How do I DEEPLY PROCESS and DISTRIBUTE PRACTICE  in my School work?

Picture your notebook, a spiral notebook open with page 1 to the left and page 2 to the right.

Notes are taken from lecture, assigned reading and discussion with peers on the STATEMENT PAGE, page 2 on the right.

DATA to be learned is delivered in the form of statements.
Usually elaboration upon the statements are given in the form of PIE, proof, information or examples.
This is typically recorded in a bulleted outline form.
   
QUESTIONS are written about the data on the JEOPARDY PAGE, page 1 on the left.
Questions are formulated after 2 quick distributed reviews of the notes.
The optimum timing of this quick review is immediately after class and one hour later between classes.  This plants, fertilizes and waters the data in the mind.
After scheduled classes, one formulates, in a rapid and fun way, questions and writes them naked and without answers on the jeopardy page.

On the FIRST DAY, the good notebook has both a STATEMENT PAGE and a JEOPARDY PAGE.

For example.

JEOPARDY PAGE                                                   STATEMENT PAGE

What are the 5 branches                   O                   american military
of the american military?                  O                      army
                                                          O                       navy
                                                          O                       air force
                                                          O                      marines
                                                          O                       coast guard

The powerful 3rd review occurs after a night of sleep which is powerful because the time and sleep has allowed a weakening of the memory trace.  The powerful 3rd review is cued by the questions with the statement page folded under.  The weakened but recoverable memory trace is cued only by the question and retrieved independent of the statement and therefore with a different context which strengthens the memory trace AND retrieval.

Learners on average who performed distributed practice at  10 minutes, 1 hour and 1 day later remember 94% of the material 3 weeks later.

Every Sunday for 3 weeks perform cued 4th,5th and 6th reviews of the past 3 weeks of JEOPARDY PAGEs in a rolling fashion because we want to remember 100% indefinitely.

If a group of students learn at the pool, half in the water and half on the deck and half of each group are tested in the opposite location, the scores of those taught and tested in the same location do better on the second day but the opposite is true 3 weeks later.  Making retrieval novel and harder strengthens the memory trace and its retrieval remotely.

How do you know when you know?  If you can answer the question without revisiting the statement page, you know the data and can retrieve for use or testing.  You now only study what you can not yet readily retrieve which should be less than 6% of the reviewed material.