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Here you memorise institutions, their powers, amendments, landmark cases and definitions. Lumi asks them back with gaps, while discussion and argument are your job.

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Make one note per institution, founding text or court case, with its role, its date and the idea it illustrates. Lumi quizzes the powers of each branch, the numbers of members, the names of the documents and the definitions. The typical trap is mixing up two similar institutions or two neighbouring texts. When you hesitate, write the difference side by side in one sentence and have it asked again. Lumi gives you the exact vocabulary and benchmarks to use in your essay. Retrieval practice remains the method rated most useful for this kind of content (Dunlosky et al., 2013).

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The Constitution divides power among three branches, legislative, executive and judicial. Congress is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate has 100 members, two from each state. Marbury v. Madison established judicial review in 1803.

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The Constitution divides power among _____ branches, legislative, executive and judicial.

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Active recall, why quizzing yourself beats rereadingReading once then quizzing three times gave 61% of ideas recalled after a week, against 40% for rereading four times (Roediger, 2006).How to make flashcards that actually workA good card asks a question and makes you produce the answer from memory. What Rowland, Kornell, Slamecka and Rawson found.Spaced repetition, how long to wait between two reviewsSpacing beats massing. The best gap between two sessions depends on how far away the exam is, with the benchmarks from Cepeda’s 2008 study.

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