10 Ways To Active Recall In 10 Minutes For 2023 🧠

What is this study method that can make you study at least three times more efficiently than reading notes? Hopefully, by now, you would already know the difference between active learning and passive learning. In short summary, Active Learning is a lot more effective than passive learning. Active Learning is when you're actually testing yourself and practice using the information you learn, for example, when you're in a quiz or doing practice questions. Show more

It makes you think and it makes your brain work hard. Passive learning is when you're passively absorbing information, like reading textbooks or reading notes, which are not as effective. Basically, taking exams is also a form of active recall. So the more you practice active recall, the better you will do in your exams. Have you experienced this before? You are in the exam, you have the answer at the tip of your fingers, but you just can't remember what it is. If that's you, you need to practice using active recall more often. This would help you a lot. Make notes of everything I say in this video and use them. Research and Studies have shown that students who study using Active Learning could remember up to three times more information than those who use passive learning. Show more

That's crazy, because that means if you are using active recall, you studying for one hour is equivalent, or even better, than other people studying for three hours. Just how crazy is that? You don't need to be a genius to study less and do better. You just need better study methods. In this video, we're going to talk about how to use active recall in your study so that you could learn effectively. We will cover 10 useful ways to do active recall throughout your study Cycles. It would be great if you could Implement all of them, but it is also good to just start with one at a time. If you haven't done so, please like And subscribe to this channel. I will teach you how to study less and get better grades. Are you ready? Let's go first. When you approach a subject, you should look at the syllabus. This is something most students don't do, but top students all do. Show more

After you have an overview of the syllabus, draw out a mind map and try to memorize it. This would help you understand what you need to learn this year and give you a better idea of the waiting of different topics and an overview of how they are related. It would also give you a good estimate of how to allocate your time for each topic. Secondly, before you look at a subject, you should do a pre-test. It doesn't have to be anything heavy, it can just be a small quiz. This is the quickest way to help you gain an overview of the topic. Which information is important. I sometimes have students asking me how to figure out what the important key points are in a topic. There is no better way than doing past papers. It would also allow you to benefit from the hyper correction effect. This is when you thought you knew the answer to something, but then you end up getting it wrong and that makes it more likely for you to remember it the next time. That's why you shouldn't be worried or sad when you get things wrong. It could actually be a good thing as long as it is before the exam. Also, you will be able to pay more attention when you learn and it would help you clear up some misconceptions. Show more

Remember, it doesn't matter what you get, especially when you first start at a subject. You ought to do badly in the test. Except that, accept not knowing, because it's about Improvement, not how much you know initially. For instance, I normally get a U or a Max at E when I first attempt a test paper on a subject and I completely accept that. What you're getting now really doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not you are improving. I know a lot of students like to wait until they think they're good enough to do past papers, or even avoid past papers because they are worried that they don't do well. Just don't be silly. Show more

Allow yourself to do badly when you first tried and remember this is the most effective study method. The worst you do means that, the more you can improve. So if you haven't started doing past papers, start now. Thirdly, during classes, instead of writing Nooks down, write questions. Then write down what you're supposed to be able to answer by the end of the class. This will keep you awake in class, make you think and make learning more interesting. Show more

Number four: immediately answer all the questions after class. After the class, what you need to do is immediately try to answer all the questions. This is a great way to do active recall. You can see how much you're able to learn and absorb during class, and if you do it immediately afterwards, that should take about five to Max 10 minutes. If you do this often, you will be able to pay more attention in class next time, because your brain would understand what information it needs to pick up in class next time and we'll focus more number five answer questions one day after class. Then after one day, do the questions again. By this time you should have forgotten around half the information. Show more

There will be a lot of work for your brain to record all this information. Think about your brain as a muscle. That's really good training for your brain. By doing active recall one day later you will be able to flatten your next forgetting curve and remember. Remember the answers for much longer this time. This is the method that top students at my medical school used. This way of revising is hard, a lot more time efficient. What I find is that, instead of writing notes, top students at my school like to write down questions. Instead of reading the notes, they practice answering the questions. They practice thinking and reciting information. That's why, when it comes to exams, they are able to remember the answers, because they have practiced thinking about the answers so many times before 6.. If you're someone who enjoys reading textbooks, do this next time. Every time you finish a paragraph, spend a minute writing down all the key information you just learned and absorb. Show more

This does two things. First, it helps you memorize information for longer and better. Secondly, it trinks you to pick out key information. I sometimes have students asking me that they don't know how to pick out key information. The next step is the key to practice this number seven: after you read through the chapter in the textbook, go to the summary section and memorize everything in the summary. You can also compare how much of the key information in the summary you have knocked it down from reading the textbook. You can also compare how much of the key information in the summary you have knocked down from reading the textbook. The key here is not to be able to remember everything word for word. Limit the time you spend memorizing to within five minutes to train your brain to pick up information fast and remember them. You will find yourself not able to remember much the first few times, but that's okay. Just repeat the process until you could remember up to 80 and then move on. You can also use the one, two, three active recall method. Step one: read the summary once. Step 2: write down everything you remember on a blank piece of paper. Step 3: repeat step one and two three times. Studying this way is much more tiring but much more effective. You would also get tired much more quickly, so it is really important to take a good, effective break that actually allows your brain to rest, such as doing many meditation or some light exercise. Show more

Number eight: the famine technique. This is one of my favorite ways of practicing active recall, that's teaching other people. This is by far one of the most effective learning method. After you learn about something, teach it to someone if you don't have anyone to teach to, as I did back in the day, I actually teach it to my study bear. Show more

I have this teddy bear that I pretend that he's a seven years old child and assume questions he's gonna ask. I try to explain it in a simple way a seven years old child would be able to understand and I always believe that if you know a topic well, you will be able to explain it simply. If you can't explain it to a seven years old, that probably means that you haven't been able to fully grasp the concept. I kind of suspect that top students always do so well because they always have to teach other people. Show more

By teaching other people, it actually helps them revise and filled in any gaps they have in their knowledge. Number nine: do past papers under exam conditions. This is the most important step app by this point if you have done step one to eight, you should already know a lot about the topic. But if you're only choosing to do one active recall method, you should pick number nine: doing past papers at exam conditions. Show more

Doing past papers is by far the best way to do active recall a test whether you have enough knowledge of certain topics that are most likely to come up in exams. It helps you practice understanding and presenting information in a test format. It gives you practice and doing past exam papers under exam conditions. That would help you become more relaxed when it comes to exams because you're familiar with the environment. Don't forget number 10. If you do number nine, recite all the corrected answers. This is the last step of active recall. You should write down all the corrected answers to all the questions you got wrong and memorize them. This is again another super, super effective method to learn. It is obviously best to understand the answer before memorizing them, but if you can't understand them, memorizing them is better than not knowing them at all. Exams are about pattern recognition by recognizing the key words that comes up in exams and the keywords that you need to states in the answer. Show more

That's how you gain top marks in exams. So a little summary in the end, before you start learning a subject in school. Use active record to draw a mind map of the syllabus. Secondly, do a pre-test to see how much you know about the topic. Number three: write questions instead of Nooks during classes. Number four: answer the questions immediately after class. Number five: answer the questions one day after class. Number six: use active recall to spice up your reading. Number seven: use the one, two, three method to record the summary. Number eight: the famine technique. Teach other people what you have learned. Number nine: do you pass papers under exam conditions? And number 10: make sure you remember all the corrected answers to the questions you got wrong. Try this for a week and comments below to let me know how you find it. Show more

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