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2020

2020-03-13 · The KEY Study Techniques for Exam Success — recommendation: Ali: Coaching students for the BMAT, Ali tells them to write down the variables a question gives as they read it, such as speed, distance and unknown time, then ask which equation contains them and plug in the numbers. — 00:17:17
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali is now trying to set up a few other businesses; he has tried to set up a business every year since he was 13, with his friend James, and always found it exhilarating and fun. — 00:24:38
2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Ali: Every year at secondary school Ali and his friends came up with a new business idea; every one failed, but they learned a lot from each. — 00:04:34
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: A couple of years ago Ali made his own online video courses for the UCAT, the BMAT and medical school interviews. — 00:08:16
2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali: From about the age of 12 Ali had three strands of business ideas that all failed; the first was an online game, for which he learned to make websites and server-side coding in PHP. — 00:01:27
2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali: To win back the £900, in September 2012 Ali brainstormed money-making schemes in Evernote from what he was good at, including websites on getting into medicine, BMAT preparation and interview preparation. — 00:17:34
2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali: To do content marketing for SixMed, Ali created his YouTube channel in 2017, first making videos on the BMAT and interview preparation, topics from his 2012 brainstorm. — 00:19:58
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: At school Ali taught himself to code, and every year he and his friends came up with a new business idea and built a website for it; every one failed. — 00:03:27

2019

2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — Ali: Of the BMAT and the UKCAT, Ali prefers the BMAT. — 00:28:52
2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: SixMed began in 2013 teaching BMAT courses to UK medical school applicants, then added UKCAT and interview courses and question banks; Ali has run it on the side as a Cambridge medical student and doctor. — 00:04:17
2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: Every year from about 13 to 18, Ali and his friend James tried to set up a new internet business; all five failed, making about 50 pounds in total. — 00:06:04
2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: At 18 or 19 Ali took the lessons from those failed internet businesses into SixMed, which did very well. — 00:06:04
2019-10-09 · How I Built a Million Dollar Business in Medical School - 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs — Ali: In their second year of medical school Ali and friends decided to run a BMAT course: the big companies' courses seemed poor and expensive, so they would do better, charge less and give free places to low-income students. — 00:00:29
2019-10-09 · How I Built a Million Dollar Business in Medical School - 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs — Ali: At secondary school Ali and his friend James tried a new money-making plan every year, and all five businesses failed; the sixth, the BMAT crash course, became SixMed. — 00:11:37
2019-11-14 · Arrogance, Expectations & Inspiration - Personal Q&A with my Brother · Ali & Taimur Abdaal — Ali and Taimur worked together on BMAT Ninja, online learning platforms for the BMAT and UKCAT medical school exams. — 00:23:07

2018

2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents the third video of his medical ethics series, on euthanasia and medical ethics at the end of life. — 00:00:00
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents the fourth video of his medical ethics mini-series for medicine interviews, on legalising assisted suicide. — 00:00:00
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — announcement: Ali says a few more videos of his medical ethics series and a few more about interviews are coming, before the channel moves into more uncharted territory. — 00:26:11
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — announcement: Ali and Abi, sixth-year medical students at Cambridge University, present a video introducing the ethical and legal issues raised by the Charlie Gard case. — 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
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: Looking through all the BMAT past papers, Ali found that physics comes down to four categories: electricity, mechanics, nuclear and waves. — 00:13:28
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 — 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 scored 7.5, 7.3 and 4.5A (as heard) in the BMAT. — 00:31:16
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali prepared for the BMAT for two months and for the UKCAT for about two weeks, because he did not really care about the UKCAT. — 00:43:55
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali says taking several admissions tests is not too bad because their preparation windows differ: the UKCAT in June or July, the BMAT in September or November; he knows nothing about the GAMSAT. — 00:45:07
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: Using American English in the BMAT does not matter, Ali says: no one cares. — 00:15:22
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: The average BMAT score of successful Oxbridge candidates is about six, in the low sixes, Ali says, so getting that is pretty good. — 00:19:37
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — recommendation: Ali: Good GCSEs help for medical school but are not the be-all and end-all, Ali says: bad GCSEs can easily be made up for by good A-level, BMAT and interview performance. — 00:09:11
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — Ali has filmed and edited a series of more than 75 videos on how to do well in the BMAT, the BioMedical Admissions Test. — 00:06:45
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — announcement: Ali has run SixMed for five or six years, teaching the BMAT in classrooms in the UK, Singapore and the Netherlands; with no time to teach in person as a doctor, he has put everything he knows into an online video course. — 00:06:56
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — announcement: Ali's online BMAT video course costs money, but it will be free of charge for anyone in financial difficulty. — 00:07:14
2018-08-03 · Life Advice - 50k subs Q&A — Ali has recently released an online BMAT video course, a series of more than 70 videos he spent about three or four days making. — 00:05:37
2018-08-03 · Life Advice - 50k subs Q&A — Ali: Despite the work, Ali expects only that maybe three or four people buy his BMAT course and he makes a bit of money on the side, a deliberately low bar. — 00:06:16
2018-08-03 · Life Advice - 50k subs Q&A — Ali says whether anyone buys his BMAT course is completely outside his control; what is in his control are his own thoughts and actions, such as putting effort into it. — 00:06:43
2018-09-24 · Graduate Entry Medicine - A comprehensive guide + Q&A — Samah says that when she applied there were three entrance exams for graduate medicine: the BMAT, the UKCAT and the GAMSAT. (hedged) — 00:08:08
2018-09-24 · Graduate Entry Medicine - A comprehensive guide + Q&A — recommendation: Samah says reapplicants who already sat the UKCAT or the BMAT as school leavers often do well to stick with what they know. — 00:09:06
2018-09-24 · Graduate Entry Medicine - A comprehensive guide + Q&A — Ali says people often message him about his SixMed courses for the BMAT and UKCAT, but he knows nothing about the GAMSAT. — 00:09:35
2018-09-24 · Graduate Entry Medicine - A comprehensive guide + Q&A — recommendation: Samah: To balance applications with her degree, Samah spread her choices across entrance exams: two UKCAT and two BMAT universities, plus Cambridge, which then required no entrance exam for graduates. (hedged) — 00:16:33
2018-10-01 · Is university worth it? The non-academic value of university — Ali set up SixMed with friends from university and some school friends, making the materials for its BMAT, UKCAT and interview courses; he thinks it succeeded because it was a collaboration of so many students and friends. — 00:06:47
2018-10-04 · BMAT Physics - Electricity + Formulae · BMAT Crash Course Online — Ali, a junior doctor in Cambridge, is co-founder of SixMed, which has run BMAT, UKCAT and interview courses for hundreds of medical school applicants every year since 2013. — 00:00:00
2018-10-04 · BMAT Physics - Electricity + Formulae · BMAT Crash Course Online — announcement: Ali's online BMAT crash course is a series of more than 75 videos covering the technique and theory needed for the BMAT, to be put into practice with practice papers. — 00:00:00
2018-10-04 · BMAT Physics - Electricity + Formulae · BMAT Crash Course Online — Ali says quite a lot of BMAT physics is just memorising the formulae: a candidate who can memorise them and apply them in the questions gets most of the marks. — 00:00:29
2018-10-04 · BMAT Physics - Electricity + Formulae · BMAT Crash Course Online — Ali calls electricity probably the most important topic in BMAT physics, as the BMAT has tended to ask about two questions on it every year over the last few years. (hedged) — 00:01:27
2018-10-04 · BMAT Physics - Electricity + Formulae · BMAT Crash Course Online — recommendation: Ali: Beyond memorising the formulae, Ali advises understanding electricity well enough to visualise it, which makes BMAT physics easier and leaves fewer things to memorise. — 00:02:22
2018-10-04 · BMAT Physics - Electricity + Formulae · BMAT Crash Course Online — Ali: The first BMAT electricity formula to memorise is V = E/Q: voltage equals energy divided by charge. — 00:04:49
2018-10-04 · BMAT Physics - Electricity + Formulae · BMAT Crash Course Online — recommendation: Ali: When a BMAT question gives time in minutes, Ali says to convert it into seconds, as the question is trying to catch candidates out. — 00:05:18
2018-10-04 · BMAT Physics - Electricity + Formulae · BMAT Crash Course Online — recommendation: Ali calls the fifth formula, P = IV (power equals current times voltage), a really important one to memorise, as it often comes up in the BMAT for plugging in numbers. — 00:07:17
2018-10-04 · BMAT Physics - Electricity + Formulae · BMAT Crash Course Online — recommendation: Ali urges BMAT candidates to memorise the six basic electricity formulae with their symbols and units, with time always in seconds and power in watts, not kilowatts or megawatts. — 00:07:51
2018-12-08 · Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A — Ali: When Ali decided in July 2017 to vlog his medical elective he had to churn out content, about 12 videos there, then BMAT and interview videos; one or two videos a week makes 50 to 100 a year. — 00:09:24

2017

2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali and his friends, on their medical elective in Cambodia, decided to make a series of videos with tips for doing well in the BMAT. — 00:00:00
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 1 has 35 questions in 60 minutes, about one minute 42 seconds per question; Ali says time is not usually an issue in Section 1, as it is in Section 2. — 00:00:29
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 1 mixes critical thinking questions, just under half of the section, and problem-solving questions, just over half. — 00:00:29
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT critical thinking questions, which ask for the conclusion, assumption or flaw of a short passage, each have a very specific strategy and are very preparable. — 00:00:58
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT problem-solving questions involve basic data interpretation and calculations, such as reading a table or graph or working out a percentage, and a few question types recur and deserve a strategy. — 00:00:58
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali says preparing for BMAT Section 1 is about strategy and practice, practice being by far the more important: the best preparation is doing loads of practice questions. — 00:01:27
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: About 14 or 15 years of BMAT papers exist, all of whose Section 1 questions can be practised, plus at least 10 years of TSA Oxford papers, which Ali calls very similar to BMAT Section 1. — 00:01:27
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — announcement: Ali says he will upload more tutorials on BMAT critical thinking questions in the next few weeks. — 00:02:55
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says only seven critical thinking question types come up in the BMAT each year, so mastering the strategy for each gets almost full marks on them. — 00:02:55
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says that, sadly, there is no formulaic way to prepare for BMAT problem-solving questions. — 00:02:55
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT problem solving, Ali advises knowing the times tables up to 12 inside out, so as not to spend ages on simple calculations. — 00:03:24
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali calls estimation a really important part of BMAT problem solving: look at the answer options to judge how far you can round, a lot for 1, 2 or 3 million, little for £1.40, £1.41 or £1.42. — 00:03:53
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: When estimating in BMAT problem solving, Ali says to remember whether you rounded up or down: an estimate of 50 with options 48 and 52 depends on it. — 00:04:22
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT problem solving, Ali advises being able to convert easily between fractions, decimals and percentages. — 00:04:22
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — announcement: Ali says the next videos, over the next few days, will cover how to prepare for BMAT Sections 2 and 3, with breakdowns of each section's content. — 00:05:21
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — announcement: Ali: After feedback that the previous BMAT Tips video was a little too long, Ali splits BMAT Section 2 into several bite-sized videos. — 00:00:00
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 2 has 27 questions and lasts 30 minutes, about one minute per question. — 00:00:26
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT Section 2 is an even split of biology, chemistry, physics and maths, biology being the easiest and maths probably the hardest. (hedged) — 00:00:26
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT Section 2 questions, set at GCSE or O-level standard, could be taken from any exam board, not just the one a candidate studied. — 00:00:56
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Preparing for the BMAT about six or seven years earlier, Ali got CGP revision guides from all the exam boards and ripped out the pages relevant to BMAT questions. — 00:00:56
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali calls the timing of BMAT Section 2 really tough: about one minute per question is generally not enough, so keeping to time is super important. — 00:01:25
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: In BMAT Section 2, Ali says to guess an answer and move on after more than a minute on a question, and to guess without attempting a question that will clearly take longer than a minute. — 00:01:25
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: If he were taking the BMAT this year (2017), Ali would prepare for Section 2 by first teaching himself all the science he did not already know. — 00:01:54
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali says candidates not taking physics at A-level should focus on physics and not make the big mistake of skipping the BMAT Section 2 physics questions. — 00:02:24
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: After learning the science, Ali would practise many BMAT Section 2 questions on BMAT Ninja, then do the last five or six years of real past papers under strict 30-minute timing. — 00:02:53
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — announcement: Ali says videos on BMAT Section 2 physics, biology, chemistry and maths are coming very soon, with specific advice and tips for being efficient with time. — 00:03:51
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 urges BMAT candidates not to neglect the Section 2 physics questions, a mistake he says is surprisingly common. — 00:00:29
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 say they will skip all seven BMAT Section 2 physics questions, reckoning 20 out of 27 still gives a score of about six point something. — 00:00:29
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 says skipping BMAT physics fails in practice: some chemistry and maths questions are hard enough that 100% on them is unlikely, while some physics questions just involve plugging numbers into formulae and are easy marks. — 00:00:58
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 says the BMAT Section 2 physics questions are probably the second easiest after biology, even for candidates not taking physics at A-level. (hedged) — 00:00:58
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 estimates that, done efficiently, learning the whole BMAT Section 2 physics syllabus takes about a few hours, leaving plenty of time to practise. — 00:01:56
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: At the start of BMAT physics preparation, Ali says not to spend time revising topics already known from GCSE but to plug the holes in your knowledge first. — 00:02:43
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For a BMAT physics question you are stuck on, Ali suggests asking a teacher: physics teachers are quite happy to help students not taking their subject at A-level. — 00:03:12
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: After many practice questions, Ali says to do the last five years of BMAT Section 2 papers under strict timed conditions: the whole paper in half an hour. — 00:03:41
2017-07-04 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 2 biology mostly tests human biology; candidates also need some knowledge of the carbon and nitrogen cycles, and may occasionally be asked to compare a plant cell and an animal cell. — 00:00:14
2017-07-04 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali says every BMAT candidate should use the official Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide, which describes the biology content well, to plug the holes in their biology knowledge. — 00:00:29
2017-07-04 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: With one minute per BMAT Section 2 question, Ali advises doing the biology questions in far less time, as they are mostly factual recall without complicated calculations, leaving more time for the other questions. — 00:00:58
2017-07-04 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series — Ali says many BMAT Section 2 biology questions can be done in less than 30 seconds, for example recalling that insulin is made in the pancreas or how blood flows through the heart's chambers. — 00:00:58
2017-07-04 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali warns BMAT candidates not to rush the Section 2 biology questions: they are the easiest in the paper, and candidates should get all of those easy marks. — 00:01:27
2017-07-04 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: To practise BMAT Section 2 biology, Ali suggests doing lots of past biology questions free on BMAT Ninja, or printing the past papers since 2003 and working through them. — 00:01:35
2017-07-04 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali advises against spending a lot of time practising BMAT biology, by far the easiest Section 2 subject: the time is probably better spent improving at physics, chemistry and maths. (hedged) — 00:01:35
2017-07-12 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series — Ali: With one minute per BMAT Section 2 question, Ali says the chemistry questions can be particularly hard because their calculations sometimes take a little time. — 00:00:29
2017-07-12 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali calls practice super important for BMAT Section 2 and says the easiest way to practise chemistry is to work through all the chemistry questions on BMAT Ninja free of charge, asking a chemistry teacher or using its solutions when stuck. — 00:00:29
2017-07-12 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series — Ali offers to write a worked solution for any BMAT chemistry question a viewer is stuck on and leaves in the comments. — 00:00:58
2017-07-12 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series — Ali divides the BMAT Section 2 chemistry questions into two main kinds, each with its own difficulties: factual recall questions and calculation questions. — 00:00:58
2017-07-12 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT chemistry recall questions ask, for example, that graphite has free electrons, reactivity trends in groups 1 and 7, the colour of universal indicator paper in a solution, or which element an electronic configuration is. — 00:01:27
2017-07-12 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT candidates need not memorise the periodic table: whenever a question needs one, it is provided next to the question. — 00:01:27
2017-07-12 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 2 chemistry is GCSE or O-level standard, and since practically everyone taking the BMAT does A-level chemistry, Ali expects little trouble with the factual recall part. — 00:01:56
2017-07-12 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT candidates who find chemistry hard, such as graduates who last did A-level chemistry in the 1980s, Ali says the best bet is memorising as much of the Assumed Knowledge Guide as possible: there is no shortcut, as anything can be asked. — 00:01:56
2017-07-12 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series — Ali says getting good at BMAT chemistry will probably also improve results in A-level or IB exams. (hedged) — 00:02:26
2017-07-15 · Why I'm starting a Vlog - Cambridge Medical Elective #01 — Ali has made a few BMAT tips videos in Cambodia over the past weeks; he has taught the test for the last few years, and making the videos turned out to be fun. — 00:01:39
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT chemistry calculation questions are at GCSE standard and are tricky only because of the timing: in under a minute you must read the question, recall the formula, plug in numbers and do rapid mental maths. — 00:00:00
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT chemistry calculations Ali advises knowing the formula for everything that could be asked, such as percentage yield, by heart, so as not to lose seconds recalling it. — 00:00:29
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT mole calculations Ali advises understanding the mole conceptually and intuitively instead of relying on the memorised formula triangle, which is fine with plenty of time but costly at one minute per question. — 00:00:58
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — Ali: In Ali's example a student who knows carbon's Mr is 12 sees at once that 36 grams is three moles, while one using the formula triangle can get confused; the intuitive way saves seconds that add up over Section 2. — 00:01:27
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — Ali says calculations are probably the hardest part of BMAT chemistry; the official Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide covers them, and past students found BMAT Ninja's free explanations helpful in addition. (hedged) — 00:02:26
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — Ali: The numbers in BMAT chemistry questions look scary but are almost always friendly enough to work with in your head, so no calculator or heavy estimating is needed. — 00:02:55
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — announcement: Ali says he will cover mental maths in much more depth in his coming video on the approach to BMAT Section 2 maths. — 00:02:55
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — Ali: In Ali's example, converting 2.74 grams with an Mr of 137 needs no formula: noticing that 137 is half of 274 gives 0.02 moles, or 1/50 for those who think in fractions as he recommends. — 00:03:24
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: When BMAT chemistry numbers are not as simple as 12 grams of carbon or 16 grams of oxygen, Ali says you sometimes have to fall back on the formula. — 00:03:53
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: If a BMAT chemistry calculation needs heavy estimating, Ali advises quickly checking the numbers; if it still takes too long, guess an answer and move on. — 00:04:23
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — announcement: Ali says another video, very soon, will cover the content of BMAT Section 2 maths, which he says is what makes maths the hardest part of Section 2. — video description
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali: The mantra taught on all of Ali's BMAT crash courses for the last five years, which students found enormously helpful, is "fractions are our friends". — 00:00:29
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali: Fractions come up throughout the BMAT, in Section 1 problem solving and Section 2 chemistry, physics and maths; only Section 1 critical thinking, about 17 questions, and the Section 3 writing task have none. — 00:00:29
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: If a BMAT candidate does only one thing before the exam, Ali says improving at fractions will probably give the biggest increase in score. (hedged) — 00:00:58
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: For the BMAT, Ali says to add, subtract, multiply, divide and simplify fractions easily and quickly, and to convert percentages and decimals into fractions, which are usually far easier to work with. — 00:00:58
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: In any BMAT question, Ali advises converting a percentage or decimal to a fraction straight away, within reason, since it will likely be needed in that form later. — 00:01:27
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali urges BMAT candidates to know their times tables up to at least 12 inside out, so that sums such as 7 times 8 or 9 times 6 need no thought. — 00:01:57
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali: People who are best at mental maths tend to do very well in the BMAT, Ali says, because quick calculation saves so much time. — 00:01:57
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali: No calculator is allowed in the BMAT, and almost no questions need long division or long multiplication: they are short, snappy sums done in the head. — 00:02:26
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali: BMAT Section 2 has about 7 maths questions, and maybe 3 or 4 of them cannot be done in one minute by a normal person, Ali says. (hedged) — 00:03:13
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali: Students with 100% at GCSE and AS level or Maths Olympiad gold medals still get low BMAT Section 2 marks, Ali says, partly because they insist on getting the maths questions right. — 00:03:42
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali: When he took the BMAT, and each year when he does Section 2 under timed conditions, Ali guesses any maths question about shapes and leaves it till the end, as he is not good at rotating shapes in his head. — 00:04:11
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali says the aim in BMAT Section 2 is to finish the paper with an answer down for all 27 questions, then come back to skipped ones if there is time. — 00:04:11
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: If a BMAT Section 2 question, especially a maths one, takes over a minute, Ali says to guess, move on and return at the end; better still, spot it in the first 10 seconds and do not attempt it. — 00:04:45
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: Doing many practice questions helps less for BMAT Section 2 maths than for critical thinking, Ali says, as the maths questions are novel each year; practise them under strict time conditions and learn where you went wrong. — 00:05:44
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — announcement: Ali says the next few BMAT Tips videos will cover Section 3. — 00:07:41
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali invites viewers stuck on a BMAT question to comment, and says he will reply with a worked solution as soon as he can. — 00:07:41
2017-08-19 · Tailored suits in Hoi An (Vietnam) - Cambridge Medical Elective #11 — Ali: In a Hoi An coffee shop Ali spends an hour editing a BMAT maths video, which he says BMAT candidates who need help with maths should watch. — 00:00:29
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says the BMAT Section 3 answer sheet is about an A4 page whose top quarter holds name and candidate number, with a border you may not write outside, leaving under three quarters of a side. — 00:00:29
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali advises thinking of BMAT Section 3 as writing three or four paragraphs, all the answer box has room for, which he finds more psychologically manageable than writing an essay. — 00:00:58
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says a BMAT Section 3 essay gets a number out of five, with half marks, for its content, and a letter grade from A to E. — 00:00:58
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says the BMAT Section 3 letter grade is for grammar, spelling and punctuation: most candidates get an A, some a B, very few a C, and a D or E takes real effort to earn. — 00:01:28
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says each BMAT Section 3 essay is marked by two examiners, who tend to be graduate students at Cambridge. — 00:01:28
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says the Admissions Testing Service emails Cambridge students each year inviting them to mark BMAT essays, paying about 18 pounds an hour. (hedged) — 00:01:28
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says the two examiners' BMAT Section 3 marks are averaged, and a large discrepancy, such as a 5A against a 2D, sends the essay to the senior examiner. — 00:01:57
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali calls a 3 in BMAT Section 3 pretty reasonable and a 4 or 5 pretty good; most candidates get an A or B for grammar. — 00:01:57
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali understands that most universities use a BMAT Section 3 cutoff of about 2.5C, so a 3C or above is fine. (hedged) — 00:02:22
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says a 3 in BMAT Section 3 comes from simply answering the question; nice language and well-explained points take an essay to 4 or 5. — 00:02:22
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT Section 3 gives half an hour to write on one of four essay titles. — 00:02:22
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says one BMAT Section 3 title is usually a medical question, such as treating obese people on the NHS, euthanasia or abortion, and another usually a vet question. — 00:02:22
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says the third BMAT Section 3 title is usually a current-affairs topic, such as freedom and liberties or education policy, and the fourth a quote by someone famous such as Nietzsche, Aristotle or Socrates to interpret. — 00:03:09
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says each BMAT Section 3 title has two to four sub-questions: answering all of them almost certainly earns at least 3 out of 5, while missing any caps the mark at 2. — 00:03:30
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali's team recommends spending at least two or three minutes actively choosing the BMAT Section 3 question, rather than rushing in after the time pressure of Section 2. — 00:03:54
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT Section 3 is not very time-pressured: of the half hour, writing in the answer box takes only about 10 to 15 minutes. — 00:04:24
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: To choose a BMAT Section 3 question, Ali advises going through each title, thinking what points you would make for each sub-point, and picking the one you have most to say about. — 00:04:24
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali says choosing an unusual BMAT Section 3 title, such as the quote by Aristotle, earns no favour: examiners do not care which one you answer, so pick the one you can answer best. — 00:05:04
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali calls planning by far the most important part of BMAT Section 3; he spent about 15 minutes planning his own essay. — 00:05:04
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali's team tells candidates to treat the BMAT Section 3 answer sheet as sacred and not touch it until the essay is planned and they know exactly what they will write. — 00:05:33
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT candidates used to be given only one Section 3 answer sheet, so spoiling it was the end; he is not sure whether the rules have changed. (hedged) — 00:05:33
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali's team recommends splitting BMAT Section 3 planning into two parts, the first being a brain dump phase. — 00:05:33
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: In the brain dump phase of a BMAT Section 3 plan, Ali writes as many points as he can for and against and works out his conclusion. — 00:06:10
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali expands some brain-dump points with one or two extra bits of information, such as the NHS budget, which he says can turn maybe a 3 essay into a 4. (hedged) — 00:06:39
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: In the organisation phase, a few minutes long, Ali picks one or two points from each section of a BMAT Section 3 plan, as there is no space for more. — 00:07:01
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali advises writing the BMAT Section 3 answer in really small, really neat handwriting: smaller fits more points, and examiners may not want to or be able to read untidy writing. — 00:08:28
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: Candidates with atrocious handwriting, Ali says, should give themselves more time for writing the BMAT Section 3 essay and a little less for planning. — 00:08:28
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali advises practising timed BMAT Section 3 essays on a printout of the official answer grid, timing how long you take to fill it small and neat, to plan your time for the exam. — 00:08:57
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali timed himself at about 12 to 13 minutes to fill the BMAT Section 3 space in small neat writing, leaving 15 minutes for planning and two for choosing the question. — 00:08:57
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: At the end of BMAT Section 3, Ali suggests checking through the essay, for example that no stray "not" in the conclusion reverses its meaning. — 00:09:35
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali advises avoiding crossings-out, asterisks and arrows on the BMAT Section 3 answer sheet. — 00:10:10
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says a BMAT Section 3 answer cannot continue overleaf, as only the front of the sheet is scanned. — 00:10:10
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: If a BMAT Section 3 essay is about to miss a part the question asks for, such as the conclusion, Ali says to do whatever it takes to get it in. — 00:10:10
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali's one takeaway for BMAT Section 3: answer the question and address every subsection; with reasonable English that gives at least 3 out of 5, over any university's cutoff. — 00:10:39
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: Asked what to read for BMAT Section 3, Ali says it does not matter: most candidates have only a month or two, and essay-writing skills can improve only so much in that time. — 00:11:38
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
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali calls a timed BMAT Section 3 essay every day overkill: two or three timed essays show your timings, and then, if you find Section 3 hard, plan past-paper essays without writing them out. — 00:12:44
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT Section 3, the essay, is in his opinion the easiest part of the BMAT, though many candidates worry about it. — 00:13:13
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says candidates need no essay subject at A-level to write the three or four paragraphs of BMAT Section 3: answering the question and making points clearly gives at least 3 out of 5. — 00:13:41
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — announcement: Ali says another BMAT Tips video, on 30 or 31 August 2017, will cover how to come up with Section 3 points, how in-depth examples must be and whether facts may be made up. (hedged) — 00:14:11
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — announcement: Ali says many more videos are coming in the next few weeks to months on the BMAT, interviews (specifically the Oxbridge interview) and personal statements. — 00:09:32
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — announcement: Ali says more videos of his medicine application series are coming over the next few weeks, mostly about interviews. — 00:08:50
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — announcement: Ali says more videos are coming in the next few weeks on specific parts of medicine interviews, such as answering common questions and Oxbridge interviews. — 00:12:41
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, gives his take on answering "Why medicine?" in medicine interviews, seven tips from medical students and three example answers. — 00:00:00
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — announcement: Ali says a dedicated video of tips for the Oxbridge interview is coming out within the next few days. — 00:00:50
2017-10-21 · Speaking on Live TV - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #10 — Ali: On a Sunday evening Ali heads to London for a live panel TV show for the UK's Bangladeshi community on medicine and university, invited by a Facebook message that morning as the expert speaker on the BMAT. — 00:00:00
2017-10-21 · Speaking on Live TV - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #10 — Ali: In the East London studio, Ali is part of the show's UKCAT and BMAT panel, answering the hosts' questions and phone calls from the audience. — 00:00:36
2017-10-21 · Speaking on Live TV - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #10 — Chris, president of the Imperial College Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Society (as heard), says the panel runs the Bangladeshi British TV show so people without usual access to medicine application information learn about the personal statement, UKCAT, BMAT and interviews. — 00:01:11
2017-10-24 · 6 tips for Medicine MMIs - Multiple Mini Interviews — announcement: Ali says many more videos are coming about medicine interviews and other parts of the medicine application, alongside occasional vlogs about life as a medical student. — 00:03:42
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents tips for the Oxbridge medicine interview from nine medical students. — 00:00:00
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — announcement: Ali says many more videos are coming over the next few weeks on interviews specifically and on the medicine application process. — 00:13:08
2017-11-02 · Clinical School Pantomime audition - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #11 — announcement: Ali says more videos are coming about life as a final-year medical student and about applying to medicine. — 00:05:17
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — announcement: Ali presents tips from eight medical students on answering "What did you learn on your work experience?", mock answers from himself and Kenny, and his own somewhat cynical view of work experience. — 00:01:07
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents 12 tips for applicants who are nervous about their medicine interviews. — 00:00:00
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — announcement: Ali says many more videos are coming about medicine interview preparation and other things, alongside his vlogs about life as a medical student. — 00:10:05
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, answers questions viewers sent in about the Oxford and Cambridge medicine interviews. — 00:00:00
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — announcement: Ali says more videos are coming about general medicine interview topics, alongside vlogs about life as a medical student. — 00:21:59
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, tackles the common medicine interview question "We have 10,000 applicants, why should we take you?" in his series of interview advice videos. — 00:00:00
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — announcement: Ali says more videos about medicine interviews are coming, including medical ethics, and he wants to make an entire interview syllabus. — 00:13:03
2017-12-02 · Ambulance Day - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #15 — announcement: Ali says more vlogs are coming soon, and more videos about the medicine application process. — 00:03:31
2017-12-06 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "What's your biggest weakness?" — announcement: Ali presents tips from six medical students on answering "What's your biggest weakness?" in medicine interviews, and mock answers from himself and his friend Kenny. — 00:00:00
2017-12-06 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "What's your biggest weakness?" — announcement: Ali says more videos about medicine interviews are coming very soon, alongside his vlogs about life as a medical student. — 00:10:01
2017-12-21 · Consent, Capacity and Jehovah's Witnesses - Medical Ethics & Law for interviews — announcement: Ali presents a video on consent, capacity and Jehovah's Witnesses as part of his Medical Ethics for Interview series. — 00:00:00
2017-12-22 · Singing carols in the hospital - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #18 — announcement: Ali tells medicine applicants to look out for the medical ethics videos, which will come out at some point; he is not sure whether they are already out. (hedged) — 00:01:51
2017-12-24 · Finishing finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #20 — Ali: After the exam Ali spends a few hours editing a medical ethics video, which he had neglected during the exams; three hours later, while his friends went bowling, it is still not done. — 00:02:08