Testing is a means of memory
In a nutshell, "You learn better when you test before you learn."
The Intellectual Production of Engineers p.86-88 (3.4.2) Test and then learn more
test and then learn more.
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relevance
Just doing the test will increase the percentage of correct answers.
Testing lowers confidence and increases the percentage of correct answers.
Related (4.5.3.3) Teaching others.
from /villagepump/2025/02/28
If you make a slide to teach others instead of reading it the second time, you start writing thinking you know what you're doing and then you say, "What was that? What was that?" and then you end up having to read it again.
This is a state of "memory test" against "what you think you know".
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