Herman Ebbinghaus studied memory. The law of the same name discovered by him is best known. In Ebbinghaus’s experiment, subjects were given a set of nonsense syllables consisting of two or three letters to learn. Then they checked how much of what was learned remained in memory. Based on the data obtained, a forgetting schedule was built, named after the discoverer by the Ebbinghaus law. What does this law say? Since this article is not scientific, but popular, I will allow myself some inaccuracies in the data and will round them up for better clarity. So, in the first 24 hours, half of the memorized information is forgotten. Attention, half!!! It’s especially sad if not everything was remembered from the very beginning, and now only half of what was remembered remains... But over the next day, half of the remaining half is forgotten. Holy shit, after two days you only remember a quarter of what you initially remembered. It’s scary to calculate what percentage of all the original information this is... But the process of forgetting does not stop, every day, again and again, the remaining information is halved. That is, in memory there is no longer 25%, but 12.5%, then 6.3%, then 3.2%.... How sad it all is.... But not so much! Ebbinghaus's Law is one of those laws that can and should be violated! First, the subjects were given a set of meaningless syllables. Well, start to comprehend what you are learning - and the process of forgetting will go much slower. How much? Ebbinghaus did not study (I believe that the individual characteristics of each person will play a large role here. Secondly, the percentage of forgetting was studied once, without repetition. Therefore, if the information is refreshed in memory during the first day, the forgetting process can also be slowed down. Thirdly , who prevents you from refreshing your memory from time to time? More often than not, no one bothers you. And finally, I’ll tell you an almost scary story with a happy ending. In my youth, I taught psychology at a pharmacy school. I’m telling you about the Ebbinghaus curve, and how to break this law. I give very specific advice to the students: when you come home, read these notes this evening, you don’t even need to think about it, you can just look for familiar letters (I laugh, the students were the smartest), just read it. And on the eve of our next meeting, in a week, you can just read the notes again. You will be guaranteed a C. Of course, if you are so ambitious that you want a B, then you need to read carefully and try to retell what you read. If you do this throughout the semester, then for the exam it will be enough to just read the notes again - and that’s it. the three is yours. For a B you will need to read and understand, a A, as you might guess, requires a little more work. I said all these tips - and okay, use it whether you want or not. I know from experience that they won’t use it... Experience has let me down! The next semester, students came up to me and told me they had tested these tips for themselves! They act! The guys turned out to be risky)