[Music] ladies and gentlemen if you clicked on this video chances are you have a test or exam coming up and you want to get an A+ look as a computer science students at Yale I've tried it all commodor method highlighting flashcards you name it I'm not going to waste your time that's why in this video I want to share the three study tips that actually work if you're in high school or college these tips will literally save you hours of stress and pain and you'll be able to get an A+ on your exam with ease so the first study tip that actually works is active recall what is active recall it simply means that instead of just reading the textbook you're learning through answering questions you're studying through doing past paper exams and the reason why this is so effective is because of the forgetting curve which is basically a concept that says we quickly forget information unless we constantly practice it so what does this mean it means that if all you do to study for your test is just reading the textbook or watching some random YouTube video you're wasting your time instead what you want to do is gamify your studying and it's so easy guys to gamify your studying with active recall three easy things you can do the first one is to make a Quizlet basically from your class notes or from lecture slides you want to transform those notes into Fun flashcards where your main objective is to get as many questions right as fast as possible almost like you're playing a video game also Pro tip you can use trat GPT and AI to transform your notes into questions it's really easy to do saves a lot of time and it's really effective now the second thing you can do is use past paper exams this is probably the best method to study for almost any class and the reason why is because you're basically studying in the same format and structure of your real exam and most of the time 80% of the questions that will come out on your exam will be the same or at the very least the concepts will be the exact same so definitely put these past paper exams in high priority also when you're doing these past papers don't do them like a dumbass where you're just lying to yourself and looking at the answer key looking at the question pretending that you actually know that information when you clearly don't put away all your not notes read the question and then answer it now if you still can't get the answer then you can pull out your notes then you can check the answer key guys I know this method takes longer but it's worth it because you don't have to do it many times so at the end of the day it actually takes the least amount of time and it's so so effective now the last way you can do active recall is through the fem man technique basically the finean technique is where you teach the information and try to break it down in fifth grade terms by teaching what you study it makes you better understand it because you're forced to make it much more simple of course if you have a friend who takes the same class as you this would be easy we can just ask each other questions while walking to class or chilling but honestly speaking you don't even need to do this with an actual person to get all the benefits you can just pretend to talk to someone grab a stuffed animal or something and then record your own voice on your phone and then play back that recording of yourself talking about a certain concept and maybe even transcribe it by doing this you're forcing yourself to make that unnecessarily complicated physics equation into a very easy to understand term so in recap Quizlet practice papers and the findan technique if you follow these three active recall strategies I guarantee that you guys will be acing your exams with ease now the next study technique that you want to do is spaced repetition and space repetition actually works really nicely with active recall so basically what you want to do is study over increasing intervals of time to improve your long-term memory guys space repetition allows you to feel much more relaxed when you're studying for exam it's not like when you're panicking and criming the night before and I personally find that three is the magic number when it comes to space repetition so for example if you have flashcards on quizl you want to be able to do it three times and that's where you're going to get the most optimal benefits the same thing goes for past papers just do that same math paper three times and get faster each time almost like it's muscle memory ideally you want to try to do this in three separate days where you're allowing your brain to sleep and process that information so let's say you have an exam in 2 weeks maybe tomorrow you do that first practice paper and then in a week you do that same paper and then the day before your exam you do that again by doing space repetition you're defeating the forgetting curve and especially if you combine it with active recall you will literally become Unstoppable now the last study tip that actually works is priming and optimize brakes so what is priming it's basically when you try to manipulate your own mind to feel more focused and to be more productive and you can do this in two easy ways the first way is by closing your eyes for 30 seconds to a minute and just visualizing the big picture on why studying your class is important you want to visualize yourself knowing all that information as an academic we and being able to Ace that exam and by doing this you're creating meaning in what you study and you're tricking your brain into thinking that studying is easy now the second way to Prime yourself is by listening to music now personally I like listening to some jazz music or even some 432 Hertz music on Spotify just to make my brain relaxed but you can also listen to anything from classical music to house music to lowii it honestly depends on your personal preference the point here is you want to get yourself excited to study now you also want to integrate optimize brain breaks a couple of key things you need to know first the time you study does not equal knowledge gain I don't care if you study like 12 hours a day or pull an all nighter for me it's not a flex I'd much rather just study for 2 3 hours but I'm fully focused and I'm studying with effective active recall principles Second Use naps to your advantage just short ones like 20 to 30 minutes whenever you have free time in between classes or after lunch or you can also do nsdr non-sleep deep breaths there's lots of research and benefits to nsdr Andrew huberman recommends it and I would recommend trying out this video if you're just getting started guys if you integrate priming and optimize breaks into your study routine you'll be able to make studying much more fun and easy and if you follow all these steps in this video active recall space repetition priming and optimized brakes I have zero doubt that you guys will Ace your exams but that's going to be it for this video I hope you guys got lots of value from it if you did make sure to smash that like button and subscribe to be part of the family God bless the hustle we're all going to win one day and I'll see you in the next one