Anki

app · in 9 sources (2018–2020)

Sources by year: 2018: 8 · 2020: 1

Also named in the threads: 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.

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What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

active recall (9) · Imperial College London (3) · University College London (2) · friction (2) · Singapore (2) · spaced repetition (4) · UKCAT (2) · University of Cambridge (7) · Cambridge (4) · Paul (3)

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The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

• 2020-06-17 · How To Boost Productivity Without Apps — recommendation: Ali keeps only useful apps such as Notion, Drafts, Castro, Audible and Anki on his iPhone's first screen; Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and dating apps, the infinity pools, sit on the second screen. — 00:02:26

2018

• 2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali says the flashcard app Anki is really good for memorising particular facts; he used it a lot for anatomy and pharmacology. — 00:14:41
  • Anki schedules each flashcard by how easy you rated it, using spaced repetition: an easy card may return in a day, a hard one in 10 minutes. (hedged) — 00:14:41
• 2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — Ali: From 9.15 to about 10.45, in the lounge of his gym, Ali spends about an hour and a half going through his OSCE flashcards on Anki. — 00:00:58
• 2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali prefers his spreadsheet method to Anki for much of his revision because spreadsheets are easy and Anki takes effort to set up: anything that reduces friction between wanting to do something and doing it is worth doing. — 00:14:45
  • Katherine says if you are not willing to use Anki properly, don't use it at all: use paper flashcards or the spreadsheet method instead. — 00:16:11
  • 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
  • For essay subjects Ali uses Anki to memorise building-block paragraphs, with quotes, dates and evidence, that fit many essays: a point on Romeo and Juliet, or Hodgkin and Huxley's giant squid axon experiments for essays on the sodium pump. — 00:19:29
• 2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali really likes Anki for medical school: its iOS app costs £24, one of the best £24 he has ever spent, though Quizlet is free. — 00:03:40
• 2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: Proofs in maths should be memorised rather than derived in the exam, Ali says: his brother, who did maths, made many flashcards of proofs, and Anki or a spreadsheet works for this. — 00:06:33
• 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali does not much like Anki: he used it for isolated facts in anatomy and pharmacology but now almost never does, preferring his spreadsheet method, which he thinks is much better. — 00:25:18
  • 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
• 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: For using active recall in medicine, Ali recommends Anki. — 00:04:35
• …and 17 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018