The spacing effect is "one of the most remarkable phenomena to emerge from laboratory research on learning".
Human forgetting follows a pattern - we forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
Ebbinghaus showed that it's possible to dramatically improve learning by correctly spacing practice sessions.
Your chance of recalling information when you need it declines over time according to a predictable pattern. However, if you rehearse your knowledge over time the rate of forgetting levels out and the time between these refreshers can increase.
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