the blog of max jackl

at the beginning of last zman i found this ‘think’ (small booklet with space to write what did you learns each day) that shows you when to repeat what you learn in order that you won’t forget it. it was very important.

later on i’ve read the book of person known as shas kohen about way of learning, with deeper understanding and better retention. simply speaking the way is like that: you learn once the piece of gemara, like 4-th on an amud (best one topic), than you say it over with your own words, than you learn next piece from gemara, and than you say it over. when you learn the amount that you wanted to learn you go over from memory all the pieces. than you do everything twice again…. it all takes a lot of time… but the gain is immeasurable… and with rosh’s amazing approach to learning itself it works good.
so i combined both of those systems, one of learning and one of repeating.. and it works great…