I was recently reminded of the importance of quizzing yourself for remembering details. I love learning but am not excited by the idea of taking multiple choice, short response, or long response quizzes.

I have discovered a way of quizzing myself that actually feels fun to me! The idea is to correct false information in a paragraph that contains both correct and incorrect details.

Example paragraph

Here's an example written by ChatGPT, about the topic of farmed animal welfare in the U.S.! (This one may not be as fun if you're completely unfamiliar with the topic. Though, I had fun trying to correct a paragraph about the 1900s, which I do not know much about at all. One of my guesses was that World War II lasted from 1941-1955.) Write down your answers; I show the correct answers at the bottom of the post.

I think the easiest way to do this is with AI chatbots, especially if they're already familiar with the correct information. It is probably wise to do some tests beforehand to see their depth of knowledge about the topic. If they know about it, you can ask them for a paragraph about a topic with correct and incorrect information for you to correct. If they are not familiar with the correct information, I think you could feed them source material.

You could also do it without chatbots. If you're taking notes, you could make a copy, replace some details with falsities, and return to it in the future to try to spot what was wrong. Maybe a more fun version would be to get a friend to edit the document. 

Example answers

Returning to the generated paragraph above, here were the couple of things I was proud to be able to correct:

Here are the correct answers:

I missed 3,4, and 5. I hope to continue using this method as I read to try to retain more information.