7 Days for Better Grades

Don't rewrite your whole lecture, use less words, group ideas and more pictures and visuals.

Teaching: Messy associations → More comprehensible info

Whole-Part-Whole

• Whole: Understand the process
• Part: Explain some details of the process
• Whole: Answer → Why do the details matter to the process?

The Feynam Tecnique is explained in the image above

Day 3: Deeper Understanding

Mixing

Approach the materials from multiple angles

• Read books about it, Watch a video on youtube, Have a study group, and Research papers.

Mixing to learn multiples topics at once

• Studying many topics at the same day → Break study blocks Instead of studying a topic for 3 hours → Study the 3 topics for 1 hour and repeat 3 times

Day 4: Spacing & Timing Revision

Spacing

• The more you have studied → the less you need to repeat it (spacing)
• Cramming for a test is a terrible idea for long-term learning

Timing Revision

• Column Topic: Each Chapter or Lecture you need to study
• Column Reviews: The day when you are studying the topics
• Color coding: Green (Easy), Yellow (Challenging), Red (Hard)

Day 5: Active Learning & Testing

Testing → Spaced Repetition

• Evaluate your performance when you practice test problems

Day 6: Long-Term Memorization

Mnemonics

• Helps to remember chunks of information that are related.

Day 7: Boost Concentration

• Take breaks to move your body and avoid burn out
• The breaks should be the Study Session divided by 4