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00:00I asked 800 of you to send me your homework and spend a week doing all of them just to prove that
00:06all the tips in this video works. I mean, here's some of the feedback that I got back. Everyone
00:11says, oh, you just need to understand. Once you understand, you'll remember anything. Sometimes
00:17you really do have to memorize. So this video is split into five parts. The five-step process to
00:24memorizing anything, how to memorize dry facts, how to memorize formulas, how to memorize similar
00:30looking facts without getting confused, and lastly, how to memorize dates and chronology. Everyone needs
00:36to watch the first part because it's for every subject. For the other parts, I'll put the timestamps
00:40in the description box below. Thank you Grammarly for sponsoring this video. Let's go. The five-step
00:45process to actually remember what you study. Step one. If you study by making notes and then reading
00:52them repeatedly, it could explain why you can spend hours studying but still score below
00:57what you expect because reading is actually just part one. You will be able to recognize
01:02everything in the exam but not be able to answer anything properly. You need to do step
01:07two which is do multiple choice questions. This is how you're going to test that understanding
01:13because everything makes sense in a textbook until it looks like this in the exam. After showing
01:18this in my exam vlogs, a lot of you asked me how I create my own MCQs. I just asked AI to help me
01:23generate them from my notes. Here's the exact prompt that I use. Feel free to screenshot. I already have
01:29a Grammarly account so I just use that for convenience but quick tip. You can paste your notes onto the
01:34website and generate it there and you can have one file per topic. Makes everything look really neat
01:40but I prefer downloading the Chrome extension because then it's built in into Google Docs. I just highlight the
01:45part of the notes I want to test myself on. Write out my answers somewhere and then check. Always copy and paste
01:50the questions you got wrong in a separate document so you can review them later. Here's my bacteriology document
01:55as an example. I mentioned this in my how to be the perfect student video but when you're done studying and you take off
02:02study history chapter 3, what does this actually mean bestie? Because these are all different versions of studied
02:08history chapter 3 but if we had an exam tomorrow, we'll fail if we did option A and B. Please check
02:14out that video here. Next part, do fill in the blanks. You've tested yourself, you know you understand
02:20the content. Now we need to memorize key terms. The best way to lock them in is using fill in the blanks.
02:27Here is the AI prompt that I use. Bacteriology is full of difficult terms and I scored 90% on my recent
02:33test so you know this works. I learned this trick from my immunology lecturer. They gave us fill in
02:39the blanks to do after every module and I found it was so useful in understanding which terms are
02:44actually important that I need to memorize first. Part 4, you're going to do the scribble method to
02:50memorize sentences. Now it's time for us to build full answers. Take your learning objectives and turn
02:56them into questions. You'll usually find them on the first page of every topic in your textbook or at the
03:01beginning of your lecture slides. Then go through your notes and convert any important parts into a
03:06question too. Then on a whiteboard or some rough piece of paper, scribble out dot point answers.
03:12Include all the keywords, dates and terms. But here's the catch. Do not stop at dotted points. I used to do
03:19that okay. I was tired. I was like I don't want to do full essays. Let me just dot out the points. Then I realized
03:25during my exam I would be wasting so much time trying to convert my ideas into full coherent answers
03:31because here's an example okay. This makes sense. It sounds fine until you realize you're missing
03:37all these words when you answer it in an exam. So if you struggle with timing in exams, you need to do
03:43part five which is to turn those essay questions you wrote into full sentences like you would write
03:49them in the exam. Mark the ones that you struggle with. Redo those questions every few days until you
03:54can answer each one of them seamlessly. My five-step process will not let you down. I promise feel free to
04:00screenshot these five steps for future reference and I'll link all my exam vlogs in the description
04:04box below. And I compiled all the things you can do with your Grammarly account into one single
04:09document. I'll leave it in the description box below. You can use my link to create a free account.
04:14Grammarly is the reason why I've been scoring grades like these for years now. For example, I'll ask
04:19Grammarly to help me brainstorm initial topics for my essays or identify gaps in my essay to really boost
04:25those critical thinking marks. These are all free features but if you upgrade to pro, you get access
04:31to tools that can help you turn wordy sentences into clear effective ones. This was so helpful to
04:36me during my internship when I had to write those really scientific academic essays. And now you can
04:41prove that your work is actually written by you with their new authorship feature. They'll categorize your
04:46text as written by you, created with AI or edited with Grammarly. The link to create a free Grammarly
04:52account will be in the description box below. That's Grammarly.com slash feimei. You can also
04:56get 20% off Grammarly Pro using the same link. Now, how to memorize very dry facts that make no logical
05:03sense. This is relevant for all my biology, pharmacology, anatomy or even English lit students
05:09who are stuck just memorizing super dry facts. Imagine each grain of rice is a term. If I scatter the
05:17rice across the table, you'll never be able to recreate this shape. But if I arrange this into a
05:22pattern, you'll be able to recreate it instantly. Same thing with terms, you'll need to restructure
05:27them into a pattern that you can remember. The easiest way to do this is by using color. For
05:33example, for bacteriology, all my Gram-positive bacteria is written in green, all my Gram-negative
05:39bacteria is written in red. It's one less thing to memorize. When I think about gonorrhea, I immediately
05:45know it's Gram-negative because I only write it in red. For immunology, everything about T-cells is
05:51written in orange and B-cells is in blue. When I get confused about the structure of the spleen, I
05:56remember that I wrote something in blue on top and orange in the middle. So I know that the B-cell zone
06:01is on top and the T-cell zone is in the middle. Does this make sense? Let me know in the comments. This has
06:07saved me so many times in exams. Here are two other real examples. First, a medical student memorizing
06:13names of medicine and their function. I told her to color-code the medicine based on what they
06:18affect. So now, instead of trying to remember every single medicine and their separate effects,
06:24she just needs to remember the color. This is her feedback. Even better, an English literature
06:29student memorizing quotes from different texts. Faison told me that she struggled to remember quotes
06:34from different books and how they relate to different themes. And I gave her the same trick.
06:38So every single quote or thing about conformity will be written in blue and everything about
06:43individuality will be written in orange. In your notes, one look and you'll know immediately what
06:49themes this book has. The second way is by using structure and color. So I'm going to show you in
06:54real time how I convert this 30-page section of my notes about the different classes of antibiotics
07:00into this. That's it. We're going to use structure and color. First, I go through my notes,
07:06then find out what I need to remember. Here is the classes, the name of the antibiotics, and so on.
07:12Very important, we're going to draw it out. Take a rough piece of paper and group them accordingly.
07:18You'll get better at this with practice, trust me. Then assign as many things as you can with a
07:23specific color or shape. Here's what I came up with for this chapter. Now see this magic happen.
07:28Three boxes on top for their function. Two two three two boxes for their classes. I use this mnemonic
07:34to memorize the starting letters. Then I remember the second row is red, green, red, red, and everything
07:40else is red. Then I mark this inverted L with the letter S. Then just fill in the blanks. I swear,
07:48okay, the 30-page section of notes is literally just this one A4 sheet of paper. So this way,
07:54you don't need to remember every single detail. You just need to remember the colors and patterns.
07:59Remember to subscribe and like this video if you're enjoying it so far. Now, how to memorize many
08:05formulas. This was so requested on my Instagram, but most of you try to remember formulas by dumping
08:11a hundred of them onto a piece of A4 paper, staring at it for hours, and then wondering why your life
08:17has come to this point. I mean, I've seen your formula sheets, besties. Don't deny you don't do this.
08:22Here's how I memorize formulas as someone who did take economics, physics, and mathematics in college.
08:28There are three parts to this and please listen to all parts. Part one, you need to group your
08:33formulas according to when you learn them, not by topic. Let's just say you're learning
08:38electrostatics like this student here. You don't learn all 20 formulas in one go. Your textbook or
08:44slides will introduce them gradually. Maybe these three in lecture one, then two more in lecture two.
08:50If you have a textbook, this is much easier because they're usually grouped by subtopics.
08:54Here's a real life example. Kashmala sent me her formula sheet. This is her before and this is
09:00the after. Now, here's where most students mess up. They learn set one of formulas that do practice
09:05questions for this set. Then the next week, they learn set two and only do practice questions for
09:11this set. If you do this, I can guarantee that by the end of the semester, you'll be familiar with
09:16all the formulas but not know how to use any of them. You'll look at the question and just be stuck.
09:22You need to layer your practice just like this. So as you learn your formulas, you'll be spending
09:28more time doing practice questions. Think of each formula as a card in your deck. You'll be
09:34collecting more and more cards as the semester progresses but you also need to train when to use
09:39each card. Otherwise, it's like building a deck but you don't know what each card does. Doing practice
09:45questions for each set of formulas as you learn them will teach you to know which card to draw
09:50because exam questions will never tell you use formula set four. You'll need to know which card
09:56to draw on your own and maybe even draw three to four at the same time. Part two, write the formulas
10:02out every single time. Every single time you do questions, whether that's MCQs, long answers, short
10:07answers, write down all the possible formulas that you could be using. Two reasons, you're building memory
10:13through repetition and some examiners will actually give you marks for just writing the right formula
10:18even if your working is wrong. And if you struggle to answer the question, you can just sift through
10:23all the formulas and see which one fits. For my besties that want to guarantee great marks,
10:29create a formula notebook. If you're an OG, you know I've been doing this for years. Take a notebook,
10:35dedicate one page per topic. At the top, write the topic title, list how many formulas belong to it,
10:41then neatly write them out all underneath. I highly recommend that you split your page into two
10:46and right side is all the sample questions that use them. Every time you do a question,
10:50you ask yourself, which topic is this from? Grab your little formula book and write down
10:55every single formula in that topic. This was a long part but if you found it helpful,
11:00please share it with your friends. Next, how to memorize similar looking facts without getting
11:04confused. You know when you're learning like 60 different bacteria and 30 different medicine,
11:10they all just kind of end up looking the same. Make tables but not just any table. Use the same
11:17format for every single one. Let's just say you're learning about bacteria. Your table headings might
11:22look like this. If something doesn't apply, you just put a dash. Having the same format means that
11:28instead of you needing to memorize a whole chunk of information for each thing, you just need to play
11:34spot the difference. So if you look at my notes for Shigella and Salmonella, you can immediately see
11:39which characteristics are the same and which are different. When you revise, you can also easily
11:44cover the right side of the page and try to recall what you remember. Now, how to memorize dates. I
11:50actually took law as an extra subject in university and history was my favorite in high school. So here's
11:56my exact system on how I memorize dozens of dates without losing my mind. I first go through all my notes
12:03and extract every single date that shows up. For each one, just write the year, the main event, the
12:09topic that it came from if you need to. You can type this out or scribble it down, doesn't really matter.
12:14Then you need to draw one big horizontal line across a page or a whiteboard. Write out every single year
12:21in chronological order, then space them out proportionately. Then under each year, write the key
12:28event. But make sure you color code it. You can choose assign a topic, a main event, or an important
12:35person a specific color. By the end, your timeline should look like a rainbow of information all neatly
12:42laid out that you can easily scan. Now you need to do repetition. Force yourself to rewrite this timeline
12:48as often as possible. Eventually, I would actually quiz myself in the opposite way. So I would name an event
12:54and try to circle the year it belonged to. Now why does this system work so well? First, you finally
13:00develop a concept of time. You'll have so many moments where you're like, wait, I thought that event
13:07one happened before event two. But nope, they overlapped. It's so much easier to remember dates when you know
13:14when they happened relative to each other. Second, in the exam, when they ask you questions like,
13:19did this event happened in 1847? You know in your timeline that you never write the date 1847. So you
13:27know that that's not true. Or third, exam questions like to ask, name all the major events that happened
13:33in X year. You'll remember from your timeline that it had orange, yellow, and purple. So you'll know to
13:39mention these three completely separate events from different topics. You will score very high marks in
13:45your essay questions if you're able to do this, by the way. If you've made it this far, comment down below if you
13:50prefer studying languages or STEM subjects. I am not a language person. I prefer studying science and maths.
13:57Remember to like this long video, subscribe and turn on the notification bell and set it to all so you don't miss
14:03out on any future uploads and vlogs. Thank you for 1,390,000 subscribers and I'll see you all in my next video, bestie. Bye-bye.
14:14Chapter. Chemistry chapter 3. Why am I struggling to pronounce chemistry? Chemistry. Okay, I'm gonna pick another.
14:21I'm gonna pick another subject. History. But when you're duddy. Duddy. But when you're done studying.
14:27Ah, oh my gosh. I'm out of breath. Can you even see my lipstick? I'm gonna use a pinker one.
14:37Oh, so much better. But quick tip. But quick tip. But quick tip. But quick tip. But quick tip.
14:43Okay. But quick tip.
14:53Bye, bestie.
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