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so this is probably my most requested video this full guide is going to be your secret weapon to destroying everyone in your class getting good grades but also having time to do the things that you actually want to do in primary school I didn't get very good grades I think my brain didn't develop yet but in secondary school I was really cocky about getting a perfect score for my GCS GCS is like SATs for the Americans watching and I did it and the funny thing is that I'm not book smart I think my intelligence is fine but I'm definitely not books part all right and I wasn't even a hard worker like my friends in my class will always stay back to like 400 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 600 p.m. sometimes to study after school almost every day until the exam and they will be in the group chat sending pictures of exam papers to the other person they'll be asking how do I do this question how do I do question 12 now'll be there're like guys should I bring this girl to the arcade or should I bring her bowling and that's honestly the sad truth there are people that work less than you who get better grades than you and there are even people who are dumber than you they get better grades than you and that's because they're doing something they are not they know what is important and what's not important because we all know the 8020 rule 80% of the results come from just one or two things if you want to be a YouTuber 80% of the results come from recording and editing then you just upload the video that's it if you want to be fit 80% of the results come from diet exercise and maybe recovery that's like the only things that truly matter so let's apply the 8020 rule when it comes to studying here are the three things that actually matter when it comes to [Music] studying all right number one is active recall so evidence shows that this is actually the best way to study active recall is how I'm able to take screenshots of pages and put them into my brain it's the best memorization technique and since 50% of school is just memorizing something and regurgitating it this is going to be really important so here's how you do it you take a book or whatever you want to memorize you open up to the page you read the page in its entirety and then you close the book and you go away and you do something else after 5 minutes 10 minutes however long you need you come back before you open the book you recite what you know and let's say you only know 10% of the page because you just read it only right so you open it up and you see okay I only knew this part what's the rest that I didn't know then you fill in the gaps in your knowledge then you go away for 5 minutes you come back before you open the book you recite what you know let's say now you know 20% you open the book you fill in the gaps in your knowledge you repeat now you know 30% now you know 40% and then soon enough you'll know 100% of the page each time you just fill in the gaps in your knowledge until all the gaps are filled the time spent away is actually the most important thing because that's when your brain like subconsciously whatever puts like the information into long-term memory and that's how you remember it not a scientist or anything but that's why we use space repetition we space it out so that we give our brain time to actually absorb the information and then we use active recall to actively recall what we want to remember so that's how I did it some people use flash cards to facilitate this personally I just opened the book and read it myself and this is how I was able to memorize an entire history textbook like I did not memorize word for word but what I did was I memorized the main Concepts on the page so instead of memorizing everything I just took the page I pointed out the main things and then during the exam since I know like where the dots are I can connect the dots myself if I remember a date a place a person an event and the outcome of this event these five things I can string together because I know where the dots are now I can string them together during the exam and write out a coherent paragraph about this event next practice papers this is like super common in my country but apparently it's not very common in other countries basically we have this thing called tys 10 year series is basically the past 10 years of exam papers put into one book so here's what you do you go ask your seniors the students who are one year two years older than you ask them for the papers the exam papers that they took when they were your age get those remove the answers or like block them out put like a book on top of the answers so that you can't see it and then just do the questions and make sure you have the answer sheet as well if you don't have any seniors you can go online and search for like all level English paper and then a bunch will come out make sure they're not download any viruses but like download the PDFs with the answer sheets and this is so overpowered because school generally teaches the same things every single year they just word it differently so the math concepts are the same it's just that they change the numbers they change the scenario in which they present it the English paper is the same it's just that they change the passage and so some things will change but the concepts and skills are generally the same as long as they have the same syllabus if you search for a paper from like 1990 then obviously the syllabus would have changed so just make sure the syllabus is the same school test the same things phrased in a different way so basically practice papers are the best way to simulate what's going to happen on the actual day mindset to have with this is just do a little bit better than last time so you know how in the gym when you do a exercise let's say do 20 kg right next week just do 21 that's progress right the mindset is just lift heavier than last time but for us we're going to think just score a little bit better than last time so let's say you do a practice paper you get 50% that's not a very good grade okay you just look at the answer sheet you see the parts that you're not very familiar with use active recall you go back to the material and you study a bit more and you do another practice paper now you get 52% 52% is progress and then you keep doing that each practice paper you see where you fall short you go back to the material you study again you come back stronger keep filling the gaps in your knowledge until you're able to actually do it so that's the best thing about these two that I've talked about active recall is putting information in your brain practice papers is how you actually use that information in the setting that you will experience on exam day cuz it's the same setting the same paper just again phrased differently and practice papers are also merciless because they will show you EX exactly where you don't understand the concept because it's exactly what's going to happen on the real day but it's better to fail the practice paper than to fail on the actual day so if on game day you're going to play basketball you wouldn't train football you would play basketball if on performance day you're going to play the piano on stage you wouldn't practice the violin right so if on exam day you're going to do the exam you wouldn't highlight the textbook you wouldn't read random you would do the exam papers that's why practice papers work you're training for the actual thing that's coming up and then lastly we have the burnout line which is how to work intens and I've talked about this before but I'll quickly mention it again because I think this is really important so those two tactics that we talked about before this is how we put them into practice in our daily life so the burnout line is pretty simple there's a certain level that all of us can work at where we're both focused but also it's very intense it's very mentally demanding right and it's right under what I call the burnout line which is the line where if you cross it if you work too hard you're going to experience burnout and you're going to hit your life when you're working in this Zone it's like the question solve themselves it's like the essay is practically writing themselves this is a deep Flow State and let's say you can maintain this deep state for 2 hours you could probably do 4 hours if you really push yourself but then you'll burn out so what we want to do is just for 2 hours be in this state get as much work done as possible then follow up with long periods of recovery so basically you're going to be at the top of the graph doing deep work and then once you're done you're going to go all the way to the bottom and just recover intense work followed by long periods of recovery what most people do what you do don't bullsh yourself sometimes I do it as well and I hate it is we stay in this yellow zone in the middle this yellow zone is where you're doing shallow work you're not really focused it's like when you have your laptop open your watch YouTube videos but you also have the exam paper or whatever paper on your table you're trying to do it both at the same time and because you're in work mode because you're at your desk because you have the book open you feel tired at the end of the day because you were in work mode but you didn't even get anything done so instead of living halfway between work and rest just choose one this is super obvious when I'm like playing basketball cuz when I'm playing basketball I'm either at the side resting like on my phone drinking water or whatever or I'm playing basketball I wouldn't be like shooting and also looking at my phone at the same time that doesn't make any sense so choose either rest or choose to practice don't do both at the same time basically the graph makes it really simple stay in green don't be in yellow and definitely don't be in Red so what I've written here is pretty simple work hard rest hard don't stay in the middle because if you stay in the middle that's how you end a day feeling tired but with nothing to show for it how many days have we lost to that bro but obviously first you need to know where your burnout line even is have you even pushed yourself enough where you know where this line is and the easiest way to find out is to cross that line do a little bit too much so that you know where the line is and then you can taper below that and work in this optimal Zone and if you keep on working in this optimal Zone it starts to expand maybe now we can only do 2 hours next month you can do 3 hours the month after that you can do four hours so to conclude we want to work like lions short Sprints of high intensity work followed by long periods of recovery all right so to practically use the three things I've talked about in this video let's say you wake up 2 hours before school you can do one practice paper and you can do some active recall work imagine you do that every single day and on weekends you do a little bit more that is five practice papers on the week days let's say you do two practice papers per weekend that's like nine papers per week and then you have the active recall work to help you do better in those papers let's say you do this for a month 4 weeks in a month 4 * 9 that's 36 papers and then imagine on exam day half your class have been working like elephants not like lions they've been having their cute study sessions in a library their Starbucks coffee and then the other half like some students will have like very intense tuition to try to get ahead but that just ends up burning themselves out they didn't get enough sleep the night before this is your competition and you're walking into the exam room having done this exam like 50 times over the past month because you've been doing your practice papers so what's the 51st it's going to be easy for you all right so to conclude just understand that hard work is only the beginning even if you only slept 4 hours a day and you work the other 20 hours you can never be the hardest worker why because all of us have 24 hours in the day right one person could be doing the same thing as you and you'll only be tied for first place and that's simply because time is limited we can never expanded I've written this here good grades is simply intensity of work times time and most people try increasing the time which is stupid because it's kept right whilst how intense you can work can be increased just like how a strength of a muscle can be increased so since we can can increase the intensity of work increase this and don't focus on time most mediocre students focus on time not on intensity and when you actually start doing high intensity work you're like damn I can only do like 1 Hour 2 hours of this a day but you actually get a lot more done and that's when you realize those students that say they can study 7 hours a day 12 hours a day are bullshitting themselves because okay they can sit there at their desk for 7 hours but they cannot produce 7 hours of deep work and that's why I made this video how I only study 2 hours a day because working a lot does not mean you're achieving a lot where did the sudden go once you start focusing on intensity instead of time since you're focusing on intensity this muscle is going to start growing and since this muscle is growing and getting stronger then you can do it for longer that's when you can start pushing the hours because you can endure more hours because you start pushing the burnout line you start doing 2 hours of deep work this month next month maybe you can do 2 hours and 30 minutes and after that 3 hours that's how you study study smart then study hard don't get it backwards take action the Sun keeps going away and coming back like watch it's going to go away in like 5 Seconds 5 4 3 H I love the weather all right give a kiss

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Published: Sat Feb 24 2024