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The Learning Crisis: Why Study Methods Fail

Quiz · Study Skills · All Years
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Work through the levels in order. Type your answer and press Check — open the worked solution if you get stuck. Answers like -6, 3/4 or 0.25 are typed exactly as shown.

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Level 1 · Warm-up

1 Without review, roughly what fraction of new learning is lost within ONE HOUR?
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About 50% within one hour (then ~70% by 24 hours and ~90% by a week).
2 Which of these is a PASSIVE study method?
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Highlighting — it creates the illusion of productivity while encoding almost nothing.

Level 2 · Core

3 A student understands every worked example in class but freezes in the test. This lesson explains it as…
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Understanding with support is a different skill from retrieving and applying alone — and only the second one is examined.
4 Which pair of habits flattens the forgetting curve?
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Active retrieval + spacing — together they lift retention to roughly 80–90%, even months later.

Level 3 · Challenge

5 Why do weak study methods stay so popular, according to this lesson?
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They feel good: fluency reads as knowledge, while effective methods feel harder. Students trust the feeling instead of the outcome.
6 Which statement best captures the FAT Teacher mental shift?
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From input to output: not "how long did I read?" but "can I retrieve, apply and explain it?" — the same shift moves AI from answer-machine to thinking-partner.