> In games like WoW, you can win through sheer playtime and repetition. In real life, such as school, you must apply intelligence.
Effortless recall is one of the foundations for reasoning fluently about concepts. And one of the most efficient ways to build that recall is repetition.
I'm not dissing repetition as a method to facilitate memory.
In WoW, people repeat the same boss over and over without learning anything or changing the approach until through luck they win. This is not possible with a school exam because you only get one chance, and even in the event that you can repeat it, the exam will be changed.
Actually the WoW approach has more to do with a different form of learning -- variable interval reinforcement ratios -- which has been canvassed at HN before.
Effortless recall is one of the foundations for reasoning fluently about concepts. And one of the most efficient ways to build that recall is repetition.