Studying without proofreading is like filling a leaky bucket. No matter how much water you put in, it's impossible to keep it full. You make an effort, you study day and night, but everything you studied goes down the drain.
So today we're going to look at the three bad ways to revise and three better ways for you to do it instead. The first way to revise is to reread. Do you think that when you reread it, you will remember that information, will it keep everything fresh in your memory?
It turns out that reviewing or rereading increases its familiarity. You feel that you know more, you feel that you already know those names, that you already understand more or less the ideas, but that doesn't translate into memorization. In fact, this Dunlosky article says it 's one of the worst study techniques and it's useless.
Nothing other than the feeling of learning. And no one passes with a sense of learning. The second technique is to read mind maps or read summaries on the internet.
It's not all bad to do this. The point is that your time can be better used in other ways. What happens when you read something that's already done?
It is a passive study. You are not working with that knowledge, you are not creating anything, you are not solving a problem. So it turns out that your revision is not so good, your memorization that comes from that revision is not going to be as strong.
The third common way to review, which is a little better, is to make a list of one subject. Let's say you want to review botany, you go out there and make a botany list. The problem is that when you make a list of just one subject, what is happening to the other various subjects that you are not making the list?
You are forgetting. And by focusing only on one subject, you will fall back into overlearning. So after about 5 questions or sometimes even about 8 questions, you'll just repeat that subject and you won't learn anything new, you won't review new things.
So instead of making the list just for that little subject, you make a list of several subjects mixing the questions. That is, you go to the questions application, select the subjects you have already seen and solve them. Or you take your workbook and instead of asking all the questions on a subject, you do questions 3 and 5 of chapter 1, 3 and 5 of chapter 2.
You know, you mix several chapters so as not to get compartmentalized knowledge without integrating it with the other matters. So by mixing various subjects, you end up using all the best techniques together. So you use spaced practice, you ask questions and intersperse subjects, which will help you even during the test.
Because it has two parts of solving problems. There is the part of solving it, but there is a previous part that we never pay attention to, which is choosing a resolution strategy. And when you ask interspersed questions, that is, questions on several mixed subjects, you train this first part, which is choosing a resolution strategy.
Sometimes two issues seem so similar, but they are resolved in completely different ways. So it's really cool to practice questions that look the same, but are solved in totally different ways. Because if this falls on the test, you'll solve it super fast.
So, that is, the best study technique we've seen so far, solving mixed, interspersed and spaced questions. So always every week, for an hour for math, for example, and less time for other subjects. You can go there in a question app and select the subjects you have already studied.
This is called the Sniper List. And it is revision 1 of the Question Sniper method. And then the second way of reviewing is kind of a consequence of the first, is to look in theory for exactly what you don't know.
So you made the Sniper List of a subject, and then you discovered a subject you didn't know about. You go at that point of theory, that is, you will not read the whole chapter again. You go to this point of the question.
There in the subject, study this point. Kind of like a detective who won't read everything again, won't see the class again, will look for that detail you don't know. And so, by doing this several times, your review becomes more fluid, you go back to exactly what you don't know.
This is totally different from someone who does, for example, a simulation and writes it down in the notebook. Review ecology, review botany. No, you're coming back to these subjects all the time, in small pieces of the subject, but you're coming back all the time.
And there is no mountain of revisions that you have to do. A third way of revising, and like this, I don't always recommend it, it's just sometimes, only when a subject is very confusing, it's difficult to understand, is to make an outline of that subject. This is something to do, especially in more difficult, more complex subjects, where one thing mixes with the other.
You set up a scheme, it can be a mental map, of a subject, and this you do during the questions. You're there asking the questions and you're solving them, and you're discovering the pattern of the subject, then you set up a scheme like that. For example, the rays in the mirror.
What will the rays in the mirror look like? Concave, convex, in focus, far from focus, in center. Then you create a scheme.
If the lightning goes here, it will go through here, you do it for all of them. And it is very clear to you what will happen without having to decorate. And this kind of scheme you can set up in biology too, or in mathematics.
So sometimes we don't need to stop only with questions. It is possible to assemble a schematic of a detail of this subject. And that can be really cool and it's a super active way for you to review.
So, that is, we exchanged rereading, reading the mind map, summary, and making a huge list of a subject, for making Sniper List, going back exactly to what you need in theory, and creating a scheme, a mind map of a detail of a difficult subject. So, I bet your review will improve a lot so we don't leave that hole in your bucket. And another thing is that proofreading doesn't have to be time consuming, it doesn't have to be difficult.
So by following the idea of the Sniper List, the idea that with, you know, three hours a week, you can always review everything you've ever studied. And always stay very fresh. So that's the idea of today's video, thank you so much for watching.
And keep going after your dreams, the world needs the skill that only you have. And we'll see you here in the next video. Goodbye!
