A Spaced Repetition Schedule You Can Actually Follow
Spaced repetition has a reputation for being complicated — apps, algorithms, flashcard decks with thousands of cards. The core idea is embarrassingly simple: review at the moment you're about to forget, not before. The 1-3-7-14 schedule is famous because those intervals roughly match how fast new learning decays. Here's the template you can copy tonight.
The template, exactly as written
When you learn something new — a concept, a formula, a chapter's worth of practice questions — schedule four touches:
Day +1: First re-test. Quick, cold, closed-book. Expect to drop a third of it — that's normal and useful; misses go on the error list.
Day +3: Second pass. Faster now. What survived gets easier; what failed gets re-written as a fresh prompt.
Day +7: Third pass. This is where long-term retention forms — the material feels almost-gone, and pulling it back is exactly the effort that cements it.
Day +14: Final pass. Light. Anything still weak is a real gap, not a forgetting curve problem — patch it directly.
Adapting it to your real exam date
The 1/3/7/14 is a default, not a law. The principle that matters: each interval roughly doubles, and each touch is retrieval, not review.
LearnX builds the spacing for you: each Study Unit in your Exam Sprint schedules its own re-tests and pulls your misses back automatically — the calendar manages itself while you just show up.
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