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Comment author: evand 08 January 2015 01:22:07AM 4 points [-]

Testing is an excellent learning tool. More efficient than studying, in fact. The extreme example of this is spaced repetition for rote memorization, but if you try to optimize learning by skipping the tests, I think you're doing it wrong.