How to Study 3x Faster in 7 Days (from a Top 2% Med Student)
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Studying faster and better can boost your productivity so that you can be more efficient at university/medical school and school, giving you more time to do the things you care about. I give tips on how you can triple your studying speed to learn in the fraction of the time you used to take.
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Hi, I'm Salim and I'm a Graduate Entry Medical Student in London. I've already done two degrees before, so I've learnt a lot about productivity and how to study efficiently and effectively. If you want to learn about how I maintain this productivity inside and outside of medical school, subscribe so that you can start applying these changes for yourself!
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Would also like to add a few things to preemptively clarify - I have another video where I study for many hours a day instead of 2 hours - but this of course depends on what time of the year it is i.e. whether it’s exam season (where I’d study more) or the rest of the year (2 hours a day). Another thing is, when I mention letting things ‘marinate’ and ‘index’ in your brain, it’s similar in the sense to my video on reading where I mention summarising a chapter/page to reinforce comprehension - so these tips are transferrable between different tasks which makes them good (in my opinion anyway hahaha). Thanks for reading and I hope it helped xx
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I wish I could work on maths assignments/theses in the same way. Maths problems are insanely difficult to solve at university-level. They're all proofs, and these take weeks, if not days, to write. Your techniques work well with medical sciences/humanities.
Thanks for the video, anyway. Amazing tips, brother!
And you can't get things right in maths without getting them wrong first. Very frustrating! But I still love maths.
Ah yeah for sure - i have a mate that did maths at uni, and another that did physics and i remember hearing how they'd spend days working on the same problems, so it is for sure tough to apply these exact tips over to that
Hahaha i could tell by your username! What i can say is, i have more general studying videos coming out soon, like a lot of people seemed to want videos on distractions / procrastination / focus, so i'll be sure to make one soon and hopefully that might be something more applicable for you too!
appreciate the support bro!!
Woah... I have watched dozes of study videos, many of which were from channels with millions of subs... but man, no advice has resonated with me as well as this and your other vid about 16x focus. Thanks so much man, keep it up.
Ah this is genuienly really nice to hear, I'm glad the videos have been helpful! I hope i continue to put out videos that help 💪🏽
Amazing quality Salim, these big productivity channels need to watch their back!!
Hahahaha let's go bro 💪🏽💯
Note cards are an incredible way to apply this video. For my undergrad math degree, for every chapter we covered, I would write down the end-of-chapter exercises onto note cards with the answers on the back. After going through all the problems once, I would shuffle the note cards then work all the problems again.
As we moved into the semester, I would simply add to the stack of note cards with each new chapter. This helped ensure I wasnt forgetting anything from the early chapters. This system made finals so much easier because everything was "fresh" in my head still, and not to mention I already had all my note cards ready to work on.
I applied this method to every class I took, math or otherwise. Even in my advanced math classes for my Masters degree, where solutions could take pages upon pages of writing, I would use the note cards for definitions and partial solutions only, as best I could.
It works very very well.
Yep for sure, this is exactly what active recall is ahaha
I (and most other medics) tend to prefer sticking with Anki or Notion just because it's more convenient to have digital flashcards (otherwise would end up with 10k+ cards)
Thanks for engaging and good luck with your studies :)
I have a video on memorising that should help ruclips.net/video/EvCsXi1Rr2k/видео.html
Are you a medical student sir
Smart! People (myself included) underestimate the power of writing.
Do you use paper or digital
Absolutely loved this video!
This actually made a lot of sense since I've been doing that too subconsciously without even knowing, but i stopped after sometime to change my ways, no wonder I haven't been able to improve that much. Guess it's time to bring back the old methods, your uploads just made my day!
Appreciate the support!! Yeah i think quite a lot of us have had periods of solid studying, but we forget what exactly we did, so it's good to have that reminder again ahaha
Hope it goes well!
this video is sooooo helpful 😭! I've been searching and thinking about some ways to manage my time and finding ways that what ACTUALLY does efficient and effective studying means and how does it works, you're video served exactly what I needed!!😭 Thank you so much 💓
Your* not you’re
Thanks for your comment! I'm glad you found it helpful, i try to give things that genuinely work that helped me get through my degrees (and still helps me now w med school). Hope it all goes well, and hope to see you again in future vid comments :)
Finally someone giving it exactly how it should be! I was always trying to do high-yield topics in any exam, however it was always difficult to systemize it. You have effectively given me the hack. Salim Bhai I am now a fan of you brother, thank you so much !
Glad to hear you found it helpful! For sure it's good to have a system in place like this - all the best and thanks for engaging :)
I don’t think I can express just how much value this video has. I’ve been struggling to find the best way to efficiently
/effectively study and have searched and searched for over 3 years of studying for nursing. Now im currently in the program and I’ve picked up only scattered bits and pieces of information from what this video contains. And this video single handedly displays it all perfectly organized in 7 min…
Glad to hear you've found the video useful! I try to share what's actually helped me do well, so I hope it helps you too :) all the best 🙌🏽
@@Salim_Ahmed And Thankyou so much for doing that. I don’t think you understand just how much I am thankful for this and what you post. You are going to help so many students. Knowing HOW to study really is the battle and what can make the difference in doing well in your studies and it’s something I wish I could share with everyone if I had all the tools and knowledge on it. So I will be sharing your videos with my classmates and friends. Thankyou
Appreciate the support 🙌🏽 i try my best to share what's helped me over the years, so it's good to hear how useful it's been! I hope your friends find it useful too ahaha
Interesting practice, also, i've never heard about active synchronized recall! I had an insight that learning is basically keeping thinking about whatever you are learning, the longer it is in your head the better it stays but it's a bit effortful to keep it there first. I guess I now have word for it :)
I loved how you provided a framework with a divided triangle, in the 'read 3x faster' video, it was a great video. It may be too much to ask to do a thing like that often and you don't have to, your advice seems to be helping as is, although I must admit, I liked it how you gave it a diagram and a name, i.e., "Tri-Force Method" it was super comprehensive while also being actionable for the length of the video.
I'll be staying subscribed to you for sure, I hope you continue sharing honest tips like this!
I just try to give a name to the things I do because i think it makes it more engaging which seemed to have worked hahaha
And for sure, learning is definitely effort and a very active process as opposed to passive so as you said, we do have to try and let the information 'marinate' in our heads which is why I really like the practice of summarising things - because if you can summarise something very briefly then it means you know it decently well
Not asking for too much at all, this is all very valuable feedback to me so I'll 100% keep this in mind, thank you for letting me know!!!
Appreciate the support honestly ❤️ hopefully I continue to improve as I continue to make videos
I'm glad :D
@@ahdafnaik1333 yes this was definitely a great video. Crazy to think that the education system doesn't help people learn how to learn and implement higher order learning skills. I would recommend checking out Justin Sung if you enjoy videos like these just like myself. Not a promoter but just an ordinary consumer.
Wow. Honestly THANK GOD FOR THIS PERSON. you definitely definitely definitely deserve to be subscribed after from this video.
Ahahaha glad you liked it, and i hope it proves to be useful! Appreciate the support 🙌🏽
Hey, that is actually high quality stuff. You deserve more subs.
Ahaha appreciate the kind words bro, hope it helps! Will keep it going and hopefully the channel continues to grow 💪🏽💯
I click to this video because of the thumbnals that said you studied 2 hrs a day, it's actually pretty honest and consistency leads to success.
For sure, and I hope it's helped!
I am surprised that I've been doing this instinctively and I assure you this technique works
Glad to hear! Some techniques a lot of us do without realising but it's definitely good to be aware of them so that we can adapt them a lot better to different sorts of topics and subjects
same bro same i never know i do the active synchronised recall instinctively😂and honestly ive been doing well🎉
Absolutely love seeing your channel growth!! Your content is amazing and such high quality ☺️
Appreciate the support, hope it helps!!
THANK YOU DOC
IT WAS AWSOME
You're welcome, hope it helps!
Informative video! I have been stressing on working with my assignments in school that I have 1 day before the exam starts. I watched alot of study methods video and this video helps me make an academic comeback! Thank you so much for this Mr. Ahmed!
ma sha Allah brother assalamu alaykum from Turkey 🇹🇷
Thank you brother, hope all is well!
bruh it helped a lot in my jee preparation
Thanks a Lot
You're welcome, I'm glad it helped!
This is Gold!!!
I'm glad you liked it, I hope it helps!
The Dorian Marko interstellar cover was great. After learning it myself, I can’t get that run out my head. Haha great vid mate
Hahaha it is really nice! I hope the video helps!
This is really helpful and looks at things from novel perspectives! Thanks a lot
Glad it was helpful, you're welcome!
The only two youtuber that i really got motivated from
They are salim ahmed and hamza ahmed , I see both of them as my big brother☺️❤️🩹Lots of love from Nepal🇳🇵
This is cute haha, appreciate the support, and I hope my videos continue to help ❤️
Nice video mate
I really appreciate all the info and the time and effort put into it
Appreciate your kind words!! I hope it helps, and thanks for commenting :)
Another great video. Keep up the great content, Salim!
Appreciate the support, I hope it helps!
Awesome video Salim! The only thing that I found difficult to understand was when you used med school examples to explain concepts. As a high school student it was difficult to grasp exactly what you were trying to say as I was lost with the unfamiliar medical terminology. It would be great if you could incorporate more student friendly concepts as examples too!
This is genuinely very valuable feedback for me, I will definitely keep this in mind for future videos - thanks for reaching out!!
thanks for the advice im in high school rn and this helped me a lot🙌
Glad to hear it, hope high school goes well!
I loved everything you said !!!! It was really helpful!! thnks!
Glad to hear it's helpful, thanks for engaging and hope to see you in future video comments!
These tips are really awesome
Glad you like them hermione!
i love this video so much. how you explains really alligns what we actually need.
Glad you liked it, I try to keep it actionable and relevant!
Great principles to glean from. Thanks for your insights!
Glad you like them!
Another really good video!!!
I'm happy you found it good, I hope it helps and thanks for commenting :)
As I planning to get back to study to get my MSc you keep give me good and presious advice and make me remember the tricks I learned through BSc journey 😊
Keep it up Salim✨👏
Congrats and good luck with your MSc! I'm glad the videos help, appreciate the support!
I love how I found ur videos just after finishing my studies
Studying never ends my friend!
I am having a mental break down studying nephrology for like 49243934284th time now. lol.
Hahaha nephro was not fun, but I hope you got through it!
Faster 🕛🔭🔬
Thank you so much!! I'll try this tomorrow xD
All the best!
This is what I was starting to do and it’s been working out for me. I just didn’t know what it’s called. I just need to start right away not like the following day because I still feel behind in a way and stress. Im trying to limit my stress. Lol thank you for a great video! 😅
One step at a time and you’ll already be making progress, so don’t worry about doing everything at once :) i hope it helps and good luck!
Thanks man ❤
You're welcome, I hope it helps!
Thank you so mucuucch. I am also a medical student and ı always read the notes again and again but after that ı realised that with that technique ı only undertand the general concept and ı couldn't get a high mark despite ı studied so much. ı am using flashcards this exam let' see what is going to happen :D
Got my sub and thumbs up, super helpful. Thanks.
Appreciate the support, and I hope my videos can continue to help 🙌🏽
Love you r tequnic
And your way of speaking and your background 😀
Thank you so much 😀
thanks for the tip, i'll try it out! :)
You're welcome, hope it helps!
nice content u've got a new sub C:
Appreciate the support, hope it helps mate :)
W man ur helping me fr thx bro
Happy to help bro, I like the Tomioka profile pic haha - hope to see you in future video comments!
Really very solid advice ! Thanks. You've a new subscriber ☀
What kind of doctor you're studying to be ???
Thank you for the support and i hope it helps 🙌🏽 I'm still not 100% sure to be honest, but still got time to figure it all out!
Allahumma Barik sick physique bro
Appreciate it bro, hard work paying off 💪🏽💯
@@Salim_Ahmed 100% keep grinding
Great video mate
Appreciate it Josh, hope it helps!
Estava ansiosa para o meu plantão bbc news com meu fefo ❤
I translated this and I'm still not too sure what it means 😂 but i hope the video helps!
v helpful, thx m8!
You're welcome, hope it works well!
Your step score are going to be top notch. You have started right! MashAllah
Aha i hope the video helps!
@@Salim_Ahmed when would you take step 1?
You're notes are really cool! Are you doing them on notion?
Thanks for commenting! Those were on Notion yep - and then i make the questions on Anki. I also use an app called Scrintal for mindmapping which is pretty helpful for overviewing concepts and linking topics!
This was so helpful! I’ve never heard the advice to get things done as soon as they are assigned, but yes, I agree it makes perfect sense!
I'm glad you liked it!
Thanks bro, helped a lot
Glad to hear it! Thanks for engaging :)
Please can you do a video for a lazy medical student. My lazy attitude make me pass but I'm tired of my average score. I know my question is weird. Thank you
Thank you :D
You're welcome, hope it helps!
Me, starting my physics assignment "weeks early" then realising my 5% assignment takes 40 hours to complete.
Thanks for commenting! While this might work for some, there are many people that still find it difficult to focus even with distractions removed - and I aimed to help offer advice to these people to help improve their focus (which seemed to have helped based on some comments)!
Thank you❤
You're welcome, I hope it helps :)
Thank you 💕🩷💕🙏🏽😇
Welcome! I hope it helps :)
This Is peak content for RUclips, shouldnt be so useful
Thanks for the supportive comment, i hope i can continue to provide useful content!
Hello bro.
I am also a medical student. Can you give me some tips on how to understand the concepts properly and not just cram?
It would be very helpful.
To avoid cramming, gotta start studying earlier 😂😂 understanding concepts takes different amounts of time for different people, and if you cram it'll be difficult to put time in for that. Maybe it's as simple as just studying ahead so you can afford to delve a bit deeper into topics - the point I had in tbe video of going deeper helped me quite a lot with understanding, so I'd suggest doing that
Thanks for your useful video
You are most welcome
There's a star man waiting in the sky, thanks a LOT bro
No worries!
I study so far from where i live so i spend more time going to uni then studying and i don't really have time when i get home like only 4 hours and sometimes less, and I can't even rest or eat but this method look good I'mma try it i hope it will work for me
Commuting is tough, but using the method in this video can be done during commute such as using the flashcard software on your app! Good luck I hope it helps!
i try to apply this, and was working, but then my mom burst open my door thinking i was asleep because i'm so silent, i was so focused to my task it shocked me to the core when my mom did that and now somehow i cant get in focus anymore using this tech,
:( you can do it!
Hey bro i am a JEE(it's an exam to get into India's top Engineering college IIT )aspirant..how i can boost my productivity more and increase my score in the tests ?? And my 12th grade final exams are also approaching and i want to ace both the exams any tips for me ??which can help me ..
BTW i loved ur videos❤️
I’m starting premed this year and trying to figure out how to study well! Wish me luck
Good luck!
Hey Salim, in your most popular video about reading faster, what was the website you showed yourself using at the end. The one where you summarized each chapter you read.
The side by side one? It must've been Notion, the one w the toggles
@@Salim_Ahmed awesome thanks man. I like to write everything down because it helps with comprehension a little more than typing but the speed of typing can’t be ignored as a college student. i’ve watched a few of your videos and i just found your channel this morning, I love what your doing. I’m an undergrad majoring in physics and math at rutgers and have used some of your strategies already. If I was to change anymore at this moment I feel I would loose the momentum i’ve gained to finally keep up with my classes but i’m keeping your advice at mind for after this semester. I’m planning on going to grad school and getting my masters and know I’ll have plenty of time in between semesters to improve these skills of speed you’ve gotten so good at.
For sure, writing does help with being more intentional with everything you put down at times. Appreciate the support man, it genuinely does mean a lot! And deffo, like i think myself and other creators in this space tend to give quite a few points but tbh it isn't expected or reasonable for viewers to do them allll, as as you said it would create a lot of change which might make it hard (altho sometimes doin all can help for sure) - but adapting over time or adding them on one at a time (when it fits!) seems to work well too. I hope this sem goes well for you! Definitely though, it sounds like you're doing pretty well so i'm sure you'll make massive progress in that time!
Thanks for reaching out it's honestly nice to hear more about you guys!
3:59
me studying the introductory lecture super well bc its the easiest and i can understand it the most even though thats the part most unlikely to appear on the exam :')))
Hahaha yeah i feel that, it's the easier thing to do, stkcking with what you're comfortable with. But definitely gotta get a bit out of your comfort zone to learn more efficiently!
Yo salim, how do you suggest revising for a content based exam like biology at 6th form where the information is fleeting, how do you retain the active synchronised recall across a heavy content base?
Thanks for reaching out! If I'm honest mate A level content is a lot more straightforward than uni which makes this a lot simpler to do - my advice is to focus on active recall and spaced repetition to memorise the information. Because the truth is with that sort of content, there isn't toooo much understanding going on, it's a lot of memorising and fact recall. So focus on those two methods to retain information. I'll have a video on my memorisation framework either this month or the next, so hopefully that can help!
@@Salim_Ahmed I appreciate the feedback, in fact I have a proposal, would you be interested in hopping on a call with me ( an a-level student) so that you can properly address some of the issues that come with highschool level learning independently and thus through another perspective making your videos more approachable for all levels of education?
A call might be a bit tight atm coz got quite a lot of moving parts going on, but I'd deffo appreciate it if you could drop an email and we can get into contact that way for now? My email should be in my About Me page next to the business enquiries bit (i cant post it here otherwise i get a lot of bot emails)
1:13 made me giigle because im actually having an exam the day after tomorrrow and only 1 and a half hour to learn today
Good luck!! If you don't think it goes well, I hope you don't worry too much - we'll always have exams that feel super important, but at the end of the day (well a few months down when we forgot about the exam), we realise it's not actually that deep hahaha
@@Salim_Ahmed thank you that was quite motivating!
Ahaha no worries, hope to see you in future comments and good luck again :)
@@Salim_Ahmed thank you :)
Thanks i have finals in 3 days and will study the whole subject😢 i really procastinate alot i have 3 days before every subject and i have discrete mathematics in 3 days the problem is i am not used to studying esp when its my first year in college everything is so overwhelming and i am not good at math too and this college has alot of math ☠
Good luck! Be sure to focus on one thing at a time, look at past papers it'll help a lot, and keep at it!
I am just really unfocused during the classes and i cant understand what the problem is..sometimes its like the words the teacher is saying just goes above my head and i just copy whatever they are writing without even understanding anything..and when i try to study them again its just nothing at all..I dont know what to do..do you have any advices for this bruhh
Thanks for reaching out bro, I'm gonna make a video on focus some time soon, so deffo keep an eye out for it, and hopefully it can help. If it doesn't, deffo feel free to send me an email after and could discuss some more
Maybe your core fundamentals related to the subject/topics are not strong
Adhd?
Thank you so much Sir, I'm currently in reviewing for the battery exam with my nursing course and this helps me alot because i need to study all of my major subjects in order to pass the exam
Glad to hear it, good luck!
Nursing student here - was stuck on acid-based balances for the longest. Thank you for this video! I am gonna try this approach and see if it works
Good luck!
Sir !
Can you give some tips about Anki ?
I use it for language learning but I also want to use it in my studies but I don't exactly know how I should keep the settings (I set the easy mode in 4 days , Should I decrease the gap???)
Thanks for reaching out! These are the settings i use:
New cards - learning steps 1m 10m, graduating interval 1 day, easy interval 2 days
Lapses - relearning steps 10m, minimim interval 1, leech threshold 8
Advanced - starting ease 2.50, easy bomus 1.30, interval modifier 1, hard interval 1.20
Hope this helps!
@@Salim_Ahmed Thank you, Dr. Salim, for taking the time to respond to my question about your Anki settings. I'm grateful for your help.
Thanks man ready to top the exam
Best of luck!
I am a student of class 10 and there are 2 months left for my exam. It took me the whole year to figure out how to study correctly. There was a lot of mismanagement of syllabus in school as well as tuitions, so I was unable to study at my true potential.
Though I am the topper of my class then also I can't figure out how to get things done.
There are 2 months left.
How to get all the things done?
Please help??
Have a decent understanding of the syllabus and start doing sample papers and PYQS immediately. Don’t stress out. People will make the exams scarier than it looks. So don’t worry too much and just start studying. But the most important advice is not to obsess over perfection. You will not have a perfect understanding of the syllabus but that’s okay. So just keep trying and you’ll be alright. Good luck.
Use the right study methods, like spaced repetition and active recall, and apply the 80/20 rule. I mention this stuff in more detail in my study video, and memorising video if it might help!
a student who studied for 2 hours and a student who studied for 12hours has a huge difference. You can't beat those students who read 12 hours cause their basics and knowledge are more strong than yours if you're a student who studies 2hours
Pardon me if my thoughts don't agree with yours

Erm who says I can't beat those who study 12 hours..? coz I did rank higher lol..
It's not that your thoughts don't agree, your thoughts are just objectively incorrect
Thank you so much I appreciate my mistakes I'll definitely try tooo
Yes you can do it, studying smart is more important than studying hard and long!
If you focus on learning only for the exam, you can do better than someone who maybe has in reality more information than you.
I will give you one example..In med school in our 4 year we give the exam of gastrohepatology, which is in reality very hard.
Before the exam one of my friends asked me what the COLON was ( that maybe even someone outside medizin knows) , she had no idea, i coudnt even answe, i was just shocked. She had noo idea what she learned. It blows my mind everytime i think of it.
But she passed and got also the Diploma .. Which is scary..
Sorry for my englisch 😅
Smart man ! I stop going crazy reading the book . I focus on practice questions and watch videos
For sure questions are key!
Thank you but Can you elaborate more how to study horizontally can't get the idea
Hey Farida, think i remember you being subbed for a v long time so nice to see you again! Give me a subject you're studying and I can try to give a personalised example on it soon
@@Salim_Ahmed i am studying pathology , micro , pharma and introduction in internal medicine
I'll try and give a simple ish example for pharma and medicine - so thinking about treatments for different problems like hypertension, heart failure, chest pains (angina). The vertical approach would be to learn the treatments individually - so learn treatments for hypertension, learn for HF, etc. But if you take a horizontal approach, you could cover a greater amount of things more easily. For example, you could be learning about beta blockers, a common pharma drug class. Then considering its mechanism of action, you would form a web of conditions/problems that it's used to treat - like hypertension, HF, angina, tremors. The idea is casting a net wide and superficial at first so you develop the basic overview before going too deep into one thing (which is what studying vertically does). So you could kind of seeing it as doing it in reverse, which definitely helps with building foundations for weaker topics.
Another example could be thinking like this for microbiology - like instead of memorising each individual bacteria and what their treatments are, learn the common antibiotics used, and what those common antibiotics are used to treat - because this again covers a broader range of things as opposed to narrowing down on just one bacteria at a time.
I hope this helps, and if it doesn't, please feel free to comment again / send me an email!
@@Salim_Ahmed now i understand thank you so much 😊😊😊
No worries, happy to help!!
Great advice, thank you.
I hope it helps, thanks for commenting 🙌🏽
I could easily do for exam even I not need to do whole day, by the way I am cs student.
But my problems aren't exams I not have to do so I just automatically respect time and do and achieve full and I top the exam.
But I want to complete my own goals and task which i think will shape my life they are my goals and here how much I try to put deadline I can't follow it as I know if not now than next time.
Seriously I am fed up of me now doing this I wasted my 3 years.
Sometimes seeing my situation I just think do life ever progress.
It feels like endless loop where things don't want to end themselves giving me any future.
I have problem following my goals which I set i not have a bit problem doing task anyone else assign I will do them like my life depends on it like automatically even if I not want to do them but I won't tell it is fear as I never felt the pressure I only know preparing for exam just automatically happens from me I don't know how.
But my own goals they just shift from one deadline to other and I suck
Hmm there seems like a lot to unpack here - but I know I'll be a doing a video in early January for goal-setting for 2024, and hopefully that might be of help
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I have my exams in 4 months and I’m taking 5 subjects i really want to make a schedule but I’m really confused on how to make it because I still have the whole course to go through so I’m not sure how to go topic by topic
I’ve made all my flashcards I just don’t know how to space my revision out and how to give enough time to each topic
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I hope it helps :)
Yes, definitely it helps!
By the way, which country are you from?
Glad to hear :)
Born and raised in the UK :)
Sir Can you plzz give any tips or could make an video for people's who are back to or started to study after a huge gap after high school due to health issues & trauma how they can get on track because we will have to start from zero how much efforts or hour we will require to Be in stable studying mindfulness condition or how much hours we should put into.Currently I'm preparing for medical entrance exam after a huge gap of 2-3 yrs😢
Hey, i have a community post titled 'are you studying well' - it's my second last post - let me know the exact problems you're having and I could try and think of video ideas! i.e. whether it's concerns with focus, distractions etc.
Thanks for reaching out :)
I suggest you first do some meditation and gratitude journaling to heal your soul after your trauma. Then start by doing little things to build your interest in your targeted topic, step by step, day by day, If you get failed, take a short rest and try to find out "Why I failed?" and answer this question by yourself or you can get help from other experts (who actually met problems like you), then you carry on with your path but this time let make some adjustments to cure the problems from the prior attempt, then do it over and over again until you can fix the problem completely. The requirement for this approach is you need to pay genuinely attention to your thoughts and your process (meditation and journaling can support this process too), as long as you try it with your heart, you can get it someday.
e.g when you get distracted by TikTok, try to set a range of time to use it in a day or even more uninstall it if needed.
All is for your degree of focus on your goal.
This is my advice. Happy to receive other suggestions.
As a med student I also believe in the know the extra detail so that by the time the test comes it seems very dimmed down. The key technique I use, is to know it in high level then work to simplify it down myself, this helps synthesise the information my self.
For sure, helps the knowledge 'marinate' a bit too so that you retain the key concepts!
how many times do you study 2hrs a day?
Usually every week day, sometimes on weekends too - it's just part of the routine!
What app or site do you use to make notes where you click and more detailed information appears?
ntn.so/SalimAhmed
And here are my free templates - salimahmed.notion.site/Salim-s-Templates-cdb6e0c942f04e6c837226398c609efd?pvs=4
Hope it helps!
Just learned I’ve been doing active synchronized recall and I didn’t know it!! This is helpful cuz now I can explain how I study when people ask 😅😂
Hahaha nice
im currently in my undergrad trying to get into PT school stressed day in and day out. tbh this all makes so much sense and is so simple but no one does it. I am going to try to do this, all throughout this week and see how it goes.
Good luck!
Do you have any tips for slow learners and what would be the best study method for them in your opinion? 💓
Hey, Salim, Do u mind sharing that note with me? I would really appreciate it! btw am 3nd yr MBCHB
Note?
@@Salim_Ahmed that Cardiovascular Disease notes.
what's the app u use to summarise and write questions?
I talk about the app in my video on How to Organise Your Life - have it linked in description (its free) and have free templates too, definitely check it out!
@@Salim_Ahmed I couldn't find the video could u please send the link thanks
Please.update the link for notion
If it's for the habit scorecard, try this: salimahmed.notion.site/Habit-scorecard-template-bab4df6973744ceb8fa9f8d52ae80ed7?pvs=4
Let me know if it works :)
Me in AP right now for prereqs for the Nursing program 😭
Good luck!
May I ask how do you manage to use notion and create flashcards while only studying 2 hours a day ? Making these takes AGES
This video should help - ruclips.net/video/pBGbbWIunmw/видео.html
Also though, in exam season i do study more ahaha, 2 hours a day is the average for how much i do throughout the majority of the year, though (if even that tbh)
4:45 Please explain learning horizontally in more detail.
I'll copy and paste a reply i gave to another viewer
I'll try and give a simple ish example for pharma and medicine - so thinking about treatments for different problems like hypertension, heart failure, chest pains (angina). The vertical approach would be to learn the treatments individually - so learn treatments for hypertension, learn for HF, etc. But if you take a horizontal approach, you could cover a greater amount of things more easily. For example, you could be learning about beta blockers, a common pharma drug class. Then considering its mechanism of action, you would form a web of conditions/problems that it's used to treat - like hypertension, HF, angina, tremors. The idea is casting a net wide and superficial at first so you develop the basic overview before going too deep into one thing (which is what studying vertically does). So you could kind of seeing it as doing it in reverse, which definitely helps with building foundations for weaker topics.
Another example could be thinking like this for microbiology - like instead of memorising each individual bacteria and what their treatments are, learn the common antibiotics used, and what those common antibiotics are used to treat - because this again covers a broader range of things as opposed to narrowing down on just one bacteria at a time.
I hope this helps, and if it doesn't, please feel free to comment again / send me an email!
@@Salim_Ahmed Thank you so much. I now understand thanks to the further explanation. Your videos are amazing 🤩. I had to share this and another one with my friends.
Happy to help and I'm glad it makes sense!
Ahaha i appreciate the support, hope it helps them too!
Do you coach people on this?
Not currently coaching! But i hope my videos can provide help on a foundational level! Do have plans for things like this / courses in future though, so I hope you stick around for then :)