My study technique: I (unintentionally, but if works) make my notes as chaotic and illegible as possible, which motivates me to just remember that shit so that I don't have to revisit them.
do u create this tests by yourselves on the specific topics if theres no provided quiz available? how much do u include in the quiz? everything of the material?
@@sadmansalim1705 a little late, but if you’re using a textbook, there’s often a section with practice problems. Just run through those in order to test your understanding
Do all medical students have good videography and editing skills? Lol great video Zach 👍keep up the videos, looking forward to your videos through out school
@@jksbottommole8463 I think they approach video making the same way the same way they approach everything in their life especially from studying details in the med field.
I find highlighting only to be helpful when I first read about a topic - it keeps me focused on the reading. Afterwards, I write condensed summaries based on what I highlighted and then use those summaries for active recall. Finally, I do practice questions and add any corrections/observations I need to my summary doc.
I study in this exact manner! And i knoe if i need to revisit the content a few months or years later, i have a reference, which are the summarised notes
i'm on med school and i use those anki flash cards. Guys, the point is that you have to cut in little pieces that big theme you have. That means you"ll have a lot of flashcards about just one theme, but in the end, you learned it. In the beginning it might look kind of messy but with the time you'll be abble to relation the different subjects you have. Hope you guys find your way to increase studying ☺️
Tbh, medical books are full of information that are not going to be questioned in exam, so you gotta save time the second time from skimming thru the pages and just memorize the info you are going to be asked. But yeah, I get the joke
I remember having friends in high school who also color-coded their notes. I, too, always wanted such colorful notes in hopes of helping me retain information better but of course, implementing this method into my own studies were of no avail.
i used to do this and it helped a little but the thing was that is too sooooooo long. I would spend hours writing color-coded notes that by the end of the chapter i just started rushing through it and didnt remember anything that i wrote
Well, I reread to active recall the concepts. Since I was a kid, I used to study once, understand how it is and then look at the book again and would try to recall without actually looking at the book. So that's how it has been. And whenever I write exams I could completely see the whole paper in my mind where the answer to that question lies. And that's how I got good grades in school. But now in college not anymore, I don't think I'm reading like I used to. I just mugg up the concepts the day before and write the exams.
Can’t wait for the flashcards video! It takes me FOREVER just to make these and I wonder what content is most essential to make them on (key terms, chapter questions, objectives answered, making my own questions, etc).
Here are my tips for learning chemistry ( I am a chemist myself): - try to understand the concepts as thoroughly as you can -if you can get your hands on old exams, do them - find a study group were you can discuss questions
I think that summarizing thru mind mapping might help as well, especially if I feel that I still confuse on the topic that I learned. Mind mapping helps to reconstruct idea better. Active recall and practice testing are really great as retention practice or reinforcement, mostly done after understanding the topic. So yeah it just from my own experience as student and teacher.
I think the video is really relevant to subjects that require heavy memorization. Anatomy and physiology and pharmacology being two of the named subject is really telling! Not that how-and-why knowledge is not necessary for either of them, but you need to memorize a great deal of information to even begin to develop that. There are so many more subjects where how-and-why comes first and you memorize from that. I also think in the video, summarizing tends to refer to writing out a summary of wide swaths of the material, possibly directly out of the book. But active recall in non-memorization subjects are going to involve different forms of summarizing.
for concepts like law, economy, I use a personalized map after reading 1 time the whole text, then I do active recalling (not with flashcards" but titles, and then test myself asking the same thing my teacher would. For maths and accounting I do active recalling and redo the exercises or assignments and see if i got them right without looking at the corrections while for languages i read out loud to practice better and reelaborate the text with my own words, so that I can avoid mistakes and i also learn how to write the words.
also when im tired, i record myself speaking out loud once about all the topics and then just listen to it in loop while i do other things like groceries, skin care, eating etc
I cant belive you have only 7k subs I'm from Poland and I study law I'm sure with these technics i will improve my grades. Your videos are top quality and I'm sure people will come to your canal in future now I'm going to show this and more your videos to my gf who study dentistry all students sholud see it!
My question is always: how to i study using active recall if i cant make notes/summaries to study from? Because in the beginning when your still studying you’re gonna forget, i cant go back to 30 lectures and 3 different text books searching for that one fact. Where as if i had condensed notes it’s really easy to have all the important information distilled in a note book right in front of you. Do you have any tips?
What I do is after finishing the topic, I create a mind map summarising the whole topic (and using hiliighters) and that's the first thing I do. I tend to have topic exams and then final exams and it's just easier in finals to read 2 pages than 20. I look at it for a few minutes, just to get an idea of everything and then I go straight onto flashcards. Remember all the facts, dates and everything you need to know and finally it's exam questions. I normally do exam questions the most. Overall time - Mind map (30 mins to make, 10 mins to review) Flashcards (10 mins to make, 40 mins to review) Exam questions (around 3 hours) Summarising isn't bad especially if you have a series of exams and as a visual learner, hiliighters really help me focus but DON'T spent an hour on them. Hope this helps ☺️
Don’t write notes during lectures, only listen and focus. ( I make small notes on lecture slides 2-3 words ) immediately after the lecture I create flash cards and review them on the same day.
Zach uses Anki instead of taking notes. So let’s say the fact you want to learn is that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. He’d make a flash card that says Q: “what is the powerhouse of the cell?” A: “mitochondria” Anki has a search option so if you want to go back and look up what the powerhouse of the cell is you can easily do that
Since I do law, I find taking notes is a necessity as I need the information in one place. Someone studying medicine would need to memorise, someone studying law needs to understand first.
I am just going to tell my experience.I usually make effective notes but i don't "summarise",what i do is i put all the facts in the text books and everything additionally learned from the lectures and how i like to explain the concepts in my own words into one place.This are my notes.So i then study all this.After all that,i start doing the active recalling method.I personally don't work with flashcards.I just look at my notes,i take a topic and remind myself about everything i remember about the topic and stuff like that. BUT THE THING IS EVERYONE'S SUBJECTS ARE DIFFERENT AND EVERYONE'S BRAINS WORK DIFFERENT,SO THIS MIGHT WORK FOR SOME AND NOT FOR SOME.IF YOU ARE ALREADY USING YOUR OWN TECHNIQUES AND IT HAS PROVEN TO BE EFFECTIVE,I THINK YOU SHOULD FOLLOW YOUR METHODS,SPECIALLY IF U LACK TIME TO ADAPT TO A NEW METHOD
I feel highlighters has worked wonders in my case cause I tend to remember the colour coded words way better. I barely studied during medical school and still did well and I owe it especially to the highlighters. Also, I used highlighters extensively.
I am a 3rd year medical student and to be honest my exam scores were not as good as I expected. Therefore I was finding a new way to change my studying method and I found this video. I am trying to apply this new method to improve myself and I hope this would be a game changer for me. Thank you so much for this video 😊😊
This is very effective for taking tests. In Serbia, at medical school, our grades are almost 100 % oral exams. You have to know so much and understand everything. The best study method is teaching the subject to someone or yourself.
I unknowingly have been using this method and it worked for me but I had no idea what was working and why I was able to retain some information so fast. Thank you
Now I think I understand how I almost always scored better - not the best (i was a lazy student) than my friends who had crazy amounts of highlights on their notes and spend a whole day reading textbooks. I did flashcards before and just to share I've never studied in a library in my life for the reason that I'm a noisy studier, coz I can't understand anything just by silent reading I actually have to talk and explain the topic to myself as if I'm explaining to a friend to better understand. Wow I never knew such articles existed. Will definitely try everything you've said!!
You touched on all the points that people rarely talk about that make it harder for students to study and score well. Like your friends highlighted textbooks and wanting to study like how your friends do. I felt like this in undergrad and became insecure about my studying techniques that it made my scores worse. Now I’m in nursing school and am so happy you’re making these videos because I will forever watch them. Good luck on your USMLE exams!!
U have enabled me to consolidate what Dr Jubbal teaches about this. He confused me on how he actively recalls things. I’m a 28 y/o premed and will be applying this to gen chem this coming semester. Bet I’ll score way higher now than I did before
I use active recall most of the time, but i mash it with rereading. I reread/ read aloud my notes, then look away and try to repeat it while saying out loud
Active recall is definitely the most effektive and most fun way to learn. But i still use summerizing and highlighting. I dont think that this is a waste of time, because it actually saves me a lot of time to make my fleshcards. I need to understand first what ive learned so I summerize and put it into my own words. Then I highlight whats most important, and make my fleshcards out of it. Ive done fleshcards without these methods and i recognized that 1. It takes me a lot longer to formulate a question for my fleshcard 2. When i review them i have to reread that fleshcard several times to actually get it right. When i use summerizing and highlighting Im much faster in making the fleshcards and in 80 percent of the time i answer it right at the first try.
These methods are so difficult, I don't understand how you find so much time and effort 🥺🥺🥺 but I'll try to follow you advice. I hope I'll succeed in it
Just found your channel as I am currently studying for my boards...I really appreciate how you use actual literature and cite the evidence you're referencing! Can't wait to keep watching!
Just subscribed, i am from Cameroon. This is beautiful. My mum always taught me to quizz myself- active recall and test myself always . But i also think i always need a minor summary cause i cannot always go back to a textbook or notes for just one fact.
(something that works for me) when I do revision, I do summarize the chapter(I make kind of a timeline of topics or make mind map) that I'm about to revise to see how much I remember (kind of active recall?) and then I do practice questions. when I read a chapter for the first time (not revision) while reading the chapter I make a toggle list page on notion and write down my doubt questions and answer them when I'm finished reading the chapter or a large chunk of the chapter.
then explain how my friends get a 4gpa in med school by just rereading. you gotta do what works best for you. for me its understanding highlighting rereading and then active recall using questions. by directly jumping onto practice qustions you would def retain whats asked in the question but switch the question up a bit and you're screwed
Besides all the helpful tips, you should be very proud of your jade plant by the window. It indicates to me that you have an inborn appreciation of aesthetic forms and that you care about the natural world. (I have 8 jade plants but they are less than half the size of yours.) I also noticed Austin Kleon's smart little book, a wonderful source of creative advice. // As for highlighting: I have a big problem with the self-important idiots who highlight books from the public library.
I try to simplify my subject matter and convert it into a summary that I fully understand and I learn my summary by looking very briefly at my summary and then writing down all my thoughts around it without looking at the rest and then seeing how much I knew about the subject matter. But thanks for the great tips!!
Love your videos! I'm really just rewatching a bunch of them before studying just because it motivates me haha You know the funny thing is that I've always been doing practice questions my whole school life basically When I was in elementary school and in middle school my mom would tell me "after you finish studying I will write you questions to see if you really studied well" And If that doesn't freek me out I don't know what does 😂 so I would study hard abd ask my self all the questions that I think my mom would ask and later get most of her questions right thus the exam questions
Kind of confused of the practise testing. Like a model paper that your write during exams?or like small MCQs Active Recall via Anki , Already downloading Anking to check it out! 1st yr struggling to survive here 🥲 . p.s Hope you guys have the greatest productivity from now on!
I know how to study, it's just taking notes is a bitch I use the cornell notes method. But instead of just writing keys terms on the left. For each new concept I ask a question on the left and the answer on the right.
Well, first you need to read the content xd, I high light the books, I do summary’s, I do not reread it takes to much time, and not To brag but I was( and I’m) one of the best students in the university, now I am in my one year of radiology residency , and I got in in the first try, enter in the first place of the hospital that I choose ( a really good one) so I agree and disagree,, I think that it’s really good do testing all the time to see how much you improve, but first you need to have the information in your head and for that you hace to read and not all of the book it’s important for that I have to summary information, that’s my opinion, it works for me, I’ve never gone an active recall or flash cards, I’m gonna give it a try to see how much I improve :) thanks for the video and your editing it’s amazing
He didn't say those methods don't. Work but said they are of low productivity and can't be used constantly to produce the best results Bcs these are the methods which take in much time and effort to use but since most people don't want to put in the time they prefer the traditional way of doings things So in all it depends on you and which u prefer Traditional methods can still be used to score high Modern methods can be used to score better Thank Zach
Hey Zack, I am really impressed they way you represented the effective way of reading. Ofcourse people have different technique but the most important thing is to find something that works for you. For me , I study Pharmacy. I am observed many different methods of reading but they were all ok but my grade didnt goes up. I used to reread note and spent alot of time to make very effective and efficient note. That looses alot of time. Secondly i tried to make test practice in very short time and definitely my grade improved. Then I made a new stratigic which :- 1. Reading books and make good revision note. 2. Test practice 3. Active recall That was my experience😊 thank you very much for giving us those golden tips.
But, do you create the flashcards one by one or you just download them and they come ready to you or both? And if you create some cards, how do you do this if you don't summarize the content? This is what I don't get. Because it's only possible to skip summarizing and higlighting (a faster way to summarize than writing) if you don't have to create all the cards, right? Because the complete process if you had to make all your cards would be: 1. Read and highlight to create a summarized text. (I highlight so that the higlighted text becomes the summary.) 2. Create flash cards on the summarized texts, turning all your study material into flashcards. 3. Review the flash cards in a spaced repetition system. 4. Do practice testing while you keep reviewing the flashcards.
Highlighting, rereading and summarizing are my things when I study, it's ineffective for me. Although I spent more time studying, my scores on exams and quizzes are low
I think it’s what works for you , almost all researchers say this might not work for everyone as they take it as a majority , so if annotating your lecture notes and summarising helps you do it . The only I would tell you to definitely not do is re-reading because your brain can’t take that much info in your brain cause your brain has a limited space - highlighting and summaries helps make the info little so it’s easier for your brain to remember . Just saying I do not hate you or this is not hate towards anyone , he is just saying what works for him so yeah, bye have a good day / night .
If medical school is just to get the paper get the best scores then take his advise If to have knowlege is only from the lectures text reading then when you can sumerise all this then all thoese apps as a reinforcement not as a replacement maybe less socializing except for learning 30 minutes exercises every other day It can be done
First the tradional method lectures in the university Hybrid,asychronis,synchronis in person best (must be there)read the text do assignments on time is the best way.I did this in school before computers and now after furlough premed.I know enough to teach the subject.The tests will be based on the class material not some outside you tube the professor did not post on your student portal.Of coure once finished the studying then try all that other stuff .This is icing on the cake these extra methods.
First of all, thank you SO much for all these wonderful videos you’ve been making! As a first year med student I’m finding the tips you’ve given very effective, and I especially love Anki! I’ll have to admit though that I can’t feel assured that I’ve covered the required without rereading. I’m doing okay in most parts.. I’m just finding it a bit difficult with Physiology - anki doesn’t seem to work, most is understanding but there’s also memorization.. questions available are limited. Is there specific advice I could find helpful?
I have a question , can somebody help me with it , so lot of people say highlighting and rereading is ineffective but should I not read the information beforehand to do practise questions . It's hard to answer practise papers without even reading the relevant topic . But my questions is shouldn't I not read the information beforehand doing practise paper ? Is it useless to do so ?
