Rereading feels like learning. That feeling is the problem.
Thirty exercises on how you actually study — and an Illusion Index measuring how much of your method rests on habits that only feel like learning.
Memory research, applied to your actual week
Most students work hard using methods memory research shows barely work — rereading until it feels familiar, highlighting, cramming the night before — while the techniques with the strongest evidence, self-testing and spacing, feel worse and get skipped.
Eighteen everyday study situations put that gap on the table: three weeks to four exams, a chapter that finally feels solid, a study group deciding how to use its hour, a phone on the desk. Each option is something a serious student would actually do.
The Learning Loop is a scoring design built for this assessment: every choice carries a hidden evidence weight, and each situation sits on one phase of the plan-study-test-review cycle. Your report shows where the loop is strong, where it leaks, and how large your Illusion Index has grown.
What you walk away with
Plan, study, test, review — with the leaking phase named, so effort goes where it will actually change a grade.
How much of your method rests on techniques that feel productive but do not build durable memory — the single most useful number a student can see.
Whether you actually practise recall or only recognise material, measured across situations where the easier option was available.
How you handle four exams in three weeks, and whether your schedule spaces material or stacks it — scored against spacing research.
For each weak phase, the specific technique with better evidence to replace what you are doing now — not generic study advice.
Inside your report
Illustrative sample — your report is generated from your own responses.
Built for
- School seniors and college students who work hard and want the effort to count
- Candidates preparing for competitive and entrance exams
- Schools, colleges and coaching institutes baselining study habits across a cohort
Find out where your study loop leaks
30 exercises · about 25 minutes · Learning Loop report with your Illusion Index.
₹349 (incl. GST) · assessment and full report, nothing further to pay
Frequently asked questions
Four competencies: planning and time management, study strategies, self-testing and retrieval, and review and self-monitoring — through 18 everyday study situations plus select-all, evidence-reading and self-check exercises.
The Learning Loop is a scoring design built for this assessment: every choice carries a hidden evidence weight and sits on one phase of the plan-study-test-review cycle. The Illusion Index measures how much of your method rests on techniques that feel like learning but do not build durable memory.
Yes. The keying follows established memory and learning research on retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving and metacognitive monitoring, with per-option rationales explaining why each choice scores as it does.
School seniors, college and university students, and anyone preparing for competitive exams. It takes about 25 minutes and assumes no prior knowledge of learning science.
It is priced as an accessible student assessment — full scoring science and a bespoke report at a price a student can pay themselves. Schools and coaching institutes can run it across a cohort through AssessAll credits at 12 credits per student.
Every level from aspiring leader to the boardroom has its own readiness assessment — its own research base, scoring model and verdict report. Wherever you are now, and wherever you are heading next, there is a rung that measures it.
See every level →Methodology: Measures applied study judgment for students through original situational items keyed to published learning science: the comparative review of learning techniques (Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan & Willingham, 2013), retrieval practice and the testing effect (Roediger & Karpicke, 2006), distributed practice and spacing (Cepeda, Pashler, Vul, Wixted & Rohrer, 2006), interleaving (Rohrer & Taylor, 2007; Kornell & Bjork, 2008), desirable difficulties (Bjork & Bjork, 2011), fluency illusions and judgments of learning (Koriat & Bjork, 2005), the learning-styles evidence review (Pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer & Bjork, 2008), self-regulated learning (Zimmerman, 2002), unskilled-and-unaware calibration effects (Kruger & Dunning, 1999), the planning fallacy (Buehler, Griffin & Ross, 1994), longhand versus transcription note-taking (Mueller & Oppenheimer, 2014), sleep and memory consolidation (Walker & Stickgold, 2006), and media multitasking costs (Ophir, Nass & Wagner, 2009). Learning Loop is an original scoring design: each option carries an evidence weight and a learning-myth flag aggregated separately from the quality key, and each situation sits on one phase of the plan-study-test-review cycle. Items are original works; no commercial instrument is reproduced.