Anybody intelligent will tell you that cramming is the worst way to study, and you are unlikely to retain anything you read during cramming very far beyond the actual exam. That being said, sometimes cramming is the only option for a time-constrained student, or one that has spent insufficient time with the material during the semester. It can be also quite useful if you simply don’t understand the material that well.

The following technique has been used by the author in many technical and mathmatical classes. Some parts may also be useful in other classes, but some/most parts will obviously not apply.
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