This forum is not a place to ask for personal medical advice. All pre-med related content belongs on /r/premed. Please keep all topics relevant to current medical students. will be removed, possibly resulting in a ban. All forms of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. Rude and/or aggressive behavior will not be tolerated on this sub. Read the rules here.īe respectful to your fellow medical students. So yeah, massed practice gives you the illusion of knowing the topic when in reality, you don't actually know it.All Step I/II and ERAS related discussion should be posted in the respective stickied thread. The mixing of problem types, which boosted final test performance by a remarkable 215 percent, actually impeded per for mance during initial learning. But in the final test a week later, the students who had practiced solving problems clustered by type averaged only 20 percent correct, while the students whose practice was interleaved averaged 63 percent. During practice, the students who worked the problems in clusters (that is, massed) averaged 89 percent correct, compared to only 60 percent for those who worked the problems in a mixed sequence. Given what we’ve already presented, the results may not surprise you. The other group worked the same practice problems, but the sequence was mixed (interleaved) rather than clustered by type of problem. One group then worked a set of practice problems that were clustered by problem type (practice four problems for computing the volume of a wedge, then four problems for a spheroid, etc.). Two groups of college students were taught how to find the volumes of four obscure geometric solids (wedge, spheroid, spherical cone, and half cone). Interleaving the practice of two or more subjects or skills is also a more potent alternative to massed practice, and here’s a quick example of that. To illustrate this point, I am quoting an experiment from the book "Make it stick"(This book is imo the best book in memory and how it works and how to improve it for studying and stuff) Cognitive psychology has consistently shown that interleaving is MUCH MUCH better than massed practice. If you have all the cards be in a sequential order than all you are doing is "massed practice". For example, my exams are in May June and I have my max interval at 60 days which I think is a good compromise b/w letting the algorithm shine and revising everything.īy the way: I have "show new cards in random order" but just thinking about it, I feel like that's kind of a disorganized way of studying because I rather have all new cards in sequential order in which I'm studying if that makes sense. So I would suggest you increase the max interval. 7 days is WAY TOO LESS even if you are preparing for an entry test(e.g MCAT) thats a few months away. These settings seem nice but if you set max interval at 7 days then aren't giving the algorithm time to shine. YelloW General Surgery ABSITE Review Deck For a full list please see all decks here.ĭubin + Rhythm Strips + Hoop!'s Radiology
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