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After hearing that episode, I resonated a lot with her views on learning. I got excited when I knew she was releasing a book. This book has not just tips on learning but covers entire process of learning from planning for exams till the mind set for approaching them. I was quite familiar with the most techniques mentioned. However what impressed me the most in the book was how we need to look at exams and the process of learning. Sometimes you only realize how irrational your values are when you put them on paper."- Even Mark Manson forgot to mention it in his best-selling book written centered mostly on Human Values. When you’ve written everything you can remember, compare your blurted knowledge to an official textbook, mark scheme or notes. Suddenly, you’ve got evidential proof of what you do and don’t know. What happens next is a panic-induced mayhem of highlighting everything in the textbook (without even questioning if it's actually helpful). But I'm here to help you change this! You can create a system around spaced repetition (using spreadsheets, or Notion) with the concepts you’re trying to learn and the time when you last studied it. You don’t have to revise longer, just more frequently.
As a fellow student now at university, I definitely don’t have a PhD in Exam Etiquette but this is the book younger me needed. All I wanted was one place that had a variety of tried-and-tested methods with reassurance from someone who had recently been through the education system. The Only Study Guide You’ll Ever Need is just that, and I have collected the best techniques and tools I wish I’d known earlier to help you get through your studies and smash your exams! To combat perfectionism, take into account the Pareto principle (sometimes called the 80/20 rule). In this context, the principle says that 80% of your knowledge and grades come from 20% of the total time you spend revising. Identify the most meaningful revision elements and prioritize them. Define what enough is so that you can start focusing on the process rather than the outcome. Chapter 10: Mental HealthTo revise the process of river meander formation in geography, I’ve identified the following prompts of the chapter: Stephen Kosslyn, a psychologist and neuroscientist, divided human learning into two: “think it through” and “make and use associations”. “Think it through”: the more deeply you think about an idea, the more you remember it. An example would be “active recall”, a technique that instead of re-reading, encourages you to think about what you remember. Active recall is about being active rather than passive and the main problem with it is that it goes against human nature since we’re always looking for the path of least resistance. SAAD: Associations In Scrum, Jeff Sutherland explains that when listing the actions ( plans) that are necessary to accomplish a vision (your tasks that fulfill obligations), you should also record the resources needed, the effort required, and what the standard for completion is for each action. For example, you might note “Make flashcards—requires: library textbook rental, medium effort, 1 card per vocab term, 1 hour of time.”
Read the information on the card out loud—the more senses you involve in your flashcard practice, the deeper you’ll engage with the material, and the better you’ll understand and retain it. We've all been there: a new school year starts and there's 8 months till your exams - that's plenty of time, right? Then there's 6 months, 3 months, 1 month and oh, now there's 2 weeks left and you haven't started studying... Blurting is easy to put off because it is mentally taxing. It forces you to stare your knowledge in the face and be honest with where you’re at, without the luxury of hiding behind a textbook. However, it is an essential self-assessment tool to show you what you need to spend more time on. The more you repeat blurting the same concepts, the stronger your knowledge in them will become.As always this was a self-help book which gave the excitement. Which self-help book didn't? A self-help book is written to make you feel good. And that's the reason, most of the self-help books have the same words, maybe just a different scenario and subject. I have the incredible honor to know Jade in person as a classmate in uni. The fact that one of us students wrote a book is really crazy, and I am proud and inspired beyond words. I realized that life is not just about what you work as or how heavy your paycheque is. I learned that you will never just be defined by your job. Work is a role you play to survive, contribute to the world and hopefully bring fulfillment to your life, but it is not everything." Ever since I introduced this on my YouTube channel, I receive daily messages from students whose studying has been revolutionised by this active recall technique. Unlike passively highlighting text or rereading class notes, blurting is one of the most efficient and effective ways to understand where you are at in your knowledge – and do something about it. Summarization from memory: notes are a useful foundation, but they don’t count as revision. Summarize with intention and do it half from memory (so summarize without copying). Try saying a summary out loud or explaining it to a friend.
Write down what your life will look like in five years if money and outside expectations didn’t matter. Third, you can connect elements of a concept to parts of a physical object—when you look at the object, it will help you remember the elements of the concept. For example, connect the three main stages of the hydrologic cycle to your water bottle: First is evaporation—you can connect this stage to the top part of your water bottle that’s foggy because of evaporation. Next is condensation—you can connect this to the water droplets inside your bottle and imagine that they’re the product of condensation, like raindrops. Finally, connect precipitation to the water sitting at the bottom of your bottle—imagine this is the rainwater that has fallen and collected. The SAAD pneumonic and “put it in practice” study tips were very helpful and, dare I say it, I’m excited to try them out during A Levels next year. In A Mind For Numbers, Barbara Oakley suggests that the underlying reason why turning information into a story aids memory is that it replicates the brain's system of storing information and transferring it from the working memory to long-term memory. All three of Bowler’s recommendations—creating an original story to connect pieces of a concept, connecting parts of a concept to a routine, and connecting parts of a concept to an object—mimic this process. Past papers and how to learn from them: Schedule a meeting with your teacher to discuss your mistakes.The benefits of meditation include being mindful and being present. Use guided meditations at first (5-10 minutes a day) from well-known apps such as Headspace and Calm. Chapter 9: Perfectionism and Fear of Failure
Every space in your environment should have a purpose. Don’t associate your desk with wasting time (such as using social media). If you don’t have a space, use the local library. This book put into words thoughts I didn’t even know I had about school/grades/exams and not only made me feel motivated, but seen. Make it fun… or not: for passive homework, make it fun (for example, take down notes while listening to music). Chapter 8: Habit Formation Another way to encourage deep engagement is to use as many symbols as possible on your cards in place of words and phrases. Using symbols rather than words requires you to recall more information than what’s explicitly written on the card. For example, imagine you want to remember that the Rashidun Caliphate was the first caliphate and lasted the shortest amount of time, the Umayyad was second and lasted longer than the Rashidun, and the Abbasid was the last and lasted the longest. You could write “Rashidun < Umayyad < Abbasid.” To organize your digital or physical space come up with a system. The author suggests a ring-binder folder for sheets and a tree-like system for online/digital files.
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Talk about your mental health struggles and don’t isolate yourself emotionally. Accept that exams are stressful and they’re not everything in life. Chapter 11: The Night Before the Exam However, tasks with impending deadlines might not always take the highest priority. For example, imagine that you have two upcoming obligations: two homework assignments due in five days, and a history exam next month on topics that you don’t yet understand fully. While the homework is due sooner, you’ll need a long time to fully master the exam content. PDF / EPUB File Name: The_only_study_guide_youll_ever_need_-_Jade_bowler.pdf, The_only_study_guide_youll_ever_need_-_Jade_bowler.epub
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