memorising content

flashcards and blurting

What’s blurting?

there may be a youtube video somewhere that explains this better but essentially you grab a sheet of paper/whiteboard and write down everything you know about a specific topic (this could something as broad as genes and inheritance and homeostasis or something more specific like animal and plant cells) this should be from memory so don't use anything like textbooks or the internet. give yourself about 20 minutes to do so depending on how big the topic is and then go back with a different colour and this time, use textbooks and whatever resources you want to add in bits you didn't know or got wrong. then, about half an hour or so later, do it all again. you gotta do it until you have more or less recall everything about the topic from memory. it's quite a lot of writing but for me it worked really well.

What about if you don’t know a topic would you first memorise then content and then put the text book away and write everything you can remember? Does this also implement active recall