Study Techniques
Many studies have found that passive learning techniques, the ones I used in university, are ineffective or otherwise low-utility. In contrast, techniques like the Feynman technique, active recall, and spaced repetition have good evidence.
From a 58 study meta-analysis, it was found that summarization, highlighting, mnemonic, imagery, and re-reading approaches to studying were low utility.
The highest utility techniques were ‘practice testing’ (active recall) and ‘distributed practice’ (spaced repetition).
References
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1529100612453266