Find a quiet location. Keep a routine. Focus on one subject at a time. It all seems like sound advice for students who need to hit the books, but recent studies indicate the conventional wisdom is all wrong.
Here's a list of tips from Carey, a sc ientist, for getting the most out of your study time：
Test yourself：Doing practice quizzes can help you retrieve information on test day. “Tests have a very bad reputation as a measurement tool,” Carey says. But psychologists have found self-tests slow down the forgetting of material you've studied. “If you study something once, and then you test yourself on it,” Carey says, “you do better than if you study it twice over.”
Move around: Changing up where you study can help you retain more information. “If you move around and study the same material in several places,” he says, “you may be forming…multiple associations for the same material, the same words and so on. So it's better organized in your brain, and you can pull it out easier.”
Mix it up：Think about a football player who does strength training, speed training and drills. Carey says alternating between different facets of a subject in a single sitting can “leave a deeper impression on the brain”. For example, when studying French, do some verbs, some speaking and some reading. Spending your time in deep concentration on just verbs, say, isn't as effective.
Space it out：Information learned in a hurry is lost just as fast. Carey lik es cramming your brain to speed-packing a cheap suitcase—it all falls out. So if you really want to learn, space out shorter, hour-long study sessions. “There's no doubt you can cram your way through an exam,” Carey says. The problem is that it's so easy to forget what you just crammed—and once it's gone, Carey says, “It's gone. You're not getting it back.”
Of course, nothing can replace the power of motivation and discipline. But Carey says the overall message is encouraging：“Studying can sort of be incorporated into a more varied life, much more easily than we thought.”
According to the text, the best way to learn is ________．

A．to learn one's subject at a time in a quiet place

B．to be strongly motivated to learn something

C．to mix up everything that you will learn

D．to do self-tests after you learn immediately

Why are you advised to move around while learning?

A．Because it can make your brain focus on learning.

B．Because you can save time by missing the same words.

C．Because you can connect materials with different things.

D．Because it keeps your brain in a completely resting state.

How did the writer develop the fifth paragraph?

A．By telling an interesting story.

B．By presenting in the time order.

C．By analyzing causes and effects.

D．By making a comparison.

It can be inferred from what Carey said in the third paragraph that ________．

A．tests used to be treated as a tool to judge learners

B．tests would slow down your study

C．tests were the best way to learn new information

D．tests do good to you more than learning itself

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