Oct '23 in General discussion
Not Sure How to Structure Your Study Sessions?
Summary:
1. Efficient Learning is Essential:
Many people inefficiently spend long hours on lectures and use ineffective methods for learning.
The key is to learn efficiently by actively addressing knowledge gaps and using deep encoding of information.
2. Broad Understanding of Subjects:
To excel in learning, take a broader view of the subjects you need to cover.
Identify what you know and what you don't know to focus your efforts effectively.
Regularly revisit and wrestle with information to enhance long-term retention.
3. Flexible Learning Approach:
Avoid rigid schedules and instead, recall and review your knowledge regularly.
By actively identifying and addressing decaying knowledge, you can use your time efficiently.
The goal is to maximize your learning within the 24 hours available in a day.
Video Transcript:
How do you use it most efficiently?
That's a real question.
So the most people is that
they would be just really inefficient.
They'll be going through lecture 1 to 20, sitting there for
8 to 10 hours a day, like in med school.
I know a lot of people do that.
And then they use really inefficient methods,
I think, to any forms of art.
Like at the highest level is formless.
So, yes, we teach you all of these
techniques later on, you just do it.
That's why we tell you where the 80/20 is to focus.
So when you focus on the encoding
part, then spaced repetition almost becomes irrelevant.
So what you really need to do at the highest level
is really scope out all the subjects still relevant because you
need to have a 10,000ft view or 30,000ft view of what
you need to cover all of these things.
And then you already have a good idea
of, okay, I know this, I don't know
this, I know this, I don't know this.
So you have the whole thing mapped out,
at least what you need to focus on.
And then the whole of the semester, or when
you're preparing for MCAT now, is basically to just
go through all the things that you don't understand.
And then as Zakir said, you wrestle the information, because the
harder you work your brain to consume that piece of
information, the easier it is later to retrieve this.
So then later on, you don't
have to have a rigid schedule.
Okay, Week 1 I'll do this. Week 2, I'll
do this, Week 3, I'm going to do this
about four to six weeks away from exams.
You want to do your whole
recall from top to bottom again.
So you pick out, okay, oh,
this has decayed a little bit.
That has decayed a little bit, and
then you know where your focus is.
I think the main point is you have 24 hours a day.
How do you use it most efficiently?
That's a real question for the most people
is that they would be just really inefficient.
They'll be going through lecture one to 20, sitting there for
eight to 10 hours a day, like in med school.
I know a lot of people do that,
and then they use really inefficient methods.
But now if you are actively looking out for where
your knowledge gaps are, and you're able to use really
deep encoding of information. That's the best you can do.
Like every hour you study is
then wrestling with new information.
You have covered like 100 times, 1000 times more
and better than the person next to you and
the person next to you on the other side.
Does that kind of make sense?
That's a high level overview of why I think
spaced repetition is not the key at highest level.
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