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is so important to realize that you can
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make all of these fancy notes you can
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make all of these beautiful mind maps
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and flashcards but at the end of the day
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in the exam you're not going to have any
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of this so now let's talk about the free
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active Refrigeration strategies that got
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me all eight stars and all Nines in My
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GCSE and a levels and now the most
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effective way to revise for your exams
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is
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you're spending hours and hours revising
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highlighting writing notes you barely
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have time to rest at the end of the day
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but you're still not getting the grids
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that you want are you actively revising
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or are you fooled by the illusion of
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revision you put your head down to do
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work but is this work actually
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benefiting you if your main sources of
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revision include the following then
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you're doing it all wrong if you're
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highlighting if you're rewriting if
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you're re-reading this is just so
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passive and it's not going to help you
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in the long run let me tell you what
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will so guys before we get into the
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video be sure to give this video a big
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YouTube algorithm let's get straight
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into it so now let's talk about
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something called the forgetting curve
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you may have heard of it but full but as
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you guys know memory is fit cool it
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fades really easily you can know
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something like the back of your hand one
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day and then forget it the next it's
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honestly really annoying but why does
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this happen it's basically due to
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something called forgetting and the
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forgetting curve the forgetting curve is
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a theory made by Hermann Eben which
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basically shows us that we forget the
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information that we have been taught
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over time as you guys can see in the
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steepest part of this graph is at the
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start so this means that if you do not
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revise something after you've learned it
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you're more likely to forget it in the
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end so your memory will slowly start to
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decline until you can't recall anything
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at all how do we avoid being a victim of
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the forgetting curve how can we retain
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all of the information that we've spent
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so much time learning acting revision
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and space repetition is the answer to
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all of these problems and I'm sure
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you've heard of that before but do you
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know if you're revising correctly do you
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know if you're arising actively in order
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to maximize the results when spending
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minimum amount of time studying so now a
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lot of these words in productivity such
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as space repetition such as active
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recall you can honestly just seem like a
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bunch of words and not really any
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substance to it so I'm gonna be
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Authority explaining how I would
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implement this in order to improve my
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productivity in studying so let's talk
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about active revision studying is based
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on the retrieval and the recall of
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information that you have learned in
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your classes active revision is
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basically based on testing yourself in
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the same way that you will be in the
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exam and strengthening those Pathways
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which will need to be used in the exam
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it's so important to realize that you
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can make all of these fancy notes you
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can make all of these beautiful mind
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maps and flashcards but at the end of
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the day in the exam you're not going to
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have any of this and your results will
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solely be determined by what you
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currently have in your brain at that
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time so this means that all of your
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revisions should be active and not
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passive so that you can get all of this
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information into your brain there's no
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point of highlighting and rewriting and
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rereading a passage but none of it
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entering your brain is just a waste of
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time this means that when you're arising
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you should feel some kind of struggle or
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some kind of work that your brain is
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being put through in order to show that
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you are absolutely revising think of it
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as training a muscle you have to feel
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some kind of sensation to prove that
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you're doing it correctly obviously it
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shouldn't be too uncomfortable at the
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same time they should be an element of
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difficulty to it in order to show that
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you are studying correctly you can
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gamify revision by making it fun making
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it something that you would want to do
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you can play revision games with your
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friends you can try different study
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methods which I'm going to be explaining
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in this video and you should also
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Implement rewards for studying this
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you are you tired of the same old boring
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Seneca in the run-up to my gcses I found
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it as a nice break away from stressful
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revision sessions and something
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different to mix things up a little bit
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because if you don't learn how to mix
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things up it gets really hard to
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actually memorize things and what you
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want to do is always change your
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revision method and Seneca is the best
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favorite feature has to be the mini mob
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own mini assessment you can choose to
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select the hardest questions choose
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whether you want calculated questions or
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not and you can also ask it to test your
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new weaknesses so it will test you on
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the parts where you lose the most marks
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and I find this really really helpful in
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well as this you can also use Seneca to
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my description don't miss out so let's
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get back to the video now let's talk
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about the free active Refrigeration
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strategies that got me all a stars and
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all Nines in my gcses and a levels so my
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personal favorite are flash cards so as
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you guys know from my videos you guys
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know I love a good flash card these are
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really really helpful when they're used
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correctly and that point is really
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really important when they are used
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correctly I see a lot of people making
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flashcards and when I was in year 11 I
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saw people making brush guns and I was
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thinking is it really helpful because
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when you are just rewriting your notes
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and putting them on a flash card there's
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no way you're going to memorize it and
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that time that you spent rewriting your
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notes is honestly just a waste of time
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and that time could be spent on
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something much more useful in the long
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run so what I would recommend is that
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you base your questions off the
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specification you put a question on the
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front and an answer on the back and
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ideally the answer should be something
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that is exam worthy something that you
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would get four marks for if you wrote it
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in exam initially it takes quite a bit
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of effort and time to make these
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flashcards but if you make them
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correctly and if you make them
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effectively to Target your weak points
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it will save you a lot more time in the
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long run as opposed to having to make
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flash cards in exam season or just
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before exam season and being stressed
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out so try to make your flashcards
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throughout the study period throughout
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the whole year so that when you come to
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your vision right before exam season you
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are already ready to revise and the most
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important thing is that you should use
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these frequently to avoid the guessing
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cut as you guys see after you learn
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something your memory of it rapidly
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declines in order to prevent this from
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declining you want to be recalling this
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information at frequent intervals so
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that you can always be at the top of the
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spaghetti curve and by the time it is
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your exam you are more likely to be able
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to recall it if it was asking a question
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so something you can do is make
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something called a retrospective
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timetable this is basically different
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from your standard revision timetable as
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it forces you to revise things at
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certain intervals this will basically
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prevent you from forgetting things and
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being a victim of the forgetting curve
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for example let's say I find a topic
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such as ecology heart I'll review it one
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day and then I'll review it the next day
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and then after one week I will still go
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back to that topic you're just
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constantly going back to the topic
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solely increasing the intervals that you
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review the topic and let's say I find
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something easier I'll have larger
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intervals for example cell biology I'm
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confident in it so my first interval
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would be one week then it could be one
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month and so on I also have a video on
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how to make effective flashcards so be
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sure to check that one out because I go
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into much more detail than I do in this
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video another method that I highly
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recommend in order to get great grades
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in your exam is blatoon so now I'm sure
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you've heard of Bloodstone but if you
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haven't it's basically the active
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retrieval of information I write in
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every single thing you know about a
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topic onto a plain sheet of paper and
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this basically highlights your
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weaknesses because you see what you
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currently do know and what you don't
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know after a set amount of time you
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should get another pen and you should
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write in the parts that you didn't
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remember by using your notes or by using
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the revision guide and then you can also
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highlight these weaknesses into
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flashcards if you find that you're
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frequently forgetting this information
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this is helpful especially for
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essay-based subjects because these
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subjects do not prompt you about the
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point station making your essays they
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just give you an overall topic and
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expect you to record all of the
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information that you know about that
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topic so blatant in this way stimulates
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those Pathways in the exam which are
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going to be tested and also helps you to
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find prompts and topics for your
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paragraphs so ultimately you can write
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the essay quicker and spend a lot less
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time thinking about what you want to
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write and this tip will basically make
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your essays 100 times better and now the
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most effective way to revise your exams
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is through exam questions as I'm sure
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you guys know exam questions are the
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closest thing thanks to what you'll be
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getting in your exam a lot of subjects
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these days are based solely on your
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exams not coursework so your exams
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should be the focus of majority of your
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vision ideally they should be done in
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exam conditions so this means they
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should be timed it should be quiet and
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you should have no distractions so
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obviously this is really hard to
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implement in your everyday home if you
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can't replicate these conditions that is
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not the end of the world but the more
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you do this the more you'll be prepared
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for the exam conditions and the example
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because if you aren't already it can get
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really stressful when you experience
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that so not only do exam questions
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prepare you physically by getting you
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used to the exam conditions but they
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also prepare you academically because it
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does something called increasing your
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exposure to these questions the more
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your exposure is to these questions the
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more likely you are to be able to answer
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them in the exam as you guys know if you
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go through exam papers over the years
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you'll see that questions come up all
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the time and they just phrase them in
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slightly different ways so the more you
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revise these papers the more likely
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these questions are going to come up in
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your exam and the more you're going to
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be quick and to the point and get the
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marks in those questions you also get
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used to the mock scheme so every example
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would have different mark schemes and
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have different ways they want you to
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write answers so the more that you see
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these Math Games the more you can
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memorize these and write them the way
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they would want it in the exam do your
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work gradually throughout the year
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avoids cramming and just try to spread
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things out so that you avoid the stress
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before you examine now finally let's
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talk about nourishing your body and how
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this nourishes your mind so as you guys
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know your brain needs food to work
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effectively and efficiently if you don't
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eat properly if you don't nourish your
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body if you don't drink water your body
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is not going to like this and your brain
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is not going to like this either your
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brain uses 320 calories alone just to
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think like just think about it your
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brain is amazing and it needs all of the
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energy that it can get in exam season or
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mock season it can be really hard to
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have a balanced diet and to look after
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yourself but this will not help you in
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the long run you'll have less energy
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less focus and do worse than your exams
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so eat well sleep well and drink enough
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water this means that you'll be able to
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study for longer periods or good and you
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also just have a better mood overall
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exam season is as hard as you don't want
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to make it West for yourself and
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sleeping is also incredibly important
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for memory retention if you don't sleep
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you'll find out when you wake up you
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forgot everything you advised the night
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before and this is really annoying and
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this is basically because you didn't
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give your brain and your body enough
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time to recover so sleep well guys and
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just try to have at least seven hours of
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sleep I know that sounds really hard and
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sometimes I don't even follow my own
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advice but it really does help so guys
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we've reached the end of this video I
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hope you found it useful and if you did
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be sure to like comment and subscribe as
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well as share this video with someone
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else and since you're watching this
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video you're probably wanting to
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increase your productivity and your
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motivation so be sure to watch my video
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on how to start studying after you've
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wasted half the day and hopefully this
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helps you to stay productive especially
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after a day of procrastination I'll see
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you guys next time bye
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thank you
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