Feynman technique — traps, myths and repairs. The quiet failure mode is a pile of plain-language pages that looks large and teaches little.
Scores here are relative ranks inside this atlas, not lab grades or official cut scores.
Traps
- Fluency worship — Easy rereading of teach-back feels like mastery and fails on a delayed test.
- Paragraph prompts — A paragraph of teach-back teaches recognition, not a nameable fact.
- Skipped check — Doing teach-back without a closed-page check is interior design.
- Heroic weekend — A weekend binge of teach-back is not a schedule. The sitting will collect the debt.
- Leaked-stem hunt — teach-back built from a claimed live paper is a career risk, not a shortcut.
Myths
- More volume is more learning — A huge pile of unread plain-language pages is inventory, not memory.
- Easy fluency means mastery — Recognising plain-language pages is not the same as retrieving it from a blank page.
- The algorithm is the teacher — A queue of plain-language pages cannot invent a missing public outline.
- Cramming equals spacing — Same-night rereads of plain-language pages feel fluent and fail on a delayed test.
Fixes
- Split the glue — If plain-language pages always fails, it is usually two facts. Split them.
- Honest grades — A peek at plain-language pages is a fail, even if you then recognise the line.
- Cap the faucet — If the due pile of plain-language pages explodes, cut new items first, not sleep.
- Map or suspend — Every plain-language pages must point at a public outline line or it leaves the deck.
Educational atlas — not an official syllabus, medical advice, or leaked item bank. Feynman technique: Keep the public outline in view and treat this page as method, not a leaked key.
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