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2020

2020-06-10 (said on 2020-06-01, implied) · Music, Reading and Note-Taking - Productive Day in the Life — Ali does not trust his memory, so he takes notes on what he reads, watches and listens to, and takes them in a way that he will stumble across them again, since otherwise he might forget they exist. — 00:05:46

2018

2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — Ali calls active recall the second key study technique after spaced repetition: testing yourself in a low-stakes way, outside the exam, by consistently asking yourself questions. — 00:12:01
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — Ibz Mo tests himself with his flatmate, who is on the same course, by bringing the material into jokes and everyday conversation. — 00:12:01
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — recommendation: Ali quizzes himself on medicine with friends: over lunch one of them throws out a question. — 00:12:30
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — Ali paraphrases a quote whose author he cannot recall: retrieving a fact from the brain matters far more than putting it in, so recalling is more efficient than rereading. — 00:12:53
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — Ali describes a study of university students answering questions on a passage: reading it once did worst, four times second worst, once plus a mind map better, and once followed by recalling answers best; he says self-testing was four times more efficient than rereading. — 00:13:22
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — Ali sees rereading as the biggest problem among his school friends, who took three hours over a science topic because they only reread; the secret, he says, is making questions for yourself and testing yourself. — 00:13:51
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — recommendation: Ali says the evidence on whether highlighting or making notes while studying is good gives a short answer of probably not. (hedged) — 00:14:53
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says rereading notes or textbooks improves retention somewhat but, compared with other techniques, is pretty much a waste of time. — 00:02:29
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali calls active recall (active retrieval, practice testing) by far the most important study technique: retrieving facts from the brain strengthens the connections. — 00:07:13
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali, who had assumed learning means putting things into the brain, says over 100 years of research show people learn far better by practising retrieval. — 00:07:42
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — John Dunlosky (quoted): Dunlosky's review rates practice testing as high utility: it is not time-intensive and needs minimal training. — 00:08:12
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali describes a 1939 study (Spitzer) in which students who took a practice test after studying did better a day or a week later than those who only studied. — 00:09:10
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali describes a 2010 study (Butler) in which students who took a practice test did significantly better on facts and concepts a week later than those who restudied. — 00:10:07
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: In Karpicke and Blunt's 2011 study, students who read a text once and then recalled it did better on factual and inference questions than those who read it four times or made a mind map. — 00:11:06
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: In Karpicke and Blunt's study, students predicted that repeated study would work best and active recall worst, so intuition does not match the evidence. — 00:12:55
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali finds it insane that active recall is not taught in schools more often. — 00:12:55
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali recommends the book Make It Stick, which names active recall and spaced repetition as the two most important study techniques. — 00:13:24
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says active recall is not rocket science: almost anything that takes cognitive effort to retrieve what you have learned works. — 00:13:24
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali recommends making notes with the book closed: learn a topic, close the book, write down all you remember, then open it and fill in what you missed. — 00:16:09
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: For his third-year psychology exams, his best ever, Ali made about 50 essay plans and memorised them over two months by drawing closed-book spider diagrams. — 00:16:38
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali: Instead of making notes in lectures or from textbooks, Ali writes questions for himself (the Cornell note-taking method) and answers them when he revises. — 00:17:36
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says the more brain power it takes to recall a fact, the stronger the memory connection seems to get. (hedged) — 00:18:35
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali tells students they may keep rereading, highlighting and making notes, but alongside should test themselves more and use spaced repetition. — 00:19:04
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali calls active recall by far the most important way to make studying more efficient, and spaced repetition probably the second most important. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali's example schedule for spaced repetition: study a topic today, then tomorrow, three days later, a week later and a month later, ideally by active recall rather than rereading. — 00:03:51
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali describes a 2011 study of students learning Swahili words: those who spaced their repeated recall of each word within one session scored up to 80%, about 50% more than those who repeated recall at once with the same work. — 00:05:48
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali recommends spacing recall within the same day: after topics one and two, test yourself on topic one, about two hours later, before starting topic three. — 00:07:04
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali: At the end of a study day Ali suggests asking yourself what you have learned: go over your active recall questions or write on one page, book closed, a spider diagram of all you remember of the subject. (hedged) — 00:08:08
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says he applied active recall and spaced repetition rigorously only in his second and third years at university, the two years he did really well in his Cambridge exams; in other years he drifted back to rereading and highlighting. — 00:08:37
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: Each time Ali studies a topic and actively recalls it, he writes that day's date in the next column of the topic's row of his spreadsheet, building up a record of repetitions. — 00:13:57
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says only recalling a topic earns a date in his spreadsheet: just rereading the textbook chapter or your notes is a total waste of time. — 00:15:54
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali takes a scattershot approach to his spreadsheet: each day he blitzes through as many topics as he can with active recall rather than spending ten hours on a single topic. — 00:17:47
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali's buzzword for revision is "quantity rather than quality": getting through many topics matters more than covering a few in detail, because the active recall builds the connections in the brain. — 00:20:14
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — Ali: Revising the hand examination, Ali makes sure he understands its principles, then writes questions an OSCE examiner might ask and adds them to his Anki deck so they come up in later reviews. — 00:01:56
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — Ali: For the abdominal exam Ali first reads through his notes, then, since rereading is a bit of a waste of time, makes himself an active recall spreadsheet. — 00:02:26
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — recommendation: Ali: In Ali's active recall spreadsheet, column A lists every question on the topic he can think of or has found in OSCE preparation books. — 00:02:26
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — recommendation: Ali writes the answers in the spreadsheet's second column in white text so he cannot see them while testing himself; hovering over a cell shows the answer in Excel's formula bar. — 00:02:55
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — Ali says writing questions for yourself instead of notes works because active recall is by far the most efficient study technique, while simply rereading notes is a total waste of time. — 00:03:24
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — Ali: On the 40-minute train from St Albans, Ali answers the morning's questions in Google Sheets on his phone instead of rereading the notes, practising what he preaches about active recall. — 00:04:22
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — announcement: Ali says the next day's video (13 April 2018) will answer viewers' questions on specific study techniques, such as active recall, spaced repetition, flashcards and how to learn material in the first place. — 00:16:22
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says a researched video such as his one on active recall takes about three hours to film and eight to edit, so in exam term he cannot make high-production videos for everything. — 00:16:58
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Katherine says you only learn material by doing active recall, so be willing to try the practice paper even if you feel horrendously underprepared. — 00:00:55
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali says understanding a topic comes first, and its litmus test is whether you could explain it to a friend or a five-year-old; trying to explain it is already active recall. — 00:02:12
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: Once he can explain a topic, Ali writes questions for himself, such as the causes of hypothyroidism, and answers them again later with spaced repetition. — 00:02:41
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali: Citing chapter two of Make It Stick, "To Learn, Retrieve", Ali says retrieval drives learning, so learning and revising should not be thought of as separate things. — 00:03:16
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali: On placement Ali's friends ask Paul, their cardiology guru, to explain heart topics such as tricuspid regurgitation; Paul first asks what they already know, which forces them to recall. — 00:05:03
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali says active recall is no set formula, only actively retrieving from the brain: make questions from your own notes or from a revision guide, whichever works for you. — 00:12:57
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Katherine says many people take comfort in copying material out into their own notes without any active recall; they should use the good revision guides and online resources and do the hard recall sooner. — 00:13:27
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali says past papers count as active recall, but attempt each question before looking at the mark scheme: reading the mark scheme and thinking you would have known it is a myth. — 00:14:07
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Paul says active recall needs neither Anki nor Google Sheets: it is a way of life, trying to think about things every time before you look up the answer. — 00:17:02
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Paul: With practice papers, Paul advises reasoning from first principles and dredging up what you know before looking at the answer, so that the answer sticks better. — 00:17:55
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — Ali likes revision days to be fairly chill: a leisurely pace with bursts of active recall and spaced repetition, without being overly concerned with 100% productivity. — 00:00:00
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — recommendation: Ali: Asked by a viewer for a video on his magical active recall system, Ali replies that he has made one, "How to study for exams with Google Sheets". — creator comment
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — recommendation: Ali's fourth tip is active recall in action: after reading over something, such as Beck's suicide scale, he writes down from memory exactly what he learned. — 00:01:27
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — recommendation: Ali writes with different colours, arrows and spacing because they give recall cues: remembering three components written in green on the right of the page can bring back Beck's suicide scale. — 00:01:56
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — recommendation: Ali's sixth tip, active recall as a way of life: in a group session, instead of being spoon-fed an examination, one person talks the others through it and they fill in the gaps. — 00:03:58
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — Ali: Having partly forgotten the thyroid examination is, for Ali, the perfect state for active recall: retrieving something you have allowed yourself to forget strengthens its connections. — 00:04:28
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — recommendation: Ali's eighth tip: friends encourage one another to recall ("don't tell me"), because the more effort remembering takes, the more strongly the memory is encoded. — 00:05:26
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — recommendation: Ali's ninth tip is his active recall spreadsheet: adding the cardiovascular examination, he writes exam questions in one column and answers in the second, coloured white so he cannot see them. — 00:05:55
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — recommendation: Ali: For writing questions into his active recall spreadsheet, Ali likes a big widescreen monitor and online or PDF versions of books rather than physical ones, because they make a split screen easier. — 00:05:55
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — recommendation: Ali's tenth tip, for quizzing with a friend: one reads the question aloud, both answer silently, and they look only when both are ready, so each still uses their own active recall. — 00:06:54
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — Ali calls active recall literally the most efficient way to learn anything. (overstated) — 00:06:54
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — Ali's revision day came to just under four hours, which he thinks were productive because they were built mostly around active recall and spaced repetition. — 00:07:23
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — Ali: In the past Ali would have read the textbook and made notes, spending eight to ten hours on the same topics and, he thinks, learning less, because notes and textbooks are so inefficient. — 00:07:23
2018-04-24 · Study with Me + Revision tips from friends - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #32 — recommendation: Charlotte, a sixth-year medic at Emmanuel College, revises clinical communication skills alongside active recall: knowing everything is not good care if you cannot explain it well and thoroughly to patients. — 00:01:54
2018-04-24 · Study with Me + Revision tips from friends - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #32 — recommendation: Ali: Revising with Charlotte, Ali draws the acromegaly and Cushing's examination diagrams from memory and fills the gaps from a master diagram, then she draws them and he fills her gaps: teaching her is active recall for him, so it helps both. — 00:03:29
2018-04-24 · Study with Me + Revision tips from friends - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #32 — recommendation: Ali builds his active recall spreadsheet in Google Sheets with friends: for each neurology topic the group brainstorms questions an examiner could ask, writes them in column A and works out the answers for column B. — 00:04:28
2018-04-24 · Study with Me + Revision tips from friends - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #32 — Ali: For the spreadsheet Ali and his friends collate many sources, including Cases for PACES and his OSCE book, and look up anything they do not understand on Google or Wikipedia before it goes in. — 00:04:28
2018-04-24 · Study with Me + Revision tips from friends - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #32 — Ali: Instead of working, Ali spends an hour researching how feasible it is to make posters, mugs and t-shirts and designing some with his revision catchphrases, such as "active recall is a way of life". — 00:09:53
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali says mind maps can be good for revision as long as you don't look at the book while making them, so that they are active recall; they should hold the main points, not much detail. — 00:04:07
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: In his Google spreadsheet of revision questions Ali writes answers as short points one, two, three, four when they are a list of things to learn. — 00:05:52
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: For anatomy Ali advises Anki and Instant Anatomy, a website by the Cambridge anatomist Bob Whittaker, and learning the rules that cover a lot of ground, such as which nerve supplies a muscle group. — 00:06:22
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali's tip for English literature: memorise quotations. — 00:09:12
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali's theory of exam performance rests on three things: intelligence, which is fixed, and knowledge and practising exam technique, which can be worked on. — 00:17:21
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali's tips for getting a grade 9 at GCSE: spaced repetition and active recall. — 00:29:16
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali's tip for A-level biology: learn the mark scheme. — 00:34:40
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: To understand hard topics, Ali advises trying to explain them to a friend. — 00:38:51
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: For A-level biology and chemistry Ali recommends CGP revision guides. — 00:42:13
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says active recall and spaced repetition are by far the biggest things you can do to make revision more efficient, so viewers should learn them before any other tip. — 00:00:29
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: With 70 lectures and little time, Ali suggests five minutes per lecture to skim it and jot down its topics and subheadings: 350 minutes, done in a single day. — 00:03:44
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: For maths, physics or engineering, which he does not study, Ali would not use his spreadsheet of active recall questions but focus on problem sheets and past papers, as applied work tests the knowledge. (hedged) — 00:06:33
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says medicine is not conceptually hard, only a lot of content that you memorise with spaced repetition and active recall; maths or engineering are arguably harder, so medics should drop the "medicine is so hard" narrative. — 00:14:05
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: a guest: Asked how to make revision material for a lecture course, one of Ali's friends says it depends on your study style: understanding comes first, then active recall when you revise. — 00:18:22
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: When lecture notes are good, Ali makes no notes, only questions from them, which he answers and checks; when they are bad he looks for a review paper, a revision guide or someone's notes to avoid making his own. — 00:19:08
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says his advice that making notes is a waste of time is for people who make notes and are unhappy with their results: if notes get you top grades, carry on; active recall, though, suits everyone. — 00:20:33
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: a guest: One of Ali's friends uses four-colour pens for active recall: write down what they remember, add what they missed in another colour, and on a later pass use yet another colour to see what they keep forgetting. — 00:22:12
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali and his friends close with their take-home messages: scope your subject, save the day, active recall is a way of life. — 00:24:11
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: For neuroanatomy Ali advises drawing diagrams; he found Dr Najeeb's (as heard) YouTube lecture series useful and used Anki a lot. — 00:10:36
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali keeps recalling a fact until recalling it becomes easy: as long as recall stays hard, he knows he is learning something. — 00:14:14
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: To get through a lot of content before exams, Ali advises preparing for the exam itself: much content is niche or not examined, so focus on what is examined. — 00:21:59
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: Starting clinical school, Ali advises understanding the basics of everything before the detail, everyone's early mistake, his included: a broad grasp of clinical medicine after the first clinical year is very good. — 00:29:26
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali sees no need to write answers out when testing himself: he says them in his head, aloud or to a friend, or writes them out; whatever works for you. — 00:32:09
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: When no past papers are available, Ali advises using the specification to work out what the exam will ask. — 00:32:09
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — announcement: Ali is editing a study-with-me video on using active recall with material seen for the first time. — 00:32:09
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: With material seen for the first time, Ali says the aim is to understand it; once you have, write questions for yourself that test your understanding. — 00:32:09
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: For maths and statistics Ali advises past papers: Anki and his spreadsheet method are hard to apply there, but active recall is a way of life and past papers are a form of it. — 00:38:46
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: For multiple-choice and single-best-answer exams in first-year medicine, Ali advises reading the question, knowing your stuff and doing lots of past papers. — 00:49:49
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali thinks active recall can be applied to memorising Chinese characters: friends of his learn them with Anki, which is exactly active recall. — 00:56:02
2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali recommends the Kindle's highlighting feature: revisiting your highlights is a good way to take more from a book than reading it once. — 00:08:59
2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — Ali: Revising the testicular examination and panhypopituitarism, Ali started with active recall, asking what he would say in an exam, found he knew little, and only then reviewed the notes. — 00:00:29
2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — Ali: After reviewing a topic, Ali writes questions on it into his active recall spreadsheet to review after lunch, for active recall and spaced repetition. — 00:01:27
2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — recommendation: Ali advises tailoring revision techniques to the subject being revised, with no need to shoehorn it into a technique someone else uses; for visual dermatology he did an online quiz instead of going over notes. — 00:03:24
2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — recommendation: Ali: Asked on Instagram how to apply his active recall spreadsheet to maths, physics or engineering, Ali says you probably don't: the best way to revise them is practice sheets, problems and past papers. (hedged) — 00:03:24
2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — recommendation: Ali: Before looking up the treatment of acne, Ali answered it in his head as if an examiner had asked, then looked it up and refined his answer, which he calls better than just looking it up. — 00:03:53
2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — recommendation: Ali prioritises breadth over depth: medicine has so much to learn that you must decide what detail not to care about, and in any subject you should get the big picture before the details. — 00:06:09
2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — a guest: A second unnamed speaker says that with an exam two or three weeks away, free active recall such as writing out everything you know about a chapter is totally pointless. — 00:10:02
2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — recommendation: a guest: The second speaker says marks come from memorising the mark schemes: do many practice papers first, then study the mark schemes for buzzwords such as "enzyme substrate complex". — 00:10:39
2018-05-28 · Study with Me + How I take notes - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #36 — recommendation: Ali says the story method works for many things where you have to learn a long list, not only for a topic such as the activities of daily living that lends itself well to a story. — 00:02:08
2018-05-28 · Study with Me + How I take notes - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #36 — recommendation: Ali: When explaining something to someone else, Ali says it is better to get them to generate the answers themselves where they can, prodding them along rather than spoon-feeding them. — 00:03:33
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: With several exams on one day, Ali revises in order: the morning exam the night before, the afternoon one at lunchtime; if confident he does no work, if not he tries to plug the holes in his knowledge. — 00:01:11
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: For a student who cannot tell what is important among low-yield information, Ali recommends past papers as a good barometer of what matters and what does not. — 00:03:18
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: To a Year 12 student who works long hours but gets Bs and Cs, Ali says the revision strategy is probably wrong, such as writing out notes and summarising topics without understanding them. (hedged) — 00:03:44
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: The key to a good GCSE or A-level grade, Ali says, is understanding the material well enough to explain it to a five-year-old: whoever can explain the whole biology syllabus that way gets an A*. — 00:04:10
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: For using active recall in medicine, Ali recommends Anki. — 00:04:35
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: The night before an exam Ali mostly relaxes; closer to an exam he asks which topic he would be least happy to see come up, and revises that the night before if there is one. — 00:10:00
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — Ali calls categorisation a magical technique and, after spaced repetition and active recall, probably the third most important exam technique: categorise anything you can, whenever you can. (hedged) — 00:01:13
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — Ali: For his neurological systems review Ali grouped the eight or nine questions he needed to ask into four categories, so that he only had to learn four things rather than nine. — 00:01:13
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — recommendation: Ali constantly asks himself which topic he would be least happy to see come up in the next day's exam, and asks it more and more often as the exam approaches. — 00:01:42
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — Ali: For a possible sexual health case, Ali learns the numbered list of questions by linking them: vaginal discharge cues a question about itchiness, which cues pain, and itchiness cues skin changes around the vagina and then rashes elsewhere on the body. — 00:01:42
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — recommendation: Ali says linking the items of a list of seven connects them, so you do not need to memorise a list of seven: you weave the items together in a connected way. — 00:02:11
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — recommendation: Ali: Working through role-play cases in an OSCE preparation book, Ali writes possible diagnoses roughly on his iPad: the aim is active recall, not notes, and writing makes categorising easier than doing it in his head or out loud. — 00:03:21
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — recommendation: Ali: While revising Ali often tells himself not to trust his memory to keep what he has written down, so he makes mnemonics as he writes. — 00:04:49
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — Ali says not to rely too much on mnemonics or make them for everything, since much can be worked out from first principles, but having a mnemonic as an option adds recall cues. — 00:05:47
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — recommendation: Ali: Practising history-taking cases in a group with Seb, Ali and his friends read out a patient's presentation, fall silent while everyone thinks or writes down possible diagnoses, then discuss: everyone practises active recall and nobody is spoon-fed, since each will take the exam alone. — 00:06:16