Students tend to take far from optimal ways to assimilate information, especially when it comes to exams. Scientists Tim Novikoff, Jon Kleinbert, and Steve Strogatz decided to take a mathematical approach to the way that students learn, in order to find the most effective way to succeed.
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It simply can’t be helped but an algorithm to solve this problem can possibly give more favorable results.
This is fun. Cheers for sharing.
Yes, the study was interesting and going through the links, you can read the results for yourself.