K12 - Page 37 (Words 11361-11370)

Steps for the DSQ Method (Distill, Study & Quarantine)

1) DISTILL & STUDY THE PAGE

• Click on the words that you already know/remember (This will cross them out)
  (This action of filtering out the known words is called "DISTILLATION")
• Study the remaining words (use the resource buttons: definitions, translations, examples, etc.)

2) QUARANTINE THE PAGE

• After studying the words, press “Quarantine page for 14 days” (The status of the page will change to "Quarantined").
• (You should forget about the page that you have recently studied, and not look at it again for a period of, at least, 14 days)

3) WAIT UNTIL THE QUARANTINE IS COMPLETE

• When the quarantine is complete, the status of the page will change to “Ready for Distillation” 
• When a page is Ready for Distillation, it means that you can open the page again and TEST YOURSELF to see which of the words you studied previously have really entered your Long-Term Memory (LTM)).

4) DISTILL AGAIN & REPEAT THE PROCESS UNTIL YOU HAVE LEARNED ALL THE WORDS

• Go to step #1 and repeat the process (continue crossing out the words that you have learned/remember after the quarantine) 
• (Once you have learned ALL the words, press “Mark page as completed” - Congratulations!!!... - YOU HAVE LEARNED THE WORDS FOREVER!)

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The different status of a page

• Unstarted: You have not done anything with the words yet.
• Quarantined: You have studied the new words and put the page in quarantine.
• Ready for Distillation: The quarantine was completed. The page is ready for a new distillation.
• Completed: You have learned all the words and marked the page as “completed”

What to expect

• After the first quarantine, you will normally remember around 30% of the words that you have studied. (In successive distillations that percentage will be bigger)
• It will take about 3 quarantines/distillations to learn all the words of a page.

Principles applied in the DSQ Method (based on the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve)

• As an average, your long term memory will naturally assimilate about 30% of any new information you study for the first time, while around 70% of it will eventually be forgotten.
• If you remember new words after a 14-day period, without having had any review of them in that period, it is a good indication that they have entered your Long Term Memory and you will remember them forever

Tips

• Do not study for more than 25 minutes straight. (Take five-minute breaks between study sessions)
• Don’t waste time studying words you already know. Focus on the vocabulary that you don’t know.