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Not all study strategies are made equal and the vast majority of students study ineffectively.

What are the nine most effective study strategies and how do we rank the best of the best?

Dr. Jubbal medschoolinsiders.com each of the study techniques outlined in this video is a valuable evidence based tool.

In our ninth spot is studying in small groups of two to three people.

Any more than three people in a study group will result in more distractions than benef.

The reason studying in small groups is so effective is that it aids motivation and accountability.

You have to follow through on your commitments when you plan a study session with someone else, and

if you find positive influences to study with, they will hold you accountable.

You won't be able to study effectively with just anyone.

Surround yourself with fellow students you can count on who have similar goals, work ethic and values to your own.

The biggest downfall of studying in groups is the potential for it to turn into a hangout session.

Don't mislabel the meeting if it's truly usually a study session, save talking about the next season of House of the Dragon until after studying or another time entirely.

Fully committing to either will be much more rewarding in both instances.

At number eight is dual coding, which refers to learning a concept through multiple different modalities.

For example, you may read about a concept in a textbook and additionally watch a YouTube video on the topic or see an experiment demonstration in class to drive the point home.

Don't be afraid to let studying get a little messy.

Go beyond the textbook and lecture to fill in knowledge gaps.

Supplement anything you're unsure of with other forms of media that explain the same concept but in a different format.

You can also create multimodal study resources yourself.

For example, the process of creating a diagram helps with both comprehension and retention, and

then you'll have a condensed high yield visual for future reference.

Interleaving simply means switching between multiple topics, ideas, or subjects during a single study session.

This strategy is particularly helpful with subjects that require problem solving, such as physics, chemistry, or math.

Interleaving facilitates finding links, similarities and differences between ideas as you interleave.

Approach subjects in different orders to encourage improved understanding.

Make a conscious effort to think about how you can link principles between the different concepts.

When you're strategically shifting between topics, you can ward off burnout and boredom through novel stimuli.

This is particularly beneficial when studying for major standardized exams like the SAT or mcat.

However, note that interleaving requires a bit of calibration.

If you spend too little or too much time on a single topic, it can prove detrimental.

If you switch too often, you can fail to achieve meaningful, deep understanding.

If you spend too much time on one area, you're not interleaving, you're just performing traditional blocked studying.

In our number six spot, we have concrete examples.

Concrete examples facilitate the understanding of complex or difficult concepts.

Find relevant examples that illustrate the principles from a lesson you're trying to learn.

Ensure you deeply understand how the concrete example is a reflection of this principle.

In practice, start by collecting examples and then explaining how the example illustrates the principle you're attempting to learn, and

You can also create your your own examples or exchange examples with your study group for added benefit.

When practicing this technique, ensure the examples are accurate and relevant to the concept you're studying.

Too often, students find poor examples online, through friends or from other resources that reinforce an improper understanding.

At number five is the Pomodoro technique, which we've covered on the channel many times before.

It breaks study sessions into attainable blocks of 25 minutes followed by five minute breaks.

Instead of sitting down to study for three hours, you're only sitting down for 25 minutes at a time.

After four Pomodoro cycles, take a longer break of 20 minutes and repeat.

25.5 is a good place to start, but it's not a magic number.

Pomodoro is flexible if you want to work in slightly longer or shorter sessions.

The technique is effective because it helps you build momentum, holds you accountable, and

Limit distractions to get the most out of the Pomodoro technique, your aim is to be efficient, focused and disciplined while avoiding external temptations.

The whole point is 25 minutes of intense focus.

Keep your phone on silent and out of arm's reach or outside of the room altogether to give absolute focus to the task at hand.

To avoid the common mistakes students make when using Pomodoro, check out this video.

Right up here in the fourth spot we have the Feynman Technique.

Created by the Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman.

The Feynman technique helps you master and retain difficult concepts by explaining them to someone else as clearly and simply as possible.

First, write the concept's name at the top of the page, you are deliberately focusing your attention on mastering this single topic or concept.

Next, explain the concept using simple language as if you were explaining it to a friend who is unfamiliar with it.

The third step is where the magic happens.

As you work on explaining the concept, you will naturally identify areas you're having difficulty explaining in simple terms.

Use this as a guide when you go back to your textbook or lecture materials to fill in the gaps in your understanding.

Lastly, now that you've explained the concept, go back and pinpoint any complicated terms and challenge yourself to simplify them further.

Use any analogies that may aid your understanding.

Don't just think of how to make it simple, think of how you would explain it to a child or parent.

The act of simplifying difficult concepts using the Feynman technique helps a great deal with understanding and information retention, which is why we have it ranked so high on our list.

The process ensures you understand the concept at a foundational level so that you don't fool yourself into believing you're more of an expert than you are.

To take this technique to the next level, combine it with strategy number nine small study groups.

You add a sensory and emotional element plus real time feedback by explaining concepts to one or two of your study buddies in real time.

At number three is desirable difficulties, which posits that anything requiring a great deal of effort will improve long term performance, despite the fact it may initially slow down learning.

If you bench press 10 pound dumbbells, you're technically doing chest exercises, but

you're not challenging yourself enough to the weight is not enough to create the micro tears and stimulus necessary to grow your muscles.

This is what happens with passive learning strategies.

On the other hand, if you bench to the near max of your capabilities, you're exerting yourself to a far greater capacity, resulting in muscle breakdown and ultimately hypertrophy.

Students naturally want to find the easiest path and confuse easy with effective.

it's far less effective and will take more time in the long run.

Don't shy away from the discomfort and friction you initially feel.

It's all part of the learning process and proves that your efforts are working.

We have desirable difficulties in our number three spot because it's a common thread throughout some of the best study techniques and a reminder that the most efficient and effective path will have more resistance.

At number two, the second best study strategy is spaced repetition.

Repeated exposure to a piece of information at Increasing intervals between each repetition optimizes memorization and retention in the least amount of time.

This is due to the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve.

In its simplest terms, the forgetting curve demonstrates that after forming a memory, we gradually forget more and more of it as time elapses.

By reviewing the information just before we forget it, the memory becomes more durable.

If we see the same information multiple times over increasing intervals, we're much more likely to encode those facts into long term memory.

Studying for eight hours spread across two weeks generally results in superior performance compared to studying for eight hours in one sitting.

To streamline this process, create a study schedule for yourself where you plan out when to review older material.

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