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In history, what you can learn by heart is the key dates, names, events and their causes. Lumi quizzes you on the gaps until you can produce them without looking.

How to turn this subject into cards

Split each chapter into one note per period or event, with the date, the people involved, the causes and the consequences. Lumi mostly quizzes the dates, names and definitions, which is the material you put in an essay. The classic trap is learning a timeline without understanding how one event led to the next. Try to say out loud why one event caused another before you look at the note. Lumi gives you the knowledge to put in your essay. To make dates stick, retrieving beats rereading (Roediger and Karpicke, 2006).

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History · teach this card to Lumi

In 1066 William of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings. The Magna Carta was sealed by King John in 1215. The Black Death reached England in 1348. Henry VIII broke with Rome through the Act of Supremacy in 1534.

Lumi’s question

In _____ William of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings.

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Levels where Lumi offers this subject

Active recall, why quizzing yourself beats rereadingReading once then quizzing three times gave 61% of ideas recalled after a week, against 40% for rereading four times (Roediger, 2006).Spaced repetition, how long to wait between two reviewsSpacing beats massing. The best gap between two sessions depends on how far away the exam is, with the benchmarks from Cepeda’s 2008 study.How to make flashcards that actually workA good card asks a question and makes you produce the answer from memory. What Rowland, Kornell, Slamecka and Rawson found.

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Give Lumi your history notes, it gives them back as questions at the right moment.

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