Ali says that because he and his SixMed colleagues graduate next year (2018) and may not have time to run the courses, he is slowly putting the interview course content on YouTube.
project history · status: last documented in 2018 (looked back on in 2024) · last event: milestone (2018-05-01) · last mentioned: 2024-05-21
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-29 | milestone | Ali says that because he and his SixMed colleagues graduate next year (2018) and may not have time to run the courses, he is slowly putting the interview course content on YouTube. | Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" 00:13:32 |
| 2018-03-21 | looked back | Ali says he got into medical education to make some money: in his first year at university he ran a BMAT course for students at his school, then built a website for the BMAT Crash Course and marketed it nationally, and it grew beyond what he imagined. | Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! 00:06:05 |
| 2018-05-01 | setback | Ali says SixMed made him a reasonable amount in the past but is declining: the Medic Portal advertises everywhere and has the private schools, new companies charge £20 a course, and at SixMed's size VAT and corporation tax rule such prices out. | First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A 00:22:34 |
| 2018-05-01 | milestone | Ali is about to run Google AdWords ads for SixMed's BMAT and UKCAT courses the next day (2 May 2018) to try to beat the Medic Portal. | First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A 00:44:29 |
| 2018-05-07 | looked back | Another reason for starting YouTube was driving traffic to SixMed, which Ali had run for about four years and was bored of; he wanted to do medical education, and few doctors were on YouTube. | Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student 00:53:42 |
| 2024-05-21 | looked back | Ali says that from 2014 to about 2019 he made around £150,000 a year from SixMed's classroom courses. | A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses 00:03:26 |
What is said about it
14 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali is a fifth-year medical student at Cambridge University and co-founder of SixMed, a small company running courses for medical school applicants; he has taught its BMAT Crash Course for five years. — 00:00:00
- 2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali Abdaal (channel): SixMed's BMAT Crash Course is a classroom course that has run for five years in the UK, Amsterdam, Singapore and Hong Kong. — video description
- 2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Every year SixMed's courses tell students how important Section 2 timing is, and every year students email to say they ran out of time and left five questions blank. — 00:01:25
- 2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Each year on SixMed's courses students tell Ali they hate physics and will skip all seven physics questions, reckoning 20 out of 27 still gives about a six on the BMAT. — 00:00:29
- 2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — Ali says he has been teaching interview courses for the last five years with his company SixMed, the Interview Crash Course. — 00:13:03
- 2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali says the Medic Portal pays about £3 a click on Google searches for BMAT Crash Course, the name of the BMAT course he made five years ago, and calls its own course BMAT Crash Course. — 00:45:00
- 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Charlotte is coming over for a takeaway in a couple of hours, and she and Ali will discuss SixMed matters. — 00:12:31
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: In 2012 Ali ran his first BMAT course for about seven friends from the year below at his school, beaming a PowerPoint to the TV in his living room, and made perhaps £300. (hedged) — 00:02:46
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: In 2013, when he started medical school, Ali decided to go big with the BMAT course: he built a proper website and started marketing it nationally. — 00:02:46
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali says the BMAT courses made around £6,000 in 2013, teaching about 150 students across five courses. (hedged) — 00:03:26
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: On one final day SixMed taught a lecture theatre of 150 students and made about £10,000 in a day. — 00:03:26
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: In the month of summer holidays between graduating in 2018 and starting work as a doctor, Ali filmed the BMAT Crash Course as an online course and hosted it on Podia. — 00:04:06
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali says the online BMAT Crash Course made a few tens of thousands of pounds in its first year, 2018. — 00:04:52
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: The following year Ali partnered with his friend Akib on a UKCAT course, and the year after he filmed the Interview Crash Course for medical school interviews. — 00:04:52