READING YOUR NOTES IS NOT STUDYING.

It's the night before the SAC. Notes open. Third read-through. Everything on the page looks wonderfully, warmly familiar, and familiar feels exactly like knowing.

It isn't. Familiar is the trap. There's a reason re-reading is probably the most popular study method in the country, and it's the same reason it barely works: it is the only form of study where you cannot get one wrong.

In this lesson I'm going to show you the difference between recognising a page and producing an answer, why the research on this stopped being interesting decades ago, and the one rule that tells you whether tonight's session actually counted. I sell notes, by the way. That's going to make the ending awkward.