Name: How to study MANY SUBJECTS and ACE them all
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Aimee, can you please give me tips on how to study many subjects at once?

Do a video on how to study for many subjects.

Do you have tips to study for many subjects in a day?

Please make a video about how to study multiple subjects.

In high school, my English teacher refused to sign off on my class selection for the next year.

That's because not only was I asking to take so many classes, but every single one of them was a weighted 5.0 GPA out of 4.

I was literally maxing out the difficulty of my course schedule and she was scared for me.

However, I was so confident that I could handle it that I convinced her.

She handed my class proposal back to me with a sticky note saying, You're crazy, Aimee.

Instead, I aced every single class while maintaining my sleep schedule of an average of 8 hours per night while still playing varsity sports.

So how did I study so many subjects at once?

Well, did you also know that I'm an Olympic-level ping-pong star?

No, I'm not nearly as cool as that, Aimee Wang.

But I do have the best team, the A Team, which you are a part of if you watch my channel.

That's because my videos teach you how to get A's the cool way with holistic mindsets and habits that serve you beyond school.

If you're committed to excelling in all of your many classes while stressing less, then turn this video on full screen mode and prepare to lock in.

Psst, if you listened to the last tip, you've got what it takes.

I assume you don't want to study for entire days on end.

I certainly did not want to study for a full day.

I rarely had days where I spent the whole chunk of my waking hours studying.

That's because I wanted to watch a K-drama with my sister or in college, I wanted to visit Hollywood with my friends.

When I had something to look forward to every weekend or after school, I was even more efficient and motivated to work.

When you're happier, you're more productive.

Even if you feel like you need to study for a whole day to handle all of your many classes, plan a nice walk or dinner for quality time with your loved ones, and I promise the hour you squeeze out will be worth it.

People brag online like, oh, how I studied 12 hours in a row and here's how you can do it too.

As if there's an award for running yourself into the ground or something.

They make it feel like you're doing something wrong if you're not studying all day.

But if I was studying happily and sustainably while getting top grades, I had to be doing something right, breaking up my days with fun in between.

The coolest way to get A's isn't to study 24-7 because ironically, that wouldn't be very smart.

The laziest people are the smartest people.

If someone wasn't lazy enough to be like, ew, I don't want to wash the dishes by hand, then we probably wouldn't have this amazing invention today.

When faced with a difficult situation, try to work smarter before working harder.

AP government sophomore year was so tedious and really hard.

We had to fill out gigantic packets of information for homework every single week.

These packets were literally 20 pages thick, as thick as my eyeball.

And if you're doing so many classes, one tedious, time-consuming class can drag everything else down.

So I took that packet, I went to lovely Google and typed out one of the questions in the exact wording.

I found Quizlets with the exact questions from the packets with the answers in full, complete explanations.

Now, no, this is not cheating because I still would have had to dig through the textbook to end up getting the exact same answers.

It's not like I was getting greater understanding from searching the answers myself rather than just using Quizlet.

If a shortcut gives you the same result and the same learning you gain from it, then don't reinvent the wheel.

Maybe you like making presentations pretty, but if it's gonna be time-consuming, it's not worth it because it's no longer gonna be fun when it's sucking time away from your other classes.

So think, how can I be the laziest possible while still getting the same results?

When you go to the gym, do you think you're gonna be able to do 100 sets of bicep curls, 50 sets of squats?

No, because at one point, when you tried to overload yourself, you get diminishing returns.

This means don't do all of your memorization subjects in one day.

When I tried to memorize history facts and biology terms in the same study session, eventually my brain felt like it was going to explode and it couldn't retain a single new piece of information I tried to shove in there.

Your brain physically cannot encode that much at once.

However, please note that problem-solving classes are okay to do in a day or a study session.

In high school and at Caltech, my class schedule was filled with 80 to 90% science and math classes and I found that actually by studying them together, I could make connections between math and physics, for example, and still learn effectively.

When you have too many classes, it's really easy to let one assignment slip through the cracks and that can make a big difference to your grade.

In addition to the usual days of the week in my planner, I would draw my own grid system for each week.

I would have a blue and green section for blue and green days because my school was on a block schedule.

For each of my blue and green days, I had four classes.

So, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.

My makeshift grid on my planner was actually as messy and freestyle like this.

Next, I have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, seven days a week at the top.

As I'm going about each day, I would check off whether each class's to-dos were done.

For example, if I am on Monday and I've already done everything I need for class one on blue days and I didn't have anything for class two, I finished my class three things, blah, blah, blah, then I would check them all off this way.

Even if I didn't write an assignment down in the regular planner section, I would ensure that every single class is captured.

So, I annex on Tuesday as I'm doing my work.

Okay, I did blue two, then I did green one.

Okay, didn't have any work for green two, blah, blah, blah, until for every single day, I make sure that the entire column has full check marks.

Systems like these trackers are the core of time management.

That's why I also recommend this specific class on Skillshare called Productivity and Time Management Strategies for Goal Setting and Eliminating Distractions.

That title literally sounds like it was made for us, right?

Thanks so much, Skillshare, for sponsoring this portion of the video.

If you don't know, they're an online learning community where experts from various industries teach you art, entrepreneurship, productivity, and more.

Common questions students have when handling so many things is, where do I start?

Patrick Dang shares how to create the snowball effect so progress becomes easier and easier once you take your tasks bird by bird, making it less stressful.

And having many classes makes prioritization even more important.

Patrick Dang also teaches you how to prioritize and set SMART goals with his worksheet.

I especially like how he calls all of this together a productivity machine because being productive should feel easier and almost automatic if you're using the right mindsets and habits.

You can never learn too much about how to organize your ideal life.

So I've been going through Patrick's sections and I really enjoy learning in a more structured way than perhaps random videos on YouTube.

And lucky you because you can actually listen to his class for free because the first 500 people can get a free one month of Skillshare premium with a link in my description.

As a private tutor, I've seen how students make the mistake of putting an equal amount of effort on all subjects and all concepts.