Retrieval practice enhances learning in real primary school settings, whether distributed or not

A looming deadline changes the math on how to study. Here is what to do when you do not have the weeks that ideal spacing assumes.

Standard study advice assumes you can sit down and start on command. If your brain does not work that way, the advice was never going to work.

Most study advice is guesswork. Two methods have decades of controlled evidence behind them, and neither is re-reading your notes.