The blurting method helps to memorise information twice as fast. The first step is to write down everything you know about a topic on a piece of paper. Then you check what you have written down correctly or incorrectly with the documents and take a closer look at what you didn’t know. You then write down everything you forgot or got wrong the first time on a new sheet of paper and repeat this process until you can reproduce all the material without errors.
This learning technique is also suitable for pair and group work, for example for active revision sessions in a school class. However, it can also be used by a teacher to find out what the pupils have and have not learnt in class. It is important to note that blurting is not a test, which must be made clear to the pupils. As a teacher, you can find out in five minutes at the end of the lesson what has remained of the learning material. At the same time, the pupils are offered a repetition that can further consolidate the learning material.