Study Skills for Grown-Ups
The study techniques nobody taught you at school — for people returning to learning as adults.
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Learning
Learning How to Learn
Most people study the way they were taught at school: read it again, highlight it, summarise the notes. Decades of memory research show that these strategies produce very little durable learning. This course teaches the techniques that actually work — and why they feel harder than the ones that do not.
What you’ll learn
By the end, you’ll be able to…
Understand why passive study strategies fail — and what to replace them with
Use spaced repetition to retain information over weeks, not hours
Apply active recall techniques that work for any subject or skill
Use interleaving to build more robust, flexible understanding
Take notes in a way that helps you think, not just transcribe
Follow a repeatable system for picking up any new skill from scratch
Curriculum
6 lessons across 2 modules
Each lesson ends with a practical exercise you can use immediately.
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Good to know
Lesson 1 is free for everyone. Lessons 2–6 are included in the Pro plan. Sign up free and start the first lesson today.
Yes. Every technique in this course has a substantial evidence base in cognitive psychology and memory science. We cite the key researchers and studies and distinguish between findings with strong replication and those that are more provisional.
The six lessons take around 80 minutes in total. The techniques are designed to be applied immediately — each lesson ends with something practical to do with whatever you’re currently learning.
Completion certificates are coming soon. Once live, Pro members will earn a shareable certificate for every course they finish.
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