The study tip they’re NOT telling you | How I went from a 2:2 to 80% at Cambridge University

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the elon musk example did not age well 😔 billionaires are parasites

Boss Lady! This is what I have been doing and it works!

im in my 5th year of mechanical engineering everytime i feel like i cant do it in a test and i procrastinate i come back here to get motivation thanks!!

Thank you so much for this ❤ I appreciate that you don’t lionise unrealistic expectations and unhealthy approaches to work. I was a cam student too and saw some ridiculously overworked and un-joyful people. Less is more 🤍

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Love this! Studying should not be pretty, cutesy and demure. Applies for medicine too not just maths. More people should talk about this

"Wait, so the real secret is just... not studying? Or am I missing something here?"

started using walter writes ai humanizer after my professor said my intro “felt robotic”

I have never felt so heard, thank you so much. Biomedical engineering here.

Really good video!

Blonde baddie saving our asses in uni once again!Keep up the good content luv

This is so useful thank you. I'm going to really keep this in mind during my studying

thank you so much for this video, it was super informational!! <3

I would say
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At 11:15, you say we're going to read through the notes, but we're not taking any notes? Confused me.
I'm going to uni in a couple of months, I work every other weekend and have a family. These tips will come in handy, thank you.

Depends on the year of uni. As a former engineer student i like to recall my how i would call them TRASH YEARS.
You just have to accept it you need two hell years of uni to have the rest years smooth sailing(even actively slack off at the rest two years cause you dont wanna do the work).
But you have to embrace the two hardest years of your university no slacking around until you get that ''base'' of knowledge that will allow you to slack off later on.
For me as a Naval Architect and Marine Engineer the second and third year were the hardest later on the 4th and 5th you just had to show up and even miss the whole year and still pass the exams.

Last but not least yes those two years will literary be no going out and doing work on weekends.

only 80% for Masters? Weak.

I did something similar. two other tips. Study really hard things and then take a nap. I cannot believe how much info consolidation I got by sleeping on the information. Before exams I did a one page review sheet where I put the most important and the concepts I had to pound into my head. Great job by the way, quite an achievement. Lastly, start studying the material from day one, and don't just cram, because this gives you so much more reputations of the material.

Excellent! Thank you

Great video. It's easy to go headless chicken and not really understand anything. Active learning rules. Sometimes I act like I am creating a quiz about the piece I am studying.

This video perfectly describes me.

I'll give everything a go and see where I can get to for graduation in a couple of months.

Elon is now destroying America. How many hours does he spend dismantling our system?

Notes are important, but please dont write notes about something you dont understand. At that point just understand the subject first and then do them. If you wanna do them first, then please review them later on or they might bait you when your studying for exams.

Hey Abbey, this is great work (I enjoyed the references to Musk, Tao, and research).

Could you show us a before and after of your notes? It would be greatly helpful to see what active learning looks like.

Thank you!

This was SO helpful, why don't they teach us this. I think it will improve my learning so much, it makes learning seem so much more fun. Thank you

Thanks for sharing
Regards from Turkey

Tips : don't write notes on every PowerPoint slide. Pick some slides that are related to each other and find more info from Google. Everything is in Google loll. Only for glossary and definitions use books.

i know this video is two years old now but thank you so much for making this. i study computer science at a similarly intense uni and the thing you are ALWAYS told when you ask for time management advice is "treat uni like a 9 to 5". i always interpreted that as "do (deep focus academic) work for 8 hours a day" and whenever i tried to do that and just physically couldn't focus for that long i'd beat myself up about it, thinking i was being lazy. whenever i started falling behind in academics i'd attribute it to not working long enough hours and i'd feel horrible about myself. i cant express enough how refreshing it feels to hear that working longer hours isn't the answer!! no one tells you that!!! thank you!!!!!

Omg I really need to get my shit together

What the hell does 2:2 means?

I am struggle to study and get good grade in electrical engineering at university, so your method will help me, thank you ❤❤

like this!!

Don't believe Musk's 120 hours per week. It is PR, not reality.

I can't stress this enough: Thank you!!

I also went from a 2:2 to a first… I also went to Cambridge. But I didn’t do the methods used in this video. I took nearly verbatim notes from lectures, and really made use of seminars, small groups, and supervisions to ask questions and do my best to understand the topics. If doing an arts or humanities subject you need to try and put the topics you learn into your own words, try to imagine the political concept in action or the era of history and think about how things played out. I used the Cornell method of notetaking to setup my note pages. It really works well. Using the Cornell page setup you then go back over the two smaller sections on the page for review and questioning purposes. Review immediately after lecture, review day after, review week after, review month after, review 6mo after. Does depend on your subject though, if doing STEM you can add in a 3mo review too. If doing history or literature etc. it depends on how many exams you will do, if you have more essays instead of exams then it depends more on your own ability to question, think, and write about the topics than about memorising and applying STEM facts and formulae.