| VARIABLES | 1st year N (%) | 5th year N (%) | P | |
| Memorization strategy: |
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| 0.917 | |
| Memorizing by heart (superficial learning) | 32 (18.2%) | 25 (17.7%) |
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| Understanding the course before memorizing | 144 (81.8%) | 116 (82.3%) |
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| Memorization tips: |
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| Reciting to someone else | 20 (11.3%) | 19 (13.5%) | 0.556 | |
| Paraphrasing (rewriting in own words) what you want to retain | 46 (26%) | 34 (24.1%) | 0.701 | |
| Reading the course several times | 111 (62.7%) | 98 (69.5%) | 0.204 | |
| Constructing a main word from several key words (e.g. FES = Frontal bone, Ethmoid bone, Sphenoid bone) | 55 (31.1%) | 53 (37.6%) | 0.222 | |
| Other: | 10 (5.6%) | 7 (5%) |
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| ▪ Listening to audio | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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| ▪ Turning the course into a story | 1 (1.1%) | 1 (0.7%) |
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| ▪ Understanding the course very well | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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| ▪ Turning course into questions | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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| ▪ Reciting aloud | 2 (1.1%) | - |
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| ▪ Activing recall | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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| ▪ Singing | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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| ▪ Mnemonics | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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| ▪ Diagramming the course | - | 1 (0.7%) |
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| ▪ Rewriting the course | - | 1 (0.7%) |
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| ▪ Reciting mentally | - | 1 (0.7%) |
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| ▪ Explaining the course to himself | - | 1 (0.7%) |
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| ▪ Asking someone else to explain the course | - | 1 (0.7%) |
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