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Spaced 🚀Repetition 🔁 & 2-3-5-7 🫡

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If you have multiple exams coming up and you are thinking” How am I going to remember all this information?”, use the power of spaced repetition to store the revision into long-term memory and improve recall. Now let’s dive deeper into the context of spaced repetition and a specific application of spaced repetition, known as the 2-3-5-7 method.  Spaced Repetition  Spaced repetition is a scientifically proven method that revolves around revising information at increasing intervals of time, reviewing and boosting your memory just as you are about to forget it so you do not forget it easily. By studying a topic at strategic intervals you will end up remembering more. This method has been proven to be more effective than doing one big session and trying to cram everything in. This method strengthens memory retention over time.  How Do We Forget? Imagine your brain is a library. It beholds the information that is grasped from the pages of the books that we have read, and from ...
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The Feynman Technique 🤷🏽‍♂️ : Master 🎓the art of learning 📝

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  You might have heard of the Pomodoro method, active recall, or even spaced repetition but have you heard of the Feynman Technique ?  The Feynman Technique is named after the great Richard Feynman, who is not only a Nobel Laureate in Physics but is also a master of demystifying complex topics.  His key learning insight is that  “Complexity and jargon often lead to a lack of understanding”  Feynman’s learning technique comprises 4 key steps Select a concept to learn Teach it to a child  Review and redefine your thoughts and understanding  Review and simplify your notes and revisit them regularly  Let’s dive deeper into these 4 key steps:  Feynman’s secret lies in understanding the true essence of the concept rather than merely knowing the name and this learning technique can be applied universally irrespective of the subject.  Select a concept to learn  What topic are you curious about? Take out a blank sheet of paper. Write out ev...
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Quantity📚 over Quality📙?

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Quantity over quality . Yes, you read that right Quantity over quality.  Even when you search the internet for why quantity is better than quality , the first result is why quality is better than quantity. I came across this idea while reading Ali Abdaal’s Sunday Snippets newsletter .  At first, even I was shocked. I thought to myself, Wait this needs to be corrected. Did Ali Adbaal make a mistake? How can it be right? I gave myself some room and space to think it through. If he had written an article, it must be for a reason. There must be some truth to this and I started reading this article and researching it for a while.  All or at least most of our lives, we have been mentored and it has been drilled into our skulls by our parents and even teachers that quality is more important than quantity. But give this a thought and read my article below… Here’s the classic Parable of the Pottery Class (adapted from the book Art & Fear) that illustrates this:  There w...
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Medicine🏥⚕️: UK🇬🇧 vs Australia 🇦🇺 vs India 🇮🇳

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  When deciding to study medicine, as a child raised in an Indian background, I always only had 3 options or countries in my mind which were either the UK, Australia, or India. Although staying in India to medicine would be the straightforward answer, I always had the curiosity and wanted to know more about the medical journey overseas. So let’s look at the medical journey in these countries and hopefully find out which is the best option.  United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Pre-requisites Year 11 (Age: 15-16)  Good GCSEs grades Volunteering(for 6 to 12 months to gain people interactions)- portfolio Year 12 (Age 16-17) A-levels(at least 3 A grades)  Work experience( medicine-related eg. Job shadowing doctors)- portfolio Super-curricular( biology olympiads, workshops, talks)- portfolio Year 13 (Age 17-18) To get admission into a medical course under one of the universities, aspirants need to either take up UCAT or BMAT, depending on the universities. But as of 2024, it is best is ta...
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