What happened? You didn’t space your learning appropriately. “Cram sessions” might be great for passing a single exam, but it doesn’t really help you learn underlying principles and foundations. The information is ephemeral and disappears from your brain after it’s “single serving” is complete.

Spaced repetition helps with this problem. Instead of one big cram session, when you spread your learning out over days, weeks, or months — and repeat your studying — the information stays in your brain! It’s an effective learning technique that avoids those tough, long cram sessions and instead slowly introduces material. Through repetition, the information stays in your brain.

ShortStack uses flashcard-based spaced learning methods to make sure the information gets — and stays — in your brain. This is especially important for mathematics learning, where the principles are the foundation for further learning. You can’t pass calculus if you can’t add and subtract!

Learning is like eating a stack of pancakes: too many, too fast and you’ll feel sick and overstuffed.

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