Why old habits fail: Re-reading and highlighting feel productive but don’t build lasting memory. Passive review tricks your brain into thinking you’ve learned more than you have. What really works: ...

We’ve all been there—staring at a mountain of study material, feeling overwhelmed, and wondering if there’s a better way to tackle it all. Maybe you’ve tried cramming the night before an exam, only to ...

At the end of each semester, students are left with a single grade to let them know how well they did in a course. They are not, however, often given strategies on how to improve those grades in the ...

This is the second installment in a series of Science & Research articles addressing widely held beliefs and myths. On any given day at the Sciences Library, a variety of study techniques are on ...