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Studying doesn’t have to be boring or ineffective. In fact, you can get great grades and have fun along the way.

The Study Hub: Your Ultimate Guide to Studying for Exams

Lots of people dread studying. Long hours in the library, boring textbooks, and the pressure of exams all lead to us feeling burned out, exhausted, and just fed up.

When I was in medical school, I spent hours and hours studying, and still struggled to get all of my work done and keep the information in my head. I thought, ‘If I just work harder, if I just study for longer, then it’ll work.’ But I wasn’t making progress I wanted.

So, I decided to try and figure out how I could make studying easier, more enjoyable, and more effective.

And it worked.

The Science of Studying

After researching more about the science of how we learn, I figured out that more hours does not equal more success. You need to find a way to work smarter, not harder, with revision and study techniques that actually work.

Rather than sitting and starting at your books for hours, you can create a study routine that’s actually engaging and enjoyable and genuinely helps you pass your exams.

So, you can boost your grades, ace that final, or pass the bar, all while actually enjoying the rest of your life

Step up your study skills

On this page, you’ll find articles all about how to make studying sustainable and effective. I cover some classic study techniques, as well as sharing the tips and tricks I used to stay on top of my schedule, spend time with my friends, and succeed in school.

Enjoy x

Feel Good Productivity

The secret to Productivity isn’t Discipline. It’s Joy.

You won’t just accomplish more.
You’ll feel happier and more fulfilled along the way.

We think that productivity is all about hard work. That the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But what if there’s another way?

In Feel-Good Productivity, Dr Ali Abdaal uncovers an easier, science-backed path to success. He demonstrates that the secret to productivity isn’t grind, it’s feeling good. And he reveals how to make your projects feel so enjoyable that productivity takes care of itself.

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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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  • Exams are a game

    I’m writing this with 2 days to go until my final exam in my penultimate year of studying Medicine. I’ve just bashed through ~120 psychiatry and obstetrics questions, with around 700 left…

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