Make It Stick
book · in 10 sources (2018–2020)
Sources by year: 2018: 5 · 2019: 3 · 2020: 2
Often together
What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.
active recall (11) · interleaving (3) · spaced repetition (8) · Kindle (2)
What the videos say
The most important statements of each year; all statements.
2020
- 2020-02-28 · My Favourite Note-Taking App for Students - Notion — Ali cites Make It Stick, a book on the science of effective learning, whose authors, having studied hundreds of thousands of students, say that if you are not getting the results you want, you are probably not testing yourself enough. — 00:11:36
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2019
- 2019-01-31 · How to Study for Exams with Google Sheets — recommendation: Ali recommends the book Make It Stick to learn more about active recall, spaced repetition, elaborative encoding and interleaved practice. — 00:11:04
- 2019-06-16 · How to Study for Exams - The STic Framework for Effective Learning — Ali says David Epstein, author of The Sports Gene, looked at the evidence on learning for exams and sport and concludes, like the authors of Make It Stick, that spacing, testing and interleaving are the real game changers. — 00:00:58
- 2019-11-26 · How my friend ranked 1st at Medical School - The Active Recall Framework — recommendation: Ali recommends the book Make It Stick on how to learn effectively, and his friend Thomas Frank's videos. — 00:05:40
2018
- 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
- 2018-04-14 · 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
- 2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — recommendation: Ali: To prepare for medical school, Ali advises only learning study techniques from his videos and from books such as Make It Stick and Tony Buzan's or Harry Lorayne's books on memory, since the hard part of medical school is the sheer volume of content. — 00:14:37
- Ali calls getting good at effective study techniques, such as active recall, spaced repetition and categorisation, as found in his videos and in Make It Stick, the single biggest thing that will help in medical school. — 01:06:47
- 2018-12-08 · Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A — Ali calls poring over textbooks, highlighting and summarising terribly bad study techniques, and points to the book Make It Stick on the efficient ones. — 00:18:40
- To keep up at medical school Ali advises reading Make It Stick and his videos on study techniques: the content is not conceptually difficult, only a matter of efficiently remembering and understanding it. — 00:22:16
- 2018-12-22 · Study Tips - How to learn new content — Ali's main takeaway: active recall is not only for revising but is also the best way of learning, as the research and the authors of Make It Stick recommend. — 00:04:14
- Young (quoted): The medical student in Make It Stick says quizzing yourself while reading is uncomfortable and slower at first, but you have to trust the process; trusting it was his biggest hurdle. — 00:07:02
- Ali reads from Make It Stick the story of Young, a medical student without a basic science background who, after switching from rereading to retrieval practice, rose from the bottom of his class of 200 to the high performers by his second year. — 00:07:02
- Ali recommends the book Make It Stick to every student because it explores the evidence behind effective study techniques in an engaging format. — 00:10:21