My 5 BIGGEST Studying Mistakes (and what I learned from them)

[@kajalgupta4115]

00:26 : mistake 1 (no notes) 03:01 : mistake 2 (managing pressure) 05:48 : mistake 3 (have a study grp) 07:39 : mistake 4 (active learning is smarter) 09:45 : mistake 5 (past year papers: use as guide)

[@swift_sa]

Thanks 👍

[@imrankhan8922]

he needs to pin this and give you heart with reply

[@ramandeepnijjar8281]

Thank you!

[@winnyjennie1396]

Thanks

[@user-wv3rn6nb3j]

Thank you

[@khalilahd.]

As a pre med student who uses most of their time studying I just recently figured out that I am not studying effectively and with my MCAT right around the corner it’s terrifying to risk changing my study habits because I’ve been getting great results however after hearing thoughts on not writing notes and how it’s been working well for you I’m going to give these tips a try

[@xevve5959]

i suggest not to try new things as you have your exams in the corner because trying new things if your exams are close will cause inconsistency in your normal way of studying , which as you said gets you good marks as well ( this was suggested by kharma himself btw ) so try sticking with your normal note taking or try if you want to just a suggestion . good luck

[@everythingart7566]

i think it would be really cool to try using no notes, let us know how it goes!! Im in highschool and im really really really wanting to get faster at studying

[@Be1smaht]

Oh your so lucky take these notes. Also try to get rid if negative words like terrifying,,, good luck

[@angeloc7486]

How did you do?

[@Abrii101]

One of my studying mistakes: Not knowing for this channel earlier. Last year and a half of my graduate studies I was so much more productive with less effort by following and listening to you. I graduated 7 days ago in Computer Science. Thank you!

[@Abrii101]

@@arpitanand9478 thanks man!

[@paballomothapo3562]

Kharma your videos have helped me alot, I discovered your channel in 12th grade and now I am in medicine and anatomy is just alot. The amount of terminology never stops. Your channel and story helps a lot

[@Manish_introvert]

This man is really boon for students.

[@Sara-vg4oz]

Great tips! Someone below said this too but I would love to see how you actively study and use past year papers (tips & tricks on this alone). I think the not taking notes part of your video is the hardest to wrap my mind around, for me. Congrats on the match btw!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

The visual gag with “University Demands got larger and larger” is sheer genius. Well done 👏🏽

[@intuitivelyeating6702]

I've just switched to taking notes on Notion thanks to watching your old video - I'd seen a lot of other KZbin videos on it but it was your video which really let me see how useful it could be for me and pushed me to try it out. It's changed my life as it means that my notes are well organised and easy to find when I need them (such as when reviewing my answers to past paper questions).

[@sc99499]

The tips here are very helpful, thanks Kharma. I tried active learning by working on the past year paper but I had the difficulty to answer the questions as I have not mastered the concepts and linkage between the facts. I am wondering if you can make a video showing how you did it with some live examples? Guess it may help others as well. Thanks

[@haritinasakova4327]

I had the same problem with hand written notes, so I tried not taking them and unfortunately with engineering degrees writing is a must.. it sucks how much time it takes but drawing diagrams, writing formulas and definitions is the only way I can understand and learn

[@rahmahassaf2275]

Do what works for you. He said that himself.

[@brandony.1824]

5:04 “and reflecting on” 😂 love that cool effect!

[@linabgg4031]

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome" (forgot the last bit lol) this quote really helped me in my studies because as you said : if something - even if it worked once- doesn't work anymore for you then change it! great video as always :)

[@Vraklivehislife]

For me it's not about insanity, it's about consistency

[@doxo9597]

The quote is “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result”.

[@rahmahassaf2275]

@@doxo9597 I was about to say that.

[@eziewozie]

The best possible advice to listen to just before writing my mocks. It just helps relief all the pressure. And just like always, thank you for the great content!! Keep it up

[@SouravParmar]

Hey Doc 🙌🏻

[@sachinmeena9278]

Thank you kharma medic

[@raghad2071]

past papers are great but i feel like without background knowledge and base its not efficient at all. i’d recommend past papers when medical school content becomes recycled bc u already learned the material u just need a refresh and practice.

[@geekpedia3539]

Make a video on different study techniques and who should choose which one according to their personailities

[@StudyWithMe001]

Thanks for sharing your hard earned wisdom, Nasir! Good luck to all my fellow students out there!

[@nandeshbansal4407]

man your thought are so universal👍

[@zain-ym2it]

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

[@abhayganti8662]

I see that jacket Nas 👀. Wonderful videos as always. I especially agree with the fact that past paper questions are essential. I started using them as my main form of learning for my 9th and 10th IGCSEs, when I watched your videos. Thanks you so much !!

[@HeyImRod]

Man I wish I was as consistent as you with the upload schedule. Great video as usual 👍🏻

[@thijsjw]

BANGER!!

[@JaskaranSingh-om5mv]

We need a vlog now 😁

[@aim334]

Finally.... I have been waiting for this vedio for the past 2 hours Keep going kharma medic Love from India 👍👍

[@yusefnawasreh4026]

Best tips i've ever received. To be honest im going through the exact same mistakes you did. So, this was a very good mind opening video that can help you change your studying techniques for the best. Thanks Nasir for another grate vid

[@jaym4k]

yay, new content from nasir, im so happy!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

5:58 Not a day goes by when I don’t hate myself for not creating a study space for my friends instead of gatekeeping resources that could’ve helped many of my classmates.

[@rahmahassaf2275]

Why so?

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@rahmahassaf2275 I wanted to be helpful and supportive to my classmates.

[@rahmahassaf2275]

@@PokhrajRoy. why were you not?

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@rahmahassaf2275 I forget.

[@rahmahassaf2275]

@@PokhrajRoy. if you forgot why didn't you in the first place then why be sad about it now? Anyway, you can always support them further

[@nicole0991]

I don't take notes anymore either! The only thing I write down is concepts I haven't understood yet. So, drawing out hormone interactions, any sort of anatomy that i haven't fully grasped yet. Apart from that, everything else goes straight to Anki!

[@fahmidamashura7076]

Last step is crucially important.... But sometimes I really just ignore that...

[@vinayaklalshrivastava6988]

Thank you 👀

[@pratimasingh489]

After studying several years i have Also come to same conclusion. For me too it was hard to move on from my passive way of acquiring and testing knowledge.

[@AkkuSriv]

These are so insightful!!

[@joyleenstrozier4295]

Thanks for sharing

[@rredford01]

I am in my first year psychology and did the same in the first semester, endless note taking, which I realised after the exams, had been pointless. I now focus on relisening lectures, reading lecture notes and looking at past exam papers.

[@InversePacman]

I'm a 3rd year psych student who struggles with ADHD, so reviewing lectures is a daunting task in itself, however I have noticed that when profs provide a single past paper I understand what I should be studying more clearly and can relate it to the lectures. Problem for me is, none of my profs provide past papers anymore and I cannot seem to find any that are geared toward psychology, have you managed to find any resources which provide just that? Thanks!

[@intuitivelyeating6702]

@@InversePacman Hey! I've not been through the UK or US university systems so not sure if this will be relevant or not (I am a psychology student though). When I didn't have access to past papers I would make my own. I'd go through the lectures and think about what the most important things to know seemed to be, then write questions covering those topics and also write out an ideal answer based on the lecture information. Then after a week or two I'd try to answer the questions from memory and compare my answers to the 'ideal answers' I'd written from my notes. If you have friends in the class it can be great if everybody writes their own questions and shares them because then you can see what other people think are the most important points and good answers to these. The first time you do this you could even make a time to talk with the lecturer or tutor to see if you are on the right track in terms of identifying the main things they are looking for.

[@InversePacman]

@@intuitivelyeating6702 I love this, thank you very much and I will give it a go!

[@calebdoane8096]

Your the man. Needed these ideas been lacking on study’s just started college. Can work out for hours no problem but learning medical info an issue after two hours XD. This helped a lot 🤙🏻

[@neuerversuch6656]

Thank you so much! This was very helpful and eyeopening.

[@Uchida_Eriko]

The most thing I really guilty is taking notes, don't want to use active recall(cuz think taking note are more efficiently), and holding up using past paper(I mean by such as you said need to cover all the lecture note first then can use past paper). Thank you soo much for making this video that makes me realize it🤧

[@sumanbiswas7659]

Your honestly make you special.

[@ashhadqureshi5834]

i agree that that doing pyqs in order to understand the pattern of question and brushing up those particular topics could be beneficial.

[@devanshiarora5316]

Even I am like let me go through everything and then I will do the past papers and the result is that I can never complete them! I feel kinda scared doing the papers first but I guess I’ll give it a try! Absolutely Love these videos!!🧡

[@zehraalkabi7970]

in fact when doing the past papers first youll know what is most important when reading lectures or literature and youll recall that what you read/went through it in the past papers

[@unknownman5296]

filter the most important informations by past paper s

[@jazmynepotts447]

Back at it again with another banger! 💥

[@Anonymousyt082]

you really helped me bro! thanks..

[@akanidestiny6235]

Thank you so much, for giving me a reality check 🙏

[@Ben-hz7cp]

holy shit your gonna hit 1 mil

[@karenmitchell6654]

Thank you so much!!

[@nikoloz400]

great video, gave few insights

[@krswolf417]

Honestly your videos help me a lot especially keeping track of my to do lists, having a study schedule and many more. TBH I learned a lot from you Nasir. I love this channel, thank you for sharing this to us. Road to 1M subscribers✊

[@dfairbanks88]

Nasir, I hear you, but depending on what you're studying, taking notes and writing down schemes is sometimes necessary to summarize the huge amount of information you need to learn. As a lawyer, I find it hard not to do it. Aside from passing the exames, do you think past paper questions help you in the hospital as well?

[@dfairbanks88]

BTW, last summer I read a tweet about the use of these study with me videos to cope with ADHD and that's when I got to your channel. Today, I can say that my studying performance has improved a lot, as well as being more organized in general, almost all of it thanks to you :D

[@k7pandey]

Really helpful man! And very relatable as well.

[@furrypuffskein7704]

Im in high school i have no other option other than rote memorization and preparing for my med school entrance exam

[@esp_09]

This was great help, thank you!

[@Ek_hi_123]

It would be great if you could make a video on how IMGs can get a medical license in the UK and how the process of Post Graduation and selection works there. Thanks a lot, Keep doing the great work ...

[@emilialisowska4793]

I totally agree with the use of past papers being really helpful, but unfortunately in my country where I study medicine there is no such thing. There's no place where the past questions are stored. Of course we try and ask students that have already finished the year about their exams, but professors know that and deliberately try to come up with some crazy questions every year so that we don't "just learn past questions and pass the exam". It leads to the questions being more and more specific and out of context, so its really hard to prepare for it. It feels like the significance of students knowing the most important part of material is gone and now they just try to make us fail. From what I gathered from your videos studying in UK feels more balanced and focused on practical knowledge instead of memorising every little detail that probably wont be useful when we finally get to practice medicine in hospitals.

[@nenimedMD]

Hi! I have a request for you. After your experience with the USMLE steps and the new study’ techniques; If you would need to take the the Step 1 now. How would you do it? What would be your plan or your study schedule? Would you use the same resources?

[@inexorablehan3823]

These are awesome tips ,thanks for sharing 💫

[@RN-ph4zl]

This was so helpful! Thank you!

[@mariazigerlig9860]

For my tax law exam i did past papers quite in the beginning when i started to study for this exam and i felt sooo stupid coz i didnt knw everytng, it took me sooo long to do those exams etc bt that was the best waay to study sooo much more efficient cz then i know where to focus etc. i got 95% with this technique

[@nuwang2381]

I think everyone here should look at justin sungs videos and try and implement the concepts he talked about into their studing because he is ahaed of the curve compared to all other study youtubers.

[@Hubert_Bojanowski]

Nice video, thanks!

[@reallifeinbalance8842]

Thanks for sharing this. Thought I’d do the same a little study group of mine teach the others out weakest areas e.g. I would teach an area of linguistics that I’m not confident with so the person in the group who is confident can tell me if I’ve fully understood it. We also teach each other what we’re really good at so the others can learn from us. It works really well and you learn a lot of extra skills too. To teach is to learn.

[@sergiofranklin8809]

Thank you so much for advices) Music in the background is bit distracting I think)

[@azwa_tahir]

Did you just gain 1k followers with this video? Oh god, congratulations 🎉

[@intellectuals7716]

Guys, I really need your help… I’m a 1st-year medical student…I never take notes, instead I just study on resources (PDF) digitally on my iPad but in a neat & active way; Taking the resource, splitting it into several chapters & reading each single chapter individually highlighting the important information… Is that an efficient way to study ??

[@taashaclifton8606]

AMAZING..... I love watching your videos

[@saraahmadi5046]

actually everything doesnt end up to exams we should study to improve our knowledge not only passing exams as a nursing student im just doing my best to study all topics but it takes a long time

[@Mubarakaahshakirah]

I really want to improve this “working/studying with others”. I usually study slowly and by the time I’m done with chapter 1, other students would have finished 3 chapters or so.. that’a why I have never studied with someone else 😭😭😭

[@lorenacha438]

Sometimes studying doesn’t work for me and just keeping up with schoolwork and pay attention in class. (not taking notes) helps me more than actually studying. Idk why

[@pramuddas00]

Thank You for your great video n life changing motivation ❤️

[@moosenada66]

Hey Naser I really love your content you have really motivated me to study and work hard. I'm a gr8 student from South Africa and I want to become a phycologist

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Fortunately or Unfortunately, I’ve had a most great guy for what might appear on a Question Paper. Idk if anyone felt like this.

[@minahilkamalsoofi1027]

A lot of love from Pakistan 🇵🇰

[@cialryc1803]

It is so useful!

[@envirooh9274]

I never took notes and did surprisingly well on my exams. I thought I was lucky now I realize why look

[@rota8092]

I wish I could help people like you 🧿🧿

[@zoyamufti833]

Excellent video. I have observed this myself

[@ikwi447]

Which website is best for past papers of medical courses . At least make a video on that. I'm acing my grates because of you thanks alot Doctor

[@upendragaikwad7701]

Hey Nasir can you make a video on breakup during your university exam !

[@hammad-ud-dinraza2148]

This week was worst for me as a new medical student no study at all drilling down KZbin insta different website was a time pass didn't have the stimulus for study made me very worried lets see have a plan to set some pomodoros in the upcoming days hope that works I pray everyone reading my comment may study 10 hours a day

[@rehanahmed8466]

No "what is up guys Kharma medic here and welcome to another dose" boy you've changed

[@martinnguyen6779]

When you talk about the lecture that might not come up in exams despite it never coming up on practice papers... That's what scares me. What if the professors do put it on the exam that one year and you skipped it...

[@AbdurrehmanUsmani101]

King

[@rith6730]

can't wait to see more study vlog...............................

[@suby7462]

Hi! Great point! Please make time stamps for them. Most of your other videos have them :)

[@sumayaabdi774]

Thank you

[@marijap6577]

hey man, love ur content, wanted to ask i know you did IB DP so what were your hl and sl subjects, love ur vids , keep it up!

[@dailydoseofmedicinee]

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.

[@justtrynasurvive]

Sometimes it feels like studying medicine is a mistake

[@GoScience123]

I feel the same way about computer science sometimes and I have friends in a variety of majors who feel the exact same way about their majors. Grass is always greener on the other side lol.

[@sauryasrivastava1573]

How do you understand the topic while studying??

[@MayankTheMoon]

How to use active recall in physics and maths is making active recall question on formula and important concept is not efficient Is prectice test is more efficient then formula or both in write order

[@alirezahayati5630]

Thank u very much❤

[@alyssahuri4444]

I don't why, but whenever i tried to do couple of questions and I find that it doesn't ask you the answer directly, I stop doing it. Its stressful , i just feel the pressure that burdens me every time i try to because I'm afraid to get it wrong. 😔 I just feel stressed everytime I started to do things that will help me. I'm afraid I got it wrong , I hate the expectations I get. Once when I get bad grade in a exam my teacher really shows how dissapointed she is in me in front of the class, my parents are mad at me, even my friends had expectations on me. I just felt life is to suffer eventually. It sucks, I'm trying to work on it , but the memories just come back ...

[@komalsattar3172]

I'm notes person... So ill not change this method for next few months... But.... Let me tell you... Past papers are MUST MUST They exams I failed when I do paper in last moments.. And when I do start past papers in start. I always clear in first attempt because I know... Which is most important.... And which I have to skip for a while... So.... I'm here to tell you... PLEASE 🙏 do past papers and don't repeat my mistake... Bye 👋🏿 ❤️

[@harshithpvs676]

Hey Nasir! I've been stuck in a rote loop. I don't know how I can get out of it. Rote loop + passive learning. Right after the exam, everything I studied is poof, gone from my head, I end up spending hours and hours again on the same topic for the next bigger exam. I have big exams coming up, I'm desperate to do well but nothing stays in my head with the large content for a long time, how can I help myself? Loved this video and rest of your content😊

[@rahandsaid577]

How do you study in groups? For example a level biology, how can I study that with my friend?

[@ribkayuniaputri7151]

What's apps do you use to take notes?

[@johnbocon8649]

I've had my fair share of mistakes also, nevertheless my biggest mistake is not discovering this channel earlier😆

[@hussss999]

Where do you suggest pulling past paper questions from in a very unique university that creates its own exams based off the content it chooses to focus on solely, where you also don’t know anyone who has previously taken the course, and find no info about it online? Would like to implement this technique but don’t know where to start considering this universities uniquely crafted lectures and exams. Thank you.

[@cazcaz8182]

The problem is my med school does not give us practice questions 🥲