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Good morning, everyone. Let me begin with a quick question about how you study.
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When an exam is coming, what do most of you actually do?
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If you're like most students, you read your notes again, and then again.
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It feels productive, and the material starts to look wonderfully familiar.
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The trouble is that familiarity isn't the same thing as memory.
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Today I want to show you why testing yourself is far more effective.
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Psychologists call this the testing effect, or retrieval practice.
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Retrieval simply means pulling information out of your memory without looking.
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In two thousand and six, Henry Roediger and Jeffrey Karpicke tested this idea carefully.
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They asked university students to learn short passages about science topics.
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One group simply read a passage four times, in four separate study periods.
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Another group read it only once, and then tried to recall it three times.
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During those tests, they wrote down everything they could remember, with no help at all.
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Five minutes later, the students who had reread the passage did noticeably better.
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So far, rereading seems to win, which is exactly what most of us would expect.
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But the researchers also tested everyone again one week later.
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And this time, the picture was completely reversed!
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The repeated testing group remembered about sixty-one percent of the ideas.
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The group who had only reread remembered just forty percent.
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In other words, rereading helped in the short term, but testing lasted far longer.
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What surprised me most, though, was what the students themselves predicted.
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Those who had reread four times felt more confident that they would remember the passage.
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Their sense of fluency fooled them, and that confidence turned out to be misplaced.
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So how can you put this into practice tonight?
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After reading a chapter, close the book and write down everything you can recall.
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Then check what you missed, and test yourself again a few days later.
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It'll feel harder than rereading, but that struggle is precisely what makes memories last.
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See you next week, and do test yourselves before then!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “CET-6 Listening Practice: Why Testing Yourself Beats Rereading”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: passage, testing, students, reread, rereading. This video has 28 sentences and 343 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:16. The speaker talks at a natural 152 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 12 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| reread verb | /ɹiːˈɹiːd/ | To read again. |
| retrieval noun | /ɹɪˈtɹiːvəl/ | The act of retrieving or something retrieved. |
| familiarity noun | /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/ | The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy. |
| fluency noun | /ˈfluːənsi/ | The quality of smoothness of flow. |
| misplace verb | /mɪsˈpleɪs/ | To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay. |
| noticeably adverb | In a noticeable way. | |
| wonderfully adverb | /wʌn.də(ɹ).fli/ | In an excellent manner. |
| psychologist noun | /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | An expert in the field of psychology. |
| yourselves | /jəˈsɛlvz/ | You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed. |
| researcher noun | /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ | One who researches. |
| sixty noun | /ˈsɪksti/ | A commercial lasting 60 seconds. |
| predict verb | /pɹɪˈdɪkt/ | To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| write down verb | To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something. |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | students who had · win, which is · Those who had |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was completely reversed · be misplaced |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 3 contractions and reduced forms, such as isn't, it'll, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: familiarity /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like reread, retrieval, familiarity.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.