How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University #shorts

2022-11-28 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:54 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Learning and studying · mode: List of tips or lessons · tags: Aimed at students

Ali, saying he ranked first in his year in some Cambridge exams, gives three study tips: scrap revision timetables and revise your weakest subject each day, learn how to learn, and embrace distractions by keeping your door open.

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00:00:00 — Three favourite study tips from ranking first at Cambridge

• ★ Ali says he ranked first in his year in some of his exams at Cambridge University. — 00:00:00 · University of Cambridge
• ★★ Ali's first study tip is to scrap revision timetables, which he calls an exercise in procrastination, and instead each day work out your weakest subject and revise just that one. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Ali's third study tip is to embrace distractions: at university he propped his door open with a doorstop, since university is about more than grades and an open door encourages the serendipity of human interaction. — 00:00:29

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welcome distractions

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