Study smart, not long. 2. Use Feynman System of studying and Cornell System of Note-taking. Paste colour labels on side of 200-page notebooks for each subject, such as anatomy, biochemistry, physiology so that you can stack all of them together easily; list contents on cover, make one-line key words for each chapter on separate coloured sheet subjectwise. At end of 4 1/2 years of medical school, for instance, you will have only 19 sheets for entire period of study for quick revision. Load them on ANKI too. 3. List all topics the professor will cover in a subject that year in Google Spreadsheet or Excel. Mark them in various colours as you finish them, first review, second review, third review... Before exams, each time you recall the points in the topic--studying your book does not qualify for this-enter date in col 1. The next time you re-read it, mark in col 2. Third time in col 3. Colour code these dates as how well you recalled-easy (green), medium (orange), hard (red) to get instant picture of your weak areas. Concentrate on the difficult ones. Skip the easy ones. 4. Focus on high-yield material and books. (For medicine, four types of books: Reference books for further study, Standard books for daily studies, Review books for exams, and Question Bank or MCQs. Use just one study book and one question bank). Concentrate first on what your professors teach. They have read all the important books and their questions will be from the material they teach. If the prof says "this is important", pay attention! 5. Use mnemonics, vulgar sentences & images to improve recall. Doctors remembered the vulgar cranial nerve mnemonic even after 30-40 years! 6. Use mental and physical pictures, mind maps, memory palaces, nyaasa technique of memorisation. Ancient Greeks, Romans and Indians memorised large texts this way for centuries. 7. Use cartoons (Picmonic and Sketchy Medicine). The more bizarre the better. 8. Sing medical songs or set to popular tunes, chants, slokas (many medical songs on youtube). Ancient cultures transmitted information orally through chanting. If you want to remember something really well, write down key points and read it 15 times just before going to bed and 15 times within first five minutes of waking up. 9. Google the topic “punch words”, which differ for each subject. These 10-15 punch words for each subject are high-yield and all questions are set on these. Example: You can't complete Harrison's Medicine in your entire life. But in electronic form, if you Google "the drug of choice", it will list 200 of them. Do it with all subjects. Punch words for anatomy are different from punch words for physiology. Make ANKI decks of punch words too. Revise them daily. 10. Use Pomodoro technique to study. Buy small alarm clock, not phone alarm. Study in 25-min blocks, then do anything else for five minutes. Do it again. After two hours, take a 30-min break. Reward yourself. Try to study with a friend or two (not more than four people in the group). Always get 7-9 hours of sleep daily. Try to sleep by 10 pm and wake up at 5 (no wonder military institutions worldwide do that). Immediately study for an hour, then exercise vigorously. There is more ATP in the morning and by the end of the day more adenosine. More ATP = better studies. Sleep and it helps convert it back to ATP. Most medical students stay awake all night, sleep for 4-5 hours, wake up 15 min before class and run there unbathed! 11. Watch videos on subject previous night, review in morning, scan textbook’s chapter heads, subheads and bold-type points, pictures, tables, and, most important, the questions at back of chapter, then attend lecture. At home read text book and Q bank. 12. Spaced repetition. Read, then re-read next day. Use ANKI free software. Many readymade decks are available for each subject but it is better to make your own decks. Put sticky notes (also called Post-It Notes) above your desk for every topic. Scan them for 15 min daily. By the end of the year, you would have seen them hundreds of times,sometimes while doing other tasks. Unlike ANKI, it jumps at you any time you stand there or walk by. 13. Practice-testing yourself is a great technique, research shows. Instead of writing point-wise summary of the lesson, make questions to cover the topic. practice active recall: Do not open your textbook or notebook after listening to a lecture. Instead, make notes by recalling as much as possible. Check the textbook and list in another colour all the points you forgot. Focus on them repeatedly by adding it to Anki. Most students think reading books or class notes is studying. Reading a lesson is only passive recognition. It is useless. Instead, focus on active recall and spaced repetition. Recall the points in the topic. 14.That is why teaching it to someone without using notes is the best form of active recall. Else, stand (don't sit) and lecture to empty room. Use drawings, write points on blackboard/whiteboard and especially gestures improve recall. Keep a whiteboard in your room. Try to dramatise the situation. Can you make a skit of the topic? Like an action potential running down the stairs, ion channels consisting of students opening or closing! 15. Use ANKI app (free) to test yourself DAILY, even while walking to class or while waiting for next patient (you can scan two cards in 10 seconds). Make decks with fill-in-the-blanks cards, add illustrations, cartoons in “extra” col. Make coloured decks of “must know” “desirable to know”. Revise “Must Know” more often, based on school syllabus that professors will give you in detail. Try to practise as many past question papers as possible, even several times. Focus on learning the concepts rather than memorising things. 16. Make most notes with pictures rather than words as more exams are increasingly photo-based. Download pictures in Anki. The more you draw, the more you will rember. Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramon y Cajal drew complex neurons from memory (Google his drawings). 17. If studying five or six topics in one session, don't study one after the other. Do topic 1&2, then test yourself by recalling topic 1. After studying topic 3, test on topic two. Do same with the rest. 18. While studying several subjects at night, jump from one subject to another and come back to any of them at any point rather than doing it sequentially. Example anatomy, physio and biochemistry. Don’t study one by one. Study a little in each and come back to do other chapters in each. 19. At the end of the day, write out plan for tomorrow. 20. Before sleeping, mentally review what did you studied today. 21. Studying daily for one hour over a week is better than studying the whole thing in seven hours in one day. Just before exams, sleep rather than studying. If you study without sleeping, you will not remember what you studied. During exams, stop every 30 minutes and take three breaths of 4 sec inhalation, 7-sec hold and 8-sec exhalation. Sure, you could have answered a few questions in those 57 seconds but did you get them right? Doing this exercise will boost oxygen level and make you more alert to tackle the other questions correctly. 22. Focus on quantity of topics recalled than quality. 23. Concentrate on studying and recalling areas you are poor in rather than re-reading stuff you are good at in the "revision period" before exams. Read the red chapters more than the green ones (which you know already). 24. Spend maximum time in practicals and clinics. Really try to do as much dissection as possible. After a few months, most students are watching their phones and not dissecting. That is your chance. Seize the opportunity. Volunteer as much as possible to dissect. Only those who do become good surgeons. 25. Watch videos of candidates who stood first in various medical exams and learn from them. 26. Spend weekends and holidays and whenever possible helping and meeting people and listening to their stories in cancer wards, old-age homes, schools for children with special needs, work with physically and mentally handicapped people. Be empathetic. Never be arrogant. Everyone is a teacher. Nurses have a lot of experience as they spend more time with patients unlike doctors. Ask them for suggestions. Learn from them. Be extra courteous to nurses. Listen to patients without interrupting them or getting impatient. If you listen long enough, you will know the case correctly. Let them talk without interruption. 27. Don't focus on money in life. Don't be greedy and seek commissions or do unethical things even if others are doing it. Prescribe cheaper drugs. Read inspirational articles about doctors who went out of the way to serve people, often getting no money. 28. Really focus on improving your handwriting. Nearly every doctor has terrible handwriting! Many drugs have similar names with only one letter different. 29. Good evidence-based tips from videos of Dr Ali Abdaal of Cambridge University and Dr Marty Lobdell.

In tn 15 marks 2 questions 30 marks 5 marks 10 questions 50 marks 1 marks 20 questions 20 marks Total 100 marks

In Karnataka... Long essay :2×10=20 Short essay: 5×10=50 Short answers: 3×10=30

@DrRose-lifeinthewomb

3 жыл бұрын

Need to work on time management 🙂

@navaneeth_us

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrRose-lifeinthewomb Mam, could you please make a video on time management for the university exam of karnataka?

A lot of love 💘 and appreciation ma'am, from Pakistan 🇵🇰

This session was very helpful ma'am,thankyou so much for doing this🙏❤️

Wonderful video thank u mam👌👌👍❤

Thank you so much ma'am. This is very helpful ma'am.😊😊

It's very helpful and important for us,, thank you so much maam

Thanks ma'am ❤❤❤

Thank you so much Mam!

@DrRose-lifeinthewomb

3 жыл бұрын

😊😊

Thank you so much maam

@DrRose-lifeinthewomb

3 жыл бұрын

🙂🙂🙂

Thank you so much mam👏👏

@DrRose-lifeinthewomb

3 жыл бұрын

🙂🙂

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Thanks ma'am

@DrRose-lifeinthewomb

3 жыл бұрын

🙂🙂

In Telangana 2 LAQ 15 mark each 8 SAQ 5 mark each 10 VSAQ 3 mark each Total 100 marks

@DrRose-lifeinthewomb

3 жыл бұрын

Ok🙂

I study in Guru Nanak Dev University,Punjab...I have developmental biology exam soon - 100 marks....this would help me a lot😀...thankyou ma'm🙏

@DrRose-lifeinthewomb

3 жыл бұрын

So happy to hear from you 🙂

In pondicherry ma'am 2 LAQ - 10 mark each 12 SAQ - 5 mark each 20 McQ - 1 mark each

@DrRose-lifeinthewomb

3 жыл бұрын

I think u need to work a lot on time management

Ma'am i have this doubt ..when we write an answer using a flow chart is it necessary to explain it again by paragraph or points ?? Or instead of explaining the same chart adding additonal point about the question is enough??

@DrRose-lifeinthewomb

3 жыл бұрын

Explanation is always needed to fetch more marks

Mam for us 2 essays for 30 marks (each 15 mark) 8 short essays for 40 marks (each 5 .marks) 10 very shorts for 30 marks...(each 3 marks) Please tell mam

In Maharashtra 20 MCQ - each of 1mark 10 BAQ - each of 2 marks 8 SAQ - each of 5 marks 2 laq - each of 10 marks Ma'am, may I know your reflections on this paper pattern.........

Mam it's difficult to find slides in histology any suggestions ?

@DrRose-lifeinthewomb

3 жыл бұрын

Always go with good reference books in histo like Ross..weaters....& Hav the photos of slides of your college when u study

@rajithasirigiri7591

3 жыл бұрын

Thank u mam