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36 statements about 6med in 16 sources, by upload date.

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2024

2024-05-14 · A Week in My Life · Vlog — Ali says he and James, his co-founder at SixMed, his first successful business, were both visionaries and never settled who would do what, so Ali ended up doing everything and James small amounts. — 00:06:19
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: One idea on Ali's 2012 list, a website on BMAT preparation he could charge for, became his first successful online business, because he had expertise in helping people do well in the BMAT. — 00:02:20
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: In 2012 Ali ran his first BMAT course for about seven friends from the year below at his school, beaming a PowerPoint to the TV in his living room, and made perhaps £300. (hedged) — 00:02:46
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: In 2013, when he started medical school, Ali decided to go big with the BMAT course: he built a proper website and started marketing it nationally. — 00:02:46
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali says the BMAT courses made around £6,000 in 2013, teaching about 150 students across five courses. (hedged) — 00:03:26
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali says that from 2014 to about 2019 he made around £150,000 a year from SixMed's classroom courses. — 00:03:26
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: On one final day SixMed taught a lecture theatre of 150 students and made about £10,000 in a day. — 00:03:26
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: In the month of summer holidays between graduating in 2018 and starting work as a doctor, Ali filmed the BMAT Crash Course as an online course and hosted it on Podia. — 00:04:06
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali says the online BMAT Crash Course made a few tens of thousands of pounds in its first year, 2018. — 00:04:52
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: The following year Ali partnered with his friend Akib on a UKCAT course, and the year after he filmed the Interview Crash Course for medical school interviews. — 00:04:52
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: At his medical admissions workshops Ali charged £50 to £100 per person for a classroom of 30, making £1,500 to £3,000 in a day of teaching he enjoyed. — 00:17:55
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali's BMAT Crash Course Online sells for £99 or three payments of £39. — 00:35:19
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali's early video on BMAT Section 1, made as a fifth-year Cambridge medical student and SixMed co-founder, gives free teaching, links his online BMAT course and has 225,000 views. — 00:48:52

2018

2018-01-13 · My University Desk Setup - Cambridge Medical Student — Ali uses his desk setup for medical-school work, video editing, web design and development for 6med, and watching things online. — video description
2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! — Ali says he got into medical education to make some money: in his first year at university he ran a BMAT course for students at his school, then built a website for the BMAT Crash Course and marketed it nationally, and it grew beyond what he imagined. — 00:06:05
2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! — Ali says that after five years of SixMed courses he no longer cares about making money from education and enjoys teaching for its own sake, which is why he started his YouTube channel and gives unpaid teaching sessions. — 00:06:27
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali: Some students on Ali's BMAT crash course do not want their friends to know they took it, because they see themselves as competing. — 00:05:38
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: To make two hours of boring SixMed admin emails more fun, Ali goes to Costa, gets a flat white and puts on music. — 00:21:41
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali says SixMed made him a reasonable amount in the past but is declining: the Medic Portal advertises everywhere and has the private schools, new companies charge £20 a course, and at SixMed's size VAT and corporation tax rule such prices out. — 00:22:34
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali says he does not really care about making money: he is comfortable with what SixMed has made for him and his family, and wants to focus on becoming a good doctor and making YouTube videos that give things away for free. — 00:23:04
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali: Whether you can work while studying medicine depends on the work: Ali runs a company teaching BMAT and UKCAT courses. — 00:30:35
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali is about to run Google AdWords ads for SixMed's BMAT and UKCAT courses the next day (2 May 2018) to try to beat the Medic Portal. — 00:44:29
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali says the Medic Portal pays about £3 a click on Google searches for BMAT Crash Course, the name of the BMAT course he made five years ago, and calls its own course BMAT Crash Course. — 00:45:00
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali bought a house because buying jointly with his brother, staying two years, a deposit from SixMed and a friend as housemate made it worthwhile; for most people he advocates renting. — 00:28:28
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali: Another reason for starting YouTube was driving traffic to SixMed, which Ali had run for about four years and was bored of; he wanted to do medical education, and few doctors were on YouTube. — 00:53:42
2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali recommends Revue as an email newsletter service because it gets out of the way and lets you focus on the writing; he has used many others, such as Mailchimp, while running SixMed. — 00:01:14
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Charlotte is coming over for a takeaway in a couple of hours, and she and Ali will discuss SixMed matters. — 00:12:31

2017

2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali is a fifth-year medical student at Cambridge University and co-founder of SixMed, a small company running courses for medical school applicants; he has taught its BMAT Crash Course for five years. — 00:00:00
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali Abdaal (channel): SixMed's BMAT Crash Course is a classroom course that has run for five years in the UK, Amsterdam, Singapore and Hong Kong. — video description
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Every year SixMed's courses tell students how important Section 2 timing is, and every year students email to say they ran out of time and left five questions blank. — 00:01:25
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Each year on SixMed's courses students tell Ali they hate physics and will skip all seven physics questions, reckoning 20 out of 27 still gives about a six on the BMAT. — 00:00:29
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: "Fractions are our friends" is the mantra Ali's team has taught on all its BMAT crash courses for the last five years, which he says students have found enormously helpful. — 00:00:29
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Having marked many BMAT essays over five years of teaching courses, Ali says a good one states the basic points a bit more nicely than others, rather than adding a rogue point from a treatise on medical ethics. — 00:12:14
2017-11-11 · Malignant haematology supervision - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #12 — Ali visits his friend Katherine's room to collect BMAT Crash Course workbooks and finds last year's (2016) Interview Crash Course handbooks there. — 00:02:11
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — Ali says he has been teaching interview courses for the last five years with his company SixMed, the Interview Crash Course. — 00:13:03
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — announcement: Ali says that because he and his SixMed colleagues graduate next year (2018) and may not have time to run the courses, he is slowly putting the interview course content on YouTube. — 00:13:32

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