The Highest Yield Study Technique There Is ![rw-book-cover](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qCREIUN9HMg/maxresdefault.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[YouTube]] - Full Title: The Highest Yield Study Technique There Is - Category: #articles - Document Note: --- tags: [study-techniques, active-recall, practice-testing] author: Mike and Matty source: YouTube reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg date created: 2024-12-19 10:30 --- # 🏷️ Title: The Highest Yield Study Technique There Is ## 🧰 Action Inbox - [H1] Assess if you have basic understanding before starting practice questions — avoid starting too early #study-strategy - [H2] Create flashcards from specific knowledge gaps identified in wrong answers — convert mistakes to spaced repetition #anki - [H3] Design practice sessions to exactly mimic test conditions including timing and environment #test-prep ## 🧭 Table of Contents - [📝 Summary](#-summary) - [📖 Main Content](#-main-content) - [🗒️ Notes](#️-notes) - [📚 References](#-references) - [🗣️ Paraphrase](#️-paraphrase) - [📰 Newsletter](#-newsletter) - [✅ Action Items](#-action-items) - [🧪 Hypotheses](#-hypotheses) - [📊 Methodology](#-methodology) - [❓ Questions](#-questions) - [🔮 Future Research](#-future-research) - [💡 Implications](#-implications) - [🧠 Learning Styles Assessment](#-learning-styles-assessment) - [📊 Accessibility Assessment](#-accessibility-assessment) - [🌍 DEIB Assessment](#-deib-assessment) - [✅ Logical Validity](#-logical-validity) - [🛡️ DARVO Analysis](#-darvo-analysis) - [🎯 Conclusion](#-conclusion) ### 🔗 References - [Learn WordPress](https://learn.wordpress.org/) - [Developer Docs](https://developer.wordpress.org/) ## 📝 Summary - **What happened**: Medical student explains 8 common mistakes people make when using practice questions for studying - **Why it matters**: Practice questions are one of the most effective study strategies with strong research backing, but incorrect usage can harm performance - **Key stakeholders**: Students at all levels, particularly those preparing for high-stakes exams - **Risks and tradeoffs**: Poor practice question technique can decrease scores instead of improving them - **Bottom line**: Practice questions are highly effective when used correctly - start with basic understanding, use appropriate difficulty, mimic test conditions, and convert mistakes into spaced repetition ## 📖 Main Content Practice questions represent one of the most evidence-backed study methods available, consistently ranking as "high utility" alongside active recall and spaced repetition in meta-analyses. Research shows 85% of high-performing students (GPA 3.7-4.0) use practice questions compared to 65% of low-performing students (GPA 1.7-2.1). However, practice questions can harm performance when used incorrectly. The eight key mistakes are: starting too early without foundational knowledge, using wrong question types, starting with overly difficult questions, looking at answers too quickly, not mimicking actual test conditions, failing to identify specific knowledge gaps in wrong answers, not converting mistakes into flashcards for spaced repetition, and starting too late in the study process. The optimal approach involves building basic understanding first, progressing from easier to harder questions in test-realistic formats, attempting answers before checking solutions, replicating exact test conditions during practice, analyzing specific failure points in wrong answers, and systematically converting knowledge gaps into spaced repetition systems. ## 🗒️ Notes #### ⏱️ [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=0) — [H1] Practice questions effectiveness and common misuse - Key idea: Practice questions are the most evidence-backed study technique but often used incorrectly - Evidence: "Practice questions can increase your exam scores more than any other studying technique if used properly" #### ⏱️ [01:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=105) — [H2] Definition and research evidence for practice testing - Key idea: Practice questions mimic actual test questions and have strong research support - Evidence: "Only rated three study techniques as high utility: active recall, interleaved practice, and practice testing" #### ⏱️ [02:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=150) — [H2] Student performance correlation with practice question usage - Key idea: High-performing students use practice questions more frequently than low performers - Evidence: "85% of students with GPA 3.7-4.0 used practice questions vs 65% with GPA 1.7-2.1" #### ⏱️ [03:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=195) — [H2] Pharmacy study comparing testing vs rereading - Key idea: Practice testing outperforms passive review methods for long-term retention - Evidence: "Testing might be more efficient for long-term performance. Students should avoid rewatching in favor of practice testing" #### ⏱️ [04:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=240) — [H1] Mistake #1: Starting too early without foundation - Key idea: Need basic understanding before attempting practice questions - Evidence: "Reed-Sternberg cells question - I didn't even know who this Reed-Sternberg guy was" #### ⏱️ [05:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=330) — [H2] Bloom's taxonomy and readiness for practice questions - Key idea: Must reach "remembering" level before applying knowledge in practice questions - Evidence: "I wasn't even at the first stage yet, wasn't at the remembering phase" #### ⏱️ [06:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=375) — [H1] Mistake #2: Using wrong question types - Key idea: Practice questions should match actual test content and format - Evidence: "If test covers differential equations but not partial, don't waste time on partial differential equation practice" #### ⏱️ [07:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=420) — [H1] Mistake #3: Starting too hard without progression - Key idea: Begin with easier questions to build confidence and understanding - Evidence: "Textbook questions start easy (1,2,3) and get harder (59,60,61) for a reason" #### ⏱️ [08:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=480) — [H2] Question difficulty progression strategies - Key idea: Progress from easy to mixed difficulty matching actual test format - Evidence: "Medical school tests are randomized difficulty, so I practice with mixed easy, medium, hard questions" #### ⏱️ [08:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=525) — [H1] Mistake #4: Looking at answers too early - Key idea: Attempting questions improves learning even without immediate feedback - Evidence: "Students doing practice questions with no feedback scored significantly higher than those with answers" #### ⏱️ [10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=600) — [H2] Research on feedback timing and learning - Key idea: The act of testing itself improves retention regardless of immediate feedback - Evidence: "Biggest difference was between students who did practice testing vs those who didn't do any practice testing" #### ⏱️ [11:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=660) — [H1] Mistake #5: Not mimicking test conditions - Key idea: Practice should replicate actual testing environment and constraints - Evidence: "Test day is stressful, so minimize surprises by practicing exact conditions" #### ⏱️ [12:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=750) — [H2] Comprehensive test simulation strategy - Key idea: Replicate all aspects of test day including timing, materials, and environment - Evidence: "I bought crappy keyboard and mouse because I knew test day would have crappy equipment" #### ⏱️ [14:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=840) — [H1] Mistake #6: Not identifying specific failure points - Key idea: Analyze multi-step questions to pinpoint exact knowledge gaps - Evidence: "Reed-Sternberg → Hodgkin's → treatment drugs → side effects: identify which step failed" #### ⏱️ [16:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=960) — [H1] Mistake #7: Not converting mistakes to flashcards - Key idea: Transform identified knowledge gaps into spaced repetition system - Evidence: "Ebbinghaus found we forget 40% in 20 minutes and 66% in 24 hours" #### ⏱️ [17:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg?t=1050) — [H1] Mistake #8: Starting too late in study process - Key idea: Begin practice questions early to maximize their high-impact benefits - Evidence: "I started practice questions from day one of 100 days MCAT prep because I knew their impact" ## 📚 References - [The Highest Yield Study Technique There Is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg) - Meta-analysis of 100+ studies on study technique effectiveness - Undergraduate GPA correlation study with 324 students - Pharmacy student testing vs rereading study - Ebbinghaus forgetting curve research ## 🗣️ Paraphrase - Practice questions are the most research-supported study method, but common mistakes can make them counterproductive instead of helpful - Students must build foundational knowledge before attempting practice questions and ensure questions match actual test content and difficulty progression - The testing effect works even without immediate feedback, so students should attempt answers before looking at solutions and practice under realistic test conditions - Wrong answers should be analyzed for specific knowledge gaps, which then get converted into spaced repetition flashcards to prevent forgetting ## 📰 Newsletter **Transform Your Study Strategy with Evidence-Based Practice Testing** Research consistently shows practice questions outperform passive study methods like highlighting and rereading. High-achieving students (GPA 3.7+) use practice questions at much higher rates than struggling students. **Key improvements for your practice question strategy:** - Build basic understanding before starting questions - Match practice format to actual test conditions - Attempt answers before checking solutions - Convert specific mistakes into spaced repetition flashcards **Practical next steps:** - Assess your foundational knowledge before diving into practice questions - Create a test simulation environment matching real conditions - Implement systematic mistake analysis and flashcard creation Resources: [Learn WordPress](https://learn.wordpress.org/), [Developer Docs](https://developer.wordpress.org/), [WP-CLI](https://wp-cli.org/) ## ✅ Action Items #### Education - Create foundational knowledge assessment checklist before practice question phases - Design question difficulty progression templates (easy → medium → hard → mixed) - Develop mistake analysis framework for multi-step questions - Build practice test environment replication guidelines - Implement systematic flashcard creation from wrong answers #### Training - Workshop on effective practice question timing and sequencing - Training on test condition simulation and environmental factors - Curriculum on mistake analysis and knowledge gap identification - Office hours on spaced repetition integration with practice testing ## 🧪 Hypotheses - Students who assess foundational knowledge before practice questions will show greater score improvements than those who start immediately - Practice question effectiveness correlates with environmental similarity to actual test conditions - Systematic mistake analysis and flashcard conversion leads to better long-term retention than reviewing wrong answers once - Early integration of practice questions throughout study period produces better outcomes than cramming practice questions at the end ### 📊 Methodology - Pre/post assessment comparing foundation-first vs immediate practice question groups - Environmental similarity scoring correlated with practice test performance improvements - Longitudinal tracking of systematic mistake analysis vs single-review approaches ### ❓ Questions - What specific foundational knowledge indicators predict practice question readiness across different subjects? - How does mistake analysis granularity (step-by-step vs holistic) affect learning outcomes? - What environmental factors have the highest impact on test performance transfer from practice to actual exams? ### 🔮 Future Research - Optimal timing ratios between foundational learning and practice question phases - Machine learning approaches to automatically identify specific failure points in multi-step questions - Virtual reality applications for comprehensive test environment simulation ### 💡 Implications - **Practice**: Restructure study schedules to prioritize foundation-building before practice testing phases - **Education**: Design courses with built-in practice question progression and mistake analysis systems - **Training**: Develop systematic approaches to test simulation and environmental replication - **Assessment**: Create tools for identifying specific knowledge gaps in multi-step problem solving ### 🧠 Learning Styles Assessment Reading level estimate: 10th grade (Flesch-Kincaid) #### 👀 Visual learners - Present: Bloom's taxonomy diagram, question difficulty progression examples - Improve: Flowcharts for mistake analysis, visual timelines for study schedules #### 🔊 Aural learners - Present: YouTube video format with clear narration - Improve: Audio summary of the 8 mistakes, podcast-style review sessions #### 🗣️ Verbal learners - Present: Clear definitions, medical school examples, step-by-step explanations - Improve: Memory palace techniques for the 8 mistakes, mnemonic devices #### 🧩 Kinesthetic learners - Present: Hands-on practice question examples, flashcard creation process - Improve: Interactive mistake analysis exercises, physical test simulation setups #### 🧠 Logical learners - Present: Research evidence, statistical comparisons, systematic frameworks - Improve: Decision trees for practice question selection, algorithmic approach to mistake analysis #### 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Social learners - Present: Student performance comparisons, shared experiences - Improve: Study group frameworks for practice testing, peer review systems for mistake analysis #### 🧘‍♀️ Solitary learners - Present: Individual assessment criteria, self-directed improvement strategies - Improve: Personal reflection prompts, individual progress tracking systems #### 🌿 Naturalistic learners - Present: Learning process analogies, systematic categorization - Improve: Pattern recognition in question types, ecosystem thinking about study methods ### 📊 Accessibility Assessment #### Screen reader semantics - Present: Clear heading structure, descriptive video content - Improve: Detailed alt text for visual examples, structured transcript formatting #### Keyboard navigation - Present: Standard video player controls - Improve: Keyboard shortcuts for timestamp navigation, focus indicators #### Contrast and readability - Present: High contrast video with clear narration - Improve: Transcript with proper contrast ratios, large text options #### Text resizing and reflow - Present: Responsive video player - Improve: Scalable transcript interface, text reflow for mobile viewing #### Media and captions - Present: Auto-generated YouTube captions available - Improve: Professional captions with speaker identification, downloadable transcripts #### Forms and interactions - Present: Basic video interaction controls - Improve: Accessible practice question examples, form validation for self-assessment tools ### 🌍 DEIB Assessment #### Cultural breadth - Present: Medical school context with some universal study principles - Improve: Examples from diverse educational systems, multilingual study resources #### Inclusive language - Present: Generally accessible terminology with definitions - Improve: Plain language alternatives for medical terminology, cultural context for test formats #### Neurodiversity support - Present: Clear structure with numbered mistakes, consistent formatting - Improve: Multiple processing speeds accommodation, varied input methods #### Representation - Present: Individual student perspective from medical education - Improve: Diverse student voices, varied educational contexts and backgrounds #### Psychological safety - Present: Encouraging tone about improvement possibilities - Improve: Acknowledgment of different learning challenges, growth mindset emphasis ### ✅ Logical Validity #### Strong reasoning - Deductive strength: Research evidence clearly supports practice testing effectiveness claims - Inductive strength: Personal anecdote about MCAT success supports but doesn't prove generalizability - Causal reasoning: Clear mechanisms explained for why each mistake undermines learning - Analogical strength: Medical school examples relate well to other high-stakes testing contexts #### Fallac - Document Tags: [[1]] [[2]] [[anki]] [[test]] [[study]] - Summary: The Highest Yield Study Technique There Is - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCREIUN9HMg most people are using practice questionslike all wrong which is a big issueright because practice questions are oneof the most effective study strategiesyou can use out of all of them this formof studying or this form of activerecall has the most evidence in academicjournals and in my immediate circle inmedical school is used by the topstudents and practice questions canincrease your exam scores more than anyother studying technique if usedproperly however if you're not usingpractice questions correctly they might not bring your score up but they mightactually bring your score down which iswhat happened to me this is because onlycertain practice questions should beused when you're studying after aspecific amount of time spent studyingso here are the eight biggest mistakesthat people make when using practicequestions and I'll tell you also how tofix themso first and foremost what are questionsright so practice questions are just anyquestions that mimic the questionsyou're going to get on test day or theymimic the questions you're going to geton your oral exam or your written exam or whatever kind of exam you're going tohave and these questions can be fromanywhere right they can be from yourteacher the back of the textbookinternet resources or you could evenjust craft one of these questions butreally practice question is an amazingstudy resource and there's lots ofevidence that support practice questionsas one of the best ways to study one ofthe best ways to improve your scoreswhen it comes to exam day and let's talkabout a little bit of the research soone study that looked at a bunch ofother studies over a hundred otherstudies and a bunch of study techniquesover 10 study techniques rated these methods these are high utility mediumutility or low utility and they onlyrated actually three of these studytechniques as high utility can you guesswhat they are well it's active recallinterleaved practice which is just spacerepetition and practice testing and theones that didn't get great scores wereagain I say this so much but somememorizing highlighting rereading not sogreat another experiment looked at 324undergraduate students and surveyedtheir habits and they correlated thosehabits to a GPA and what they found was interesting they found 85 percent of thestudents with a GPA of 3.7 to 4.0reported using practice questions whileonly 65 percent of the students with thelowest GPA which is 1.7 to 2.1 reportedusing practice questions so in the topscorers 85 percent of them are usingpractice questions and in the lowestscores 65 of them were using practicequestions finally one study looked at abunch of Pharmacy students and comparedtheir performance on a test when justre-watching or rereading the material versus being tested on the material andwhat they found is testing might be moreefficient I.E cost effective forlong-term performance students whoattend class may want to avoidre-watching courses in favor of practicetesting briefly I wanted to go over thatbecause the evidence points consistentlyto practice testing being one of thebest methods there are so how are weusing it wrong what ways can we usepractice testing better let's get intoitso the first mistake I see is people are starting way too early I remember when Ifirst started medical school I wanted tobe the best student there was I boughtevery single textbook every singleresource every online thing I could getmy hands on I bought and that included areally big question bank and I rememberone of the first questions that I sawwas something like which is the drugthat treats this disease characterizedby Reed Sternberg cells and the mostcommon side effect of this drug isdilated cardiomyopathy and this was likethe first question I saw and I remember I was completely lost I didn't even knowwho this Reed Sternberg guy was like whyare they naming Sal's stuff after a guywho does that like any form of activerecall including practice questions youneed to have a basic understanding ofthe topic before you dive in and if weremember Bloom's taxonomy of learning itgoes something like this rememberingunderstanding applying analyzingevaluating and creating but I wasn'teven at the first stage yet I wasn'teven at the remembering phase and I wastrying to do practice questions stupidlyhowever I kept blasting through practice questions and I really had no idea whatwas going on in a lot of these questionsI was just guessing questions and noteven understanding the answerexplanations it was a real waste of timeso before you start doing practicequestions make sure you have a basicunderstanding of what's going on ifthere are two or three words in thequestion that you don't understandyou've probably started a little bit tooearly[Music]most common mistake number two and thisis a really simple mistake but using thewrong questions if for example you havea test in math right and you have to cover this certain chapter in thetextbook for this test and the chapterin the textbook covers differentialequations and also partial differentialequations but the test you're only goingto be tested on regular differentialequations but if you do all thequestions in the back of the textbookthose are also going to include partialdifferential equations as well right andthat's just a big big waste of timebecause you don't need to be spendingthe time studying those things becauseyou're not going to be tested on thatand the reason I say this is becausesometimes test makers or your teachersor professors or whatever they'll give you a textbook of the chapter to likelearn and study from right but theywon't be necessarily testing you onevery single question in the back ofthat textbook so it's a good idea to askyour teacher or ask your professor whatare the best specific questions for meto do so I perform the best I can onthis test and understand what you'retrying to get me to understandthe third most common mistake I see andthis is similar to the mistake ofstarting too early is starting to hardso again I'm going to referencetextbooks because I think that's wherewe all first remember doing practicequestions if we go to a textbook and we look at the practice questions in theback of the textbook you'll see that thebeginning questions are usually mucheasier so question one question twoquestion three but when you get toquestion 59 60 61 those are usually moredifficult questions and that's for areason right the people that wrote TheTextbook want you to start to build yourunderstanding build your confidencebefore you have a go at these moredifficult questions then importantlyonce you go from the easy questions tothe hard questions don't only do thehard questions do the questions in theformat that you will be tested on right so for example in medical school we havesome hard questions we have some easyquestions we have some medium questionsand they're not in any order throughoutthe test right they're kind ofrandomized so after I did some easyquestions to get a basic understandingof whatever I was learning about I woulddo a mixed bag of questions so some easymedium hard questions and usuallyquestion banks have this right so theyhave you know this is a harder set ofquestions this is an easier set ofquestions and so on but if you're inhigh school I remember in high school Iwas always tested on easier questionsfirst that would get progressivelyharder so that's the way I would study again maybe I'd create myself a littletest and I'd have some easier questionssome medium questions and then hardquestions at the endso the fourth most common mistake islooking at the answers too early so whenyou're doing practice questions forexample do you a look at the practicequestion and then immediately look atthe answer do a couple practicequestions and then look at the answer orlook at the question and then withoutcoming up with an answer just look atthe answer anyway just because you thequestion was too hard only one of thosethree options is awfully bad and that's the last option and the reason isbecause when you're doing these practicequestions if you have an attempt itactually helps in your learning even ifyou don't know if you got the rightanswer or not so in one amazing study Ihad students study in three of thefollowing ways and then take a test thefirst one was take some tests and thenget feedback or do some practicequestions and then get no feedback sodon't know the answers or just not dopractice questions and like reread thecontent well guess what the studentsthat did practice questions with nofeedback scored significantly higherthan the students who did the practice questions with the answers and thedifference between them and the studentsthat actually had the answers wasn'tthat big either the biggest differencewas between the students who didpractice testing for students who didn'tdo any practice testing whatsoever andit's a really powerful way of improvingyour learning and schools know thisinstitutions know this that's why youhave so many annoying tests so manyannoying quizzes because they know evenwhen you're tested even if you don'tknow the answer you're actually yourretention of this information improvesjust because you did the testing Iremember especially in the beginning of medical school I was looking atquestions that seemed so impossibly hardbut I understood all the words in itremember so I'm not starting too earlybut they seem so impossibly hard I justdidn't want to have an attempt I justwanted to look at the answer resist thatEarth resist that urge because everytime you do that you're wasting aquestionand that leads very nicely into themistake number five is not mimickingtesting why do I do a bunch of questionsin a row as I approach test day becauseit mimics test day why do I only do multiple choice questions because I'monly going to be tested with multiplechoice questions on test day in medicalschool another reason is test day isoften stressful so we want to doeverything we can to minimize our stressminimize surprising things during testday so you should ask yourself thefollowing questions what is the testgoing to be like will they be multipleJoys or fill in the blank or essay ormath problems how many total questionswill there be how long will I have tocomplete the whole task will it be openbook or closed book will I have acalculator or no calculator and it mayseem silly but also think about what am I going to be wearing during test daywhat am I going to be eating during testday will I be drinking will I haveallowed to been bringing water during itwell I've drank coffee beforehand howlong beforehand will I have drank coffeewill I be able to use the bathroomduring the test or will that take awaytime from my test I remember when I wasstudying and preparing for the mostimportant exam of my life the m MCAT theexam that determined my competitivenessfor medical school I would wake up atthe same time every day that was thesame time that I would wake up for mytest and I would go sit down in the same chair every single day and I even boughta crappy keyboard and a crappy Mousebecause I knew during test day I'd havea crappy keyboard and a crappy Mousesome other crazy things that I did iswhen I was trying to mimic test dayexactly and I did this maybe three orfour times before test day happened is Iwould wake up wear the same exactclothing eat the same exact food getready in the same exact way pack my bagin the same exact way and then I wouldactually drive out of my house and thendrive back and I'd only be allowed touse the things that I brought in my backpack so any snacks or water oranything like that then I'd go upstairswith the timer set exactly the same thatwould be on test day so I do a certainTest Section for a certain amount oftime and then I'd have a break sectionbreak section break no phone the entiretime because I knew I didn't want tohave my phone at all during test dayeither and then at the very end of theday I was done completely right andagain I only ate the packed snacks Ionly ate the packed lunch I had I onlydrank the coffee that I brought with mebecause I wanted to see what it was liketo mimic test day exactly and it helped me so so much when it came to test dayand I ended up scoring like way higherthan I ever thought possible and I don'tsay that to brag even though like I'mreally happy with my score I say thatbecause the possibilities when you takepractice questions seriously are hugelike you can jump your score by morethan you ever thought possible if youjust consistently commit to putting inthe workforeignis not focusing on the specific contentyou got wrong depending on what you'restudying and what you're doing I don't really know it could be anything rightbut most questions especially in highereducation are going to be like two-stepthree-step or four step questions andwhat that means is you're gonna have toanswer four questions before you get tothe final answer so if we look at thatfirst question that I asked myself thatfirst practice question that I did whenI wasn't ready for practice questionswhat is the drug that treats a diseasecharacterized by Reed Sternberg cellsand the most common side effect of thisdrug is dilated cardiomyopathy right sothe first thing you need to do isidentify what are Reed Sternberg cells so that's number one okay I know itreads Sternberg cells they're inHodgkin's lymphoma so I've identifiedHodgkin's lymphoma is the disease I'mtreating and then I need to knowwhatever the drugs that treat umHodgkin's lymphoma and there's a coupledrugs so I don't know which one it isbut then they say the most common sideeffect is dilated cardiomyopathy stepthree so I can link that side effect tothat big group of drugs and say okay Iknow that's doxorubicin and then you getto the answer of doxorubicin throughthree steps now importantly if I got that question wrong I'd want to identifyat what stage in that thinking I got thequestion wrong did I get it wrong atstage one where I didn't even know whatReid Sternberg sells but I knew aboutDoc's rubison's side effect and I knewabout the certain drugs well then Idon't need to test myself on thedoxorubus and side effects right I onlyneed to test myself on linking readSternberg cells to Hodgkin's lymphomaand that's the only way I should retestmyself or re-study that content or maybeI need I know I shouldn't hold up themiddle finger there okay or maybe I don't know that the treatmentfor Hodgkin's lymphoma is doxorubicinand these other drugs so I need to learnthat or maybe I don't know the mostcommon side effect of doxrubicin isdilated cardiomyopathy so you need tofigure out where in the question you gotit wrong and focus on that point towhere you study because if I relearnedall that information that would waste aton of time because I already know thesecertain things or maybe I really have nounderstanding of that questionwhatsoever and then I do need to takethe time to relearn what's going on sowhen you get a question wrong wheneveryou get any practice question wrong take the time to think okay wherespecifically in this question did I gettripped up what did I actually get wrongwhy did I get this question wrong andlearn to study or study that specificpiece of content not the whole questionbecause it's a waste of time and youalso want to mark down the specificpiece of information you didn'tunderstand right then and there becauseif you go back to that question like twohours or three hours or the next daylater you might not remember why youactually got that question wrong andyou'll end up having to relearn likeeverything but how do I keep track ofall these different specific things I got wrong you might ask well welcome totip number seven the most common mistakenumber seven is not converting yourincorrect questions into flashcardsso ebbing house I hope I'm saying thatright famously found that we forgetabout 40 of the information that welearn in 20 minutes and 66 of thatinformation in 24 hours so we needsomething to fight this for gettingcurve and that's what it's called theforgetting curve we need to testourselves at intervals that will makesure we don't forget that information quickly or spaced repetition and onefantastic way to do space repetition iswith flashcards and that's exactly whatI would do with every single piece ofcontent I got wrong on the practicequestion so again apply the previous tipto this tip go through the practicequestions you got wrong figure out whichpart of the question you actually gotwrong and convert that piece ofknowledge into a specific flash card andthe way I take this tip to another levelis whenever I get a question wrong Iactually screenshot that question andput it in my Anki flash card if it was in a textbook maybe I'd take a picturewith my phone and put it on a flash cardor if it's on the back of a uh aphysical flash card maybe you can justwrite down the problem number on itbecause this way when you're goingthrough the flash cards and you see okaythis is a flash card that I'm gettingwrong a lot you can go to the actualpart in the textbook and read thepractice question it all links back veryvery nicely but overall what were wegoing to do we're going to look at thepractice question we're going to seewhat specific part of the practicequestion we got wrong and then we'regoing to convert that specific piece ofknowledge into a flash card so we cansave it in long-term retention in our long-term memory banksand finally most common mistake numbereight I see is starting to late remembertip number one was starting too earlytip number eight is starting too latebecause practice questions are so sopowerful remember that most importantexam of my life the MCAT well I studiedfor that 100 days from eight o'clock inthe morning to five o'clock at night fora hundred days straight during my summerI dedicated my like entire summer tothat it wasit was rough but I started doing practice questions from day one becauseI knew how important and how much of animpact practice questions we're going tohave on my grade the MCAT really justtakes all these topics that you alreadykind of have a basic understanding ofand makes them a little bit moredifficult adds a little bit of changes alittle bit of more intricacies to themso I didn't need to wait to start doingpractice questions because I already hada good enough basic understanding themore practice questions you do thebetter you will do so start earlyfinally I've implemented my Ankistrategy in a specific way and designed my cards in a specific way to focus onunderstanding instead of memorizationand I've outlined this and everythingyou could possibly need to know aboutusing Anki for school using Anki to getthe best grades possible on skillsharewho are kindly sponsoring this videoflash cards are life and Beyond justbecoming an a student skillshare haschanged my life it got me to start thisYouTube channel it helped me organize mylife in regards to productivity in a waythat I could focus on the things thatwere really important to me my dreams mymy dreams of becoming a doctor so that now in the next month I'll be a doctorand it has just taught me cool thingsthe first 1 000 people to use my linkcan join skillshare for one monthcompletely for free so if my Anki classor creating new career possibilitiesthrough optimizing your time managingyour productivity and kind of learningabout things that will be viable andhelpful in starting a new careerinterest you in any way I stronglysuggest you join skillshare but that'sit those are the eight biggest mistakesI see people making when using practice questions so fix those mistakes getbetter at doing practice questions andget better scores on your tests butthank you so much for watching and Iwill see you 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