Studying & Learning How To Study: The Essay Memorisation Framework As a medical student, I did have to undertake some exams that required writing essays. One of the questions I often get asked is how you can apply techniques such
Students How To Study: Using the Method of 'The Great Explainer' “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool” Richard Feynman When we’re studying, it can be easy to think
Useful Apps To Improve Productivity and Study Effectively With exam season rapidly approaching, I wanted to write a blog post just listing the best resources and apps that you can use to improve your productivity and efficiency and
How To Study: An Effective Learning Framework To 'STIC' With With spring just around the corner and winter fading away, thoughts are starting to turn towards a different season – that of exams. Being able to study in a way which
The Pomodoro Technique - The 'Tomato Inspired' Strategy to Improve Productivity The Pomodoro Technique is perhaps the simplest productivity and time-management strategy which we can all use – you don’t need any technical apps or sophisticated technology; all you need is
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
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
Revision 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
How to become more confident I’ve become a much more confident person over these last few years. Partly that’s come from recognising that there’s no difference between fake confidence and real confidence,
The joys of handwriting I recently bought a Leuchtterm notebook (after hearing Neil Gaiman’s recommendation). I’ve been using it extensively for the past 3 days, and I’m very pleasantly surprised at
Happiness 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
