If active recall is so important, what is the purpose of topics in SuperMemo? How efficient would learning be if I never used items?
The main purpose of topics is to collect learning material that will be processed to formulate questions and answers. With topics you do your reading. With items you do your learning. Learning based on topics would be dismal in quality. Experiments show that you may review a sentence passively 20 times, and after the interval of just forty days you may be unable to recall you have ever read or seen the sentence! The more material your process in learning, the more likely you are to see this scary weakness of human memory.
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