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"Documenting my mistakes was probably one of the most helpful revision techniques you can use."
"Quiz and recall...the best way you can study is to quiz yourself."
"The more we shift our focus towards writing questions and answering them, just the better we'll do in our exams."
"One thing I still do when I'm trying to study something really deeply is take handwritten notes."
"Active recall is the quickest, most efficient, and effective way to study written material, at least for factual and problem-solving tests."
"Retaining and documenting information can help you feel like... you have done it, you have learned it, and you can always go back to revise what you have learned later on."
"Space repetition with active recall is a foundational component to achieving stellar results in school."
"Space repetition is going at the top if you are not using space repetition in your own study I'd suggest trying to employ it."
"Rereading, highlighting, and summarizing just don't cut it. Active recall, practice testing are really the best ways you can improve your content retention and score."
"Active recall and practice testing have been shown to be significantly better in regards to improving content retention in less time."
"Know when to stop doing research, know when you understand enough."
"If you take anything from this video I hope that it's the confidence to try something new when it comes to your studying technique..."
"Focus on what you struggle with, not what you already know. That's the key."
"Maximize your learning by mastering the drug endings."
"Remembering key points is crucial in pharmacology."
"Learning how to learn is actually so important and it literally supercharges all of the rest of your time that you spend studying."
"Spacing your study over time is highly effective for long-term memory retention."
"Digital notes can be really, really useful when we actually use them to facilitate things like active recall and space repetition."
"Do a fair shake of different prep styles to find what suits you best."
"It's very important to read the explanations of both the right and the wrong answers when you do these tests."
"Start doing spaced repetition... Space out your studying into intervals to help take it from short-term to long-term memory."
"The Pomodoro method is studying for a set amount of time and then taking a break."
"But that's it. Those are eight techniques that I've used consistently in the past two years of medical school."
"There is no line between studying and not studying. There is no off switch. There's just different levels of immersion."
"Blurting method... not only does it help in retention but it also boosts my confidence."
"Active recall is the best study technique there is. Proper utilization took me from a B student to an A student."
"Plan your studying meticulously for maximum effectiveness."
"Use spaced repetition to make active recall stick."
"Spaced repetition and active recall: study smarter, not harder." - Efficient techniques for mastering content.
"The modified Pomodoro Technique... a reward every thirty minutes... ideal learning for retention."
"Act like a teacher... a fun way to keep yourself engaged and improve your attention."
"Designing a study plan that prioritizes breadth before depth in learning and iterating to increase your depth of knowledge over time."
"So do everything you can to make studying less of a pain and more effective. Elaborate on the content as much as you can, connect new concepts to things you already understand or create."
"So when studying, create some mental imagery if you need to remember who the Axis powers were in World War 2. Maybe you imagine Hitler reading manga and eating spaghetti."
"Too much light brings darkness, remember that."
"Active recall, active recall, active recall, active recall, active recall."
"This method of writing questions for ourselves first and only then allowing ourselves to see the notes... the most efficient study technique imaginable."
"Active Recall... when you test yourself and you try and actually actively dredge up information from your memory that act solidifies the connection with that memory way more than for example rereading the thing or trying to take notes on the thing."
"Active recall, however, is a one-size-fits-all solution."
"Incorporate all three learning styles: visual, auditory, and tactile."
"How to take good notes... Handwritten notes only... writing forces you to slow down. Notes should equal what you understand."
"Active revision and spaced repetition is the answer to all of these problems."
"Active recall is much more effective than passive study for building strong memories."
"Every method of revision that you're doing should be helping things go into your brain."
"Be sure to mix things up: writing flashcards, exam questions, talking to friends, and testing your friends."
"...if you've got a limited amount of time before your exam, diving in and using techniques like active recall and specifically using past paper questions and question banks... is the most effective way to learn."
"Making a study guide, active recall, and spaced repetition."
"Taking marginal notes actually helps you conceptualize the information that you're learning in the moment."
"Mark up your text. It will help you remember in the moment and it will help you remember this information and these concepts when you go back to read it a second, third, fourth, fifth time."
"They're called weed-out classes. So all of that combined, I wasn't able to... it was more like I didn't know how to study. I was studying but I just wasn't focusing on the correct things."
"Closed deletion allows us to remember large chunks of information by blocking out small selected parts of that information in a fill-in-the-blank style."
"Other than improving your focus, the Practical techniques that make your studying more effective come from learning to learn efficiently."
"...the benefit of all the steps of this guide and all the study techniques and efficient ways of learning that I mentioned on this channel is that they really focus on maximizing the first initial study session."
"The more you learn about this, the better you will be with Anki and the more efficient your studying will be."
"Kill two birds with one stone and teach you all about the best way to study and to learn based on cognitive psychology."
"The scientific evidence about memorization shows that rather than copying out notes and highlighting you are much better off doing active recall."
"Flashcards are very, very underrated as a study tool."
"Practice testing and distributed practice had high utility and showed greater effectiveness than things like rereading, highlighting, and summarizing."
"It's better to go into the exam knowing 80 or 70 percent of the content really, really well, and the rest somewhat."
"When it comes to note-taking there's two different fronts that you want to tackle: techniques and symbols."
"What we do, what we teach at GMAT Ninja is we like you to have a nice clean repeatable process that maximizes the accuracy of your reading."
"If you go through those steps, those three steps, I can guarantee you you're going to internalize the things you study so much better."
"Practice questions can increase your exam scores more than any other studying technique if used properly."
"Determining your individual learning style and understanding how it applies to you learning new material are the first steps towards becoming a successful student."
"Really good students realize that they have to retrieve memory, and so they do that using flashcards."
"If you don't actually have proper learning and study techniques, then you will struggle a little bit more."
"The essential thing is that I used active recall as opposed to reading over my notes."
"Active recall... always be doing revision techniques which invite you to pull the information out of your brain."
"Active recall was a lot better than just writing out the stuff over and over again."
"This technique is absolutely killer, I really recommend that you give it a go."
"Understanding the blood flow and how to memorize that first is super important."
"Sometimes it's not about the amount of stuff that you study, but more so being intentional with the small few things that you do study."
"This has kind of completely changed the way they prepare for their history exams, which is really, really cool."
"Did you notice how I adapted my note-taking approach based on how the content is delivered and what content is delivered?"
"You will feel so much more prepared by having multiple exposures to the material."
"The most effective way to do it is to learn or review in your own words."
"Teaching is by far one of the best study techniques."
"By revising them together, it cuts the load and also makes it so much easier to understand."
"You may think flashcards are not used for every subject, but they can be because you just have to know how to ask your question in the right way."
"This technique definitely improved my grades and I was definitely less stressed because I was studying less."
"Breaking down the complicated information into the simple spec points that you need for the exam."
"The best way to prepare for the exam is to really go through the old exams and get a sense for what kind of problems and questions you're gonna be asked."
"Highlight the complex phrases and keywords, and you can make these into flashcards."
"The goal here is to add any extra information that we want to onto these notes and then turn them into flashcards so we can make use of active recall."
"Practice problems to be the most effective tool for preparing for difficult exams."
"Read actively and carefully, underline, circle, draw arrows, anything that will help you note those key words in the question."
"Be consistent with your revision. Without consistency, it's going to fail."
"See how I read each question, see how I take notes, see how I annotate those types of things."
"After years of trial and error, I finally developed an exam prep system that helps me succeed in all my exams but also gives me the flexibility to study whenever I actually feel like it."
"If you chunk it up into different segments, your learning is much better."
"By using flashcards, you force yourself to do active recall."
"Collecting all the important information by underlining annotating the text is a useful strategy."
"If you want to be efficient, the things you want to do are active recall, spaced repetition, interleaving, spider diagrams, categorizing."
"Active recall is basically anything where you test your knowledge instead of just passively reading notes and highlighting them."
"Active recall is a study technique that involves actively stimulating memory during the learning process."
"When you're reviewing, what's key is to relate it to your life, something you can relate to, something that actually happens in your life."
"We're going to analyze and practice some methods to assist you in scoring higher in your listening exam."
"If you understand something first and then you try to memorize it, it'll be easier for it to go in your head and it will be easier for you to retain the information."
"I always like to do it in blue with the answers because one time I read that blue makes you remember things more."
"Active recall is seriously going to be your friend."
"Active recall is basically an active study technique where you really try to pull information from your brain rather than try to stuff information back inside your brain."
"Create yourself revision diagrams for memory."
"Then you will know then you've used it as a diagnostic tool to tell you which pieces of the material you need to study more and which pieces you're pretty good on."
"You've got to really intensely focus while you're doing it."
"Active recall... it's the most effective way of studying."