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  • How To Study: The Power of Retrospective Revision Timetables

    Revision timetables are often praised as the best way to structure your time in a coherent, logical manner. It’s certainly true that they can have some benefits and I know…

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  • How to Study: Spaced Repetition and My ‘Magic’ Spreadsheet System

    The amount of time we spend revising is always a controversial issue – some people prefer to downplay how much time they’ve spent revising whereas others are keen to tell…

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  • How To Study: Active Recall – The ‘High Utility’ Technique You Should Be Using

    If rereading, highlighting and summarising aren’t effective methods of revising, then what should we be doing? The two most effective methods that I’ve come across are active recall and spaced repetition which, in combination,…

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  • How To Study: 3 Popular Revision Techniques You Should Avoid

    Revision is personal. How we revise, the techniques we use and the time we spend trying to revise will vary but we do all drift towards techniques that feel intuitively…

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  • Medical Adventure in Sudan

    In January 2019, I and a group of doctors from Cambridge travelled to Sudan for a medical mission trip. With a team of Sudanese doctors, pharmacists, lab techs and 80…

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  • When my to-do list piles up, I use this productivity trick

    At the start of this week, I found myself feeling a little overwhelmed. I’d been on holiday over the Christmas period, and on returning to the UK I had two…

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  • How I make money in the stock market

    A chap called Jack Bogle died last week, at the age of 89. You may not have heard of him. He founded a company called Vanguard and introduced the world…

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  • The £5 item that made my student life much happier

    One of the best purchases I made at the start of my university days was a doorstopper. Whenever I was in my room during waking hours, I’d leave the door…

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