How to Retain Information Forever: The 1357 Study Method

These are my notes for my first CPA exam I took. These are my notes for my second.

These are my notes for my first CPA exam I took. These are my notes for my second. And even if you don't know what CPA exams are, you can visibly tell that the second one ate up a lot less of my life. And the only thing I changed was figuring out a strategy to retain more information. Our brains are hardwired to naturally forget things. It's a phenomenon called the forgetting curve. It's well named. And to get around this, I found that combining two concepts works really well. First is the rule of seven, which basically states that you have to learn something seven different times before it actually gets committed to your memory. Problem is that in my first exam, I try to just rewrite things over and over and over again, but I didn't have a timing strategy for it. Brings me to the second trick. We're going to pair that with spaced repetition, meaning that I gave myself brief pauses in between the concepts that I learned to learn new information, and then I would jump back to that previous thing and try to learn it again. If you're someone that really likes exact guidelines for this, the pattern that is recommended to follow is 1357. If you want to make this even stronger, then introduce some variety in the formats that you're learning or reviewing. In first day, maybe you're watching videos and taking notes. Then try to do multiple choice questions. Then try to practice speaking it back and forth. With an AI, I try to learn new things and then share everything that I find. So if you find this helpful, follow for more more and I'll be back tomorrow.