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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
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali says students should scope their subject: spend as long as it takes, even a whole day, listing every topic of the course, since few students know their course inside out. — 00:12:39
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali: To list a subject's topics, Ali looks through past exam papers rather than the specification: you can't really trust the specification, but you can absolutely trust the past papers. — 00:13:28
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
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: Although Ali has said making notes is a waste of time, he thinks making notes by hand in lectures is a useful strategy because it keeps you awake. — 00:02:50
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 — recommendation: Ali calls listing every topic of the syllabus on one page, as a spider diagram or numbered list, the most useful hour you can spend: with 15 topics and a month left, one a day covers each twice. — 00:09:43
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali advises avoiding making your own notes completely if you can. — 00:14:07
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
2018-04-18 · 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 seventh tip is learning by diagrams, such as drawings of an acromegaly man and a Cushing's man: images, colours and position on the page can all cue recall. — 00:04:57
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 — 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: 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: Answering viewers who admire his work ethic, Ali says he is not a productivity machine but likes to work efficiently: he would never spend three hours making notes from a textbook, which looks like productivity but really is not. — 00:06:23
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
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: Before any revision, Ali says, scope your subject: build a broad outline of all the topics of the course and the important subtopics within each. — 00:00:58
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: For each topic Ali asks for its broad skeleton: summarise it in one line, then in five lines, then on a single page, instead of learning the detail of single lectures as he used to. — 00:02:45
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: a guest: To revise a year's work in a month, scope the subject first, then decide what to drop and zoom in on the essential parts that get 80% of the marks. — 00:12:11
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: For the university workload Ali says scope the subject, skip the detail that only matters for coming top of the year, and focus on the bread and butter that gets most of the marks. — 00:13:36
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 — 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 — Ali prefers handwriting notes to typing: typing slips into autopilot, copying out the lecture without taking it in, while handwriting is too slow to do without taking it in. — 00:09:19
2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — recommendation: Ali makes his own notes only when there is no easily accessible summary, to write down mnemonics, which he loves making for lists, and to categorise things. — 00:00:58
2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — Ali says making notes is not inherently productive: at GCSE and A level he felt productive making notes, but now he treats it as probably suboptimal and uses notes actively to learn. — 00:04:52
2018-05-28 · Study with Me + How I take notes - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #36 — recommendation: Ali's first note-making tip: split a topic into numbered lists rather than bullet points, so that when explaining it or thinking it through you can say there are, say, four main things to know. — 00:01:10
2018-05-28 · Study with Me + How I take notes - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #36 — Ali does not really endorse note-taking as a revision strategy in itself but finds it really useful while attending a lecture or watching a video. — 00:05:59
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali takes notes on an iPad with the Apple Pencil because he thinks it combines the advantages of handwritten and typed notes and removes the disadvantages of both. — 00:00:36
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali says there is a lot of evidence that handwriting your notes increases retention compared with typing them up. — 00:00:36
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali: Because handwriting is slow, Ali says, you have to be selective in what you write down, so you distil the lecture and actually use your brain to make the notes. — 00:01:19
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali: Typed notes are accessible and synced, but with a fast typing speed, Ali says, you just transcribe what the lecturer says and take little in. — 00:01:48
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — recommendation: Ali: Ideally, Ali says, students should pre-read the lecture notes or slides to get the broad subheadings and write them at the top of the note, though most, including him, do not. — 00:06:45
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali: Taking notes during a lecture, focused on understanding it and distilling it into pretty notes, engages Ali's brain enough to keep him awake. — 00:07:25
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali: For a small-group session with a seven-page handout, Ali scanned it with the free Scannable phone app, turned it into a PDF, AirDropped it to his iPad and filled it in within Notability. — 00:08:39
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali likes handwriting notes because it encourages him to make more of them; typing things out is quite boring, while boxes and pretty pages make him do it. — 00:12:12
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — Ali says a mistake people sometimes make, and one he used to make, is thinking that the act of making notes puts the material into your brain. — 00:02:11
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — recommendation: Ali advises making a few mnemonics and active links between topics while making notes: they increase the cues available for recall and strengthen the memory, so you are more likely to remember it in an exam. — 00:02:40