随身英语 Are you ready for your exam? 考试，你准备好了吗？

Play audio file 提早开始复习功课做准备，把做练习的间隔时间距离拉开等都可以提高备考复习的效率和质量。本期《随身英语》和你分享一些备考小贴士。

课文内容 词汇: study 学习

So, it's exam time again – have you done the necessary work to get good marks? Sleeping with the textbook under the pillow in the hope that knowledge will be magically absorbed into your brain as you sleep doesn't work. The best strategy is to space your practice out, rather than cram it all together. It means hit the books early!

In an article in the British newspaper The Guardian, Tom Stafford, a lecturer in psychology and cognitive science at the University of Sheffield, UK, advises: "If you organise five hours of study into one hour a day, you'll remember more than if you study for five hours on one day."

Don't rely on memory alone – get pen and paper and start working. Students who can test themselves in advance will be better at retrieving material from their memory and learn that material in the long run. John Dunlosky, Professor of Psychology at Kent State University in the US, suggests that "you start by reading a textbook using your favourite highlighter and favourite colours, but then you go back and make flashcards of all the critical concepts and instead of just rereading those, you basically try to test yourselves on them."

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