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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2023
- In my 3rd year of Medical School, I decided to quit taking notes all-together. I've relied on note-taking as a memorization/study method for years, but I wasn't getting the result I was looking for. Worst of all, I was not enjoying the learning process anymore because it felt like a chore. This single-impulsive choice was one of the best things I did in Medical school.
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The notes didnt work for me too because i think i am a visual learner i can remember a textbook page,colour, concept,and the drawing on that page . So during exams while answering questions i remembered textbook pages and the teachings more then those notes.
Haaaa ...... I found someone like meeeee😅
Wtf how?
This visual learning and audio learning is a pseudoscience , veritasium exposed it
@@rubyciide5542it's just good visualisation power
Learning styles like visual, reader... Are debunked
I used to have this problem. Our school teacher forced us to write down the notes she created. They were lengthy, had unnecessary info (stuff that don't really help clear a concept) and i was too stressed by trying to memorize all of it. Back then,the moment i came home from school, i had lunch, had a 1 hour nap and then wrote and memorized notes till 12. Even then my work wasn't finished and had to stay up late. In grade 5.
The moment i left school life i felt so liberated from so much stress. I wrote my own notes, i just jotted down main info, made small diagrams and pictures for my memorization and guess what, i went from a barely passing student to getting top grades.
TLDR; Write only concise notes, if you need to.
I like how special ur vids are, u always have different advices than others and honestly thats great keep making vids like these u have no idea how much it really helps
I realized that too. I always took notes when I was in HS and college the first time. I recently started going back to school and not taking notes and just going over the books over and over and using quizlet. I'm a better student at 35 than I ever was as a kid and young adult.
Finally a reason to stop taking notes 😍
I feel like the way you presented your point reflected the, checked notes/rewinded, the broader umbrella understanding.
Like it really shows in this vid, I feel. Personally and at my new job, I am still taking a ton of notes and also noted that I didn’t really look back. Will now try to limit myself.
Thanks for sharing!
I love this video, short and precise to the point.
I feel the same when you said you never read the notes you wrote. I see my friends write down notes and referring back to it in class, but it feels pointless when I do it because it changes nothing !
All in all, great video.
Yup that's exactly how I feel about taking notes! It just doesn't work for me and that's okay!
Glad you enjoyed the video :D
Thanks so much! If I need to remember something I reread the chapters to find the big ideas.
Interesting experience. Thank you for sharing with us!
Glad you found it interesting :D
Thanks Kloo
Personally taking notes helped me, because i find it easier to memorize that way, however I start taking notes the night before the exam, so that the next day I can read it before entering the exam.
Fair enough! A LOT of people really benefit from notes and use them and there's nothing wrong with that :D if it works, it works!
I just wanted to say that your channel is so useful and you manage to make your videos fun as well
I hope you get big one day
great video, I just disvovered you and you make really good points.
I have a video request: could you make a video on how to study anatomy? I feel some of the advices you gave on previous videos (like focusing on the main concepts) do not strictly apply to anatomy, I would really love to hear your perspectives and methods: thank you (from a very lost second year italian medical student)!
Sure! I'll try to make it some time soon but I have some other stuff planned before that so might take a while till I get there (i'm going through a rough exam season for the next week and a half then I should be free 😎)
thank you, good luck for your exams
My math teacher always told me to talke notes thats where my 80% of mind was going when lesson and today i didnot took that much notes and actually it worked:) danke
Will try now, I got an exam next week
Thanks ♥️ a lot , i can study with notes and without it from childhood but now it's my habit to take notes but it takes so much time ⏲️😖that's why my study of each subject became slower like you mentioned 2 hrs understanding and 5 hrs notes 😢so i searched for it is note necessary to study and found your video not I'm happy ❤
Affective today. I’m no longer taking extensive amounts of notes.
I took your advice and got an F!!! Thank you so much!!!
l watch your videos from Iran 🇮🇷 ❤️
Nice video,, it's really needed now,,
Glad you liked it!
It's useful I'll try it too🙂
Good lucK!
I would say if the syllabus is huge like jee neet it is necessary
What if summary the lesson from the professor slide
Thats it im gonna get myself a cat
But if i quit notes, what do i do when i have to revise everything for the exam, like what if i forget everything until that point because i have studied so much more other topics?
Yeah, so I didn't discuss what to do instead, but the gist of it is:
Instead of reading through my notes to revise, I go through flashcards my friends made (or I found online) and revise everything constantly through those. Some of my friends instead prefer going through the lectures/lessons on the textbook by revision, but NOT by reading the book, but rather trying to explain to themselves from memory what they've learned, then looking back and checking if they've missed anything. That way you're constantly digging for information in your head. It helps A LOT with memorization and you'll find yourself remembering a lot more in the exam. It's like magic!
I'll make a video in the future on specific study methods I like to use and others I don't use but think they're very very good!
I had a 4.0 in college never took notes because its easier to absorb a lesson when your not distracted by writing
nice video! but i don't know
I think that the taking notes help me with memories... at least in asks of old tests to study to tests that i gotta do
That's fair! If it works, it works there's nothing wrong with taking notes, just doesn't work for me :D
can you share with us the textbooks that you used in med school plz especially physiology cause i have a weak foundation in it ?
And also book that helped you in your clinical years
Thank you 🙏
Sure! Just to preface things, I'm not yet in my clinical years. That will be next year in about 3 months! I am just about to finish my pre-clinical years in about 2 weeks. We follow a 5-year system of 3 years of pre-clinical followed by 2 years of clinical.
For physiology, I used Guyton & Hall but not very extensively. I referred back to the book when the physiology lectures were a bit confusing. I also did use BRS Physiology but only for the practice questions because they were pretty good. There's also a Guyton practice question book which I heard was pretty good but I personally did not use.
@@KloomOfficial thank you so much 🙏
Your videos are very helpful and inspiring please keep up the good work
How about learning new language like english or etc , you don’t write any new vocabulary or phrases or points ? How could you be sure you don’t forget during review it?
Can you share how you discovered that taking notes is not helpful
It's personal preference. I just kinda got tired one day and wanted to experiment with some different strategies and found myself enjoying them more and performing better. Some people REALLY like notes because it works for them and that's okay too!
How can i find other ppl notes and their flashcard??
Might wanna ask around your school to see if someone is making them. You can find them online as well if you're studying specific majors. Medicine has a lot of premade flash cards on Anki.
You can also learn to make your own which was what I did in my first few years of university.
@@KloomOfficial thank you 💓
This video not really for me. I took notes when i was a student and up to this time. It was huge help and now I'm taking my master's. Perhaps, we have different preferences. I dont learn without notes and it's already my habit and life. It retains the info more but im making sure I'm just getting the necessary coz i hate crowded notes😅
Nothing wrong with taking notes! I'm just sharing my own personal experience with it :D If it works, it works!
What do you do instead of taking notes?
I really just sit down and try to explain to myself in my head, then use flashcards mainly for active revision
@@KloomOfficial Got it now, thanks.
This is the exact reason why I wouldn't write my homework. No one understands!
If you want that i will help you to grow your channel
Notes is so f ing trash. Like i wasted all my time writing down than just reading, at the end after writing the whole ass chapter i don't remember, maybe i do but don't feel productive it just doesn't make me feel that i remember that concept. It takes me about 5 to 10 min to understand a concept but take 20 to 30 min to write and i feel more productive, understand more and do smt when i read and explain to myself, u may say to write what you understand but like at the end of the day people like are so lazy that we dont open it. All i wanna say is actively understanding is betterc than actively writing because reading makes you remember longer
You video and what you said told a truth: you never know how to study.