If you are in school or at university you will surely have made the experience that there are good students and not so good ones. And there are the outstanding ones. The same goes for any field your might be working in. There are the doohs, the OK-guys and the experts. In this article we will give you some advice how to become part of the group of great and outstanding students as well as becoming leaders of the pack – experts in your field.

Mind you, this is not a guide how to become just a good boy (attaboy, anyone?) and it is definitely not a guide how to game the educational system and cheat your way through. It is about becoming genuinely good. It is about becoming a natural thought leader, a top scientist, an expert, a creative mind and to land any kind of job you want.

What is an outstanding student?

An outstanding student is a person who has a natural curiosity and sees things differently, he asks interesting questions, tries to connect things and relate them to other experiences, has many ideas, and yes, usually gets good if not the best grades in school or university. (more…)

A spaced repetition software like Flashcard Learner adapts to your learning style and presents you only what you need to repeat right before you forget it. The algorithms of the learning software are optimized so that you spend as little time as possible on learning and repeating with a guaranteed recall of 90-95%. There are however some strategies how you can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your learning even more (depending on your situation and ambitions).

Those strategies are divided into two major groups:

Methods how to best add new flashcards to your repetition sessions:

1. The fastest way of learning
2. The steadiest way of learning
3. The combined approach

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