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Summary: Threshold concepts - core concepts which, when understood, transform a student's understanding a whole subject; suddenly able to see it in a way that you weren't able to before - provide a barrier to understanding a concept a certain way - different from just difficult concepts (concepts that are hard to wrap your head around) - cause lightbulb moments Learning is recursive and excursive - recursive - certain things make more sense the more you learn it - like puzzle pieces coming together over time - excursive - a journey that allows for deviations - don't have to learn everything the best way the first time - learning is messy and very nonlinear Active learning - way to tap into threshold concepts (games, quizzes, group discussion, etc.) - keeps us engaged about the topic, rather than passive learning (letting the information be absorbed just by reading) 1. Priming; prestudy - ability to look at a piece of information and quickly scan the text first, rather than take it all in at once, and get a framework on how to approach learning the material before we even know what to know - headings, diagrams, important images, etc - simple wireframe on how to big picture comes together - don't get sucked into all the detail; you will lose big picture - will have easier lightbulb moments; faster learning 2. Learning event - takes effort to learn - if not paying attention, the information will just be thrown at you, and you won't retain any of it - ask questions very frequently about what information just came into the brain - some questions are higher yield than others: try to ask "why" and "how" questions, as they relate back to the big picture 3. Revisions - optimal time for first revision is within 12 hours of the learning event - sleep dependent memory consolidation - study before you go to bed so you can "study in your sleep" 4. Technique - extenuate relationships of small details with big picture - take info from lecture and priming and create a mindmap with it - make notes nonverbal (not many words) - make notes reasonably minimal - writing too many notes reduces cognitive load (level of confusion in brain); we want to optimize level of confusion - delayed note taking - keep info in our head, think about it, let confusion set it, ask questions, simplify the info, and write the simplified info down - can skip initial note taking - do simplification in head; trains brain to not rely on writing things down to learn 5. Revision - make sure it is always challenging - use recall (take from memory alone, rather than just recognizing it) - revise in a different way each time - DON'T REREAD NOTES - not challenging; recognition - rewriting notes purely from memory is good; rerepresenting notes with diagrams, mindmaps, etc. is better - teaching is very good - forces you to recall, draw and annotate while you teach, look at big picture to figure out what the best way to teach the topic is - spaced repetition, flashcards, mindmaps, active listening and reading, effective priming
Video Starts at 7:55 Summary : 1. Priming (Almost like pre-studying but not the same) →Skim through the content of your book/lecture notes to get a grasp on the bigger picture. So that connections become easier while learning the contents step-by-step. 2. Event (Something like a lecture happening where you acquire information) →Ask many questions as possible (To yourself or out loud) and also remember, ask more *Why/How come* questions than *What* questions. →Note down the topics you had trouble understanding and make them central while revising. →Delayed Note Taking : Take notes of a subject a few moments after the lecturer talks about it. So that it can create a sort of confusion in your head called Cognitive Load and makes studying much more effective. Make mindmaps!!! →(Extra Personal Tip : Try to navigate through the Bigger picture framework in your head while following throught the lecture) 3. Revision and Consolidation →Revise the contents in 12 hours (after the event) →Make it challenging in a meaningful way. Aka Actively recall content (dont re-read ur notes). Try to make mindmaps (with rlly few words) or TEACH (Its so damn useful bro ngl). Edit : (Bonus Tip from one of the replies) *Association* : As the name suggests, it's basically connecting the new topics you learn, with what you are already familiar with. It will help in visualizing, remembering/memorising easier and will help retain information for a longer duration of time. Revision of associations are very crucial and they must be written down next to the content you are learning so that you don't forget about the associations made and get to revise them every single time you go through them. (Thanks to the dude who added this in the replies-)
Dont know how many people may see this, but this very video of his made me watch all his videos, past streams, and podcasts cause everything he said make sense. Coming into my first semester of uni I finished with a tragic 3.3 gpa (4.0 scale) and realized I had to do better, so I studied mindmaps and put into practice everything he said slowly during my second semester for the first 2 months. During those 2 months, I was implementing new techniques and basically changing up my whole study methods which took so much energy and brain power, but after the struggle it was worth it. Ive definitely gotten better and more familiar with mindmaps and how to think big picture and was able to carry that till the end of my first year. I ended second semester with all A's (3 A+'s) and finished a spring class being top of the class (A+ as well). I cant thank you enough Justin. Gl to those who seek improvement, hang in there and be consistent.
Which streams of his would you recommend going to first? I don't know much about this and I'd like to improve as much as possible before my summer exams. Congratulations on your progress!
@@moustafael-shaboury2659 Hey I dont remember exactly which streams exactly but what I did was take notes for each video/stream I watched of his (not everysingle one) and kinda went through the notes in my head to make sure everything made sense to me. Like for example, ill explain why something he said is the way it is, if I cant that means I don't inherently understand it by myself, let alone apply it to my studying in the future right? SO my biggest tip, is no matter what video u watch just make sure U make the most out of it by taking notes and making sure u know why things are the way it is. If u cant, go back to the vid and relearn it. Basically, understanding an d being able to see those theory and thinking about how it applies to ur studies and situation is more important than just watching a bunch of his videos passively, hope that makes sense, gl on ur journey!!
If a book has questions at the end of a chapter, it is best to read them first before skimming through the chapter as you suggest. Reading the questions first primes you for what is considered important by the author, so that even when just scanning through the chapter for the first time those questions will prime your brain to catch those important points right away.
@@danielstatler954 Once in a lifetime means you only get one chance at making a productive life for yourself instead of, like with the "I'll do it another time" mindset, wasting it.
@@casmar2042 But the real challenge starts after you realise and still don't do it, you feel like shit but then you realise you're not dead yet, because your body has been struggling trying its best to keep you alive even that little fragile mental health is sustained due to his 24/7 commitment for a lifetime, all you have to do is command him and he'll follow. And believe me when you get past this initial stage, things get progressively harder and you love it for the fact you will live your youth actually "living" not comparing your life with others but just living "your" life. There is one and only one , Every happy and miserable one across time has experienced this. "Run, you don't need to place first, there is no such thing, for there is no finish line, you keep running till your death" ---Random guy on the internet, 2023
So in summery, if you can learn right now, do it right now! Correct? Or even more radical? Should I stay up all night to learn, knowing that I only have a few months left for the college entrance exam? I did that and it wasn't good for my health. Plus, I tend to forget most things I learnt after finishing the exams and I want to remember these lessons long term.
Here's a summary: Core questions: - How do you have deep learning? First, what is deep learning? Deep learning is trying to find more creative connections between different concepts. How is important? It allows us to remember the concepts better, increase the enjoyment within the particular subject, and it shows that we understood the material. A way to apply this is through the use of mindmaps, which are sorta like a tree where the leaves are the concepts, the branches are the connections, and the trunk is the core concept. - Understand core concepts What are core concepts? These are concepts, once understood, allow you to view the material in a different light. How are they important? This is basically information that is integral to what you are learning, such as in Calculus the integral concepts would be: Integrals, Derivatives, and Limits and once you understand those, the rest of the subsets of those concepts would be much easier to understand. - So what is the learning process? First, we need to understand that learning is recursive. What is recursive learning? Learning isn't linear which means that you might understand something better by reading a textbook from back to front then front to back. Since the textbook isn't the way that everyone best understands the material, it's how best the person writing it sees the material. Also when you are stuck on a problem, it may help to go back to another problem which different concepts and try and find the connections, because there's a possibility that the connections found from this different concept are the ones that you need to use to solve the current problem.
7：55 principle : Threshold concepts: learning is naturally a recursive process at the beginning but excursive in order a breakthrough. 1.skimming by using mind maps 2.identifying threshold concept to connect everything 3.be inquisitorial to capture the informations by asking why and how 4. set 12 hours gaps before your next revisionto consolidate your memory and u can do so by writting a summary sheet . 5.make it challenging by self testing Pitfall: lengthy notes that cause cognitive loads. re-read your notes as it is not challenging your mind to retain it.
You’re literally the first person that actually has education on this topic and God it’s insane how I can notice it. Thank so much for your advice. I’ve been trying to apply some of this principles and it’s been going great.
Priming. That is why when I miss the first 10 minutes or so of a class on a brand-new topic, I get confused the whole class. This not only shows the importance of this technique, but it also shows how much I rely on this technique while not knowing about it. It makes a lot of sense why priming is fundamental to learning, and it also stunned me how I never thought of this. It happened so many times! While priming is the step I'm good at, the event, revision, revision techniques, and pre-exam revision are all things I really need to work on. I don't actively ask why/how questions in my mind during classes. Most of the time, I just try to understand. I don't do revision, like, at all, let alone revision in 12 hours. The techniques. Sure, I use recall, but I believe there's more. Pre-exam revisions. Who would have known the best way to do that is not recognition but recall?
To add on to delayed note taking, sometimes during on-the-job training, we have to learn a lot about the workplace policies and how to operate their softwares. It can be overwhelming to write everything down. Being in the moment, trying to learn by clicking the buttons and how they work can help grasp the concept by actively learning!
I’m two weeks into training and I don’t think I have been so stressed in years! I hand soo many notes (which adds to my confusion) and I still feel as if I’ve gained absolutely no new information or knowledge for my new job function 😢 on the verge of tears most days. I also work from home so feel like I’m on an island by myself, although I’m not and others in my training class feel the same. Hopefully adding a technique (or more), will help me to grasp this
I am a double degree old guy who always been very interested in learning and the way we learn. I would just like to make some reflections on this. Firstly: I believe that you need to find your own study technique. Mind mapping for example has been help up very high for many decades now. And for some people it might work. But not for me. I wasted time when studying following this technique. I am more a note and drawing kind of person. My mind do not go well together with these large schemas. But my mind really appreciate this big picture view technique you started with. That is essential and somewhat scary (done the right way). That you explore the subject before you start studying. With it comes interesting effects. You are half way through the material and suddenly you start to grasp things you haven't really read because that was things which you stored kind of subconsciously (even though I don't really believe in such a thing...) when doing this overview reading. Justin, keep up the good work!
Priming raises a context for questions so that once the answers come in, they can be hung onto this contextual tree. It avoids mind clutter and helps keep good order in your thoughts from the beginning.
As a long-time college professor, I fully agree, and am constantly excited by Dr Sung’s excellent points and tips- I am enlightened on improving my own teaching. Thank you, Dr Sung!
5 Attributes: 1st: Priming Scan the text, try and find the bigger picture. Usually the big picture is found on the objectives side or main idea points if it's a textbook. 2nd: Become engaged Make sure to ask a lot of questions: ASK A FRICK TON OF QUESTIONS Since we already understood the bigger picture from the 1st step, use why or how questions to make the connections. 3rd: Review or Consolidate Revise the notes, or the information, make sure to do it usually a day after. Which allows you to remember the information better. 4 and 5 Make sure you understand the material and try and learn the material differently which means to apply to concepts to different problems which means that it's going to stick better and shows you have a through grasp of the material.,
But do not force questions too much, unless they are natural the benefit to effort ratio is pretty low. As unnatural questions require a tremendous will power, which makes one burn out soon. Its just what I observed. DON'T take my advice at face value, because everybody has unique composition of mind.
I'm a student whose grade are usually As and Bs, From watching this video I've realized that everything you've said is what I do when studying and learning new stuff, I never noticed it before, i sincerely thought all people learned, studied, analyzed and had the same thought process as me.
I was reading a topic(I'm in med school) and I followed the first 4 steps in this video(the 5th will be anki/practice Qs for me) and the topic might be the easiest I've ever studied! I combined everything in this video with the mind mapping technique in your other video. You've become my favourite study UA-camr in just about a day! Thank you😁
- Priming/conceptualizing the topic as a whole through connective mind mapping - Listen to the lecture mindfully - Summarizing - Application of info (bottom line, when and how to use it) - COMPARISON (similarities and distinctiveness) - Retertival practice (Feynman's) - Practice questions - Writing active recall question for next revision session
------------------------------ for me so ignore ------------------------------------- Video Starts at 7:55 Summary : 1. Priming (Almost like pre-studying but not the same) →Skim through the content of your book/lecture notes to get a grasp on the bigger picture. So that connections become easier while learning the contents step-by-step. 2. Event (Something like a lecture happening where you acquire information) →Ask many questions as possible (To yourself or out loud) and also remember, ask more Why/How come questions than What questions. →Note down the topics you had trouble understanding and make them central while revising. →Delayed Note Taking : Take notes of a subject a few moments after the lecturer talks about it. So that it can create a sort of confusion in your head called Cognitive Load and makes studing much more effective. Make mindmaps!!! →(Extra Personal Tip : Try to navigate through the Bigger picture framework in your head while following throught the lecture) 3. Revision and Consolidation →Revise the contents in 12 hours (after the event) →Make it challenging in a meaningful way. Aka Actively recall content (dont re-read ur notes). Try to make mindmaps (with rlly few words) or TEACH (Its so damn useful bro ngl).
The delayed note taking reminds me of one of my physics teacher who always told us to first listen to what he was teaching so he wouldn't let us make notes while he was teaching a topic, after he is done with it then only he would give us few minutes to write everything down
Great video.I am taking B-Tech in electrical and electronics engineering and am struggling with concepts being thought in class and looking for new ways to improve all the time.And thanks for this video and am going to give it all my best and try these techniques for 3months straight and see how it goes. Hello to everyone from West Africa, GHANA🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭 to be precise.
1:31 so deep learning..... the person who only hustle amputating brainstorming will not succeed..... (ACTIVE LEARNING/THRESHOLD CONCEPT) 4:25 ok....then speed reading is not as reliable as conceptual deep learning .... 5:25 2nd run is a must 6:30 reason behind makkng notes is to understand it in your own way.....not copy pasting 9:58🌟🌟🌟 questioning is the way to be active in study..... 13:43 revise 16:13 notes
i really like that you don't cut out those rare moments where you stumble on your words and struggle to put it together 😭 i really admire your articulacy and am trying to work on mine now, so when i see those hiccups i feel more reassured? in a way? that mistakes are okay :)
13:00 I read in the book "make it stick" that actually the opposite is more beneficial. The more you let some forgetting happens, the more effort you exert trying to remember, the stronger the material is reconsolidated, which actually makes sense if you think about it. If you revised the material right after you studied it, you basically just rehearse it and it is easier to retrieve. In the long run, spacing the practice will prove to be more benificial.
Consolidating what you've learned after a lesson can help to reinforce the information in your memory, but spacing out your learning sessions over time can help to promote more durable and long-term retention of the material. After you consolidate the topic, you can then space out your learning sessions by revisiting the material at increasing intervals, such as a day, a week, a month, and so on. This can help to reinforce the information in your memory and improve your ability to recall it over the long term.
You are a God send! Thank you so much for posting. I took your advice and didn’t take notes while watching this video, just sat, listened, visualized, compared and found the bigger picture. I read the description after taking post video notes and I nailed it! So far I’ve seen 3 of your videos and already increased my cognitive load! I’m so excited to watch ALL of your content to prepare for flight attendant training which I hear requires a tremendous amount of study. You’re doing such a great service for humanity, God bless you! 🤗
algorithm of using the techniques Before going to lectures or before digging into some sort of content when self-studying. -Overview the content: Briefly look at the topics, subtopics, summary During learning, -Ask questions, using why/how e.g why this topics is useful, how this topic has connection with the last topic After learning: Revision When to revise, If you learnt about a content on the morning, revise before you sleep If you learnt it at night, revise after you wake up How to revise Principle of revising: cognitive load Technique that increase cognitive load: 1. Draw Mindmap: link between different concepts 2. Recall the content in brain, after you recall, check with the content 3. Minimum note technique: express the content in a minimalized, concentrated way 4. Teaching
I'm moving into my final year in high school and I'm really glad to have met this before starting the year.For SB who doesn't implement anybody's recommendations, for once I'll try and see if it works. Will update you at the end of2023.I pray more pple find this. Thankyou so so much.Bye
-Intro -What are the things a student can directly manage to be successful? -Deep Learning (not to be confused with AI learning), Active Learning, and Threshold Concepts (key concepts that greatly change your understanding of subject) Threshold concepts are the same information you are learning in school presented in a different light (can be HoM depending on person) Understanding how to get more of these lightbulb moments enhances your learning speed. Learning journey: Recursive in nature (every topic funnels back to core concepts and linear learning path) Excursive in approach (tangents in the path, ordering concepts in a way that works for you that deviate from regular) I.E. ABCD -> DACB “This order works for me to understand the topic.” Excursive path is decided by YOU so utilize Active learning: allows a chaotic and natural process that works for you. 5 attributes of good learner: 1. Priming/pre studying Priming: scanning text to gain general understanding, avoid getting sucked into detail and focus on big picture understanding Big picture understanding: =Faster 💡moments =Faster Threshold Concepts =Faster Learning 2. Event activity (paying attention in a lecture) - Takes effort, (think of keeping your eyes on the ball in order to catch it, otherwise it will bounce right off and not “stick to you”) Ask a crap ton of questions, take information and think about what to ask (certain ?’s have higher yields than others: “why” or “how” are best -> Big Picture) 3. Be inquisitorial Get confused, “why does this relate to big picture?” “how does this work?” 4.. When do you revise information? Within 12 hrs after first consuming that knowledge (consolidate before you 💤 because sleep buffs brain memory) Use a mind map to create a big picture of the knowledge: - nonverbal notes (utilize a larger brain %) - instead of too many notes -> optimal cognitive load (I.e. hold off on note taking, let confusion ?’s set in) 5. Pre-exam revision Revise information: practice test while you learn, make it CHALLENGING (test your recall) -Recall or Recognize? -Difference in your revision process (grab whiteboard and doodle notes or mind map) -The Feynman technique: talk out your topic as if you are teaching a 4 year old, you WILL stump yourself. Additional (all relate to these five things) Spaced reps Flash cards Mind maps
This is so interesting, I used all of these methods organically in Secondary School. When I did final revision I used to write out everything I knew on a paper then check my notes to see in I missed anything then review only what I missed. I would also tear the pages out of my note book and toss them in a bin as a kind of victory gesture that I mastered the information. I must admit in graduate school I relied too much on note taking as the volume of work increased. Time to revisit my old study methods. This should go well. Thank you.
From my understanding: Organize your thoughts and ideas about the topic in your brain first, then write it down in a paper. In visual art analogy, rough sketches of basic shapes and placements of objects should be done first before adding details and colors to the art. Level 0 (Isolated facts) "Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" or "Remember that the ideal gas law is PV=nRT". Wtf does that even mean? I don't know, but I can handle that thing on multiple choice questions. Level 1 (Relationships/Understanding) "The ideal gas law explain the relationship of pressure, temperature, and volume through this equation. Based on the equation, the temperature of the gas tends to increase with increasing pressure, but the quantity of volume decreases." We now understand how the equation works, but it is still isolated on its own. Level 2: (Groupings) "Ideal gas law is based from the derivation of Boyle's law, Charles' law, and other gas laws. It can also be derived to find the density of the gas by using the relationship of mass, volume, and density: D=m/V and molar mass. Through manipulation, we can see that D=PM/RT." It is now related to other science principles and the big picture, but we still don't know when and why we use it. Level 3: (Judgement/Priorities) "The ideal gas law can only be observed when a gas system has a high temperature and low pressure." We should now know when, why, and how to use it, but this is my limit for now. Practicals: 1) Scan the syllabus/table of contents 2) Ask why and how (still depends on the situation, but organize ideas first before writing it) 3) Review within the first 12 hours and fill in the missing details - less words, more pictures, simplify. 4) Teach others from memory aka Feynman technique Extra: Reflect what works and what is needed. It's not okay to discriminate other people, but discriminating facts, concepts, and methods is a must. Don't be racist, be a fact-ist. The point is start to level 3 already if you can. I can only get level 2 properly since I'm new to this, but I hope this helps. I'll edit this when I'm wrong or I receive some corrections.
Watching this video helped me realize why i did so well in highschool. I used some of these techniques when learning. I just forgot them and I must know start using them again. However, this time i understand it better.
I watched a bunch of videos about learning techniques like space rep, taking notes and write down yourself questions to review, … and have applied them too but it just help a little bit and I’m still struggling to get the results that I want. This video really dives deeper into to the techniques of learning and help me to figure out why my way of learning didn’t work and how to improve. Thanks Justin.🎉
This is excellent, thank you! As a student teacher I feel excellently placed for this knowledge :) I think it sheds light on how sometimes I've gained a lot of knowledge over a subject I've explored for fun, or else gained incidentally while having fun, because I've done things like asking questions, exploring in different media and modes etc. Thank you so much for this!
When a video makes me pop out my side-to-side video and office word split window to listen and take notes it makes me so happy. I am going to be up til 4 am studying your videos.
hey, just wanted to say thnk u, this is like a light bulb moment for me , doing active recall is good, but ur knowledge abt how to study to top the exams is just amazibg. i wish i cud take ur course. thnk u.
I just want to chime in to say imho people shouldn't focus tooooo much on active recall, it's possible to overdo it! Before you jump into active recall, make sure you are thoroughly familiarized with the material. You can't actively recall something you just don't know! If you keep recalling things wrong over and over again you need to stop with whatever you're doing and dumb down your approach, even if it feels ridiculous. I've sometimes read sentences out loud, one by one, sometimes even parts of sentences, then closed my eyes and repeated them - done this with each sentence of a paragraph and then once again with the entire paragraph at once. Sometimes when reading and just not internalizing or not understanding the whole thing I've started again reading it out loud or at least enunciating strongly in my head, made pauses after every word or phrase and really tried visualizing what is happening. Sometimes you really need an in-between step before the active recall. If your active recall keeps going wrong and is incredibly frustrating - that's how you know you need an in-between step. This is just my opinion, I never jump straight into active recall, there is always something before it for me. Also I taught someone active recall (she's learning German) and she kind of did it too much to the point where she would try recalling things which just _weren't there_ and I told her that if she legitimately doesn't know it she should better look at it again before memorizing something wrong that she made up. You gotta feel it out. When I was recalling Latin vocabulary, I had three stacks to put my cards to. One was words I got right, one was words I either didn't know or got wrong, and one was words I got just slightly wrong, just a signle letter off or got the gender wrong or something like that. That way I minimized repeating errors which would get etched into my mind. I was through and through doing active recall but also helping my brain where it obviously just lacked the knowledge it needed or it was too hard to fetch and would result in memorizing the wrong stuff. It worked really well for me.
it's about a set of skills and techniques to building schema (psychology) - neural schema that can capture info, where info can relate to - can get stuck into and from where memory/recall can emerge = our brain's don't remember like a computer with info like an image stored in one's and zero's, we re-live the experience when we received the info via our senses - a unique neural network was activated linked to many other neural networks and from that the recall - reactivating that neural network and neural paths re-emerges the engram/memory/recall what we learned/lived/experienced from our ears, eyes, smell, our speed or speed of things moving around us, ...
I just wanna point out that we all learn differently. I certainly did not have the time, energy, and motivation (and healthy enough wrists lol) to take notes, do spaced repetition and all that fancy stuff. I read the title of the chapter of my textbook, and then I read it from start to end. I did not take any notes. I skipped many lectures. In fact, I showed up to exactly two lectures in my calculus class, and that was the exam I did best in during my bachelor. What is important is, do you learn what you need to learn? Do you know what is important to learn for the exam, and for yourself? Do you avoid hard topics or questions, or do you face your weaknesses and spend more time on those topics until they become easier? That's all that matters in the end. If you're having a hard time remembering something you deem important to know, note taking is something you end up doing automatically anyway in my experience... that said, it's nice to have some good ideas to work with by watching videos like this. In the end though, you have to find your own way.
I think you'd be surprised to find that the studying process outlined in this video actually goes through exactly what you're talking about. E.G: The priming and event steps' purpose is for you to learn the importance of the information that you're studying and process it through organizing concepts. It'll allow you to understand what is important, as well as cover the biggest weaknesses in your topic. Over time, your brain would automatically organize it into a 'mind-map format' and naturally, you create notes from it
I actively tried writing as few notes as possible in my latest linear algebra unit. Tried drawing to save on words. Still ended up with 22 pages of notes from an 80 page document. And that was without doing the exercises. Definitely using the holiday break to overhaul my note-taking.
When I was studying for my final exams in high school I did an interesting thing. Instead of going through the things I had already learned in detail to consolidate the knowledge, I kind of just "tapped into each Idea / cnocept" with my mind for like some seconds, and then moved on to the next Idea. I find this really interesting, that my brain is able to do such a thing. It was somewhat like exercising my brain to "take the right road" for each Idea but then not follow it to the end.
yesss I'm trying to do that too! Instead of taking notes straightaway I try to trace why a scientist would get this conclusion from this experiment and really “tap into” the concept haha
Good stuff. I have learned about some of these techniques before. More specifically from a book called A Mind for Numbers. The challenge for me is to keep in mind these techniques and intentionally put them into practice. Watching this video is a great reminder. Thanks a lot!
Throughout my high school career, there's been some difficulty in discovering insightful information as to how I can improve myself academically AND mentally. Thanks to Justin, I'm glad to say that I'm finally walking on the right path toward improving such things. This is only the beginning of hopefully an exciting journey.
I wish you were my tutor in medical school. I like that you have broken the mold a little bit. Other people I have listened to have really just been regurgitating the same sorts of techniques that I didn't feel were adequate. I like finally hearing from someone that suggests a different approach.
@@ProMethod2 Thanks for asking. When it comes to studying large amounts of information very quickly, it comes down to consistency and time management. Those strategies matter a lot more than the quick and dirty tactics a lot of people try pushing, claiming that they will increase your scores by X amount of points. I know far too many people who religiously followed that advice and it did not work out for them. I saw way too many videos from students praising Anki as the best resource on the planet while downplaying other things like reading textbooks. They claimed that reviewing hundreds of flashcards every day was the best way to study, and at first, it sounded plausible. The notion that flashcards work is all based around "spaced-repetition," and that's just someone's way of trying to sound scientific, but it just means-- review, review, review. I was told not to reread chapters in a book but to review 500 flashcards every day. That is only good for memorizing stringent factoids, not for thinking critically about a concept. To get a genuinely robust understanding, you need to manipulate the information in your mind, mulling over it until the idea becomes clear backward and forwards. You need to look for a connection between information you already know and the challenging material you're trying to learn. If someone is trying to sell you on a quick fix, it's often a gimmick. You can create mnemonics and concept maps to help group information. Asking yourself questions and letting the learning develop through your own interests is also important. If you're not engaged then it's not only brutal sitting there trying to study but you don't get as much out of it as you would if you had followed your line of thinking and discovered what you find interesting about a subject.
Never really level 4 thought about questions to ask of instructors which explains a lot. Like the prioritization of what question to ask, was always at best ask relationary questions towards adjacent topics as a means to expand my own space of consumption of ideas. However it tended more than not to generally lead to more questions to be asked than would be answered, many responses of thats a great question, and notes during the moment.
Your videos have been an amazing help to me. They have made me realize how much work I need to do to reach my school goals. I’m in my first semester of Nursing and it was kicking my butt. I implemented your techniques of questioning and making connections between ideas and it made a big difference. I actually enjoyed studying when I did that . Great stuff!!!
The information in this video is organized so incredibly well and that only further solidifies your points. I’ve trued a few of these methods and they’re definitely very effective. Especially teaching. I remember the times I’d be standing around acting like I’m explaining a topic to someone and it would be so effective, not just to help me recall, but also in pointing oht weaknesses in my own understanding of the material. This video is exact compilation of all the best techniques that every learner needs
Learned something new. The concept of learning differently each time. I used the linear note for revision and route learning method. It was tiring and exhausting. I find the changing the method every time you revise more interesting. Asking the how and how come - challenges my mind and create curiosity.
Important Principles: 1. Deep Learning: Deep learning involves seeking creative connections between concepts to enhance understanding, memory retention, and enjoyment of the subject. 2. Mindmaps: Mindmaps are visual representations that depict the relationships between concepts, with core concepts as the trunk, branches as connections, and leaves as individual concepts. 3. Core Concepts: Core concepts are fundamental ideas that, when comprehended, provide a new perspective on the subject matter and make learning related subtopics easier. 4. Importance of Core Concepts: Understanding core concepts is crucial as they form the foundation for grasping more complex subsets within a subject, facilitating deeper comprehension. 5. Recursive Learning: Learning is not linear but recursive, meaning alternative approaches, such as reading a textbook backward or exploring different concepts, can enhance understanding and reveal valuable connections. 6. Flexibility in Learning: Different individuals may have diverse learning preferences, and understanding the material can vary based on individual perspectives rather than relying solely on prescribed methods. 7. Problem Solving and Connections: When encountering difficulties, exploring connections with different concepts or revisiting problems involving different ideas can help find the needed connections to solve current problems. 8. Enjoyment and Understanding: Deep learning not only improves memory and comprehension but also fosters enjoyment, indicating a thorough understanding of the material. 9. Transferable Skills: Deep learning promotes critical thinking, analysis, and the ability to transfer knowledge to new situations by recognizing and utilizing connections between concepts. 10. Application of Deep Learning: Deep learning is applicable across various fields of study, promoting independent learning, creativity, and the ability to make connections beyond subject boundaries. 11. Long-term Retention: Regular practice and application of deep learning techniques contribute to long-term retention and the ability to apply knowledge in real-world scenarios.
As a distance learner I think these can be incredibly helpful! I’ve been taking lots of notes and not getting much from it, I now know why! Thank you for a great video with such great advice!
Thank you. Love the part you confirm learning is not linear . A thing that works for me very well is to do a little fable with some images to start my mind map. I learned it from the book the monk who sold his Ferrari. Thank you for this video I think it summarizes the core principles you develop in other videos . I’m glad your channel is growing. best regards from Bolivia 🇧🇴
This is brilliant. First time tertiary student at 32 because I never really understood school but that is because school is linear, life is not and I have enjoyed learning through experience and the ‘chaos’ of excursive learning. I always thought I wasn’t built for school and that would always be the case but now I see that I am built for learning, I just need to change the structure in which I process the linear information I receive. Thank you. I also thoroughly appreciate the memes to break up the high level of information being presented 😂
Thank you so much! Love you bro! Coincidently I am having the problem on how to study efficiently and following this playlist really does help a lot. Not to mention that I am taking this knowledge for free. So huge thanks bro! I just subscribed and liked every video I watched hehehe hope it helps.
Surprisingly I had some of the traits which made me feel like i was a good student 😁 but of course i had some that i didn’t have, Now i know what to improve on, priming and the 12 hour time period, which after i think about it is most of the video 🙃
Just found your channel. I’m doing last year of my masters and this is really helpful, as I’ve been struggling to connect the dots from all the literature I’ve been reading. New subbie here.
Hi Justin! Just discovered your channel and can tell I have a lot to learn from you. Incidentally, I'm 49 years old and hoping to begin medical school this summer. I have an engineering degree, used to teach high school math and love to help kids understand math - so I'm hoping to combine my love of teaching with medicine. I would like to know more about your journey and ask some specific questions about your medical school experience. I think your course may be helpful for me AND my daughter to take together. I hope we can connect soon!
Dang that’s really awesome! I’m currently doing my engineering degree but been struggling through it and sorta gave up on going to medical school due to my grades not being good enough and feeling behind from just delaying my studies due to my mental health. Honestly all the best to you and I wish you the best! It’s awesome to hear stories of people working hard for your dream!
i'm surprised at how many of these things i do naturally already! this is a very helpful video and gave me lots of motivation to study for the next semester. thanks so much!
Very keen to get into this. I find recalling very easy for the first few weeks and then come exam time I am surprised by how much revision I need to do. Thanks for the effort you put into the vids.
When you talk about "Ask A Lot Of Questions.".. I was taught to write those down_but I swapped that out with recording my questions. I go through the assigned "homework" before writing my questions and all answers I have found with the section of materials given. That prepares a questions list that can be used next day.
Amazing video I recently just all together stopped taking notes all together during lecture but this gave me an idea to try mind mapping and writing down related questions for each bracket of an idea during lecture
As a Cambridge Grad, and Investment Banker, I think everything Justin is saying is correct. The issue is that the content is so binge-watchable, and it's easy to get carried away. I had a similar issue watching Ali Abdaal's content. Watching ti made me nearly FAIL Cambridge. Whilst the videos were really informative, they overloaded me with information, and it drove my inaction. It ruined my productivity and built horrible study habits that made me nearly fail the year. I was able to take away 4 important lessons from that experience, and they might be the difference between your academic success and failure. Not knowing these really cost me. Lesson 1: You need to assess whether a piece of information applies to you Lesson 2: Learning to learn feels good but it's screwing up your brain (even more) Lesson 3: Information overload is driving your inaction and anxiety around work Lesson 4: Build your habits slowly and don't drop everything you know I made a full length video on this: ua-cam.com/video/LqHhHxMGl8g/v-deo.html
It is still all theory. The main problem is academic concepts, news, books, lectures present content in specific ways and it is extremely demanding for our brains to engage in learning either active or passive written text. We are hungry for knowledge one day and we may go through the efforts of dismantling and putting back together concepts sometimes. However we are lazy and our very brains are lazy and cut corners in remembering selectively or forgetting or being creative and mixing everything all together. After one intensive exercise like this you find yourself less interested, less adventurous and it becomes a task in our perception to revise or to explore more. Positive attention and engagement span are most important.
very helpful video! i looked up threshold concepts and wow, its so eye opening. from this point on, i feel motivated and i will be more intentional to learn effectively
You're literally the baking soda to any cake 😭. I've got all these other videos that I watched but they don't discuss what they do specifically. Thank you.
Many subjects have exams that are multiple choice. If the subject is one that you feel will be of no future use but you are forced to take because of the university's course requirements, then recognition will be sufficient for you to get good grades in that course. Multiple choice questions usually give five options per question of which three can be eliminated on the spot because they are ridiculous, leaving you two to choose from. If you really don't know, you still have a 50-50 chance of getting it right. Exam taking techniques are a very important part of student life. I have not seen anything from you so far on this topic, although I'll admit I have not gone through all of your videos.
one of the best things that ive started doing is phrasing notes as questions, most of my "notes" are quizlets which allows me to then use them much more effectively
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 📈 *Success in students is defined by academic performance and achievement.* 00:55 🎯 *Focus on what students can control for academic success.* 01:39 🧠 *Introduction to key learning concepts: Deep Learning, Active Learning, and Threshold Concepts.* 02:08 💡 *Threshold Concepts explained as transformative and key to understanding a subject.* 04:29 🔁 *Learning is recursive and excursive, highlighting the non-linear nature of the learning process.* 06:45 📚 *Active Learning strategies include class polls, quizzes, and group discussions.* 08:07 🔄 *Priming as a technique for improving learning efficiency.* 09:43 🚀 *Techniques for staying attentive and active during learning events.* 12:41 ⏰ *Importance of timely revision within 12 hours of learning for better memory consolidation.* 13:50 🗺️ *Use of mind maps for revision to connect learning to the big picture.* 16:12 📝 *Delayed note-taking and summary sheets as effective study techniques.* 17:37 🎓 *Pre-test revision strategies emphasizing recall over recognition.* 20:09 🎓 *Mastery in priming, engagement during events, first revision, subsequent revisions, and teaching others are key competencies of effective learners.* 20:38 🛠️ *These foundational skills are augmented by techniques like spaced repetition, flashcards, and active reading strategies.* 21:06 🌟 *Learning is individual, but these fundamental strategies have proven effective across many students.* Made with HARPA AI
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Summary:
Threshold concepts - core concepts which, when understood, transform a student's understanding a whole subject; suddenly able to see it in a way that you weren't able to before
- provide a barrier to understanding a concept a certain way
- different from just difficult concepts (concepts that are hard to wrap your head around)
- cause lightbulb moments
Learning is recursive and excursive
- recursive - certain things make more sense the more you learn it
- like puzzle pieces coming together over time
- excursive - a journey that allows for deviations
- don't have to learn everything the best way the first time
- learning is messy and very nonlinear
Active learning - way to tap into threshold concepts (games, quizzes, group discussion, etc.)
- keeps us engaged about the topic, rather than passive learning (letting the information be absorbed just by reading)
1. Priming; prestudy - ability to look at a piece of information and quickly scan the text first, rather than take it all in at once, and get a framework on how to approach learning the material before we even know what to know
- headings, diagrams, important images, etc
- simple wireframe on how to big picture comes together
- don't get sucked into all the detail; you will lose big picture
- will have easier lightbulb moments; faster learning
2. Learning event
- takes effort to learn
- if not paying attention, the information will just be thrown at you, and you won't retain any of it
- ask questions very frequently about what information just came into the brain
- some questions are higher yield than others: try to ask "why" and "how" questions, as they relate back to the big picture
3. Revisions
- optimal time for first revision is within 12 hours of the learning event
- sleep dependent memory consolidation - study before you go to bed so you can "study in your sleep"
4. Technique
- extenuate relationships of small details with big picture
- take info from lecture and priming and create a mindmap with it
- make notes nonverbal (not many words)
- make notes reasonably minimal
- writing too many notes reduces cognitive load (level of confusion in brain); we want to optimize level of confusion
- delayed note taking - keep info in our head, think about it, let confusion set it, ask questions, simplify the info, and write the simplified info down
- can skip initial note taking
- do simplification in head; trains brain to not rely on writing things down to learn
5. Revision
- make sure it is always challenging
- use recall (take from memory alone, rather than just recognizing it)
- revise in a different way each time
- DON'T REREAD NOTES - not challenging; recognition
- rewriting notes purely from memory is good; rerepresenting notes with diagrams, mindmaps, etc. is better
- teaching is very good - forces you to recall, draw and annotate while you teach, look at big picture to figure out what the best way to teach the topic is
- spaced repetition, flashcards, mindmaps, active listening and reading, effective priming
Great work
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thanks a lot a man for writing it down
thanks
I guess for those who precept information through texts you are a hero
Video Starts at 7:55
Summary :
1. Priming (Almost like pre-studying but not the same)
→Skim through the content of your book/lecture notes to get a grasp on the bigger picture. So that connections become easier while learning the contents step-by-step.
2. Event (Something like a lecture happening where you acquire information)
→Ask many questions as possible (To yourself or out loud) and also remember, ask more *Why/How come* questions than *What* questions.
→Note down the topics you had trouble understanding and make them central while revising.
→Delayed Note Taking : Take notes of a subject a few moments after the lecturer talks about it. So that it can create a sort of confusion in your head called Cognitive Load and makes studying much more effective. Make mindmaps!!!
→(Extra Personal Tip : Try to navigate through the Bigger picture framework in your head while following throught the lecture)
3. Revision and Consolidation
→Revise the contents in 12 hours (after the event)
→Make it challenging in a meaningful way. Aka Actively recall content (dont re-read ur notes). Try to make mindmaps (with rlly few words) or TEACH (Its so damn useful bro ngl).
Edit :
(Bonus Tip from one of the replies)
*Association* : As the name suggests, it's basically connecting the new topics you learn, with what you are already familiar with. It will help in visualizing, remembering/memorising easier and will help retain information for a longer duration of time.
Revision of associations are very crucial and they must be written down next to the content you are learning so that you don't forget about the associations made and get to revise them every single time you go through them.
(Thanks to the dude who added this in the replies-)
THANK YOU!!! ☺️
@@piccolaradge8333 Happy to help!
Thank you!!!!!
@@aliiiccyee5736 Anytime! ^^
Thank you!!!
Dont know how many people may see this, but this very video of his made me watch all his videos, past streams, and podcasts cause everything he said make sense. Coming into my first semester of uni I finished with a tragic 3.3 gpa (4.0 scale) and realized I had to do better, so I studied mindmaps and put into practice everything he said slowly during my second semester for the first 2 months. During those 2 months, I was implementing new techniques and basically changing up my whole study methods which took so much energy and brain power, but after the struggle it was worth it. Ive definitely gotten better and more familiar with mindmaps and how to think big picture and was able to carry that till the end of my first year. I ended second semester with all A's (3 A+'s) and finished a spring class being top of the class (A+ as well). I cant thank you enough Justin. Gl to those who seek improvement, hang in there and be consistent.
That is a great motivation to get started ㅠㅠ
Which streams of his would you recommend going to first? I don't know much about this and I'd like to improve as much as possible before my summer exams. Congratulations on your progress!
@@moustafael-shaboury2659 Hey I dont remember exactly which streams exactly but what I did was take notes for each video/stream I watched of his (not everysingle one) and kinda went through the notes in my head to make sure everything made sense to me. Like for example, ill explain why something he said is the way it is, if I cant that means I don't inherently understand it by myself, let alone apply it to my studying in the future right? SO my biggest tip, is no matter what video u watch just make sure U make the most out of it by taking notes and making sure u know why things are the way it is. If u cant, go back to the vid and relearn it. Basically, understanding an d being able to see those theory and thinking about how it applies to ur studies and situation is more important than just watching a bunch of his videos passively, hope that makes sense, gl on ur journey!!
@@kk4764 This is really helpful, thank you!
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If a book has questions at the end of a chapter, it is best to read them first before skimming through the chapter as you suggest. Reading the questions first primes you for what is considered important by the author, so that even when just scanning through the chapter for the first time those questions will prime your brain to catch those important points right away.
Yes, totally true.
Thanks didn't know
I don't think this happens in case of jee advanced
WINTERESTING! 🥶
The true game changer is : YOUR MINDSET
Once you realize you have a once in a lifetime opportunity to learn , it changes forever
damn you're right-
Once in a lifetime? What does that mean I can't do it another time?
@@danielstatler954 Once in a lifetime means you only get one chance at making a productive life for yourself instead of, like with the "I'll do it another time" mindset, wasting it.
@@casmar2042 But the real challenge starts after you realise and still don't do it, you feel like shit but then you realise you're not dead yet, because your body has been struggling trying its best to keep you alive even that little fragile mental health is sustained due to his 24/7 commitment for a lifetime, all you have to do is command him and he'll follow. And believe me when you get past this initial stage, things get progressively harder and you love it for the fact you will live your youth actually "living" not comparing your life with others but just living "your" life. There is one and only one , Every happy and miserable one across time has experienced this. "Run, you don't need to place first, there is no such thing, for there is no finish line, you keep running till your death" ---Random guy on the internet, 2023
So in summery, if you can learn right now, do it right now! Correct?
Or even more radical? Should I stay up all night to learn, knowing that I only have a few months left for the college entrance exam? I did that and it wasn't good for my health. Plus, I tend to forget most things I learnt after finishing the exams and I want to remember these lessons long term.
Here's a summary:
Core questions:
- How do you have deep learning?
First, what is deep learning? Deep learning is trying to find more creative connections between different concepts.
How is important? It allows us to remember the concepts better, increase the enjoyment within the particular subject, and it shows that we understood the material. A way to apply this is through the use of mindmaps, which are sorta like a tree where the leaves are the concepts, the branches are the connections, and the trunk is the core concept.
- Understand core concepts
What are core concepts?
These are concepts, once understood, allow you to view the material in a different light.
How are they important? This is basically information that is integral to what you are learning, such as in Calculus the integral concepts would be: Integrals, Derivatives, and Limits and once you understand those, the rest of the subsets of those concepts would be much easier to understand.
- So what is the learning process?
First, we need to understand that learning is recursive.
What is recursive learning? Learning isn't linear which means that you might understand something better by reading a textbook from back to front then front to back. Since the textbook isn't the way that everyone best understands the material, it's how best the person writing it sees the material. Also when you are stuck on a problem, it may help to go back to another problem which different concepts and try and find the connections, because there's a possibility that the connections found from this different concept are the ones that you need to use to solve the current problem.
I was about to ask ... anyone got a summary. You're a life saver
Amazing! I am thrilled! This is the definition of knowledge we have been looking for during our entire life!
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Thanks for sharing. It's really helpful.
@Sarah Hodgins What is ADHD
7:55 start
not true, it starts at threshold items, 3 mins in
7：55 principle :
Threshold concepts: learning is naturally a recursive process at the beginning but excursive in order a breakthrough.
1.skimming by using mind maps
2.identifying threshold concept to connect everything
3.be inquisitorial to capture the informations by asking why and how
4. set 12 hours gaps before your next revisionto consolidate your memory and u can do so by writting a summary sheet .
5.make it challenging by self testing
Pitfall:
lengthy notes that cause cognitive loads.
re-read your notes as it is not challenging your mind to retain it.
You’re literally the first person that actually has education on this topic and God it’s insane how I can notice it. Thank so much for your advice. I’ve been trying to apply some of this principles and it’s been going great.
No, he's not.
@@raymeester7883 what’s bad about him?
@@JamesQHolden
He's not the first person. He literally references where he got the education on the topic.
Priming. That is why when I miss the first 10 minutes or so of a class on a brand-new topic, I get confused the whole class. This not only shows the importance of this technique, but it also shows how much I rely on this technique while not knowing about it. It makes a lot of sense why priming is fundamental to learning, and it also stunned me how I never thought of this. It happened so many times!
While priming is the step I'm good at, the event, revision, revision techniques, and pre-exam revision are all things I really need to work on. I don't actively ask why/how questions in my mind during classes. Most of the time, I just try to understand. I don't do revision, like, at all, let alone revision in 12 hours. The techniques. Sure, I use recall, but I believe there's more. Pre-exam revisions. Who would have known the best way to do that is not recognition but recall?
To add on to delayed note taking, sometimes during on-the-job training, we have to learn a lot about the workplace policies and how to operate their softwares. It can be overwhelming to write everything down. Being in the moment, trying to learn by clicking the buttons and how they work can help grasp the concept by actively learning!
I’m two weeks into training and I don’t think I have been so stressed in years! I hand soo many notes (which adds to my confusion) and I still feel as if I’ve gained absolutely no new information or knowledge for my new job function 😢 on the verge of tears most days. I also work from home so feel like I’m on an island by myself, although I’m not and others in my training class feel the same. Hopefully adding a technique (or more), will help me to grasp this
I am a double degree old guy who always been very interested in learning and the way we learn. I would just like to make some reflections on this. Firstly: I believe that you need to find your own study technique. Mind mapping for example has been help up very high for many decades now. And for some people it might work. But not for me. I wasted time when studying following this technique. I am more a note and drawing kind of person. My mind do not go well together with these large schemas. But my mind really appreciate this big picture view technique you started with. That is essential and somewhat scary (done the right way). That you explore the subject before you start studying. With it comes interesting effects. You are half way through the material and suddenly you start to grasp things you haven't really read because that was things which you stored kind of subconsciously (even though I don't really believe in such a thing...) when doing this overview reading. Justin, keep up the good work!
This channel is gold. Can't believe more people aren't subbed lol
Agree to you at this moment lol 🥲
We’ve just found him on his early days. Watch how he’s gonna fly into millions like Ali Abdaal
Priming raises a context for questions so that once the answers come in, they can be hung onto this contextual tree. It avoids mind clutter and helps keep good order in your thoughts from the beginning.
As a long-time college professor, I fully agree, and am constantly excited by Dr Sung’s excellent points and tips- I am enlightened on improving my own teaching. Thank you, Dr Sung!
5 Attributes:
1st: Priming
Scan the text, try and find the bigger picture. Usually the big picture is found on the objectives side or main idea points if it's a textbook.
2nd: Become engaged
Make sure to ask a lot of questions: ASK A FRICK TON OF QUESTIONS
Since we already understood the bigger picture from the 1st step, use why or how questions to make the connections.
3rd: Review or Consolidate
Revise the notes, or the information, make sure to do it usually a day after. Which allows you to remember the information better.
4 and 5
Make sure you understand the material and try and learn the material differently which means to apply to concepts to different problems which means that it's going to stick better and shows you have a through grasp of the material.,
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@@ahmedes6261 Thanks! If you have any constructive criticism for my analysis, you're welcome to share!
I usually do #1, 4, 5
But do not force questions too much, unless they are natural the benefit to effort ratio is pretty low. As unnatural questions require a tremendous will power, which makes one burn out soon. Its just what I observed. DON'T take my advice at face value, because everybody has unique composition of mind.
I'm a student whose grade are usually As and Bs, From watching this video I've realized that everything you've said is what I do when studying and learning new stuff, I never noticed it before, i sincerely thought all people learned, studied, analyzed and had the same thought process as me.
I was reading a topic(I'm in med school) and I followed the first 4 steps in this video(the 5th will be anki/practice Qs for me) and the topic might be the easiest I've ever studied! I combined everything in this video with the mind mapping technique in your other video.
You've become my favourite study UA-camr in just about a day! Thank you😁
- Priming/conceptualizing the topic as a whole through connective mind mapping
- Listen to the lecture mindfully
- Summarizing
- Application of info (bottom line, when and how to use it)
- COMPARISON (similarities and distinctiveness)
- Retertival practice (Feynman's)
- Practice questions
- Writing active recall question for next revision session
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Video Starts at 7:55
Summary :
1. Priming (Almost like pre-studying but not the same)
→Skim through the content of your book/lecture notes to get a grasp on the bigger picture. So that connections become easier while learning the contents step-by-step.
2. Event (Something like a lecture happening where you acquire information)
→Ask many questions as possible (To yourself or out loud) and also remember, ask more Why/How come questions than What questions.
→Note down the topics you had trouble understanding and make them central while revising.
→Delayed Note Taking : Take notes of a subject a few moments after the lecturer talks about it. So that it can create a sort of confusion in your head called Cognitive Load and makes studing much more effective. Make mindmaps!!!
→(Extra Personal Tip : Try to navigate through the Bigger picture framework in your head while following throught the lecture)
3. Revision and Consolidation
→Revise the contents in 12 hours (after the event)
→Make it challenging in a meaningful way. Aka Actively recall content (dont re-read ur notes). Try to make mindmaps (with rlly few words) or TEACH (Its so damn useful bro ngl).
The delayed note taking reminds me of one of my physics teacher who always told us to first listen to what he was teaching so he wouldn't let us make notes while he was teaching a topic, after he is done with it then only he would give us few minutes to write everything down
Same here but with chemistry here
Is he that good
@@charliely9627 wdum ?
Wow I wish mine was like that
"When one teaches, at least two learn!" (depending on audience size of course!)
Teaching as a way of learning ... that has major resonance for me!
Great video.I am taking B-Tech in electrical and electronics engineering and am struggling with concepts being thought in class and looking for new ways to improve all the time.And thanks for this video and am going to give it all my best and try these techniques for 3months straight and see how it goes.
Hello to everyone from West Africa, GHANA🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭 to be precise.
1:31 so deep learning..... the person who only hustle amputating brainstorming will not succeed.....
(ACTIVE LEARNING/THRESHOLD CONCEPT)
4:25 ok....then speed reading is not as reliable as conceptual deep learning ....
5:25 2nd run is a must
6:30 reason behind makkng notes is to understand it in your own way.....not copy pasting
9:58🌟🌟🌟 questioning is the way to be active in study.....
13:43 revise
16:13 notes
i really like that you don't cut out those rare moments where you stumble on your words and struggle to put it together 😭 i really admire your articulacy and am trying to work on mine now, so when i see those hiccups i feel more reassured? in a way? that mistakes are okay :)
13:00
I read in the book "make it stick" that actually the opposite is more beneficial. The more you let some forgetting happens, the more effort you exert trying to remember, the stronger the material is reconsolidated, which actually makes sense if you think about it. If you revised the material right after you studied it, you basically just rehearse it and it is easier to retrieve. In the long run, spacing the practice will prove to be more benificial.
Consolidating what you've learned after a lesson can help to reinforce the information in your memory, but spacing out your learning sessions over time can help to promote more durable and long-term retention of the material.
After you consolidate the topic, you can then space out your learning sessions by revisiting the material at increasing intervals, such as a day, a week, a month, and so on.
This can help to reinforce the information in your memory and improve your ability to recall it over the long term.
You are a God send! Thank you so much for posting. I took your advice and didn’t take notes while watching this video, just sat, listened, visualized, compared and found the bigger picture. I read the description after taking post video notes and I nailed it! So far I’ve seen 3 of your videos and already increased my cognitive load! I’m so excited to watch ALL of your content to prepare for flight attendant training which I hear requires a tremendous amount of study. You’re doing such a great service for humanity, God bless you! 🤗
13:40. Consolitating
17:31. Teaching
Definitely going to apply these techniques and fix my study method; a much needed video, thank you for making one!! ☺️
hey, any update?
@@prabhatgautam7888 She is now a doctor. Look at her name🤩
Is he that good
Does this work for dumb people
@@charliely9627 I don't think so
algorithm of using the techniques
Before going to lectures or before digging into some sort of content when self-studying.
-Overview the content: Briefly look at the topics, subtopics, summary
During learning,
-Ask questions, using why/how e.g why this topics is useful, how this topic has connection with the last topic
After learning: Revision
When to revise,
If you learnt about a content on the morning, revise before you sleep
If you learnt it at night, revise after you wake up
How to revise
Principle of revising: cognitive load
Technique that increase cognitive load:
1. Draw Mindmap: link between different concepts
2. Recall the content in brain, after you recall, check with the content
3. Minimum note technique: express the content in a minimalized, concentrated way
4. Teaching
I'm moving into my final year in high school and I'm really glad to have met this before starting the year.For SB who doesn't implement anybody's recommendations, for once I'll try and see if it works. Will update you at the end of2023.I pray more pple find this. Thankyou so so much.Bye
-Intro
-What are the things a student can directly manage to be successful?
-Deep Learning (not to be confused with AI learning), Active Learning, and Threshold Concepts (key concepts that greatly change your understanding of subject)
Threshold concepts are the same information you are learning in school presented in a different light (can be HoM depending on person)
Understanding how to get more of these lightbulb moments enhances your learning speed.
Learning journey:
Recursive in nature (every topic funnels back to core concepts and linear learning path)
Excursive in approach (tangents in the path, ordering concepts in a way that works for you that deviate from regular)
I.E. ABCD -> DACB “This order works for me to understand the topic.”
Excursive path is decided by YOU so utilize Active learning: allows a chaotic and natural process that works for you.
5 attributes of good learner:
1. Priming/pre studying
Priming: scanning text to gain general understanding, avoid getting sucked into detail and focus on big picture understanding
Big picture understanding:
=Faster 💡moments
=Faster Threshold Concepts
=Faster Learning
2. Event activity (paying attention in a lecture)
- Takes effort, (think of keeping your eyes on the ball in order to catch it, otherwise it will bounce right off and not “stick to you”)
Ask a crap ton of questions, take information and think about what to ask (certain ?’s have higher yields than others: “why” or “how” are best -> Big Picture)
3. Be inquisitorial
Get confused, “why does this relate to big picture?” “how does this work?”
4.. When do you revise information?
Within 12 hrs after first consuming that knowledge (consolidate before you 💤 because sleep buffs brain memory)
Use a mind map to create a big picture of the knowledge:
- nonverbal notes (utilize a larger brain %)
- instead of too many notes -> optimal cognitive load (I.e. hold off on note taking, let confusion ?’s set in)
5. Pre-exam revision
Revise information: practice test while you learn, make it CHALLENGING (test your recall)
-Recall or Recognize?
-Difference in your revision process (grab whiteboard and doodle notes or mind map)
-The Feynman technique: talk out your topic as if you are teaching a 4 year old, you WILL stump yourself.
Additional (all relate to these five things)
Spaced reps
Flash cards
Mind maps
This is so interesting, I used all of these methods organically in Secondary School. When I did final revision I used to write out everything I knew on a paper then check my notes to see in I missed anything then review only what I missed. I would also tear the pages out of my note book and toss them in a bin as a kind of victory gesture that I mastered the information. I must admit in graduate school I relied too much on note taking as the volume of work increased. Time to revisit my old study methods. This should go well. Thank you.
From my understanding:
Organize your thoughts and ideas about the topic in your brain first, then write it down in a paper. In visual art analogy, rough sketches of basic shapes and placements of objects should be done first before adding details and colors to the art.
Level 0 (Isolated facts)
"Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" or "Remember that the ideal gas law is PV=nRT". Wtf does that even mean? I don't know, but I can handle that thing on multiple choice questions.
Level 1 (Relationships/Understanding)
"The ideal gas law explain the relationship of pressure, temperature, and volume through this equation. Based on the equation, the temperature of the gas tends to increase with increasing pressure, but the quantity of volume decreases." We now understand how the equation works, but it is still isolated on its own.
Level 2: (Groupings)
"Ideal gas law is based from the derivation of Boyle's law, Charles' law, and other gas laws. It can also be derived to find the density of the gas by using the relationship of mass, volume, and density: D=m/V and molar mass. Through manipulation, we can see that D=PM/RT." It is now related to other science principles and the big picture, but we still don't know when and why we use it.
Level 3: (Judgement/Priorities)
"The ideal gas law can only be observed when a gas system has a high temperature and low pressure." We should now know when, why, and how to use it, but this is my limit for now.
Practicals:
1) Scan the syllabus/table of contents
2) Ask why and how (still depends on the situation, but organize ideas first before writing it)
3) Review within the first 12 hours and fill in the missing details - less words, more pictures, simplify.
4) Teach others from memory aka Feynman technique
Extra: Reflect what works and what is needed. It's not okay to discriminate other people, but discriminating facts, concepts, and methods is a must. Don't be racist, be a fact-ist.
The point is start to level 3 already if you can. I can only get level 2 properly since I'm new to this, but I hope this helps. I'll edit this when I'm wrong or I receive some corrections.
This 20 min video is what teachers must explain to students that are not too good learning, this is the video of HOW TO STUDY, thanks
Watching this video helped me realize why i did so well in highschool. I used some of these techniques when learning. I just forgot them and I must know start using them again. However, this time i understand it better.
I don't realize I unintentionally use priming and asking many questions to understand threshold concepts. This video explains more in scientific ways
I watched a bunch of videos about learning techniques like space rep, taking notes and write down yourself questions to review, … and have applied them too but it just help a little bit and I’m still struggling to get the results that I want. This video really dives deeper into to the techniques of learning and help me to figure out why my way of learning didn’t work and how to improve. Thanks Justin.🎉
This guy taught me about delayed note taking and it genuinely made me a A grade student from D grade 👌
That’s impressive
how to do delayed note taking during class ?
This is excellent, thank you! As a student teacher I feel excellently placed for this knowledge :) I think it sheds light on how sometimes I've gained a lot of knowledge over a subject I've explored for fun, or else gained incidentally while having fun, because I've done things like asking questions, exploring in different media and modes etc. Thank you so much for this!
When a video makes me pop out my side-to-side video and office word split window to listen and take notes it makes me so happy. I am going to be up til 4 am studying your videos.
hey, just wanted to say thnk u, this is like a light bulb moment for me , doing active recall is good, but ur knowledge abt how to study to top the exams is just amazibg. i wish i cud take ur course. thnk u.
I just want to chime in to say imho people shouldn't focus tooooo much on active recall, it's possible to overdo it! Before you jump into active recall, make sure you are thoroughly familiarized with the material. You can't actively recall something you just don't know!
If you keep recalling things wrong over and over again you need to stop with whatever you're doing and dumb down your approach, even if it feels ridiculous. I've sometimes read sentences out loud, one by one, sometimes even parts of sentences, then closed my eyes and repeated them - done this with each sentence of a paragraph and then once again with the entire paragraph at once. Sometimes when reading and just not internalizing or not understanding the whole thing I've started again reading it out loud or at least enunciating strongly in my head, made pauses after every word or phrase and really tried visualizing what is happening.
Sometimes you really need an in-between step before the active recall. If your active recall keeps going wrong and is incredibly frustrating - that's how you know you need an in-between step.
This is just my opinion, I never jump straight into active recall, there is always something before it for me. Also I taught someone active recall (she's learning German) and she kind of did it too much to the point where she would try recalling things which just _weren't there_ and I told her that if she legitimately doesn't know it she should better look at it again before memorizing something wrong that she made up. You gotta feel it out.
When I was recalling Latin vocabulary, I had three stacks to put my cards to. One was words I got right, one was words I either didn't know or got wrong, and one was words I got just slightly wrong, just a signle letter off or got the gender wrong or something like that. That way I minimized repeating errors which would get etched into my mind. I was through and through doing active recall but also helping my brain where it obviously just lacked the knowledge it needed or it was too hard to fetch and would result in memorizing the wrong stuff. It worked really well for me.
so true
For the #2 tip, make sure that you give yourself permission to “feel” that you dont know anything. The point is to identify what you DONT know
it's about a set of skills and techniques to building schema (psychology) - neural schema that can capture info, where info can relate to - can get stuck into and from where memory/recall can emerge = our brain's don't remember like a computer with info like an image stored in one's and zero's, we re-live the experience when we received the info via our senses - a unique neural network was activated linked to many other neural networks and from that the recall - reactivating that neural network and neural paths re-emerges the engram/memory/recall what we learned/lived/experienced from our ears, eyes, smell, our speed or speed of things moving around us, ...
I just wanna point out that we all learn differently. I certainly did not have the time, energy, and motivation (and healthy enough wrists lol) to take notes, do spaced repetition and all that fancy stuff. I read the title of the chapter of my textbook, and then I read it from start to end. I did not take any notes. I skipped many lectures. In fact, I showed up to exactly two lectures in my calculus class, and that was the exam I did best in during my bachelor.
What is important is, do you learn what you need to learn? Do you know what is important to learn for the exam, and for yourself? Do you avoid hard topics or questions, or do you face your weaknesses and spend more time on those topics until they become easier?
That's all that matters in the end. If you're having a hard time remembering something you deem important to know, note taking is something you end up doing automatically anyway in my experience... that said, it's nice to have some good ideas to work with by watching videos like this. In the end though, you have to find your own way.
I think you'd be surprised to find that the studying process outlined in this video actually goes through exactly what you're talking about. E.G: The priming and event steps' purpose is for you to learn the importance of the information that you're studying and process it through organizing concepts. It'll allow you to understand what is important, as well as cover the biggest weaknesses in your topic. Over time, your brain would automatically organize it into a 'mind-map format' and naturally, you create notes from it
I actively tried writing as few notes as possible in my latest linear algebra unit. Tried drawing to save on words. Still ended up with 22 pages of notes from an 80 page document. And that was without doing the exercises. Definitely using the holiday break to overhaul my note-taking.
When I was studying for my final exams in high school I did an interesting thing. Instead of going through the things I had already learned in detail to consolidate the knowledge, I kind of just "tapped into each Idea / cnocept" with my mind for like some seconds, and then moved on to the next Idea. I find this really interesting, that my brain is able to do such a thing. It was somewhat like exercising my brain to "take the right road" for each Idea but then not follow it to the end.
yesss I'm trying to do that too! Instead of taking notes straightaway I try to trace why a scientist would get this conclusion from this experiment and really “tap into” the concept haha
Good stuff. I have learned about some of these techniques before. More specifically from a book called A Mind for Numbers. The challenge for me is to keep in mind these techniques and intentionally put them into practice. Watching this video is a great reminder. Thanks a lot!
Throughout my high school career, there's been some difficulty in discovering insightful information as to how I can improve myself academically AND mentally. Thanks to Justin, I'm glad to say that I'm finally walking on the right path toward improving such things. This is only the beginning of hopefully an exciting journey.
I wish you were my tutor in medical school. I like that you have broken the mold a little bit. Other people I have listened to have really just been regurgitating the same sorts of techniques that I didn't feel were adequate. I like finally hearing from someone that suggests a different approach.
What techniques worked for you?
@@ProMethod2 Thanks for asking. When it comes to studying large amounts of information very quickly, it comes down to consistency and time management. Those strategies matter a lot more than the quick and dirty tactics a lot of people try pushing, claiming that they will increase your scores by X amount of points. I know far too many people who religiously followed that advice and it did not work out for them. I saw way too many videos from students praising Anki as the best resource on the planet while downplaying other things like reading textbooks. They claimed that reviewing hundreds of flashcards every day was the best way to study, and at first, it sounded plausible. The notion that flashcards work is all based around "spaced-repetition," and that's just someone's way of trying to sound scientific, but it just means-- review, review, review. I was told not to reread chapters in a book but to review 500 flashcards every day. That is only good for memorizing stringent factoids, not for thinking critically about a concept. To get a genuinely robust understanding, you need to manipulate the information in your mind, mulling over it until the idea becomes clear backward and forwards. You need to look for a connection between information you already know and the challenging material you're trying to learn. If someone is trying to sell you on a quick fix, it's often a gimmick. You can create mnemonics and concept maps to help group information. Asking yourself questions and letting the learning develop through your own interests is also important. If you're not engaged then it's not only brutal sitting there trying to study but you don't get as much out of it as you would if you had followed your line of thinking and discovered what you find interesting about a subject.
Never really level 4 thought about questions to ask of instructors which explains a lot. Like the prioritization of what question to ask, was always at best ask relationary questions towards adjacent topics as a means to expand my own space of consumption of ideas. However it tended more than not to generally lead to more questions to be asked than would be answered, many responses of thats a great question, and notes during the moment.
For those who can't catch what he's talking about due to his faster speaking, you can play the video at 0.75x speed.. :)
Fuck I'm watching at 2x
I thought I was the only one who watches at 2x speed
@@InternetDragonHero same XD
I watch stuff at 1.5 speed
😂😂I see I'm not the only one watching at 2x
Your videos have been an amazing help to me. They have made me realize how much work I need to do to reach my school goals. I’m in my first semester of Nursing and it was kicking my butt.
I implemented your techniques of questioning and making connections between ideas and it made a big difference. I actually enjoyed studying when I did that .
Great stuff!!!
The information in this video is organized so incredibly well and that only further solidifies your points. I’ve trued a few of these methods and they’re definitely very effective. Especially teaching.
I remember the times I’d be standing around acting like I’m explaining a topic to someone and it would be so effective, not just to help me recall, but also in pointing oht weaknesses in my own understanding of the material.
This video is exact compilation of all the best techniques that every learner needs
Learned something new. The concept of learning differently each time. I used the linear note for revision and route learning method. It was tiring and exhausting. I find the changing the method every time you revise more interesting. Asking the how and how come - challenges my mind and create curiosity.
Prime - pay attention - revise actively ( ask why and how, use mind map, few words, recall) within 12 hrs
Imagine splitting facts for 23 minutes
Nice video bro keep uploading 😊
Important Principles:
1. Deep Learning: Deep learning involves seeking creative connections between concepts to enhance understanding, memory retention, and enjoyment of the subject.
2. Mindmaps: Mindmaps are visual representations that depict the relationships between concepts, with core concepts as the trunk, branches as connections, and leaves as individual concepts.
3. Core Concepts: Core concepts are fundamental ideas that, when comprehended, provide a new perspective on the subject matter and make learning related subtopics easier.
4. Importance of Core Concepts: Understanding core concepts is crucial as they form the foundation for grasping more complex subsets within a subject, facilitating deeper comprehension.
5. Recursive Learning: Learning is not linear but recursive, meaning alternative approaches, such as reading a textbook backward or exploring different concepts, can enhance understanding and reveal valuable connections.
6. Flexibility in Learning: Different individuals may have diverse learning preferences, and understanding the material can vary based on individual perspectives rather than relying solely on prescribed methods.
7. Problem Solving and Connections: When encountering difficulties, exploring connections with different concepts or revisiting problems involving different ideas can help find the needed connections to solve current problems.
8. Enjoyment and Understanding: Deep learning not only improves memory and comprehension but also fosters enjoyment, indicating a thorough understanding of the material.
9. Transferable Skills: Deep learning promotes critical thinking, analysis, and the ability to transfer knowledge to new situations by recognizing and utilizing connections between concepts.
10. Application of Deep Learning: Deep learning is applicable across various fields of study, promoting independent learning, creativity, and the ability to make connections beyond subject boundaries.
11. Long-term Retention: Regular practice and application of deep learning techniques contribute to long-term retention and the ability to apply knowledge in real-world scenarios.
As a distance learner I think these can be incredibly helpful! I’ve been taking lots of notes and not getting much from it, I now know why! Thank you for a great video with such great advice!
This content is pure gold. Even your filler information to explain the main points is sooo good. Thank you!
relaxation and meditation are important. Multimodal learning important too. Analogies and humour working in order to improve the engagement
This is gold why are so few ppl paying attention?!
Thank you. Love the part you confirm learning is not linear . A thing that works for me very well is to do a little fable with some images to start my mind map. I learned it from the book the monk who sold his Ferrari. Thank you for this video I think it summarizes the core principles you develop in other videos . I’m glad your channel is growing. best regards from Bolivia 🇧🇴
This is brilliant. First time tertiary student at 32 because I never really understood school but that is because school is linear, life is not and I have enjoyed learning through experience and the ‘chaos’ of excursive learning. I always thought I wasn’t built for school and that would always be the case but now I see that I am built for learning, I just need to change the structure in which I process the linear information I receive.
Thank you.
I also thoroughly appreciate the memes to break up the high level of information being presented 😂
Hands down, you're THE GOAT man!!!
Thanks a ton for adding so much value to my life.
Thank you so much! Love you bro! Coincidently I am having the problem on how to study efficiently and following this playlist really does help a lot. Not to mention that I am taking this knowledge for free. So huge thanks bro! I just subscribed and liked every video I watched hehehe hope it helps.
The best study tips I've found on UA-cam
Surprisingly I had some of the traits which made me feel like i was a good student 😁 but of course i had some that i didn’t have, Now i know what to improve on, priming and the 12 hour time period, which after i think about it is most of the video 🙃
Just found your channel. I’m doing last year of my masters and this is really helpful, as I’ve been struggling to connect the dots from all the literature I’ve been reading. New subbie here.
Hi Justin! Just discovered your channel and can tell I have a lot to learn from you. Incidentally, I'm 49 years old and hoping to begin medical school this summer. I have an engineering degree, used to teach high school math and love to help kids understand math - so I'm hoping to combine my love of teaching with medicine. I would like to know more about your journey and ask some specific questions about your medical school experience. I think your course may be helpful for me AND my daughter to take together. I hope we can connect soon!
Dang that’s really awesome! I’m currently doing my engineering degree but been struggling through it and sorta gave up on going to medical school due to my grades not being good enough and feeling behind from just delaying my studies due to my mental health. Honestly all the best to you and I wish you the best! It’s awesome to hear stories of people working hard for your dream!
Your content is really helpful. I'm excited to try them out
i'm surprised at how many of these things i do naturally already! this is a very helpful video and gave me lots of motivation to study for the next semester. thanks so much!
Very keen to get into this. I find recalling very easy for the first few weeks and then come exam time I am surprised by how much revision I need to do. Thanks for the effort you put into the vids.
When you talk about "Ask A Lot Of Questions.".. I was taught to write those down_but I swapped that out with recording my questions.
I go through the assigned "homework" before writing my questions and all answers I have found with the section of materials given.
That prepares a questions list that can be used next day.
The best video I ever watched by Justin by far
Amazing video I recently just all together stopped taking notes all together during lecture but this gave me an idea to try mind mapping and writing down related questions for each bracket of an idea during lecture
Wish I saw this earlier, a lot of concepts you describe I found out after 3-4 years studying in uni, great video!
Thanks alot for the video it is Wonderful I realized I was studying wrong hopefully this will get me starting on the right path again.✨
Wow!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!! It's helping me a lot!!!
I never felt so excited to try any advice. Justin thanks a lot for really going in depth by explaining these attributes. Loved your work.
I need this to refine my learning system!!!!
This made a lot of sense with how I learned unconsciously when I was a kid, thanks.
As a Cambridge Grad, and Investment Banker, I think everything Justin is saying is correct. The issue is that the content is so binge-watchable, and it's easy to get carried away.
I had a similar issue watching Ali Abdaal's content. Watching ti made me nearly FAIL Cambridge.
Whilst the videos were really informative, they overloaded me with information, and it drove my inaction. It ruined my productivity and built horrible study habits that made me nearly fail the year. I was able to take away 4 important lessons from that experience, and they might be the difference between your academic success and failure. Not knowing these really cost me.
Lesson 1: You need to assess whether a piece of information applies to you
Lesson 2: Learning to learn feels good but it's screwing up your brain (even more)
Lesson 3: Information overload is driving your inaction and anxiety around work
Lesson 4: Build your habits slowly and don't drop everything you know
I made a full length video on this: ua-cam.com/video/LqHhHxMGl8g/v-deo.html
This video is just amazing, thank you so much! I am currently a first year Uni student and I can't wait to incorporate these studying methods! :)
Justin you explain novel concept in such simple and very clear way even if the answer could be more complicated.
they really should teach this in school. I wish I knew this earlier. thank you!
this is one of your first videos I saw today and I realized that I was only memorizing topics for exams and i wasn´t understenading the true meaning
It is still all theory. The main problem is academic concepts, news, books, lectures present content in specific ways and it is extremely demanding for our brains to engage in learning either active or passive written text. We are hungry for knowledge one day and we may go through the efforts of dismantling and putting back together concepts sometimes. However we are lazy and our very brains are lazy and cut corners in remembering selectively or forgetting or being creative and mixing everything all together. After one intensive exercise like this you find yourself less interested, less adventurous and it becomes a task in our perception to revise or to explore more. Positive attention and engagement span are most important.
very helpful video! i looked up threshold concepts and wow, its so eye opening. from this point on, i feel motivated and i will be more intentional to learn effectively
You're literally the baking soda to any cake 😭. I've got all these other videos that I watched but they don't discuss what they do specifically. Thank you.
This video was amazing, thank you !! Can't wait to apply these techniques
Many subjects have exams that are multiple choice. If the subject is one that you feel will be of no future use but you are forced to take because of the university's course requirements, then recognition will be sufficient for you to get good grades in that course. Multiple choice questions usually give five options per question of which three can be eliminated on the spot because they are ridiculous, leaving you two to choose from. If you really don't know, you still have a 50-50 chance of getting it right. Exam taking techniques are a very important part of student life. I have not seen anything from you so far on this topic, although I'll admit I have not gone through all of your videos.
I just came over this and I gotta say that I need to try all of these
one of the best things that ive started doing is phrasing notes as questions, most of my "notes" are quizlets which allows me to then use them much more effectively
Very insightful. Look forward to delving into more topics on your channel
Thankyou I love re-watching your vids. Learn new stuff every time.
These ideas resonate with me so much more than the "wake up earlyy, make a schedule, study 10 hours a day" stuff
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 📈 *Success in students is defined by academic performance and achievement.*
00:55 🎯 *Focus on what students can control for academic success.*
01:39 🧠 *Introduction to key learning concepts: Deep Learning, Active Learning, and Threshold Concepts.*
02:08 💡 *Threshold Concepts explained as transformative and key to understanding a subject.*
04:29 🔁 *Learning is recursive and excursive, highlighting the non-linear nature of the learning process.*
06:45 📚 *Active Learning strategies include class polls, quizzes, and group discussions.*
08:07 🔄 *Priming as a technique for improving learning efficiency.*
09:43 🚀 *Techniques for staying attentive and active during learning events.*
12:41 ⏰ *Importance of timely revision within 12 hours of learning for better memory consolidation.*
13:50 🗺️ *Use of mind maps for revision to connect learning to the big picture.*
16:12 📝 *Delayed note-taking and summary sheets as effective study techniques.*
17:37 🎓 *Pre-test revision strategies emphasizing recall over recognition.*
20:09 🎓 *Mastery in priming, engagement during events, first revision, subsequent revisions, and teaching others are key competencies of effective learners.*
20:38 🛠️ *These foundational skills are augmented by techniques like spaced repetition, flashcards, and active reading strategies.*
21:06 🌟 *Learning is individual, but these fundamental strategies have proven effective across many students.*
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