Renee and the Test Nobody Studied For

Description:

Renee did not fail the test because she was unprepared. That would have been simpler.

She read the chapter twice. She highlighted the key terms. She reviewed her notes. She slept. She ate breakfast. By every standard she had applied to the word prepared, she was prepared. She made a sixty-three.

What followed was a study autopsy, a structured investigation into not what she studied but how, led by a mother who has spent her career helping people understand the gap between recognizing information and being able to retrieve it.

Funny, warm, and genuinely useful, Book Seven teaches the real science of studying: retrieval practice, active recall, spaced repetition, practice testing, and the difference between knowing something while you are reading it and being able to produce it when nothing is in front of you.

Studying is not rereading. Studying is practicing remembering.

Publisher: McKenna Books