College got harder, so she worked to find better study skills.
But you’ll learn and remember material better if you space your study sessions over the course of several days.SOUTH_AGENCY/E+/GETTY IMAGES PLUSIn one 2009 experiment, college students studied vocabulary words with flash cards.
Some students studied all the words in spaced-apart sessions throughout four days.
Others studied smaller batches of the words in crammed, or massed, sessions, each over a single day.
Don’t just reread books and notesAs a teen, Cynthia Nebel studied by reading her textbooks, worksheets and notebooks.
Test results differed little between these groups, Aimee Callender and Mark McDaniel found.