Jemma Spike

I'd also put classical music behind it sometimes.

I used to play it to fall asleep because... And this has no evidence for it, let me just say.

There's no evidence for this, but...

I used to be like, oh yeah, if I listen to it while I'm sleeping, that's more time for it to be absorbed into my memory.

Like overnight, it's going to like infuse into my mind.

That didn't work.

I can tell you that now.

But

Novelty of any kind, any method, primes your brain to learn.

There's evidence for this.

There was a 2020 study done with a bunch of high school students in Argentina that put students either in a novel environment or their school environment and showed them a geometrical shape, a geometrical object, a really random object.

and asked them to memorize well the researchers asked them to memorize it and then they asked them 45 days later if they remembered it they asked them to to draw the shape and those in the novel situations had much better recall study in new locations use different colored pens have a unique playlist for each subject tie new concepts to a new flavor of gum

Anything that's, again, going to give a concept another dimension means it's going to be integrated differently and better, I guess.

We are going to take a short break here before getting into my four final tips for studying effectively.

Stay with us.

Hello, it's me, Anna Sinfield from The Girlfriends, the number one hit true crime show that puts women right in the center of their own stories.

You'll even get to meet my mum in that one, who I can always count on to keep my feet on the ground.

I'm not too intimidated by her.

So this is a tip I wish I learned sooner, but only kind of grasped.

I would say in like my last two years of university, not all times are good times for studying.