How a 99.95 ATAR Student Takes Notes with Active Recall

[@karimdiab1338]

I am mind blown right now because I decided I’m completely changing how I will study this semester, and I decided to depend on notion and anki. I made my own notion template from scratch and it looks absolutely very similar to yours. One could say I copied it from you but I really didn’t. This amazing and gave me so much optimism. I will follow up with my current plan to optimize notion and anki with their benefits! Keep up the videos please!

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Kareem! This is so awesome to hear! Keep working on those study techniques!

[@n1ghtmar3CS2]

Thanks Archer! I have an upcoming Science Test coming up at school so this is going to help me a lot! (I'm not even 12 so this could be a good habit of Note Taking to get into)

[@ArcherNewton]

good luck! maybe check out one of my more recent videos with updated study techniques I use :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2O8qIKdZ5hli5o

[@annasame7395]

Your info is backed up by other videos I have watched. Thanks for this informative video. Also, well done for your atar score! I hope to achieve similar too. :)

[@ArcherNewton]

Thank you so much Anna!!

[@krystalmcknight1834]

Well done on your ATAR achievement Archer! I feel OLD - mine is a TER... I am a mature-age undergraduate - this is the system I am learning for myself to help in my degree. It has been promising so far. Today I was seeking out a refresher - and WOW - I can learn a lot from you. I started with Ali A last year, I LOVE your super chilled vibe though - and will keep up with your work. Cheers and greatest thank you - all the best in your study future ahead :)

[@ArcherNewton]

Thank you for your comment Krystal!! Good luck with your studies too :)

[@gregorygregson5067]

Nobody: Archer: Did you know I got a 99.95 ATAR?

[@ArcherNewton]

Hahahaha

[@peytongomer2305]

Anoushka IYER yah it’s just funny anyways

[@Mannyb10383]

You cant blame him. Id rather hear note-taking techniques from someone who got a 99.95 atar than a 60.00 atar.

[@cawmilo5917]

i got no idea what an ATAR is but sound legit

[@ArcherNewton]

haha, all good, it's basically a percentile-based rank for Australian high school students at the end of their schooling :)

[@ohrazor9074]

This seems like a very beneficial studying strategy to implement, I am going to see how it works in one of my history courses. Also, the video was very good quality and it was structured well, but if you could find a way to get the camera to stay focused, on your face for instance, it would be perfect. Overall, this video was informative and concise. Thank you for the information and best of luck in your future studies and classes. Cheers!

[@ArcherNewton]

Thank you for the feedback! Yeah, this was the first video where I tried out the 4K recording capability on my camera and it doesn't like to keep in focus! It was too late to re-record at that point haha. Let me know how it goes and please let me know if you ever have any other questions!

[@cambodianriverpig7613]

Ali Abdaal followers are popping all over the place.

[@ArcherNewton]

ahahhah

[@REDLOVE00]

The quality of the video is superb!! And the tips are awesome. Thanks a lot! Seriously, you're so underrated 🥺. Well, for now, I can say don't worry! This is how everything starts. You gonna gain more, maybe thousands, in the later years. So keep working and provide us with good content. 🥳🥳

[@ArcherNewton]

Thank you so much!!! It's really kind of you to say that!

[@JitinMisra]

@@ArcherNewton when you do practice exams, do you wait till you can to active recall to all the material ?

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Jitin, sorry about missing this comment! I don't get notifications about replies to comments on KZbin! Ideally that is what you want to wait for but if you don't have enough time, you sometimes need to start practice exams earlier. However, you should be supplementing your active recall questions with practice problems along the way. Hopefully this help out!

[@ruanmachadodev]

Thanks man.. For the tip of the Notion app! It's amazing ^^

[@ArcherNewton]

No problem Ruan!!

[@justinwei2336]

This is so great!! Thx Archer :). Gonna incorporate some of your methods for sure.

[@ArcherNewton]

Thank you! Please let me know how it goes!

[@RifatBinSaroar]

Ayy, keep it up bro. I swear its gonna help me in uni too

[@ArcherNewton]

Hopefully! Let me know how it goes

[@jayaherkar9068]

You nailed it dude!! Awesome Video!!

[@ArcherNewton]

Thank you!!!

[@benthompson4793]

Hi Archer, I just wanted to ask do you make your Notion questions during lectures? As in you go into the lecture, start typing these question and answering them as well? If this is what you do, how do you simultaneously type these questions while listening to what the lecturer/ tutor is saying? Would you not miss out on important things being said that could end up in the exam? Or do you do this after the lectures? If this is the case, then what do you do during the lecture?

[@shriprabanarayanan9258]

Hi Archer! Great video! Your hard work is inspiring! Would you say writing notes from lecture slides is useful when learning the content for the first time? I'm currently taking an anatomy class, and struggling with the content. Our teacher has some objective questions, but I usually just rewrite lecture notes, which hasn't helped. Would you say using quizlet and notion is better? Also, I initially thought that notion wasn't for note-taking, but please let me know your thoughts.

[@user11109]

Very informative, thank you! I am a pre-med so this was very helpful :) One thing I just wanted to highlight was why you used both Anki and notion when you are effectively spacing your repetition on notion already. Is there a reason why you didn't just stick with notion?

[@ArcherNewton]

That's awesome to hear you found it useful Zehra! I use notion for a large question bank of absolutely everything I need to know and can do repetitions of any content I want at any time whereas I put specific content into anki that I really need to know and it handles all of the spaced repetition for me. It's quite hard to keep on top of spaced repetition perfectly with Notion as its all manual. Hope that helps, please let me know any other questions that you have! Thanks, Archer

[@user11109]

@@ArcherNewton ahh makes sense now, thank you :)

[@adamjones9803]

Another Great Video Archer thanks. Thumbs up done buddy! 1) Where can we get Cloze Overlapper from, can you provide a link please? 2) Yes please do a video for understanding before using Anki. 3) Can you do a video about all your Anki Add-ons and how to find them please? Thanks bud!!

[@ArcherNewton]

Thanks again Adam! 1) In the video description now 2) definitely a video planned is all about understanding and going about that 3) This is probably further down the line when I do a ton of videos on anki but I just use cloze overlapper and the image occlusion addons both by Glutanimate rn. I have some extra stuff like stats but those are the main ones

[@adamjones9803]

@@ArcherNewton Thanks for replying Archer! 1) Cloze Overlapper I didnt see a number to copy and paste, instead it downloaded a zip file to my pc so how do I install this please? 2) Can you do a video very soon please (asap basically) on how to use anki for cramming please? Some tests arent 6months away but alot sooner at times. once again thank you :)

[@ArcherNewton]

No problem :) 1) It is currently a paid addon on Glutanimate's patreon. 2) I don't really have any plans on that soon since it isn't actually something I use. I assume the subreddit on r/anki would have a lot to say about it.

[@thekaosgamerla7238]

Hey Archer, great video! I just wanted to ask out of curiosity, what's the point of using notion if your going to use anki? Do you use notion as a way to just spam questions and then put the most important ones into anki? Thanks.

[@ArcherNewton]

Thank you! So if you put everything into anki, you'll run into flashcard overload. You should only put the things that you need to rote learn and are struggling with into anki :)

[@takwy6475]

love the video, do you mind sharing your adaptation of the Cornell page?

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi takwy, unfortunately I don't use the cornell notes system anymore since it's much less effective compared to the techniques I now follow in more recent videos :)

[@takwy6475]

@@ArcherNewton can you guide me to what video to watch?

[@ArcherNewton]

@@takwy6475 kzbin.info/www/bejne/opzOppWMn6d4kLc

[@arsh.sidhuu]

Hi boss, great vid btw, very useful tips but I had a question about ucat and not sure how I could apply these tips to ucat as it’s not memorising information. So could u probably make a vid on usefully ucat study tips? Thanks

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi! Unfortunately, these techniques won't apply to the UCAT since the UCAT is a skill-based test and not knowledge-based. I hope to release some stuff about the UCAT sometime in the future!

[@zarmt_17]

would you be able to put up the template of your notion notes? The one with the questions and toggles.

[@ArcherNewton]

I actually haven't made a template but its just an inline table with lots of headers and toggle lines :)

[@beanosity]

Great vid! Which uni are you at?

[@ArcherNewton]

Thanks! After a last-minute decision, I decided to stay at flinders instead of UNSW!

[@dayanaraicaranom2190]

Scoping video please 🥺🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@ArcherNewton]

It's on the video todo list! 😃

[@derrickmah3565]

Hi Archer, I was wondering, do you use mind maps as well when you study? I feel that mind mapping allows you to internalise information much quicker than anki, which takes longer. I tend to put all my cards into only anki, do you think I should migrate some of them to notion (which I use for organisation)? Thanks, Elena

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi! I do use mind maps occasionally but they are more useful for the understanding process in my opinion, for conceptualising how all the things come together to be one piece. With anki I find that it's more about just the memorisation side of learning something. Both are great in tandem I personally just use mind maps when I'm not yet seeing the link between the pieces of information. Up to you with what workflow works best for you but it's just important to try prevent card overload with anki where you can, and part of that is reducing the number of cards you actually put in there

[@revers3c-ops232]

Just a question? When I’m in biology class for example, while the teacher talks about cells, do u recommend me to just write questions on notion while he/she talks. Or should I also answer the questions during the lesson?

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi! You should attempt to do both but at minimum, make sure to write down all of the questions, because the material that your teacher has gone through will answer your questions :)

[@plame3843]

Nice inspiration and appliance from Aliabdal

[@ArcherNewton]

thank you! 😃

[@kamranmoazzamansari7289]

u should look into RemNote.

[@ArcherNewton]

Yeah it looks really interesting but intimidating! I gotta take a look at it sometime

[@mraz2866]

2:31 What is the + button on some of your Anki decks decks?

[@ArcherNewton]

Subdecks :)

[@Icelander00]

Thanks

[@archiegabiazon]

Nice video brother. I have 1 question, before you test yourself do you study the lesson or chapter first or you just answer it on the spot without having to review first?

[@ArcherNewton]

Thank you Ryan! I test myself ASAP, applying content as soon as you can is a very good study technique, this includes learning one new concept and then asking yourself questions about how it works and why is it important etc. if you leave too much time between applying the content and learning it, it can become very easy to forget. Hope that helps, please let me know any other questions that you have!

[@archiegabiazon]

@@ArcherNewton so in other words, you answer all questions you make regardless if you do not remember some answers and then you go back to it once you're done?

[@ArcherNewton]

@@archiegabiazon I'll create answers for all my questions at some point or another but they'll be factually correct so that I can cover them later for review

[@faheemm877]

Archer, i dont know if i missed u mentioning this, but since you make questions with notion as well as anki, why dont you use just one of them (you mentioned narrowing down the questions into anki from notion, but can u explain that part in more detail for me, thx a lot btw)

[@ArcherNewton]

Sure thing, so basically I use notion for a large question bank of absolutely everything I need to know and can do repetitions of any content I want at any time whereas I put specific content into anki that I really need to know and it handles all of the spaced repetition for me. It's quite hard to keep on top of spaced repetition perfectly with Notion as its all manual. Hope that makes sense :)

[@faheemm877]

@@ArcherNewton Thanks that was helpful, so you dont completely rely on anki because you cant organise your notes nicely like you did in notion right

[@ArcherNewton]

Yeah so I use a combination of both :)

[@ogvie]

why i can’t i put everything in anki, how do i know when to use notion and when to use anki

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Ovie, if you put everytihng into anki, you'll run into flashcard overload. Only put the things that you need to ROTE learn and are struggling with into anki

[@tactical2246]

Ali Abdall V2?

[@ArcherNewton]

hahahaha, maybe - 🥺👉👈

[@arunjeyanthan3179]

Hey Archer, I was wondering how many hours of study would you recommend per day? I have always had trouble balancing studying and basketball and I was wondering how many hours would you recommend?

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Arun, it really depends on what you need to get done. I study usually 2-4 hours a day usually but obviously it changes with how much workload and everything. Check out my video on time management and hopefully that can help out. You gotta focus both study and basketball and make sure there's enough time for both. Hope that helps! :)

[@arunjeyanthan3179]

@@ArcherNewton Thanks, it does help, I will try to implement 4 hours of study a day thankyou

[@ArcherNewton]

Arun Jeyanthan let me know it goes!

[@coreyking212]

Hey Archer :) Do you use this same method for note-taking when it comes to skill-based subjects such as Math?

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Corey! For subjects like maths, the main idea is about understanding where each part of the concept comes from and how they all relate to each other. I do this through using 'thought experiments'. The next thing is lots of mindful practice with practice problems. However, it's important not only to do the questions but reflect on them so you can use them as learning experiences. Hope that helps :)

[@coreyking212]

@@ArcherNewton How do you organise periodic review for each topic without using the notion question +/ anki method? :) I feel comfortable with my understanding going through, focus on my weaknesses and make a good amount of mistakes. Once I correct my errors and feel comfortable I move on, but I know I'll become rusty on a lot of it before long.

[@victormarques414]

I got a question. When you are in class, do you take content note? Like, for example "The brain is divided in bla bla bla" or do you just wrigth down the question, like "In what areas is the brain divided" during the class?

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Victor! Good question 😃For my lectures that are recorded I have the time to write questions and answers (which are the content-based notes like the lobes of the brain). When I was in high school where the classes were not recorded I would write down my notes with having a possible question in mind. Sometimes I would have the time to write the question just then write the answer option underneath. If I didn't have the time to write down the question I would write it down after class. Hope that helps, please let me know any other questions that you have!

[@victormarques414]

@@ArcherNewton Thank you so much! That video and your answer made me want to be more active in my study, and I am trying to fit this method the best way in my routine. Keep up with these awesome videos, and thank you again!

[@ArcherNewton]

@@victormarques414 Thank you!!!

[@prashamjain3635]

You see ali abdaal ???

[@ArcherNewton]

I am a fan haha

[@1412that_me]

Hey, I just want to ask. What app did you use for the note taking? The one where you write all your medical questions on. Thank you

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Linh, that would be Notion - you can check it out here :) www.notion.so/desktop

[@rabbitybabbity7651]

When

[@ArcherNewton]

When you commented on this video

[@samtheham3187]

Hey dude I was just asking, what’s the point in using Anki if you have Notion? Isn’t Notion basically active recalling aswell?

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Sam, so I use notion for a large question bank of absolutely everything I need to know and can do repetitions of any content I want at any time. With Anki, I put specific content that I really need to know and it handles all of the spaced repetition for me. It's quite hard to keep on top of spaced repetition perfectly with Notion as its all manual. Hope that answers your question! Cheers Archer

[@samtheham3187]

@@ArcherNewton Yo thank you! Could you give me an example? Also you earned yourself a new subscriber, much love from Perth

[@ArcherNewton]

No problem! Thank you :))) Yeah so an example for my exam that I sat yesterday is that there was this concept that I couldn't understand for a while. It was to do with alkenes reacting with potassium permanganate. I couldn't figure out what products it was going to make. So this was an active recall question I continually got wrong on notion. I spent the time to actually go about learning it properly and added it to anki to make sure that it'll organise everything so I see it at the right time to make sure I can really get my head around it and make it stick. So basically anything that's difficult goes into my anki deck and will be the thing that I work on every day I have cards scheduled. Hope that helps, please let me know any other questions that you have! Thanks Sam :)

[@vincentli1064]

aussie Abdaal!

[@ArcherNewton]

hahaha I wish!

[@aquarxus4894]

How do u apply notion for maths? Should I set a retrospective timetable on each sub topic

[@aquarxus4894]

Also how would u apply a retrospective timetable for assignments ? Also I love your channel

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Aquarxus I don't do it for maths because that's heavily about just mindful practice and active recall through doing lots of practice problems and then really thinking about why you got something correct or something wrong and how you can improve next time. I do have a video on how I specifically set up my retrospective timetables for subjects. Take a look at this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXTFiqqjobeFoaM Hope that helps!

[@ArcherNewton]

​@@aquarxus4894 Thank you!!! I really appreciate it lotsss 😃I I don't apply retrospective timetables for assignments since I don't need to go about memorising things for them. For assignments I just go about planning my ideas before writing the assignment. I also use the FBR method (Fast, Bad, Rong) to make sure that I can get a first draft done really quickly in writing and then spend time separately to go about editing it and making it better. Finishing an assignment takes way too long when trying to write good sentences while editing at the same time as writing I find. Hope that helps, please let me know any other questions that you have!

[@aquarxus4894]

@@ArcherNewton Thankyou, also would u recommend the icm $157 vs pro, I only wanted icm just for the strats/methods then I would use medify

[@ArcherNewton]

@@aquarxus4894 No problem! I went with pro personally because I want access to the other teaching resources, like live masterclasses and more representative questions. I would say that medify is pretty good but some questions are not even in the ucat anymore haha since they're quite old in the question bank, but it's really up to you :)

[@whattt175]

Which high school did you go to?

[@ArcherNewton]

From South Australia

[@tactical2246]

What VCE subjects did you do for year 11-12?

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Sabe! These are the Year 12 subjects that I did (for SACE though, not VCE): Specialist Mathematics Mathematical Methods English Psychology Biology Physics Research Project Music: Solo Performance Music: Ensemble Performance Uni: 2x subjects For year 11 I did math methods (yr 12), biology (yr 12), research project, music: solo performance (yr 12), music: ensemble performance (yr 12), religion, English literary studies, physics and specialist maths. Hope that helps, please let me know any other questions that you have!

[@abhi6841]

Can I have a template for your notion setup

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Abhi, I haven't ended up making a template yet but all it's just a inline table with lots of headers and toggle lines. Hope that helps, please let me know any other questions that you have!

[@abhi6841]

@@ArcherNewton aight thank you. Congrats on 1k!

[@ArcherNewton]

@@abhi6841 Thank you so much!!!

[@nomorefreefire8245]

U won me

[@ArcherNewton]

Nice

[@Laram0101]

How do I know if i should put the question in Notion or in Anki?

[@ArcherNewton]

Hi Kazbeg, I use notion as a large question bank of absolutely everything I need to know and can do repetitions of content I want at any time, whereas I put specific content into anki that I really need to know and it handles all of the spaced repetition for me. It's quite hard to keep on top of spaced repetition perfectly with Notion as its all manual. Hope that answers your question! Cheers Archer

[@Icelander00]

Thanks