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That’s because our brains are more similar to dogs’ brains than we realize. We learn specific tasks in specific situations and have difficulty translating them to new situations. Like how a dog might learn not to pee in the kitchen but still think it’s okay to pee in the living room.
Banging out practice problems just teaches you how to do those problems. The point of practice problems is to practice recognizing what to do with novel situations once you’ve grasped the concept. If you spend time really learning the concept first, you only need a couple practice problems to hammer it in.
I have a math degree and have taught and tutored many people in math and physics over the years. People learn differently, but equating that with “problems vs concepts” is a false dichotomy. How you learn should be just how you learn the concepts, not whether you learn them or not.
My c/p section had 5 physics passages plus a gen chem passage that had 3 physics questions in it. Then there were a few physics discrete questions too. There were literally 3 ochem questions, and they were all discrete questions that I could have answered with what I learned from week one of ochem lol. There was also a really hard biochem passage in my c/p section.
I've noticed what used to take me 3 days or so to memorize is cut down to a single ANKI session.
A woman in a vegetative state for more than 10 years gave birth at a private care facility.
