Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students

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📚 Pre-order my book to get an exclusive ticket to The Feel-Good Productivity Annual Planning Workshop! Website: https://www.feelgoodproductivity.com/?utm_campaign=bonus&utm_source=youtube_long&utm_medium=video_description&utm_content=bulkvidsbefore2021 Amazon: https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/bulkvidsbefore2021 We're continuing our mini revision/study tips Q&A series with my two friends, Paul and Katherine, who are fellow medical students at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In this today, we tackle specific study tips, how to learn content effectively, how to use active recall and tips for essay subjects and maths. Enjoy xx - Follow ± DM me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/AliAbdaal - My weekly email newsletter: https://aliabdaal.com/newsletter/ - Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal - My website / blog - www.aliabdaal.com TIMESTAMPS 00:55 - We know that AR and SR are legit techniques for recalling stuff, but before you can recall it you have to have learnt it first. Any tips on *learning* stuff initially? 06:57 - Exams are a month away. Any last minute tips, what you’d be doing? 10:55 - Any tips on how to learn content quickly? Exams are a month away and we haven’t even finished some of our courses yet. 11:29 - How do your techniques change 1 month 2 weeks 1 week before the exam? 12:46 - With active recall, do you make the questions as you read the book? Or do you make notes from the textbook first, and then read them, and then quiz yourself? How do you do it? 14:21 - How should I use active recall? Do past papers count. 14:46 - If you have Anki why do you still use your spreadsheet method? Surely you can do all that stuff on Anki with custom decks and filters and stuff. How do you decide what goes on Anki and what goes on Google Sheets? ## Subject Specific 18:37 - How do you apply flashcards/Anki for essay based subjects like History and English Lit? I find they’re working well for Biology but not sure how to use them for analysis subjects. 21:12 - Tips for A level maths? How to use past papers to your advantage? 22:29 - Tips for exam essay technique? Tips to write a really good essay. 23:43 - Closing Remarks 🎬 My online course on video editing - https://skl.sh/32TpEvm 🎥 My YouTube Camera Gear - https://kit.co/AliAbdaal Who am I: I'm Ali, a junior doctor working in Cambridge, UK. I make videos about medicine, technology, productivity and lifestyle design. I also have a weekly podcast with my brother (https://www.youtube.com/c/notoverthinking), and I write a weekly email newsletter that contains some quick thoughts + links to interesting things (https://aliabdaal.com/newsletter/). - Follow ± DM me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/AliAbdaal - My weekly email newsletter: https://aliabdaal.com/newsletter/ - Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal - My website / blog - www.aliabdaal.com PS: I donate 10% of my income to charity every year. Would you like to join me? Learn more about the 10% Pledge: https://aliabdaal.com/giving-what-we-can/