Ali gives a talk at Cambridge University about how to study for exams (2015)
story · status: told 2× · last event: told (2019-11-26) · owner: Ali
Origin known from later mentions
2015 in the title is when this began; it first appears in the videos read here in 2018, so the earlier part is known only from what is said later.
Told alongside: Ali memorises about 50 essay plans for his third-year psychology exams with spider diagrams (2015)
About: University of Cambridge, active recall, spaced repetition
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-04 | told | Ali gave a talk on evidence-based revision about three years earlier, as a third-year student. | How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips 00:18:06 |
| 2019-11-26 (happened 2015) | told | In 2015, while studying psychology in his third year and reading up on evidence-based study tips, Ali gave a talk at the university about how to study for exams. · also in: How to Study for Exams - An Evidence-Based Masterclass | How my friend ranked 1st at Medical School - The Active Recall Framework 00:19:11 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: After Ali's talk, a first-year medic friend revised only by answering the hundred-odd questions he wrote on the first-year syllabus, and came second in his year. — 00:18:35
- 2019-11-26 · How my friend ranked 1st at Medical School - The Active Recall Framework — Ali: Planned for about five people in the Islamic Society prayer room, Ali's 2015 study talk went out as a Facebook event that about 20,000 people viewed; a hundred-odd came and the venue moved to a college. (hedged) — 00:19:51 · also in: How to Study for Exams - An Evidence-Based Masterclass
- 2019-11-26 · How my friend ranked 1st at Medical School - The Active Recall Framework — Ali: After hearing Ali's 2015 talk, Osaid, who had kept up with his essays and lectures without much other work, spent the two months before the Easter-term exams making questions and answering them. — 00:20:20
- 2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says the more brain power it takes to recall a fact, the stronger the memory connection seems to get. (hedged) — 00:18:35
- 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
- 2019-11-26 · How my friend ranked 1st at Medical School - The Active Recall Framework — Ali suspects that if Osaid had used the questions method from day one over the whole year, it would have been even more efficient and taken even less study time. (speculative) — 00:20:20