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2018

2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — announcement: Ali and two friends answer questions on revision and study tips that viewers sent in on Instagram; about 150 viewers sent messages and they filmed answers to about 25 questions. — 00:00:00
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says everyone has days when they cannot be bothered: that day he, Paul and Katherine did about three hours of OSCE preparation in the afternoon and nothing in the morning. — 00:07:22
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Paul's idea of "save the day": however late it gets, you can still save an unproductive day by putting in some work before bed. — 00:07:22
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Paul: On an exam morning Paul wakes up, has a coffee, clears his mind, tries to get to the exam venue early and walks around before going in. — 00:15:03
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Katherine: For students nervous about exams, Katherine recommends Paul's approach: a really calm morning, reminding yourself how much work you have done. — 00:15:53
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Paul's mother used to take him and his siblings to the park to play on the evening before an exam, which took their minds off it and defused the stress. — 00:15:53
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali's two friends in his revision Q&A series, Paul and Katherine, are fellow medical students at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. — video description
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Paul advises trying questions, maths questions especially, before reading the answer: don't be afraid to crash and burn, then look at the answer. — 00:03:45
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 — Paul says that even from a selfish point of view, the morale of studying with friends outweighs the tiny advantage over a few friends among thousands taking the exam. — 00:06:23
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says he learned the phrase "scoping your subject" from Paul. — 00:07:55
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Paul: To scope a subject, Paul says, face the mountain of work and write down everything you need to do, then split it into manageable chunks, instead of drifting through the month out of fear. — 00:08:24
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Paul sees making notes as part of processing and understanding: if you are struggling with a topic, making notes can really help. — 00:14:07
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says Paul does not use any flashcards. — 00:16:38
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 — Ali jokes that Paul is very old: he is from Singapore and spent three years in the army. (playful) — 00:17:26
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
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says Paul is a Cambridge supervisor who marks students' essays. — 00:20:33
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Paul, who marks essays, says that by the fourth essay they all blur into one, so the introduction should catch the marker and outline the argument: from it a marker can tell whether it will get a first, a 2:1 or a 2:2. — 00:20:33
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Paul: For maths past papers Paul advises attempting each question even if you think you can't, then working out why you failed; worked solutions help more than answers, as maths is about practice. — 00:22:16
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Paul thinks handwriting is worth 3 to 5% in Cambridge Tripos essays; the introduction, the conclusion and how an essay looks all really matter. (hedged) — 00:22:49
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — announcement: Ali sums up the video as him, Paul and Katherine answering 10 viewer questions about specific study techniques. — 00:23:37
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — Ali: In the afternoon Ali and his friends Paul and Alex go over the thyroid, acromegaly and Cushing's examinations. — 00:03:20
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — recommendation: Ali's fifth tip: in any work session with friends at least one person must take the initiative and say what the group is doing, as Paul did; the others will follow. — 00:03:20
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali advises asking a friend like Paul, or students in the years above from your college or societies, for their notes: many are willing to share, so crowdsourcing saves making them. — 00:19:38
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Paul's favourite stationery is Pilot G207 (as heard) blue gel pens, which he has used for every exam. — 00:21:30
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali would name his friend Paul as the smartest person he knows, good at the logic of games like Avalon or Mafia, though Callum, Jake, Molly and Katherine are smart too. — 00:29:54
2018-05-28 · Study with Me + How I take notes - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #36 — Ali: Over lunch Ali's group taught Jake and Paul the fitness-for-discharge assessment: Katherine explained it to Jake while Ali, who had made up the story, watched for holes in her knowledge, which helped all three learn. — 00:03:04

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2017

2017-09-26 · Apple picking in the Queen's orchards - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #07 — Ali works on a presentation that he and Paul will give at a psychiatry conference on Friday (29 September 2017). — 00:02:17
2017-09-30 · Cambridge International Mental Health Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #08 — Ali and his fellow students attend and present at the three-day Cambridge International Mental Health Conference, which opens with a drinks reception and dinner in the Great Hall of Clare College. — 00:00:00
2017-09-30 · Cambridge International Mental Health Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #08 — Ali writes that he and his fellow students had a great time over the three days of the Cambridge International Mental Health Conference and won second prize for their presentation. — video description
2017-09-30 · Cambridge International Mental Health Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #08 — Ali writes that the conference organisers dubbed the students' talk "the most amusing presentation of the day", which he calls high praise. — video description
2017-09-30 · Cambridge International Mental Health Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #08 — Paul says the point of the students' paper is to work out whether the Karts (as heard) exercise for bipolar disorder is useful in reducing the risk of relapse. — 00:03:33
2017-09-30 · Cambridge International Mental Health Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #08 — announcement: Ali and his fellow students are invited to give their conference presentation in Poland, and will see if they can find funding to fly there for Christmas 2017. (hedged) — 00:04:08
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — announcement: Ali says Kenny and Paul answer "Why medicine?" off the cuff, without knowing the question was coming; he answers as he would have when applying and would today, with job interviews coming up. — 00:08:24
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — Paul says medicine appeals to him as a challenge: it demands knowledge patients can trust, communication and, in procedural fields, skill with your hands, with excellence in all of them. — 00:11:14
2017-12-22 · Singing carols in the hospital - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #18 — Ali says Paul's notes are absolutely beautiful and that Paul is one of the best medics in his year. — 00:03:52
2017-12-24 · Finishing finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #20 — recommendation: Ali ends the day playing the board game Through the Ages with Katherine and Paul, a game they discovered recently; he calls it amazing and highly recommends it. — 00:03:20

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