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Studyblr favourite study method! But, how do we actually use it?

Steps

Create flashcards: on the front of a card, write a question or cue. On the back, write the answer or corresponding information. Make enough cards to cover every topic you need to study for.

Sort the flashcards into boxes: easy/medium/hard or other label that works for you.

Review your flashcards: Grab the first box. Read the side with the question. If you answer correctly, continue with the next. If you answer incorrectly, move the card to the back.

Gradually increasd diffuculty: once you feel confident with the cards of the first box, move to the second. Continue until you reviewed every box.

Repeat: repeat the process; focus on the questions you have more trouble with and review less the easier one (but never none!)

Remember to rest between repetition! Not only you need rest, but this method works because of Spaced Repetition, meaning the more often you encounter the information, the less often you need to refresh your memory.

Pros

Effective, practicing over a four-month period for just 30 minutes a day “you can expect to learn and retain 3600 flashcards with 90 to 95 percent accuracy”.

You can gamefy it! I personally think this is why it's so popular, you can treat it like you are playing so studying becomes less tedius

Cons

Needs a lot of time. You need to start early. You cant expect to make it work if you start the night before. Specially if you have a lot of flashcards. Going through all of them over and over can take hours for only a few repetitions. If you dont have a lot of time before the test, another study method would work better.

Subjects we recommend this method for

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23-11-23

Reviewed flashcards for stats

Studied for 2.5 hours (stats)

Got some sun

No gym today sadly, had last minute work

New client! Felt good

Read a couple of pages on the book. Not much progress.

It's hard to make progress in all domains. Was so tired and cranky by the end of the day. But i didn't do midnight snacking, yay. I even had a good helping of salad for dinner. And assertively said no to extra work. Baby steps. ✨️

First up I use Anki and make basic flashcards, however the difference is on one side I have gifs of the signs being done. Of course for grammar cards I make regular cards with a question on one side and the explanation on the other, but for the rest it's gifs.

But how do I get my gifs? Simple, I make them! I use a free app called ScreenToGif, it comes with a built in screen recorder and editor for making gifs. I simply record videos of the signs being done, trim, save them and then put them into the flashcards as I make them.

But here's where you have to be careful, the videos you use, you need to make sure they're reliable as not all signing videos you'll come across are from teachers or people who actually use BSL and aren't just learning or worse, making it up (yes sadly those exist). You want to make sure they're good sources of information and of course, double check it's the sign language you're actually learning as there are hundreds of different Sign languages.

Here's some of the resources I use: (no links because tumblr will throttle the post and I want people to be able to find this post)

BrightBSL (app and website, paid for but often has discounts around the new year)

British-Sign (official website, I'm recording the gifs in the course I'm doing which is cheap too!)

Commanding Hands (youtube)

hipsterspirit (tiktok)

hands2hear (tiktok)

matiisigns (tiktok)

trafficlighttutoring (tiktok)