Study tips

-- Breaking up and spacing out study time over days or weeks can substantially boost how much of the material students retain, and for longer, compared to lumping everything into a single, nose-to-the-grindstone session.

-- Varying the studying environment (where you study) can help reinforce and sharpen the memory of what you learn.

-- Take a 15-minute break to go for a walk, talk to your family, or play a game. Distractions and interruptions can allow for mental “incubation” and flashes of insight -- but only if you’ve been working at a problem for a while and get stuck, according to a 2009 research meta-analysis.

-- Quizzing yourself on new material, such as by reciting it aloud from memory or trying to tell a parent or sibling about it, is a far more powerful way to master information than just re-reading it, according to work by researchers including Henry Roediger III and Jeffrey Karpicke. (Roediger has co-authored his own book, "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.")

Source: https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/37289/how-does-the-brain-learn-best-smart-studying-strategies