All statements about spaced repetition

66 statements about spaced repetition in 15 sources, by upload date.

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2018

2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — Ali: For his essay-based psychology exams Ali predicted about 50 possible essay titles from the lecture notes and subjects, made an essay plan with about seven references for each, and memorised all of them by drawing spider diagrams over and over. — 00:07:46
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — Ali says he has no photographic memory: his exam results came from the spider-diagram method and spaced repetition. — 00:08:45
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — Ali says studies show people forget at an exponential rate: most of what is revised today is gone by tomorrow, but each revisit makes it last longer, and a revisit a week later may hold for about a month. (hedged) — 00:09:14
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — recommendation: Ali recommends spaced repetition: he kept a spreadsheet of his topics and revisited each the next day, a week later and a month later, starting about three months before his exams. — 00:09:14
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — Ali calls active recall the second key study technique after spaced repetition: testing yourself in a low-stakes way, outside the exam, by consistently asking yourself questions. — 00:12:01
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
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — announcement: Ali says his next video in the evidence-based revision series will be about spaced repetition. — 00:13:24
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
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: 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
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: 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. — 00:16:38
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali tells students they may keep rereading, highlighting and making notes, but alongside should test themselves more and use spaced repetition. — 00:19:04
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — announcement: Ali says future videos in the series will cover practice testing, spaced repetition and interleaved practice. — 00:19:49
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — announcement: Ali's second video in his evidence-based revision tips series is about spaced repetition and how to apply it to your own study routine. — 00:00:00
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali calls active recall by far the most important way to make studying more efficient, and spaced repetition probably the second most important. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali describes spaced repetition as spreading the revision of a subject over time instead of cramming: crammed material sits in short-term memory and is forgotten within a day or two. — 00:00:58
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says spaced repetition works because of the forgetting curve, known in psychology since the 1800s: over time we forget things at an exponential rate. — 00:01:36
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says spaced repetition lets the brain forget some information so that revising it takes brain power: the harder the brain works to retrieve it, the more strongly it is encoded. — 00:03:27
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali's example schedule for spaced repetition: study a topic today, then tomorrow, three days later, a week later and a month later, ideally by active recall rather than rereading. — 00:03:51
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali describes a 2011 study of students learning Swahili words: those who spaced their repeated recall of each word within one session scored up to 80%, about 50% more than those who repeated recall at once with the same work. — 00:05:48
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali recommends spacing recall within the same day: after topics one and two, test yourself on topic one, about two hours later, before starting topic three. — 00:07:04
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says he applied active recall and spaced repetition rigorously only in his second and third years at university, the two years he did really well in his Cambridge exams; in other years he drifted back to rereading and highlighting. — 00:08:37
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says his tips for applying spaced repetition rest on his own one-person experience, not a scientific study: viewers should try them and keep them if they work. — 00:09:09
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali: For flashcards, Ali personally prefers the app Anki. — 00:09:09
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali's mindset shift from spaced repetition: practise a little each day for a long time and you get really good at something; ten minutes a day for a week beats an hour or two at the weekend, as anyone learning an instrument knows. — 00:10:07
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali has applied little-each-day spaced practice to piano, guitar, graphic design, web design, video editing and coding alongside his academic work, and finds it gives much more improvement per unit of time. — 00:10:36
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali used his spaced repetition spreadsheet in his second and third years and did really well in his exams; he is using it in his final year and hopes to do well again. (hedged) — 00:11:35
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: In Ali's spaced repetition spreadsheet each subject gets its own sheet (biology, chemistry, physics at A-level; anatomy, physiology, pathology in medicine), with every topic of the subject listed down column A. — 00:12:10
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: Each time Ali studies a topic and actively recalls it, he writes that day's date in the next column of the topic's row of his spreadsheet, building up a record of repetitions. — 00:13:57
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: When Ali used to make revision timetables he repeated topics he didn't need to and gave too little time to ones he did, so he came to see revision as a fluid process. — 00:21:41
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali used to make revision timetables, but these days he never makes one: he uses his spreadsheet and decides each day what needs working on and what will make his brain work hardest. — 00:22:47
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — Ali's problem with flashcards is that you can do them for a while, but they get really boring really quickly. — 00:01:27
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — Ali thinks his recall of the abdominal exam viva questions improved because he waited a few hours before going over them. — 00:04:22
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — recommendation: Ali plans to go over the abdominal exam questions again the next day and again the next week, as spaced repetition. — 00:04:52
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali says it is better to study consistently than to do 10 hours one day and nothing for two, because spaced repetition works on consistency; two to four efficient hours a day is fine. — 00:06:53
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — announcement: Ali says the next day's video (13 April 2018) will answer viewers' questions on specific study techniques, such as active recall, spaced repetition, flashcards and how to learn material in the first place. — 00:16:22
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: Once he can explain a topic, Ali writes questions for himself, such as the causes of hypothyroidism, and answers them again later with spaced repetition. — 00:02:41
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali: Answering students who asked on Instagram for last-minute tips a month before their exams, Ali says a month is not last minute but plenty of time. — 00:06:56
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali: In his third year Ali started his spaced repetition system about five and a half weeks before the exam. — 00:06:56
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
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: 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
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: 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
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — Ali likes revision days to be fairly chill: a leisurely pace with bursts of active recall and spaced repetition, without being overly concerned with 100% productivity. — 00:00:00
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — recommendation: Ali: Having no revision timetable, Ali chooses each day's topic by asking which topic he would be least comfortable with if the exam were later that day. — 00:00:58
2018-04-18 · Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31 — Ali's revision day came to just under four hours, which he thinks were productive because they were built mostly around active recall and spaced repetition. — 00:07:23
2018-04-24 · Study with Me + Revision tips from friends - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #32 — recommendation: Ali: To choose what to revise next, Ali and Jake ask what they would be least happy about if the exam were tomorrow, and find it is the eyes. — 00:04:57
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
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali says that with no work done at all, two weeks of revision probably cannot get you top GCSE grades. (hedged) — 00:08:13
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali: Asked whether there is still time to do 50 psychology essays in two weeks, Ali says probably not: cut them down and focus on what is important. (hedged) — 00:14:31
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali's tip for the night before an exam: go over everything once, then sleep. — 00:15:34
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali made too many Anki cards in his first year; now he makes them only for the things he really struggles to remember. — 00:16:01
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: Two weeks before an exam, Ali advises focusing on exam technique, because two weeks is not long enough to gain much knowledge. — 00:18:02
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali's tips for getting a grade 9 at GCSE: spaced repetition and active recall. — 00:29:16
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says active recall and spaced repetition are by far the biggest things you can do to make revision more efficient, so viewers should learn them before any other tip. — 00:00:29
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
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says medicine is not conceptually hard, only a lot of content that you memorise with spaced repetition and active recall; maths or engineering are arguably harder, so medics should drop the "medicine is so hard" narrative. — 00:14:05
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali loves pre-made notes but not pre-made flashcards, because making a flashcard is what makes you think. — 00:20:03
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali: Asked how he plans spaced repetition, Ali says he does not really plan it: he does it fairly ad hoc. — 00:06:37
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
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali finds flashcards semi-useful: he prefers understanding a topic and explaining it to a friend. — 00:40:41
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: With an exam in two days and little revision, Ali would find past papers, work out what will be asked and tackle his weakest topics first, asking what he would least like to face tomorrow. — 00:42:25
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali advises against late-nighters: he is not a fan of them. — 00:45:07
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali thinks active recall can be applied to memorising Chinese characters: friends of his learn them with Anki, which is exactly active recall. — 00:56:02
2018-05-21 · Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34 — Ali: After reviewing a topic, Ali writes questions on it into his active recall spreadsheet to review after lunch, for active recall and spaced repetition. — 00:01:27
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: For using active recall in medicine, Ali recommends Anki. — 00:04:35
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — Ali calls categorisation a magical technique and, after spaced repetition and active recall, probably the third most important exam technique: categorise anything you can, whenever you can. (hedged) — 00:01:13

2017

2017-12-23 · Procrastinating before finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #19 — Ali: Looking back, Ali thinks doing little work in the days before his finals was fine: after three-plus years of preparing in clinical school, working flat out for the last two or three days would not have made any difference. — 00:00:21