Here are some guides based on personal experience and empirical evidence on how to learn effectively. Hopefully this allows you to study smarter, freeing up time to spend on the things you love with the people you love.
I used to work really hard and all I got were pretty average results, then I got a wake-up call. I realised my mistakes. I made some changes. And I got to top 10 in Cambridge University. So, if you're cruising along on average thinking this is your limit, read this and start making the changes and see your limits break.
When it comes to evidence-based study tips. Active recall and spaced repetition have become the two big hitters. But there's actually a third high impact strategy that often doesn't get its fair mention. Which is sad because it can boost your exam score by more than 10%. And that can be the difference between passing or failing, the difference between a B and an A, and the difference between a 2:1 and a 1st. So what is this strategy? Let's meet "The Testing Effect".
The way exams work means that whoever has a better memory wins. And well, life isn't that kind and we probably have a very average memory. So when the results come in, we hear a lot of "your cousin Dopinder got 100%, why can't you be more like him?" The good news is, I learnt how to transform my average memory into something that could recall all of pre-clinical medicine in just 6 weeks. And even better new is, I'm going to teach you how to do the same.