hey guys welcome back to the channel if
you're new here my name is Ali I'm a
final year medical student at Cambridge
University and this is the second in our
video about evidence-based revision tips
and today we're going to be talking
about spaced repetition and how you can
apply to your own study routine if you
haven't seen the previous video which
will be linked up there and here and
everywhere else please do watch that
first that is about active recall and
active recall is by far the most
important thing you can be doing right
now to make your studying much more
efficient this video is gonna be about
spaced repetition which is probably the
second most important thing you could be
doing I've put timestamps to everything
we're going to talk about in the
description below along with a load of
links so you can follow those as you
like and now here's the structure of the
video because everyone loves a well
structured video firstly we're gonna
introduce this concept of spaced
repetition and I'll be sharing with you
a little bit of the evidence behind it
we're not gonna go overboard on the
evidence because to be honest a lot of
the stuff around spaced repetition is
quite intuitive secondly I'm gonna be
giving you some tips as to how you can
incorporate spaced repetition into your
study techniques and into your life
generally and thirdly I'm gonna be
talking to you about my own personal
magical spaced repetition spreadsheet
system that I've been using for the past
few years and that when I was using like
properly and got me really really good
marks in my Cambridge exams so yeah
that's the structure the video feel free
to jump around with the timestamps let's
start by talking about spaced repetition
and the evidence behind it
what is spaced repetition spaced
repetition is as the name suggests where
you spaced your repetition of particular
subjects over a period of time it is in
contrast to cramming which is a very
popular revision strategy but as we all
probably intuitively know when you cram
for a test the next day you can probably
remember quite a lot of it because it's
like in your short-term memory but by
you know maybe the next day or the
following day you've completely
forgotten all of it
so cramming is sort of not ideal if
we're talking about retaining stuff in a
long-term memory the idea behind spaced
repetition is that instead of cramming
things into a single day we spread out
our vision over time and we review
topics ideally by active recall at
particular intervals basically the
reason why it works is because of
something called the forgetting curve
and that's something that's been around
in the psychology literature since the
1800s and that's something that we can
all probably intuitively experience for
ourselves you've probably had that
feeling whereby you know you revise a
fit something and then you look at it a
week later and it's like you've just
forgotten all of it like what was the
point of arising that and you have to
repeat it repeat repeat again that's the
forgetting curve in action it's the idea
that over time we forget things at an
exponential rate sort of like you know
radioactive decay and half-life if you
if you're into a-level physics or
chemistry the important thing about the
forgetting curve and how we can take
advantage of it is that every time we
interrupt
forgetting curve it then takes longer
for us to forget something so let's say
today I studied the anatomy of the upper
limb and then I reviewed it again
tomorrow I have interrupted the
forgetting curve so while previously I
might have forgotten a half of it by
tomorrow now I'm only going to forget
25% of it by the following day and if I
then review it again three days later
and go back to a hundred percent now
it's gonna take me even longer to forget
it and the idea is that the more times
we do this the more spaced out our
repetition becomes the more likely we
are to encode all of this information
into a long-term memory so now we're
never going to forget that the radial
nerve supplies the posterior compartment
of the arm because we've repeated it so
many times over such a spaced interval
that the forgetting curve no longer
applies to that piece of uh knowledge or
understanding so yeah that's no
particular on breaking a lot of us
already do this anyway we know that we
won't just remember something if we
study at once so we kind of make a
revision timetable and we think right
I'm gonna revise topic one in chemistry
a s on that day and then I'll revise
again a week later and then a week later
that's not / - you can't reverse shell
obviously spacing your repetition is
better than cramming the thing that I
personally take home from the forgetting
curve is is actually that you know the
intervals at which we space things apart
there is a phenomenon in the Sequoia
ecology psychology literature I'll link
some studies below but I won't bother
explaining it in depth basically it's
it's the idea that the harder your brain
has to work to retrieve something from
it the more stronger that information
gets encoded so the idea behind spaced
repetition is that you allow your brain
to forget some of the information such
that when you revise it again it's not
mindless repetition it's actually taking
you some brain power and the more brain
power it takes the more we've forgotten
the harder your brain has to work at and
therefore the more strongly that
information gets encoded why this is
relevant to our own studies it's
relevant because it means that we have
this kind of idea of starting off
spacing things at like a narrow interval
and then spreading the interval out over
time so like I said in my example and
ask me the upper limb let's do it today
let's do it tomorrow
three days later a week later and then a
month later we've repeated at five times
we've spaced these repetition sessions
we've allowed ourselves to forget a
little bit of the information in between
the intervals such that when we revise
the topic ideally with active recall
rather than just rereading it takes
brain power to recall this information
therefore by the end of it we have
retain so much more than if we'd spent
five times you know as much time on the
first stages trying to cram the anatomy
of the upper limb so that's one point
about spaced repetition I think a more
interesting point that I've been using a
lot in my own study
is that actually the evidence suggests
that even if even if in the same study
session like in the same day of work you
space stuff out rather than kind of do
it in chunks the evidence suggests that
that's probably a more efficient
technique in terms of retaining
information there's an interesting study
from 2011 where they got four groups of
students to try and learn words and the
translations in Swahili one group of
them only studied the words once and
these were their results and as you can
see they didn't do very well that's kind
of what you'd expect if you saw like a
vocab list of French words and image
translations you probably wouldn't
remember much of it if you just saw it
once the second group saw each word once
and then had to recall each word once
and then were tested and this is their
performance so as you can see no just
recalling a word once as we've already
established in the previous video active
recall is pretty great increases your
performance massively compared to you
know just studying it but the third
group also recalled the words that they
they knew but immediately after each
recalled they had the recall of the same
word so they record the same words kind
of multiple times before moving on and
these are their results so as you can
see not much difference there between
just the guys that recalled it once the
most interesting ly the final group that
saw each word and then recalled it but
then had a gap of a few words before
recalling it again so you know they they
repeated their recall of it but they
spaced their repeated recall of it in
the same study session these are their
results that these guys did exactly the
same amount of work they did exactly the
same thing
they studied for the same amount of time
as the people in group 3 the guys that
kind of recalled in her in a group and
then found another word and recall to
integrate but they've got a staggering
improvement in this score up to 80
percent it's exactly the same work like
literally exactly the same work the only
difference is that it was spaced out
relative to group 3 and that gives you a
difference of an extra 50% in exam
performance and like I don't know about
you but like if if I could restructure
my revision in a way that I was doing
the same thing as I've always done but
just kind of doing it in a slightly
different order and I could get such a
massive performance boost I would be
doing it all day and I'd be shouting it
from the rooftops
personally so what does this experiment
actually tell us firstly I think it
tells us about the power of active
recall but hopefully we already knew
that cuz we'd seen the previous video
about active recall the conclusion I
draw from this is that in a given day
let's say I've done five topics of you
know four praying for my or skis or
whatever five topics what I previously
would have done is I think what a lot of
us do when it comes to revision is that
we do one topic in the morning flows
like two hours that we're done and then
the next one and then in the third one
the fourth on the fifth one and we were
and we might use space repeated
repetition to repeat it like a day later
a week later a month later but the point
is within that study session within that
day we've kind of just done the topic
once and I think the thing that I take
from from this particular study and from
similar ones like it is that there is a
lot to be gained by just going over the
stuff like testing yourself on it maybe
like two hours later let's say you've
done topic 1 in topic 2 just before
starting topic 3 you know just ask
yourself I wonder how much I can write
down of what I remember from topic 1 or
I wonder if I can answer the could the
recall questions that I wrote for myself
for topic 1
I know I'm gonna be doing it tomorrow
anyway because you know part of my space
repetition method and three days later
and a week later but you know let me
just see at the end of the day what I
can recall and the results of this study
and similar ones seem to suggest that if
even doing that in the same day the same
study session really boosts your marks
so yeah that's pretty much spaced
repetition in a nutshell firstly it's
the idea that obviously you know spacing
your repetition over a period of time is
better than cramming that's
uncontroversial it's no particular
breaking but secondly it's this idea
that even like spacing stuff out within
the same day within the same study
session has the potential to really
really boost your marks and if it does
have that potential even if it ends up
not being a 50% improvement because to
be honest that's it's pretty you know
pretty amazing even if it ends up not
being that great it still has the
potential to improve our scores and it
improves our long-term understanding and
retention of the topic so I think it's
something that maybe we should be
practicing to do so practical advice
maybe at the end of the day ask yourself
whatever I learned today you know go
over your quote your active recall
questions like write down on one page
you know what is everything I can
remember in the form of a spider diagram
from this subject with the book closed
and I think that might be a really
efficient way to get a lot more
information into your brain in a shorter
space of time
so that's a quick introduction to
spatial position let's not go into the
meat of this video and that's what a lot
of you guys have been requesting in the
comments and that's tips on how to apply
spaced repetition to your own studies
and you know a lot of you are asking how
I built my own
spaced repetition spreadsheet that you
might have seen in the observer video
at this point I'm not gonna be citing
any studies or any evidence what I'm
saying this is purely my own opinion
this is purely the stuff that's worked
for me in my second and third year at
university I really actively
specifically applied active recall and
spaced repetition and it was only those
two years that I did it like really
really well like really anally kind of
just focusing my revision technique
around that and those were the two years
that I redid really really well in my
Cambridge exams in other years I've cut
I fell by the wayside a bit it was like
off whatever I'm quite tempted to just
kind of reread my textbook or highlight
stuff because it's less cognitively
demanding and like I still passed my
exams I did all right but I didn't do
amazingly and obviously my N equals one
personal experience is not a legit
scientific study so I think my advice to
you guys would be that don't take my
word for this as being gospel maybe try
these techniques in your own in your own
studies in your own life if they work
for you then fantastic and if they don't
work for you then you've just wasted 20
minutes watching a video I apologize
that's time you're never gonna get back
but yeah cool let's talk about specific
techniques things that you can do to
apply spaced repetition to your own
studies and to your own life first thing
to mention is flashcards and Anki is the
app that I personally prefer to use and
as I mentioned the previous video I've
used this to memorize specific facts
like stuff like in anatomy and
pharmacology but also quotes for essays
and I busted out like you know quotes
from john paul ii in st. Augustine in my
in my ethics essays and the examiners
seem to love that sort of thing it's
quite nice when you can like you know
put a few fancy quotes into an essay and
I use danke to memorize those I won't
talk about it in depth I've talked about
in the previous video it's just a
flashcard app that does active recall
and spaced repetition it kind of
incorporates this into the software
point number two isn't really a
practical technique it's more of a
mindset shift and it's something that
I've applied to my own life ever since I
discovered this power of spaced
repetition and you can use it to to
learn a lot of things in quite a small
amount of time and overall and the
technique is simply that all you have to
do is practice a little bit each day for
ages and then you just get really good
at something and everyone who's done a
musical instrument knows this they know
that you know practicing for 10 minutes
a day for a week it's far better than
practicing an hour on the weekend or two
hours on the weekend but the way our
brain works the way we encode
information it tends to be people say
when we sleep so we kind of do a little
better we get a bit of muscle memory and
then when we sleep these connections get
solidified and then we do it again we
find a little bit better so my point is
that once you appreciate the power of
spaced repetition you can apply to
everything in your life not just to to
your studies or to your revision I've
personally applied this to piano get
graphic design web design video editing
coding like quite a few different things
in addition to like my academic work and
I find it's really really useful because
it makes the amount of improvement you
get for every unit of time much greater
than it would be with other methods
where you kind of spend ages doing one
thing or spend ages doing another thing
and that's what I previously used to do
so yeah point number two is is simply
about you know appreciating the power of
spaced repetition consistency and
patience effectively doing a little bit
each day and improving it's no
particular and breaking I know everyone
who's tried to learn a musical
instrument probably knows this but I
just thought I'd share it with you guys
because I've had a lot of messages like
YouTube comments and Instagram DMS
people being like oh how do you do so
much stuff what's your secret
the secret is you know just a little bit
each day and being consistent has a
staggering potential to just let you let
you gain so many skills that you would
be so glad for in the long term and
finally let's get to the meat of this
let me talk to you about my magical
spaced repetition spreadsheet system so
I used this in second and third year did
really well in my exams and I'm using it
in my final year and I hope that I told
you quite well in my exams using this
method basically the way you do it is
that you make a spreadsheet I prefer
using Google sheets rather than Excel
Google sheets is easy to load you can
download the app on your phone that
means anywhere you are whether you're
like on the bus or on the toilet or in
the library you can update your magical
spreadsheet if it's a dot XLS file on
your desktop and you double click here
and it takes an agonising amount of time
to load that just adds too much friction
to this so I prefer to use Google sheets
so that's my that's my advice use Google
sheets for this so what do you actually
do with a spreadsheet so what you do is
is that you make a different sheet for
each of your subjects so it might be
biology chemistry physics maths English
Lit if you're doing a level or it might
be like anatomy biochemistry physiology
pathology my prepare all other stuff if
you're a medical student or you know
apply this to your own life obviously
and the idea is within each kind of
broad subject in the a column of the
spreadsheet you're writing down a list
of every single topic in that in that
subject now at this point I just want to
talk about the importance of scoping
your subject is how a friend put it to
me recently and like like actually
knowing what's on your syllabus I've
spoken to a lot of students students
over the past few years you know helping
them prepare for their medicine exams
and all of the stuff and it's pretty
astounding how few students like know
their course inside out like know what
topics there are in their AAAS na to
chemistry or know exactly what topics
are
I think that's that's one thing that if
you haven't done already that you
definitely should be doing like spend as
long as it takes like even if it takes a
whole day just like you know writing
down a list of all of the different
topics and like don't follow the
specification the specification I
absolutely hate specifications they're
just like verbose ly word is like you
know one point one point zero zero three
to be able to appreciate the importance
of the nitrogen cycle you know really
the topic is just at the nitrogen cycle
but I've seen that a lot of people kind
of like you used the specification as
we're revising personally I've never
found that particular helpful my
personal tactic is to look through exam
papers because while you can't really
trust a specification you can absolutely
trust the past papers and if the past
papers you know if you can categorize
things into for example physics if you
can categorize them into electricity
mechanics nuclear waves and you realize
that that's all that comes up which is
pretty much all that comes up in physics
for the B map and that's how I kind of
categorized it I just looked at all the
past papers and realized oh wow there's
only four categories that's how I
personally like to structure my own my
subjects rather than relying on
specification but anyway however you do
it however you scope your subject the
point is you now have a list of all the
topics that you need to revise down one
column dissolve the spreadsheet
basically the way the system works it's
it's very simple every time you study a
topic and you actively recall stuff from
that topic then you're allowed to write
the current date in the in the next
column along in the spreadsheet so in
this example today I did the abdominal
exam and therefore I'm gonna write
today's date in the box now let's say
tomorrow I do the above abdominal exam
again I you know we reread my notes on
it if I if I'm feeling particularly lazy
if I'm feeling efficient I would
actively recall I would be using my own
questions and then once I've done that
then I put tomorrow's date in the box so
the idea is that over time I'm kind of
building up this list of repetitions of
my subject so I'm going to show you an
example of the spreadsheet that I used
in my third year when I was doing
psychology I referenced this in the hips
more video the collaboration that we did
which is really good fun and that you
should watch if you haven't seen and
loads of people asked you know can you
tell us specifically about how you made
the spreadsheet this is how it world
I've got a list of essays that I want to
learn down one side for each of the
three different like papers within
psychology and over time I built up this
this kind of repetition dates so like
once I've read the essay and kind of
like draw my spot a diagram for it I'd
write the date and I think something
really useful is to color code each box
based on how good you recall
of that subject so for example if I knew
it very very very well I would color it
green if I do if I just didn't really
know it at all I'll color it red if I
sort of knew it maybe 50% I color it
yellow and the nice thing about Google
sheets is that you've got like you know
creations of red orange yellow like
halfway through so it gives you a very
visual representation of what are my
weak areas what are my strong areas and
that's the system it's it's it's simple
but it works really well the idea is
just that you know over time you mark
these down and then as as time
progresses you start of red and then
they go be yellow and then this target
in green and even less oh wow I know
everything in the subject because
they've all been mark green and I know I
know it because the only reason I'm
allowed to mark a date on it is if I've
actively recalled information from this
topic it's not just have a read the top
chapter in the textbook have I read over
my notes that is a total waste of time
the important thing is have I recalled
it have I tried to write down as much as
I know about the topic have I answered
my active recall questions for that
particular topic so yeah that's the
system it's quite simple you know topics
on one side and then all the times you
revise the topic and actively recall it
please along along the rest of it and
then you color code it based on how good
you were actively recalling the
information here are some more tips on
how to use it effectively firstly please
start with the stuff that you don't know
I think a very common thing is that
you're you know it's time for me to
study maths I'm gonna open chapter one
of my textbook and read and do problems
that I know I already can do I used to
do this with chemistry uh-huh you know I
want to revise chemistry like open the
CGP revision guide fundamentals of
chemistry the periodic table oh yes you
know I know the periodic table song why
don't I sing the song in my head in
trying to take of that you know it was
all stuff that I knew I already knew and
yet I was doing it because it was like
right it's time to revise chemistry I
want to do what's easy please that's
that's a bad thing to do and these days
if I ever find myself doing that I like
mentally kicked myself in the head and
say to myself no I'm gonna do a topic
that I know I don't know one thing I
like to do is that I like to start from
the final topic in the textbook and work
my way back up to the first this is
especially true of lecture notes at
university you find that you know you
become very very familiar with the
contents of like lecture one two and
three but like lecture 13 14 15 out of
like maybe 18 you like a bit like a
little bit shaky on those and it's so
tempting when thinking I'm gonna revise
an athame just open the book to the
first page I think that's a terrible
idea in fact I think it's a better idea
just open the book at a random page or
the last page and work you and work your
way back because that encourages you to
tackle topics that you already don't
know and as we've established the more
but it takes you to learn a topic the
more effort it takes you to actively
recall the stronger that information is
going to get encoded over time so that's
tip number one don't study topics you
already know like focus on the stuff
that you've marked as a redwood that you
haven't done at all secondly I think
it's the mindset that works for for this
kind of spreadsheet system at least for
me is that I take a very sort of
scattershot approach for it
each day I try to fill in as many books
as I possibly can
because my reasoning is it's far better
for me to blitz through a topic and then
try and actively recall questions and
then do that same thing for like ten
different topics over time then it is
for me to kind of spend 10 hours focused
on a single topic which I might have
been more tempted to do in previous days
and I think that's something that a lot
of us do we we we focus on like I want
to get really good at this topic before
moving on whereas I think this kind of
the scattergun approach with the
spreadsheet is that you know I know that
I'm not gonna get good at this topic but
that's not the point the point is I'm
gonna be repeating this topic like eight
times before my exam comes around I want
to just kind of kind of blitz it like
write my recall questions like actively
recall make my brain work and then move
on to the next thing and then move with
the next thing after that and this is
actually another technique it's sort of
in the literature as sort of with
evidence it's called interleaved
practice you do a little bit of one
thing and then you know before you quite
have mastery of it you switch tasks or
something else and then you switch to us
toss with something else and they've got
a lot of evidence from like sporting
studies where they've like analyzed
hockey players and like coaching methods
and stuff and they do practice at one
thing and then like the players get
slightly annoyed because they were just
getting good at that particular move
before the coach movement moved them on
to something completely different but
you realize over time that you result
improved so much more if you take this
approach where you kind of do it a bit
recall it a bit move on do it a bit
recall a bit move on do it a bit recall
a bit move on rather than right I'm
gonna do and I'm gonna get really good
at the fundamentals of chemistry before
moving on to the next topic instead
maybe more like right I'm gonna spend 20
minutes in fundamentals of chemistry I'm
just gonna write down a list of all the
questions I can think of I'm gonna go
through them through the questions in my
head
with a book close trine on to the
questions right let's move on to topic
two and in fact to be honest at GCSE in
it and a level you can pretty much go
through the entire the entire textbook
/cg P revision guide / let's revision
guide or whatever you're using you can
do that in the matter of a few hours if
you take a very sort of scattergun like
I don't care about the detail I just
want to make my brain work to recall
information
so yeah I've wanted a bit about this
I feel quite strongly about this about
this I think that it's more efficient
for us if we don't like focusing on mind
with you on particular topics and if we
don't treat our vision as a block of
chemistry and then a block of this other
talking chemistry than a block of that
instead kind of do more of a sort of
combining everything together like a bit
of this bit of that bit of this bit of
that and then repeat the next day and I
think over time that builds up a
stronger knowledge base and an
understanding Basin this is not quite
evidence-based obviously this is my own
personal opinion please take it with a
pinch of salt but you know maybe try it
out for a few days you know doing this
thing of I'm just gonna blitz through a
lot of topics quantity rather than
quality in a way and I find actually
yeah that's quite a good buzzword
quantity rather than quality it's more
important to get through a large number
of topics then to get through a small
number to a lot of topics in a lot of
detail because often that detail doesn't
really help us and it's the active
active recalling that's really building
the connections in our brain but yeah I
think it's all about scattergun approach
with the spreadsheet method try and fill
in as many books as you can in a given
day rather than I really want to get
that book screen before moving on so
yeah that is effectively how I do my
revision I use my magical spaced
repetition spreadsheet system I have it
on Google sheet so I can fill it out
wherever I am I use active recall after
you know I answer my list of questions
I've written for each topic in my head
or out loud or on paper or whatever I'm
feeling like and then once I've actively
recalled it I mark the date and I color
code how easy it was to recall and this
gives me a nice kind of pictorial
representation of each of my subjects
each of the topics within those subjects
and how well I know those things so I
know exactly what to focus my attention
on in in future revision session finally
I'm going to talk about why I personally
don't like the idea of a revision
timetable I know this is blasphemy I
know a lot of other revision youtubers
who are doing absolutely smashing it and
doing really really well
fully endorse the idea of revision
timetables what I'd say to that is if it
works for you then that's absolutely
fantastic I don't think it works for me
I've tried it basically my issue with
revision timetables is that you're
expecting yourself to know how much you
need to revise a particular topic so I
like back in the day when I used to make
a rigid timetables I should be like
right on
on this day I'm gonna do that that and
that topic on the next I'm gonna do that
and that'll blah blah blah
I've been cooperating special petition
into this like obviously repeat topics
but you know my problem was that I'd I'd
be repeating topics that I didn't need
to repeat or I wouldn't be spending as
much time on topics that I didn't need
to repeat so ultimately I realized that
actually revision is is a very fluid
process we all find different things
difficult we all progress at slightly
different rates so if we make a
timetable two months before our exam
where we're telling ourselves right each
day I want to stick to this topic that
topic and kind of regiment it like that
I don't think that works for me instead
as I said I prefer to see revision is
more of a fluid thing and that's why I
really like my spreadsheet system
because it doesn't give me any
compulsion to do particular topically
today
all I have to do is each morning I'm
right right I'm gonna do some revision
for section a or my paper one in
psychology let me look through my list
and see which of these essays have the
red mark by them let me do those okay
perfect those are done now let's look at
the yellows yeah let's pen deployment
those and you know let's just make sure
I still know the greens let me look at
one of the greens that sort of thing I
wouldn't have been able to plan that in
advance and I think if I had tried in my
30 to plan out my revision in advance
like that I wouldn't have done nearly so
well as I ended up doing so yeah that's
why I don't like revision timetables
that's why these days I never make a
revision timetable I use my spreadsheet
and each day I decide ok what is the
stuff that needs working on what's the
stuff that's gonna make my brain work
the hardest because that's what's gonna
get me the biggest improvement in my
mark rather than you know my timetable
but hey everyone has their own thing if
you like timetables then by all means go
for it I personally don't if you're
finding that your timetable doesn't
really help or that you've not really
sticking to it as was the case for me
when I was in secondary school then
maybe try out this method use the
spreadsheet system use whatever system
you like but don't feel like you have to
structure your revision in a regimented
fashion around a timetable it doesn't
work for everyone
okay that brings us to the end of the
video I really hope this has been useful
we've talked less about the evidence in
this video than we did in the previous
video the previous video like
objectively I think is really really
really good if you want to learn how to
revise effectively because active recall
is the most important things and because
there are a lot of interesting studies
around it and because activerecord is
semi unintuitive like we all prefer to
reread highlight underline make notes
with spaced repetition is a bit it's a
bit different it's a bit harder to make
like a video on this saying that oh this
is gonna change this is gonna blow your
mind completely because we all sort of
know that spaced repetition works we
know that cramming doesn't really work
very well we know that it's good to
repeat stuff and I guess it's reasonable
to say that yeah I'll repeat it a week
later and then a month later and then
I'll kind of know it better but I hope
that either way you know if you've got
to this point this videos giving you
some value what have we talked about
we've talked about firstly an
introduction to spaced repetition we've
said that obviously spacing repetition
is better than cramming but we've said
that importantly as well within a single
study session maybe spacing your
repetition might be a good idea as well
because that improves your recall
according to the studies secondly we
talked about some ways in which you can
incorporate spaced repetition into your
study routine and your life we talked
about and keep very briefly I'll link it
down below if you want to check it out
and we talked about this kind of mindset
the mindset shift that is a good way of
learning anything not just like academic
stuff that you know just a little bit
each day is far better than focused
massed crammed practice which a lot of
us are very kind of inclined to do
including myself and every time I catch
myself doing that I think No it's all
about spaced repetition you know I just
need to do 10 minutes of slight reading
practice a day and that's so much better
than doing two hours on the weekend and
finally I shared with you my own
personal spreadsheet magical spaced
repetition system I call it magical it's
not that magical it's really really
simple but like it gives you a really
nice pictorial representation of where
you are for each of your subjects I
think that's really really important and
it works very well for me obviously this
particular spreadsheet system is not
based on evidence there's no one has
done a study on you know whether a
revision timetable works better than
having the spreadsheet system it just
works for me and if it works for you
then fantastic if it doesn't then I'm
sorry you've wasted your time please go
back to your time table and hopefully
you'll smash your exam I wish you the
very best of luck so yeah thank you so
much for watching this video if you need
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