ikacer comments on On learning difficult things - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ikacer 20 November 2013 01:19:53AM 1 point [-]

I would love to know what long term application of these techniques look like.

I've only been using SRS for around 6 months, and only starting doing textbooks this way in June, so I have no direct evidence for long term effectiveness. Also, the first five textbooks I Ankified were from classes I had already taken.

Are you cumulatively improving faster than if you took a more traditional approach(massing many practice problems in one time frame)?

Of the texts of previously unlearned material I done this for, most (all but one) have been for classes I am currently taking. In these I have been adding chapters to Anki prior to the material being covered in class and waiting until it's taught in class to do any practice exercises.

Because of this pacing, I haven't been progressing any faster, but I am doing significantly better in those courses than before...

...which might only be because I'm using SRS now when I didn't before.