Big Brain people use Anki

Medulla

Bah Qabiil Fluid
How do you guys go about remembering new information ? Are you tirelessy spending overs reading books and note-taking only to find yourself forgeting information with ease.

It's time you used spaced Repetition , It's the Future, the Past and the Present

Anki basically does two things:

It is a tool to make flash cards
It is a tool that tells you what flash cards to study each day

Now number one is nothing fancy. There are a bazillion flashcard programs and you can use note cards to the same effect. No biggie.

Number two is where the action is at. When you see a card you tell Anki if you got it right, wrong, and how hard it was if you got it right. If you got it right and it was easy you won't see it again for a while. If you had trouble with it you will see it soon. You could do this by hand but it's complicated. Anki will do it automatically and will manage a collection of thousands of cards. The material you have learned will be reviewed rarely. Every six months or year eventually. Material which you just started learning will be reviewed regularly.

That's it...


https://apps.ankiweb.net/ < Here is the download link if your already interested in it.

I'll give a brief explantation on how it has helped me up to this point in my life. I've never been good at academics it wasn't till I came across /r/medschool subreddit that things finally changed . Up to that point I've always had average grades with no real prospects of studying abroad in a respected institution. But this shit did a 180 to my life my grades got better and I won a scholarship to study abroad. I use anki for EVERYTHING it's the reason I've been able to pass all my exams with ease. It's helped me pass the HSK,JLPT and TOPIK exams. I'm plan on taking TOEIC in April but I'm confident I will do well. I know some people have even used it to memorise the quran.

In the UK we write essay plans based on what we assume may pop up in our exams, the only problem with this is it takes to long to remember the plans, so you're limtied to maybe one or two topics. However, with anki not only can you remember these essay plans you CAN EVEN WRITE A WHOLE POTENTIAL essay and remember all before the exam even starts. This form of memorizing helps no matter the subject, you want to memorize certain vocab , philosophical concepts or grammar points well you CAN DO JUST THAT! Why spend hours trying to memorize small paragraphs. By using anki I spend like 15 mins a day reviewing cards but in the begining it was more like 40mins. There are already premade decks on many subjects, you'll have to make your own to make the most use of the app. You can add mnemics , audio and videos to each card as well. Remember when making a card makesure it's "clauze deletion"


Example:

Here are some good videos on anki:

This is just a long video on anki watch this lasted ignore my order LOL

This video focuses on Chinese but you can use this knowledge for any language. Also watch this video on 1.75x or 2.00 speed he speaks far to slow in order to make it a 10 Min video


SKIP TO 3:05 THIS VIDEO PROBABLY HELPS U UNDERSTAND THE QUICKEST

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Calaf

Veni Vidi Vici
2022 CHESS CHAMP
GENERALISSIMO
VIP
How do you guys go about remembering new information ? Are you tirelessy spending overs reading books and note-taking only to find yourself forgeting information with ease.

It's time you used spaced Repetition , It's the Future, the Past and the Present

Anki basically does two things:

It is a tool to make flash cards
It is a tool that tells you what flash cards to study each day

Now number one is nothing fancy. There are a bazillion flashcard programs and you can use note cards to the same effect. No biggie.

Number two is where the action is at. When you see a card you tell Anki if you got it right, wrong, and how hard it was if you got it right. If you got it right and it was easy you won't see it again for a while. If you had trouble with it you will see it soon. You could do this by hand but it's complicated. Anki will do it automatically and will manage a collection of thousands of cards. The material you have learned will be reviewed rarely. Every six months or year eventually. Material which you just started learning will be reviewed regularly.

That's it...


https://apps.ankiweb.net/ < Here is the download link if your already interested in it.

I'll give a brief explantation on how it has helped me up to this point in my life. I've never been good at academics it wasn't till I came across /r/medschool subreddit that things finally changed . Up to that point I've always had average grades with no real prospects of studying abroad in a respected institution. But this shit did a 180 to my life my grades got better and I won a scholarship to study abroad. I use anki for EVERYTHING it's the reason I've been able to pass all my exams with ease. It's helped me pass the HSK,JLPT and TOPIK exams. I'm plan on taking TOEIC in April but I'm confident I will do well. I know some people have even used it to memorise the quran.

In the UK we write essay plans based on what we assume may pop up in our exams, the only problem with this is it takes to long to remember the plans, so you're limtied to maybe one or two topics. However, with anki not only can you remember these essay plans you CAN EVEN WRITE A WHOLE POTENTIAL essay and remember all before the exam even starts. This form of memorizing helps no matter the subject, you want to memorize certain vocab , philosophical concepts or grammar points well you CAN DO JUST THAT! Why spend hours trying to memorize small paragraphs. By using anki I spend like 15 mins a day reviewing cards but in the begining it was more like 40mins. There are already premade decks on many subjects, you'll have to make your own to make the most use of the app. You can add mnemics , audio and videos to each card as well. Remember when making a card makesure it's "clauze deletion"


Example:

Here are some good videos on anki:

This is just a long video on anki watch this lasted ignore my order LOL

This video focuses on Chinese but you can use this knowledge for any language. Also watch this video on 1.75x or 2.00 speed he speaks far to slow in order to make it a 10 Min video


SKIP TO 3:05 THIS VIDEO PROBABLY HELPS U UNDERSTAND THE QUICKEST

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Just revise hard, I worked hard, now number 22nd highest student in Singapore

Anybody in top 50, is guaranteed a job with very good pay . So, just work hard. No need for all these techniques

And, how is the song connected to me?
 

Medulla

Bah Qabiil Fluid
What topics lol?

Each language I've learnt over the years so that takes up about 60% .So the main deck would have Vocab, Grammar, Reading , Translations and Listening, random newspaper articles . For any Social science based topic I would just break down each chapter into a deck and learn it that way. For my further maths/physics/chem exam I made the Formulae and statistical tables for the exam booklet into a deck. So I would see a question and I would have to answer which formula it required , for me it's been super helpful.

Also random stuff like philosophy arguments and there defintions and some examples. I use anki for anything lol
 

Medulla

Bah Qabiil Fluid
Just revise hard, I worked hard, now number 22nd highest student in Singapore

Anybody in top 50, is guaranteed a job with very good pay . So, just work hard. No need for all these techniques

And, how is the song connected to me?

It's worked for me hence why I am willing to advocate for it! The video was just there for the sake of it I tagged you so I could if you use anki aswell. The traditional rote memory by force is too old-fashioned for my liking
 

Muji

VIP
Each language I've learnt over the years so that takes up about 60% .So the main deck would have Vocab, Grammar, Reading , Translations and Listening, random newspaper articles . For any Social science based topic I would just break down each chapter into a deck and learn it that way. For my further maths/physics/chem exam I made the Formulae and statistical tables for the exam booklet into a deck. So I would see a question and I would have to answer which formula it required , for me it's been super helpful.

Also random stuff like philosophy arguments and there defintions and some examples. I use anki for anything lol

I used paper based flash cards during my exams and it worked wonders for me. I wonder if this would help our friends who are students @Furioso @SOULSEARCHING

thank you for sharing! If you don’t mind saying what languages did you use it to learn?
 

Muji

VIP
Just revise hard, I worked hard, now number 22nd highest student in Singapore

Anybody in top 50, is guaranteed a job with very good pay . So, just work hard. No need for all these techniques

And, how is the song connected to me?

not everyone learns the same way. And working hard can mean a lot of things
 

Calaf

Veni Vidi Vici
2022 CHESS CHAMP
GENERALISSIMO
VIP
not everyone learns the same way. And working hard can mean a lot of things
The traditional way works really good with Somalis. I seen this in majority Somalis. They read, then read, then read, till they can sing it like a song!

Everyone has different ways, yes, but it all comes down to effort!
 

Medulla

Bah Qabiil Fluid
I used paper based flash cards during my exams and it worked wonders for me. I wonder if this would help our friends who are students @Furioso @SOULSEARCHING

thank you for sharing! If you don’t mind saying what languages did you use it to learn?

English , Korean, Chinese , Japanese , Portuguese I used anki for these only, the vocab needed to converse naturally is really damn high so it's taken longer than I thought to get to a reasonable level.
 

Medulla

Bah Qabiil Fluid
I used paper based flash cards during my exams and it worked wonders for me. I wonder if this would help our friends who are students @Furioso @SOULSEARCHING

thank you for sharing! If you don’t mind saying what languages did you use it to learn?

Also if you need help with languages I recomend , Hinative and hellotalk to find natives willing to correct your mistakes! Hinative you just ask questions and get answers back pretty fast , hellotalk you make friends to have language exchange with both super helpful!
 

Muji

VIP
The traditional way works really good with Somalis. I seen this in majority Somalis. They read, then read, then read, till they can sing it like a song!

Everyone has different ways, yes, but it all comes down to effort!

:gucciwhat:

You’re sounding like my friend @Apollo with this ethnicity based suugo science
 

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