[dissenter]

Any material that requires only 5-10 minutes of unbroken concentration is too superficial to be worth your time.

If you can, take something else, if you can't, consider taking a bad grade and focusing on something else anyway.

The suggestion in the article is awful. It is far more important to work hard at concentrating for long periods of time. All this method is doing is conditioning you to be scatterbrained. We get enough of that already.

[ibsulon]

This technique is about rote memorization. While your engineering and science classes require less of this, subjects such as history require significant memorization not only for tests, but also for holding connections in the mind. Short, focused study for recall sessions can help in these cases, as memorization is difficult in longer sessions.

[william42]

Vocabulary for just about anything is going to work best in his method. And I can't help but think that something without its own vocabulary must be mighty superficial.