{"id":150361,"date":"2021-12-16T19:12:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/okudugum-kitap-aklimda-kalmiyor-diyenlere-5-etkili-ipucu"},"modified":"2026-11-08T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T02:30:00","slug":"5-effective-tips-for-those-who-say-i-do-not-remember-the-book-i-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/5-effective-tips-for-those-who-say-i-do-not-remember-the-book-i-read","title":{"rendered":"5 Effective Tips for Those Who Say ‘I Can’t Remember the Books I Read’: What Does the Research Say? (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary.<\/strong> Finishing a book and remembering almost nothing of it a few weeks later is a common and normal experience. Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve was replicated in 2015 by Murre and Dros: the “savings” gained when relearning the same list fell from 0.472 after 20 minutes to 0.168 after 6 days. The good news: in Roediger and Karpicke’s (2006) experiment, students who closed the text and tried to recall it remembered 56 percent of it a week later, while those who reread the text remembered 42 percent. Rowland’s (2014) meta-analysis, which pooled 159 effect sizes, put this “testing effect” at an average of g = 0.50. CEO move:<\/strong> tie every book to a single decision and record that decision in writing. Student move:<\/strong> close the book, write down what you remember, and repeat the same thing two days and one week later.<\/p>\n

You can find the table that ranks the techniques one by one by strength of evidence in the evidence ranking of 12 study techniques<\/a>, the details of review intervals in spaced repetition beyond flashcards<\/a>, why beliefs like “I’m a visual learner” don’t hold up in the learning styles myth<\/a>, and how to carry what you read into your next round of learning in second-order learning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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