[Music] hello friends welcome to week 12 Q&A is joined by my lovely and hopeful wife Lucy okay if you're not subscribed to the channel do subscribe and please like the video for the sake of Alberto let's do the next question alright next question is ask Christy I can't say I do really enjoy your video on reading this week would you consider a similar video for studying in general thoughts on optimizing an environment to study study duration 30 minutes on 10 minutes off studying before bed ideal or and any general thoughts on the topics thank you
thank you so much Lucy thank you Christina for your question we love getting your questions so because you're not asking specifically about quantitative or qualitative studying I'm going to make it a bit general the first thing you want to do is interact with your material as much as you can so the more you interact with it the more depth you interact with the material the more you remember I'm thinking of this in terms of examinations by the way and I mentioned this in terms of reading right remember I said annotate and do footnotes and stuff
like that well when you're studying so for example let's say you're you're reading a scene it's a qualitative test and you're reading chapters in a textbook from school you want to read your chapter then you want to maybe read it again a second time then you want to go take notes on it then you want to summarize those notes into even shorter notes and you want to reread those notes the more you use the more stages you go through with this the more you'll remember or say it's a it's a if it's a math thing
you may want to read the chapter you may want to make notes on the chapter like writing the the exact steps that you do for your for solving the poem and then you want to solve the problem various times in different ways you want to find different kinds of problems all of these things make the memory be stored better in your brain but for memory storage you need to review this material over days separated by sleep so we know in non-rem sleep and the portion of sleep that is non-rem your brain consolidates memories we know
that in REM sleep your brain then takes these memories and relates them to different parts of your brain so there's very good reason to review material this is why procrastinating is so poor horrible for study and I used to procrastinate a lot and it always used to harm me and I I stopped because I realized you need to study it so you do all your material you do your notes you review your notes one day then what I like to do personally is review right before bed because it really my treat huge impact huge annual
dream sometimes about the stuff and I used to wake up and learn no the whole lesson with no problem poetry I need to learn and I mentioned this in these sleeping videos I mentioned that so many scientists have learned I have discovered their ideas while they were sleeping from REM sleep from the dream sleep so this is because of this because they haven't really integrated into their brain so you want to review it before you sleep then you want to review it when you wake up and do that you know before you sleep and when
you wake up a few times the more you review stuff the better consolidates in your brain because really an examination is at the end a study of recall what do you remember yeah so you know of course if you're doing math it's a lot of applications so you want to apply if you're doing like for example essays or you're applying theories to different things for example in economics again you want to train those those questions there but another thing you want to do is she mentioned the environment you want to simulate your exam environment now
this depends how nerdy you are if you're very nerdy you may want to go do your practice test in the exam room that you're doing the test this has a big impact but you can also simulate this by doing the same kind of questions that your exam may have so in some schools you'll find exam questions from previous years the closer it is to the exam the better you're going to do now it depends on the kind of test you do like for example I've taken the GRE and the GMAT and the SAT and the
CFA examination is certified balanced Tomas the CFA examinations is quite a bit like this but so is the GRE GMAT and SAT these are not tests really of know well SCF is a bit of knowledge but more than knows they're tests of how you can take tests the more you practice those tests the exact kind of tests like in the CFA examination we have the original book the book from the company of former exam questions like 10 years old that they put there and the GMAT you have the original book tests the questions also you
can get the real questions not the ones done by Prince and all those kind of things and in CIP not the ones done by shui sir you want to find the original ones those original questions and you redo them and redo them and if you have enough questions they say if so you have 400 questions on certain few chapters by the time you get the last question you forgot the first question so you can actually do the question more than once the more times you do something because an examination is about recall the quicker you're
going to respond so it's about sleep and practice that's really what it has to do with and of course you got to get your environment optimized but the environment being optimized for this purpose is similar to the environment being optimized for reading as I described before you want a clean environment ideally you want a room in the house that you only study in or you only maybe not even read you only study in my case I had a room of studying and ice now I have a room of working but I don't have I read
somewhere else I don't read in that room I do in that room I do real work so my brain is very associated with that personally I always used to take breaks about 50 minutes in but at that time when I was much younger I had things to do on those breaks I don't know maybe I would take longer time now but I think thirty minutes is a bit too short now there is of course cognitive psychology literature that says really you need quick breaks quite frequently I think 50 minutes is sufficient it depends how concentrated
your brain is it depends if you are manipulating your cholinergic system if you're taking certain medications what you do with your brain how much you got focus okay alright thank you so much Christina for your question we'll see you next time [Music]
