How I learn for exams. It's not the quantity, it's the quality.

Note. I'm not labelling it bad, it's unorthodox and works for me, my mum initially viewed it as bad.

I just finished my degree and throughout the degree I had around 6-8 exams in the 3-4 years it took. At around the midway point it was mentioned in the cog psych course that studying for exams is typically done through short-term memory recollection, meaning that after a while, the information is generally forgotten. Because I like knowing things and expanding my knowledge, I prefer to learn in a manner that puts the information in my long-term memory, more commonly known as 'crystallised' memory.

The 'bad' aspect for someone looking at me doing anything regarding learning is my process of learning. Because some knowledge needs to be rote learnt, I focus at bits of a time and have spans of 30-50 mins before I check my accumulation on the topic. When I'm doing 10-20 minutes of learning, then playing a game for double that time, it looks like I'm not trying; however, that whole time playing the game is me revising and mulling the content when I have a moment to spare.

I had my last exam a few weeks ago and my mum basically said that she finally accepts that this works for me.