The Scary Truth About Rereading

But you know what's even more surprising and a little scary and that we all should know,

and I wish I had learned when I was, like, in the second grade, is that if you ask

students, "How confident are you in the material that you just learned?" the students who

studied the material, that is, who were exposed to the material four times,

think that they are going to perform best on the ultimate exam. However,

the students that study the material once and then are tested three times on that material,

they think that ultimately, they're gonna perform least well. And guess what?

The exact opposite is true. Put differently, when you're exposed to material over