The Lecture-Studying Method: Learn the 1 Hour Class in ONLY 7 mins

I have been stuck in Long Long classes and online lectures for years now but not once was I taught how to actually learn during them and after 2 years of ibdp one years of biomedical sciences and 3 years of medical school trust me I've tried everything underneath the Sun but only one method truly helped me learn and not just learn for that one class but learn for the next 10 to 20 classes all of it in just one or two settings in a way that cut my revision time down to 10% of what it used

to be and improved my grades from 60% to above 95% I'm going to explain how you can study for your classes in the exact same way every step that you need to take before during and after your classes and because I know doing a full-blown method for every single class you have is a bit of an Overkill I will also be giving you a lazy version for this method that I do myself when I'm behind or I can't make enough time but before I tell you what you need to start with you need to change

the way you think about learning Topics in class what I need you to do is forget about learning things topic by topic Lesson by lesson one by one with the teacher because honestly that is the fastest way to get bored and not want to study and not be bothered to study till the exams if you have 12 chapters of biology do you really think that the quickest way to learn them is go like yes September I'll do cell biology October I'll do molecular November I'll Do genetics one by one no obviously not that's so slow

and disjointed all three of them are so heavily related to each other that by the time you get to genetics you have forgotten the other two for sure so what's the point instead what you do is separate yourself from the tortoise pace everyone else is learning at and understand the fact that you can 100% you're 100% capable of doing 3 4 6 weeks of that subject in one sitting on a weekend that is the realization that you need to ingrain in your head and the summary of the way you do this before the class is

you study three or four of the related chapters or lectures or topics together and then use the school classes and your future learning sessions to remember the topic in a deeper way that is it and by the way learning the basic content for three or four of those big topics that are related to each other can be done in an hour or two on one weekend and then you're sorted for the rest of your classes it is what I do and the reason I do it is because studying four diseases together allows me to build

a base for all of them and Link them together in the same session I understand them together I find relations between them I see what's different what's same is the treatment of this one similar to this one so that when I'm learning new information on one Topic in class I cannot just make link between that new information and that one topic I learned before but I can make that link between that new topic and that new information with all of the topics that I built the base from they're all linked together oh this process in

topic one that I'm looking at in class is quite similar to the process and the and the underlying pathology of the disease that we learned in topic 2 H or the treatment of topic one actually is the opposite of topic four h thinking like this thinking about how the thing that you're learning is similar or different and finding relations between everything thing and linking it back to your prior knowledge is the way to learn most effectively and so now that I've clarified that this is step one scope all the topics and group The related ones

a this involves me going through my entire syllabus and listing out every single disease and subtopic that I'm covering that entire semester for every case on a notes page so for you I know this is like a big planning step but do it for every subtopic that you're doing for each big chapter that you have to cover in that semester if not then do it at least for the next few chapters that you're going to be doing in class and once I've done that I figure out which of these diseases are Rel Rel it to

each other which of them can I put in groups so that I can study eventually study them together at a later stage for example all the lung conditions in all of my chapters I grouped them together and studied them together same with the upper GI and esophagus ones they might be split across multiple chapters but because you relate to them they're worth doing together and yes it is easy to group topics in medicine because you can kind of group it by organ and stuff but you are studying a subject whatever you're doing all the topics

in that subject are related together in some way or the other so I'm sure you can find relations now pick one of these groups with three or four related topics or chapters or whatever and now is the time where we learn them together where we build the basic for basics for them together and then make a mindmap for them building this mind map is very important because this will be something that links everything together and organizes it in a memorable way for us that's basically everything we're doing before the classes but let me explain how

exactly you do this in the next few steps step two skim each topic for 15 minutes and write the keywords open up the lecture open up the textbook whatever you have and number one skim through all all of the slides all of the pages to get a general overview look at the bolded statements the headings the subheadings the diagrams but ignore all the general all the specific details you don't want to get stuck in them only focus on the basics of the topic for this 15 minutes of skimming for me I watch and Skip through

a lot of YouTube videos to get a general idea of how the topic is laid out while I do the skimming it's just faster but while I skim I also have a second goal which is the figure out exactly what I'm going to be putting up on my mind map how am I going to make sense of this whole thing and Link all these topics together to do this while I understand the basics when I'm skimming I write down all the keywords that are important that seem important or to the to the structure of the

chapter and then categorize them into headings subheadings important points just to give me an idea of how I might lay all of these different categories and groups out on my mind map how am I going to organize this topic and put it in a on on the Mind map in a way that is memorable and that's it for this step you just do this for all three to four of the topics 15 minutes each each topic should have 10 to 15 keywords that are categorized into the headings and subheadings it's basically like making notes for

the Mind map before you're actually going to make it it is preparing for the Mind map kind of at this point you should genely know what's involved in all of these topics because you've basically spent an hour doing it and once you do this just pause for a second understand what you've just done here you've just skimm through three to four big topics understood what they're about what their Basics are what their main Concepts and are involved in you've compared multiple of these big topics together in your head too you've seen how they're different how

they're similar you've built a big picture for the topic all of it in the first hour of you studying something that you wouldn't have reached until 2 months of you doing it in class and now we're going to continue this in step three where we're solidifying and linking all of the basics together through a mind map creating mind maps isn't something I really did until about a year ago but since I've been making them that's been the biggest boost in how much I can remember like months after studying I've made videos where I'm making these

mind maps live on a topic and explaining exactly how I'm doing it to you as well so make sure to watch them for more detail if you don't know how to make mind maps but I'll lay some basic steps down here as well start by again trying to visualize how you're going to lay out all of these topics on that page and this is important because the way you lay this out on that mind map is most likely the way you're going to be thinking about every single concept and how it's linked in that topic

so take time to think about it you can't just throw the title in the middle and start like throwing arrows off it this is what I do number one think about one key central idea that will link all three to four topics how can we link them together in a smart way is it location are they in the same place or in different places involved in the same system affecting the system in different ways is it structure are they part of the same process are they different parts in a timeline my point is ask yourself

what is different and what is similar between all of these main Concepts between the topics and eventually once you put time into it once you practice the skill more and more our strategy if you wanted to help you out to find relations between these things eventually will arrive at an answer number two once you've thought of this structure and generally have an idea of how you're going to lay it out think about how you're going to visualize these Concepts on paper cuz they can't just be words also think again about how you're going to group

these different concepts together what is going to be on the Mind map the previous step will help here make sure you use very visual diagrams make sure you use um arrows thicker for more important thinner for less important use as little text as possible and avoid all the details you won't remember them anyways this is for the basics and then just start making them again I've made several of these live before that I highly recommend you watch but remember the reason we are making these is because it will represent how we will think about about

all four of these topics when we learn something new we will think back to this mind map and think about how that new information relates to this initial structure this skimming and then mindmapping for around 30 minutes is all you need to do for multiple topics so weeks of classes yes before each class in the future you will do a little bit of skimming just to remind yourself of course and yes at the start of making these mind maps it will take time it might take an hour because you don't understand how you're going to

be doing it how you're going to actually be fitting everything on paper but I'm going a place now where making this mind map is actually very easy all it does it takes like 10 15 minutes and then I've covered all three huge topics that I'm going to be doing for the next few weeks it's insane how efficient your study process gets after you get good at it but before we move on to the next section which is what you do during the classes if you are a student who is spending ages writing essays literature reviews

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be like uh what's that confused I don't know what's happening I can't be no you already have a little bit of an understanding your base is Rock Solid so you actually want to study and you you'll actually understand what the teacher is saying from the get-go trust me when you look at the information you'll immediately like automatically without even trying start to make sense of things and it's a small thing but that is the best place to be at this stage now let's go through what I do in the classes that I'm actually awaken now

even though I've already skim before the class or I don't know how long I did it so I give the lecture a quick run through for around 2 minutes just to remind myself of the structure if you don't have time or you don't have a laptop for whatever reason you forget to actually just look through the slides in the beginning forget it you've done this skimming already the main thing I utilize my class time for is processing the information and creating my recall questions let me explain how I do it through the next three steps

which aren't by the way one after the other there I do all three of them together throughout the class step four convert all information into recall questions the reason I convert all the information I'm learning into questions is because as we know testing yourself is a key pillar of learning so instead of wasting time copying from the board making notes which has zero utility by the way I create questions because I can then use these questions to test myself on the knowledge in my revision later the reason is as simple as that creating questions also

has other benefits for example in class I'm actually thinking through the information more deeply I'm not just mindly copying down and I'm thinking about it deeply in a way and then thinking specifically how is this information going to be tested to my specific exam and creating questions from that mindset so every slide every few minutes of the teacher speaking I'm consciously thinking okay what is important here what sort of information can be tested it on in the exam what questions can come from this topic and once you get used to that way of thinking the

process becomes very simple my tips on making good questions are number one make them very specific for mcqs or short answer questions number two use words like Define explain describe analyze name five of these or whatever avoid using how what why number three have a total of 15 to 20 Questions per class or per subtopic that you're studying and number four keep improving the questions as you revise the first batch of questionss are usually too many and they're far too basic I always end up rewording them or reducing them or making them better after every

revision session after every testing session post the classes again for more information on how to make good questions go watch my full guide on studying there's definitely a section in there for that step five learn by laring in terms of how to learn and absorb information during the class my suggestion is to honestly ignore half of it and half of it is being very generous because 20 25% of the information is usually just specific details that the teacher Dives way too deeply into that your mind is not ready for that you will not understand anyways

and the rest of the things aren't specifically going to be coming up on your exam so my policy is to ignore the majority of the information that's being taught because we learn best by layering the basics first then building on them with general concepts and information and processes and then the complex details and if you haven't noticed already that has been our entire strategy so far the first three steps before the class was us covering that basic layer and getting a bit of that general concepts now that we're in class we're doing the general concepts

we're adding a bit more details we're layering slowly above the information that we already know but my point is the information will only stick in your head if there is pre-existing stuff to help you support it I will never be able to understand and perfectly memorize all the specific doses the treatments the specific investigations involved all the microorganisms involved after just learning what a disease is but if I give myself time to understand the e information what is the disease how does it work what are the process involves what can you do to fix it

maybe then I can figure out the treatments and the do and all the specifics and that step-by-step logic applies to every subject so in class when trying to understand information literally think of it in layers if you come across something that's tough that's too complicated that you're like I don't know I might I'm I'm confused now just remember that is the complex detail layer I don't need to think about it right now make a question if it's important and put it to the side come back to it later when your understanding is more C if

and when your brain is more ready to take the information in Step six linking with the initial mind map the final thing that I want you to be doing throughout the class and I mentioned this before is when you come across New pieces of information think about how you can link it to your initial mind map that entire structure through which you understand multiple of these topics how does this one thing that the professor is explaining Mak sense in terms of that initial mind map all you're really thinking about is how this new piece of

information is going to fit in your head and you don't need to keep drawing on the Mind map and keep adding to it just doing in your head is enough of an active process because that is how we learn by linking new things to pre-existing knowledge you can't just read and then just go like yeah nice cool it has to be an active process and if you link the new information you're learning in class to for this topic to your mindmap you'll automatically compare this new information to the other topics that we did as well

you're not just learning oh how does this new information this new detail link to topic one you're thinking hm this new information links to topic one but oh it's quite similar to topic two or topic three that thinking process that relational thinking as people call it that is the most important part of learning section three what we do after the class now after the class if you've done all the steps the revision is the same as I usually suggest at this stage you not only have a strong base for one topic you have a strong

base for multiple one of those so now you can actually revise them all together if you want you can start to create questions on the other ones as well you can start to learn them and or you can just start to focus on this one and go deeper into this and then tackle those later however you think you learn best but this is how your revision session should go step seven recall the questions and learn again and again start your session with recalling the questions that you created during the class take your time and really

work hard to remember what the answer could be take 10 20 30 seconds even if you don't know the answer think about what you know about the topic think about what you were taught in class and something or the other if you put effort of these few seconds into the question into answering the question something will usually click once you've given your full try to recall the answer then you go and check that answer using the textbook or the lecture or Google you go see if you got to write or wrong and to what degree

you got to write or wrong and you take the time to look through it if you got to write still read through the answer and all of the context that is surrounding it that is the benefit of going back to the source and actually looking through the answer you get the context you get the context the diagrams around it everything that that's related to that specific answer and then when you get something wrong think about how now you're going to go away and relearn that because you getting it wrong is a sign that you didn't

link it in with your mind map properly enough and that the connection wasn't strong enough for you to recall it and that happens a lot you get a lot of questions wrong especially in that first revision session and you have to relearn a lot of the knowledge because you because at the end when you actually are learning and you link something in you do think that oh I've done it well oh it's all good but then when you actually answer the question a week later or 4 days later and you don't remember that means that

you didn't link it well and that means that you have to figure out a new way to think about the topic and that might mean that your mind map wasn't as effective and that you might need to restructure it and that is all part of learning so don't get worried if that happens to you as well you still have to keep reintegrating what you're learning back in your head I've only really tackled how to study a topic before during and after class I haven't really talked about how you're going to continue on that revision process

through space repetition and all of that sort of stuff so check out my full study guide again for more details on how you can continue revising that topic from from now and now for the lazy version of this whole method this is for the times that you can't be bothered or you're behind or you have too much work whatever the excuse is for not doing this steps before your class because if you haven't done them you can still be smart with how you're learning during the class and after the class this is what I do

personally it's not perfect but it works okay this is what you do during the class step one take 10 minutes at the start of the class to skim through all the lecture slides or quickly skim through the chapter in your textbook again bolded words headings keep phrases understand the structure of the slides of the chapter whatever even if that means you won't be listening to every word that the professor is saying initially you'll gain the big picture right at the start and that will pay off way more than you focusing intently for the first 10

minutes then just start to concentrate and think about the information that the professor is saying and relate it to what you already know about that topic or the initial scheming that you just did keep in mind that gaining the structure and understanding the basics and how the concepts work is still the most important step here and step number three throughout that class convert all the information that's being taught into questions so that you can use them to test yourself on them later what you should now do is the stuff that you were supposed to do

before the class I.E writing and categorizing the keywords and then mindmapping step four figure out which other three or four big topics you can group with this one that you learned in class I will always refuse to waste my time and just use that session for one topic that was taught in class unless it was really big and complicated so go ahead and link multiple ones together because that helps you create a much stronger base and because it speeds up the rest of your revision by a large amount so group the topics and then study

them together step five at this point I try and remember what was taught in class try and remember the way it was structured the topic what were the main headings what were the subheadings what were the main points how is it divided up if I can't do that then I will just go through the topic again skim through it write down the keywords categorize them this is again the preparation that you need to do for building that mind map and then step six finally create that mind map use all the tips that I previous mentioned

this is a step that needs to happen it is it might take half an hour an hour but it will save you hours of revision for for that specific topic and many others and that's it for the lazy version I'm giving myself the false illusion that it is lazy when it's not really you still have to do the minimum steps of the Mind mapping and the creating the questions but it just takes the pressure of doing the stuff before the class as well and also you leave the proper testing and recalling his Stu for later

revision sessions but this video includes everything that I would suggest you do before during and after your classes this is how you study multiple huge topics in an efficient way you avoid going at the classes one by one topic slow pace and accelerate the way you absorb information by hitting multiple topics understanding their Basics together and most of my students everyone that I speak to has so many of these limitations that they're only limited to just learning one Topic in one session doing it one Topic at a time but we're all so much cap more

capable than that we learn by linking things together honestly if there's something that you need to take away from this video it is that link multiple topics that are related to each other and study them together I've literally been making my videos and all of my video ideas from the comments that you guys are putting down below so keep commenting your struggles the issues you have with your specific methods anything and I will be more than willing to help I'll link the guides I mentioned here and I'll link it in the description as well thank

you so much for watching please leave a like spam the comments do the usual stuff and I will see you in the next one