Study · 5 min read
Why chapter by chapter revision can leave you unprepared
Blocked practice tells you the method before you read the problem. What to mix, what to space, and how much depth to keep first.
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The Memoza Academy
Learn how learning works.
Practical guides for university exams. Research notes on what to practise, when, and why.
A better way to study.
Short reads. Practical next steps.
Study · 5 min read
The next ten minutes of learning
A useful activity still has an opportunity cost. What a learning system needs to know before it can choose your next ten minutes.
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Engineering · 5 min read
Building a compiler for university courses
Slides and past papers are not a learning environment. The reviewable course representation we build before any practice is planned.
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Engineering · 5 min read
Why a PDF is only the starting point for Memoza
A hundred fluent questions is not a question bank. Why generation needs a specification, and what review has to ask of each item.
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Engineering · 5 min read
Choosing the next question in Memoza
Eligibility first, then the need behind the activity, then difficulty that serves the purpose. A recommendation you can reconstruct.
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Engineering · 6 min read
What should happen when a practice exam runs out of time
Keep the deadline as a measurement boundary, then offer a clearly separate continuation. A proposed design for practice papers.
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Exams · 5 min read
Forced and unforced: how to classify your exam mistakes
A sign error and a missing concept are not the same mistake, and revising as if they were wastes the week before the exam. A taxonomy that tells them apart.
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Study · 3 min read
Breadth first, depth first: how to order a syllabus
Master one topic at a time, or cover everything shallowly first? What graph search says, and why strong exam preparation does both, in a particular order.
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The Observatory
Questions worth investigating.
Research notes, working hypotheses and experiments on how students learn.
ResearchProposed experiment
Research note 001: when to go deeper, when to move on
A proposed experiment on practice sequencing: deepen one concept or move across the syllabus? What we built to test it, and what we do not know yet.
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- Evidence
- Existing findings are kept separate from Memoza’s own hypotheses.
- Application
- Every explanation connects to a practical study decision.
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- Uncertainty and limitations are stated, not smoothed over.