tests and quizzes as powerful tools of learning, rather than merely assessment. In one experiment, researchers had college students study science passages from a reading comprehension test, in short study periods. When students studied the same material twice, in back-to-back sessions, they did very well on a test given immediately afterward, then began to forget the material. But if they studied the passage just once and did a practice test in the second session, they did very well on one test two days later, and another given a week later. Of course, one reason the thought of testing tightens people’s stomachs is that tests are so often hard. Paradoxically, it is just this difficulty that makes them such effective study tools. None of these techniques—alternating study environments, mixing content, spacing study sessions, self-testing, or all of the above—is guaranteed to turn a grade-A slacker into a grade-A student. But at the very least, the techniques give parents and students a study plan based on evidence, not schoolyard folk wisdom. On the basis of this selection, we can infer that