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Lifehack comes to the rescue once again by providing this useful and succinct article that suggests that studying less and learning something right the first time around is more beneficial than repeating and reviewing information over and over again. In ‘How to Study Less by Learning Things Once’ writer Scott Young helps readers to imagine the brain as a structure full of holes, and that by reviewing study material over and over, we are really just putting a band-aid over a sieve.

A student himself, Young seems as good a candidate as any to write about effective study habits. He breaks the process into steps, offering guidance along the way and giving tips on how to maintain the techniques that work best for you. Some are merely mnemonic devices that we should all know by now, but there are other bits of wisdom such as ‘your brain is not a computer,’ that will help learners rethink their study habits. Students can surely benefit from the steps here, and they might even stop blaming you when they claim to be ‘tired from studying ALL night’. –JEREMY S. GRIFFIN

How To Study Less by Learning Things Once