Final learning How To Learn

Recalling material when you are outside your usual place of study can also help you strengthen your grasp of the material. When you are learning something new, you often take in subliminal cues from room and space around you at the time you were originally learning the material. This can actually throw you off when you take tests, because you often take tests in a room different from the room you were learning in. By recalling and thinking about the material while you are in various physical environments, you become independent of cues from any one location. That helps you avoid the problem of the test room being different from where you originally learned the material.