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BIOL1334 Human Anatomy and Physiology I - 002 BIOL1334 How to Study (FA20)
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00:00 So the one lecture I like to at the beginning of every Spencer's how
00:04 study and prepare for exams. All . And the reason I like to
00:08 this lecture is because, um, have a lot of students who come
00:12 my class, you know, with chip on their shoulder because he did
00:16 well in high school. And then come in and they take this class
00:20 they get beat up tremendously. It's because I mean where I'm trying to
00:25 the class hard or that the materials hard, Really. What it boils
00:29 to is that nine times, if almost 10 times out of 10 most
00:34 have never learned how to study. so what happened is, is that
00:38 in high school basically picked up a of studying that was very, very
00:44 to, you know, the words agree that you wanted, but you
00:48 realize that one class wasn't challenging to structure out of high school allows you
00:54 exposed material over these extended periods of . And so you really wore actually
01:00 what you're doing with reviewing. And there is a wait. A study
01:05 will ultimately, you know, help to perform at the level of expectation
01:11 to what you were doing in high . Now, why do I do
01:15 ? Well, it started off I don't know, 10 years
01:18 when I started teaching here, I , I talk for like, two
01:21 three years. I finally said, giving the same lecture over and over
01:25 when students come to my office and after weighing, I've always been a
01:29 . Why didn't give these and sees I don't understand. And I I
01:32 tired of saying the same thing over over again. So I realized I
01:35 just teach people. There's because everyone talk to face to face. When
01:40 talked to him, they improved. well, and things are great.
01:44 right. So that's why I This is not because I think that
01:49 have a super way of studying is from every in fact one might teach
01:52 is pretty standard, normal ways to . But it is there to do
01:58 couple of things. I want to you get the great that you
02:02 All right, So if you do I tell you, your greatest grade
02:05 go up. It should reduce the of studying time that you actually
02:10 And more important for me is that gonna learn the material, which is
02:15 whole point of taking this class. you're taking this class for the
02:19 you're in the wrong class. I'm to teach you anatomy and physiology.
02:23 not here to give you a right didn't take the A class. You
02:29 the A and P class. So further ado, let me just kind
02:35 shift here and let me show you key thing. All right? The
02:40 thing is you need to be a manage your sitting old. I've heard
02:44 1000 times right before my parents sent off to school. They gave me
02:47 lecture, right, And yeah, know it's that that's not what I'm
02:53 to do here. What I'm trying tell you about time management is is
02:56 is a proper way to expose yourself in such a way so that that
03:03 stays with you longer. And what looking here at is what is called
03:11 having house forgetting curve. Asked on test or anything, It's just This
03:16 has been around since the late 18 , and in essence, what it
03:20 you says, Look, if you're a piece of information, all
03:24 So if I give you a phone with nine digits in it, all
03:27 , and I tell it to you you first hear if you have 100%
03:30 the information right. But over time information to grades in your memory,
03:38 point where you for gotten almost all it, that's what it does show
03:42 is a hypothetical. It's just some alignment sublimated and said, Look,
03:46 gave you 100 information In 30 minutes 20 minutes, you'd be down almost
03:52 . You know, in two days be down to almost 30% of the
03:57 . And finally, after a you only have retained 20% of the
04:03 , you know, and that's really of frightening if you consider that you're
04:07 be bombarded with hundreds, if not of bits of data in this class
04:14 over the next month, and you're to be tested on all of
04:20 All right. So you can imagine only have about 20% of that data
04:26 I've been giving you over the last . And then when it comes time
04:30 study, that means you're gonna have learn 80% of it, right When
04:38 hear that, that's kind of you know, And really studying isn't
04:43 self teaching. All right, you're be doing plenty of your own self
04:48 in the class over the next couple just by virtue of how the
04:54 So the key thing here is understanding when information goes into my brain,
05:00 don't hold on to it. So , I need to do it or
05:03 hold on to it is I need somehow interrupt the degradation. Need to
05:09 how I forget stuff. All So the key thing is, I'm
05:13 gonna wait to the last minute, , Because if I wait till last
05:16 , I have to have I've spent my time learning everything all over
05:20 which nullifies all the time. I over the last month doing stuff.
05:25 right. So instead, what I to do is I want to interrupt
05:29 a point that's a little bit All right, so that I don't
05:33 so much work to do, all ? And in doing so, what
05:37 is is not only do I disrupt curve, right, bring it back
05:42 200%. I change the curve so it takes a longer period of time
05:48 that degradation. Joker. All so the idea here is a Siris
05:53 interruptions. Look, I've interrupted, interrupted, I've interrupted, and in
05:58 , those cases, I have allowed to pull hold on to that information
06:02 a long time. So when is right time to actually do that?
06:07 , no one really knows. Every is slightly different. So what we
06:10 to do is we have to kind create a pattern that allows us to
06:14 this. And so this is why class is designed the way it
06:18 So remember, our first exposure is to reading the book. That's our
06:22 opportunity to see information, right? then we're going to come and listen
06:26 the video lectures. You know, even gonna challenge yourselves with questions,
06:30 is going to force us to think information. So reading questions as twice
06:35 being exposed to the material on them and listening to a video electorates a
06:39 time answering questions about that's the fourth . And then I do the
06:43 That's 1/5 time. And then when study for the test, that's a
06:47 time. So each of those is of these types of disruption. All
06:53 , so the idea here is we're use this structure to help us understand
07:00 information that we're looking at now. of things we have to do when
07:04 manage your time well is we want make sure that we're neither understanding or
07:09 study. And this seems like another common, right? Well, you
07:13 . Understudy. Duh. Well, do you know when you've understudy?
07:18 ? You know how I know if over study for something and really when
07:23 study, we never really self We failed to kind of look at
07:27 we're doing and asking the question. is it that I need to know
07:31 do I know it. So in process of preparing your notes and preparing
07:38 the class. You shouldn't be asking question all the time. What am
07:43 supposed to be learning today? What this little video trying to tell
07:47 What are the important points about this part of a lecture? If you
07:52 at that stuff than you could actually of figure out what is it?
07:54 know? And then you can assess on that information. And once you
08:00 to yourself that you know it, don't need to study it. The
08:03 time you need to study something is you don't know it. So the
08:07 here is to change or just how study to what it is that you
08:15 know and just reviewing what you do . All right, so let's talk
08:22 taking notes. All right, So of the students don't see me who
08:27 They spend time. They spent a of time studying in the coming
08:31 going Oh, I'm just doing terrible the class, But I love
08:34 And I know what I got to in the nursing school and got
08:36 OK, we get that right. , if you read your slides,
08:43 a method of study. In other , you've taken notes on the
08:46 You paid attention. You've written Then you sit down and you start
08:50 your notes. I can guarantee you C or worse in the class.
08:54 right, not just for my classes for most classes, All right.
08:57 the reason for that, it's a inefficient way of study. Gets what
09:01 refer to as a passive passive A study. All right, so
09:06 do I go about studying if I'm gonna read my notes, What do
09:09 do? Well, what you want do is or read the slides when
09:12 do. Well, creature of See those slides that you're reading our
09:18 to me right there. Notes to from me. And so the idea
09:27 is when you read those, you're someone else's notes themselves. That's not
09:32 do you want your own notes? so what that means is you need
09:36 know what it is that you're actually . All right. So the question
09:41 should be asking yourself when you sit and start with the lecture is what
09:45 I gonna learn? today. And first thing that it's out of your
09:48 mouth should be today. This is you're going to learn, you
09:52 So, ideally, what you're trying do is you're trying to get the
09:58 picture so that you can focus in narrow in on what it is that
10:01 want to do. So what you're for here are the topics. What
10:07 the goal? All right. And what? You're gonna be looking for
10:11 . You're gonna be looking for the top six. These are what are
10:13 the learning objectives Guy gave whether different I'm gonna learn learning about all
10:18 And so basically, these are gonna the shifts in the lecture.
10:23 So the idea is I'm just giving example. I'm talking about a for
10:26 little bit, and I start talking Be there, start. See,
10:30 start talking about D those air, sub topics, they answer what?
10:35 goal is right. Today's lecture is the Integra mint. All right,
10:41 , I'm gonna talk about the skin then talk about the hair and then
10:44 about yeah, the glands and then . And so forth. And if
10:49 say that, Well, what was lecture? I was supposed to be
10:51 10 cumin. Okay, well, the Integra Mint? Oh, it's
10:54 skin, the glands, the the nails. Oh, so these
10:58 the things that I'm trying to learn , and then there's gonna be details
11:03 help you to understand those topics and topics. Those are the facts,
11:08 ? And so these are the things you're filling in to help you distinguish
11:12 thing, the differences between the sub that you're looking at. So,
11:16 example, what's the different between hair a gland will be all the
11:20 So that's what you're looking for is trying to condense this information down.
11:26 so I've kind of already done this you in this class by breaking down
11:31 would be one large lecture into a of smaller videos. But in
11:36 that's what that is like A series videos here is a series of
11:39 Here's a syriza. It is really video with a series of slides so
11:43 and so forth. That's what it's kind of look like for you,
11:47 and So what you're trying to do is you're trying to identify the different
11:50 within that now. Ideally, what want to do is you want to
11:54 those details and those sub topics, you want to convince them down.
11:59 if you're to count up the number slides for a given lecture for a
12:03 class of mine is about 30 And what you want to do is
12:06 want to convert that down into about or three pages of notes. You
12:11 need a lot of stuff in. idea here is you're not rewriting the
12:15 . You're not rewriting the notes. idea is you're just creating a simple
12:22 group of notes that have simple maybe some lifts abbreviations and details that
12:29 you to more clearly see what it that you're doing. All right,
12:36 the idea is, what are the that this class was talking about
12:40 for this class, we're gonna keep really simple, right? We got
12:44 and physiology is the name of the . That's what we're going to learning
12:47 . So what is anatomy and Well, in English anatomy or the
12:52 of the body. Physiology is the of the structures of the body.
12:58 really, you're asking to question What the structure that I'm looking at?
13:00 do they work? What makes this than that? And what did they
13:05 ? So it's it's actually kind of easy way to college. So if
13:09 can go back to the way we this class, remember, our class
13:14 designed to expose you in these small . So those little lecture their
13:19 smaller videos that you can see what different sub topics are. Each of
13:23 questions that following to the videos help to see what the details are that
13:29 should be looking for. And as progressed through your academic career, you're
13:34 gonna need that kind of direction. should be able to read something and
13:37 able to pull out what's important. right, So with that in
13:43 let's kind of look at the bigger and see what are some of the
13:46 that we should be doing or not as a function of us creating
13:53 Because if the best method of studying creating notes we should know how to
13:56 this in a way that is at least to the greatest minutes.
14:01 number one is, you know, write everything you see on the
14:05 You know, if your sit watch the lecture, you should be
14:07 notes to yourself, right. And fact, you'll be able to print
14:10 the slide. So if you want doodle notes to yourself on the
14:14 you're more than welcome to do All right. But don't write everything
14:19 you see, cause some of that is filler, some of its detail
14:22 important. And some of it just you to bridge information. All
14:27 So what you want to do is want to answer that question is,
14:29 am I looking at this? Why this structure is important? What does
14:33 do? And so those questions are help you answer that. That's why
14:37 want to answer those questions. The thing is, you don't want to
14:42 everything verbatim. In other words, often you'll see language of of,
14:48 know, the writer of the which is gonna be a little bit
14:51 scientific or more in depth in what would normally use. And so the
14:55 here is learned how to explain things yourself, using your own language.
15:00 right, think of examples that you , and abbreviations or pictures are going
15:04 speed up the entire process for And that's what I'm trying to show
15:08 two pictures here. These are just of pictures that some students have
15:12 You know, it's much easier to yourself an example of the fluid mosaic
15:17 . So you have a visual image then to highlight and capture important points
15:25 the one up here with the This is like, OK, this
15:27 must be an artist. They probably a little bit. But while this
15:32 really, really overwhelming, imagine drawing out in the labeling things and talking
15:38 yourself as you go along. That's help. You better understand this as
15:43 building it rather than the final because this is a way that you
15:47 test your knowledge. Can I recreate I've created before? So doing something
15:53 that can be beneficial. Another thing is important is to be focused.
16:01 right, so I want you to for yourself. Study. And this
16:05 not an uncommon thing. All You sit down with every good intention
16:08 studying. It's like eight o'clock You sit down, you start
16:12 and after about 10 minutes, you kind of fed up on anti because
16:16 just know that the bathroom is filthy it hasn't been cleaned in 30
16:21 And so this is the time to it, right? I mean,
16:23 you could just feel the filth on back of your neck. And so
16:26 get up and you go and clean bathroom. You get behind the the
16:30 with little tiny toothbrush. You get the filth out of there, you
16:34 it nice and clean. And of , now your dirty. So you
16:37 to take a shower, clean yourself , and then you go sit down
16:40 study and you realize the court all hard work in the bathroom made you
16:45 , said. Then you go into kitchen and you make yourself a
16:49 But maybe sandwich isn't good enough. you have to make a big
16:52 and then you sit down and you to eat all afternoon to clean up
16:55 kitchen because mess. And then you down to start studying. And after
16:59 minutes, you get on your phone you go to your latest form of
17:02 media and you do a tic tac . I don't know, but you
17:06 Oh, I can't believe it. been studying for 2.5 hours, and
17:09 am just exhausted. You haven't studied all. You've only study 20
17:15 and even then it's probably not even . 20 minutes. And so,
17:21 , you study commit yourself to and I'm not saying sit down to
17:25 for three hours. You know, you can't sit still, say I
17:28 to study for 20 minutes and then sit down and study for 20 minutes
17:31 then you say, OK, now gonna take a 10 minute break.
17:34 go watch your favorite video on YouTube then used get up, walk
17:39 stretch a little bit, Then go down to study again and just repeat
17:43 and over and over again. This you to get focused in, because
17:48 truth is it doesn't matter if you cleaning the bathroom and doing something productive
17:53 if you're going on partying with your friends all night long. But if
17:57 you're doing is not studying, whether good or bad, the end result
18:01 gonna be the same. And there's worse excuse to say, Well,
18:05 did I do better on exams? was too busy cleaning out the back
18:08 my closet. That's that's a terrible . If you're gonna bomb and
18:14 you need to have a, you , grillings story like, yeah,
18:17 and my buddies. We went down Mexico all night or road trip.
18:20 know, that's a story. You , that's a lot more fun to
18:24 the kids, So use your time . If you focus on your studying
18:33 , then the time becomes free to the things that you actually want to
18:38 . You can avoid cleaning the You can still go out and have
18:43 . You can do things that are instead of studying. If you get
18:49 studying done first so you work hard that you can have fun are
19:00 I want to show you what I about drawing in getting things in that
19:05 don't need to be an artist. apologize for this because it never comes
19:09 as good as I'd like it to I'm looking at it on a
19:14 But what I'm gonna do is I'm draw you the digestive system. And
19:17 this is what we're gonna do. gonna start off of the mouth.
19:20 there is my mouth. Here's my . All right. And then we
19:27 our stomach, and then we have small intestine in our small intestine,
19:31 into our large intestine, and then are heinous. Now you can see
19:36 I didn't go to art school, ? I mean, this this doesn't
19:40 anything like a digestive system, but a good representation of one. And
19:47 , what I could do is I go ahead and add in my
19:50 I can go in at a gall and I go into a liver,
19:54 all of a sudden, even though didn't look anything like I have everything
19:58 need to do and understand because then can come in. I can start
20:02 things, seeing all the important You know there's a lot of
20:08 I write a lot of information. there's not a lot unplugged, you
20:13 , so on and so forth. the idea is is try to use
20:20 and abbreviations to speed up the right? You don't need to write
20:25 sentences. You don't need to write you're a science. A textbook
20:31 right? So that you understand, that you can understand what you're looking
20:35 and what it's doing. All Just as another example that you already
20:40 this. Think that when you go the store grocery shopping, when you
20:43 a list of the things you need purchase, you don't write full
20:47 You know, you don't sit there say I need a block of cheddar
20:51 . 16 ounces. You say cheese you know that your favorite type of
20:56 , cheddar cheese, and so that's you're gonna buy. All right,
21:00 , if you're doing something special, you might write a little bit more
21:03 that remind you to get the special right? But the idea of notes
21:09 to spark the brain, to focus on what it is that you're learning
21:15 which was trying to recall. What you. So when do you
21:21 When should you start doing now? already mentioned before class. We're going
21:25 read the textbook. We're going to questions that are in the chapter.
21:29 to class. We do the right? We do video lectures.
21:33 answer, the questions that the video before you start the homework. All
21:38 , this is the time when you be creating your notes. All
21:43 this is what you want to ride class. The reason you wanted it
21:47 at the classes because all that information fresh. You've already practiced it and
21:52 at it. And so it's right in the brain. And the epic
21:54 curve says closer due to the the more I'm gonna retain. So
21:59 is going to help you retain it , and they can. What you're
22:02 is just organizing the information in such way that you can use it later
22:07 help you study for the exam. right, so this shouldn't take you
22:12 long anywhere between 30 minutes. An to an hour, depending on how
22:16 you right you know? I if you're a chicken scratch person,
22:19 great if you're gonna be one of people that have been seven colors of
22:23 and you have big, bubbly girl and everything needs to be perfect and
22:28 it's gonna take you longer. Now going to say this so that you
22:32 . I know the temptation will be get on a computer and type it
22:35 out. Don't do that. All . The reason for that is your
22:38 turns off or now just commanding your to do the tapping. What you
22:43 to do is you want to read write. It causes you to think
22:47 what it is that you're writing. use your script to write out your
22:52 . Right now, all you're doing is reinforcing what you've learned, all
22:57 . And then what? Your your take that information. Then you'll
22:59 your homework. After that, which reinforce it one and simultaneously, what
23:05 doing, you're basically preparing a right? That's the idea. All
23:09 . So when it comes kind of what we dio we don't read the
23:14 . We just prepared the notes Why I not reading lease? The reason
23:18 not reading is because we already know not an effective way of retaining information
23:24 testing. What you want to do you want to write your notes from
23:29 without Look, let me explain All right again, this is not
23:34 . Dr. Wayne has the best , so you must listen to
23:37 It's how your brain works. First off, you need to know
23:40 couple things about yourself. You're incredibly . Liar. All right. We
23:44 to lie to ourselves, all The other thing is is that,
23:48 every other creature on the planet, hate pain, and we love
23:52 All right, so I want you think about when you're sitting down and
23:55 you're studying. What are some of things that we do? All
23:58 if I'm reading my notes, what basically do is I hide the slide
24:02 myself, right? I sit there I go, Okay. I look
24:05 the slide, maybe see what the is. Okay, Okay. We
24:08 if I know everything about this so I start spouting to myself.
24:12 know what I think it's on the . Then after I'm done, I
24:14 at this live And then I started things like, Oh, well,
24:17 got some of the points, but missed a couple of points and then
24:20 do I do? Is I basically OK, well, the next time
24:22 learned, I'll remember Well, how didn't do anything. You just basically
24:28 I didn't find what? I don't . I identified what I do know
24:31 end. And so you basically have the failure, which is what that
24:38 . That's failure. You've lied to . I'm going to know what the
24:41 time. The other thing that we is when we study, we tend
24:46 focus in on the things we already . And we tend to avoid the
24:50 that we don't know. Why. has to pleasure plant pain thing,
24:55 ? I avoid pain. If I know something. It makes me feel
24:59 or stupid or ignorant or un And it gives me anxiety and what
25:04 mean. It's the end of the . No, no, no,
25:06 . I'm not going that way. going to stop. I'm gonna focus
25:09 here because when I answer these questions , they make me feel good and
25:15 and my mother approves of me And dad loves me and everybody loves me
25:20 a perfect student in la la la la la la, la, la
25:24 a lie, It's garbage. All done is demonstrated that you're gonna get
25:28 questions around the exam. You're gonna the other questions wrong. So what
25:31 need to do is you need to more forceful, right? You need
25:36 be more direct, and you need look at the things that you don't
25:40 . So the things that you know yourself on the back about things you
25:43 know you in the aged and you it, all right. And this
25:48 what rewriting notes does. Right? what you want to do? So
25:52 you have 12 pages of notes. right? You take those 12 pages
25:57 because you work so very hard on to prepare for this exam, and
26:00 take those notes and you're gonna turn upside down, and you're gonna put
26:04 on the other side of death so you can't cheat and look at
26:07 and then you're going to get a of blank paper. What you're gonna
26:10 is you're gonna try to rewrite your from scratch. That's kind of
26:16 right? You mean, I've got know what's in my notes?
26:20 because that's what's going on. The . That's what I'm testing You
26:22 That's all. Professor of testing on they taught you. So the idea
26:27 is this is where that organization What was that first lecture about?
26:32 , the first lecture was about Integra . Okay, well, what did
26:34 learn about the segment? There Oh, yeah, they were skin
26:37 . His hair There were glands in nails. Okay, what I need
26:41 skin, and you just start writing down. You know, my glands
26:44 writing everything down, and you explain yourself all the things that you learned
26:50 that. All right. And then you're done, that's when you go
26:54 to your original notes and you compare you wrote on the blank paper to
26:59 original notes and everything that you've got is something that you know, you
27:06 , It makes you feel good, yourself on the back. Everything you
27:10 to write down or everything that you down incorrectly, is something that you
27:14 not know. No, that's just nature of the game. So what
27:20 do is you corrected. Cross out you wrote down wrong and rewrite
27:24 or if you fail to write it time, write it out.
27:27 this is kind of that Punishments like on the chalkboard. Probably punishment you
27:31 ever to do when I was if you did something wrong, teacher
27:34 whole draft class. He wrote 100 . I will not I will
27:38 I will not. Whatever it was train, you do not do that
27:43 it sucked right? And so that's of the same thing. It's not
27:47 to re write your notes. So punishing yourself, your brain is going
27:51 start holding on to that information a bit more closely. And after you've
27:57 your notes, take the take on to step away for about 20 minutes
28:04 go and do something that you want do and then come back and repeat
28:08 again for a way. The scratch hide your good notes blank piece of
28:12 . Repeat. The truth is, is how it's gonna be the first
28:15 you sit down and do it's gonna and it's gonna suck a lot.
28:18 not gonna like me. You're not like this methodology. And you're gonna
28:21 everything that I have to do with you know, it's just gonna make
28:25 feel miserable. You'll get about 10% , and you'll wonder if you made
28:28 mistake. But once you go back correct and take that break, then
28:33 gonna walk away. You could do again. In the second time You
28:36 it, you're going to see that retained more information. About 20% is
28:41 or maybe 30%. And you're gonna repeating this over and over again.
28:45 once you have proven to yourself that 100% comfortable with the information you're done
28:51 the end, you go take your , and this is a foreign concept
28:56 a lot of students. I talked there's this idea that I study until
29:01 done Study. Once I know the , I get to stop. If
29:05 one of those people who doesn't know to stop studying. That's when when
29:10 prove to yourself that you know the , why do you have to keep
29:13 it If you already know it, , If you're done at nine o'clock
29:17 night for an exam, the next you're done. You need to step
29:21 two o'clock or three o'clock studying. you already done. Yeah, you're
29:29 . So use your time well, help you focus in on the things
29:33 you're missing and you don't remember and use that opportunity also to show you
29:40 you are retaining holding onto the That's really what you're doing when you
29:44 that you've written something correctly. I've something. I haven't written something
29:49 I haven't retained. I need to it. So we got a couple
29:54 things. We're almost done here. a couple things you have a textbook
29:58 is useful not just for reading before . When you're studying and useful,
30:02 something doesn't make sense, you go and read about it. All
30:06 You know that you need to read text projected the section read the blurb
30:10 around the thing that that you're struggling . Take notes in your own
30:15 All right. This is why I a textbook and why the videos air
30:19 so that you can find information Sure, you can Google stuff,
30:22 I'm nearing TV. 90% of the on the Internet is wrong, because
30:28 yahoos who don't know what the hell talking about. And I've seen
30:32 This is the sad part. I've stuff that professors teach about my field
30:36 expertise that they picked up on the because they weren't quite so proficient in
30:40 . That is 100% wrong. And actually arguments with people about that,
30:46 know? So don't don't trust that the textbooks where there's been some
30:52 All right, first of videos. , ask questions. Don't don't Just
30:57 you don't know something, you don't what's going on. It doesn't mean
31:00 you're dumb. It just means that not caught up. All right?
31:04 if something doesn't make sense to, know, if you're looking at
31:07 I'm, like, just not getting . Asked the question, All
31:10 You can email me, you like I don't understand this. Can
31:14 explain this? And if it's a thing, but I can explain in
31:17 senator to I'll just do it But if it's something that's a little
31:20 more complex your son is gonna require gonna tell you to come office
31:25 and you have to ask question? other people there who are going to
31:28 that you don't know something that's not bad thing. That is not a
31:32 . That's just how life iss. so what should you do that you
31:36 ? Kind of. Okay, I'm always gonna understand everything if I go
31:39 an office hour and ask the Isn't the people who don't understand this
31:43 ? But they're too scared to ask question. So if I ask the
31:46 , people are gonna look Bingo. . Thank you for asking questions.
31:49 I don't look so down. All , So be that hero. Ask
31:54 question. Also, I'm gonna provide practice exams for you. No,
32:00 does not mean that you use a exam to demonstrate that you know
32:04 It's just there as a way to how I asked. All right,
32:08 all it is. Don't use it this is the structure of the exam
32:13 these are the questions that are gonna on. They're not at the practice
32:17 . Questions. I've thrown off the . I didn't like the questions for
32:21 reason, but it shows you how ask questions. So that's what you
32:24 be, right? So I've kind created a little kind of of structure
32:31 . You can kind of see what You know what your day is looking
32:34 , which weeks looking like for When you do you read a textbook
32:37 the questions you goto watch the videos what we call the day of class
32:42 for the questions in the video are are associated each of the videos you
32:47 your notes out and then you do homework. Sapling over. Let me
32:50 how you approach this. Alright with sapling. Homer, don't sit there
32:53 look up. Every answer what I you to do on the day of
32:56 . Have you done on your I know you're tired and sick of
32:59 . Just try to answer the questions the top here, see how many
33:03 can answer without looking it up. if you get like 10 right out
33:07 thir 30 that means you've got a of your homework. Then it took
33:10 about 10 minutes of your day. shows you that there's still some more
33:14 that you need to learn. So next day after class, when you
33:17 have another full day, you're going reading that textbook again for the next
33:21 . But this is not between for toe going, correct all those sapling
33:25 that you that you didn't do Here's the thing all the questions that
33:30 get to do for practice, whether before class or after class, their
33:34 ended. They have deadlines so that get him done. But you can
33:38 back and redo them as many times you need to in order to give
33:43 , because the goal here is not score, all right, this is
33:47 important point. Scores air not important they are, but not in the
33:52 you think all right, the score not as important as learning the
33:58 so repeating and practising and trying and doing is what we're shooting for.
34:03 said that you retain the information. right, Sasser is gonna do on
34:07 day after class and ultimately, when comes time to study, what you're
34:10 do is about a week before the . After your been producing these notes
34:15 you've been getting after each class, going to put them together and you're
34:18 start reviewing them, sit down and that methodology judges described of practicing and
34:25 the notes and practicing and seeing what know in a couple of each
34:28 So if you think about it like , if you if you have the
34:30 class on Thursday, we have a on Tuesday. Friday night you
34:34 Maybe you do it once. You . Saturday, you don't do it
34:37 all. Sunday. You you practice notes two times, maybe three times
34:42 Monday. You'll do it as many you need to, but usually comes
34:45 to two or three times. And the time it's 10 o'clock on Monday
34:49 , you're like, all right, done. I've learned everything. I
34:53 it to myself, and then you to bed early. You know what
34:56 say early. I mean at a hour, as opposed to staying up
35:00 night. Doesn't go to bed at o'clock. Beauty of testimony. But
35:04 basically you treat the day as if a normal day, and then the
35:08 of the exam, you get take your exam. You can eat
35:12 breakfast that it's always good. And , after your exam is done,
35:15 done. Celebrate that is done. city. If you don't like the
35:19 not you celebrate. I've learned I've through a unit. That means I'm
35:23 quarter done with the class for each of them. That's another quarter.
35:27 the idea here is to take away stress of the exam from all right
35:33 and this is an important point. want you to want you to pause
35:36 a second, and I want you listen to this. Exams do not
35:41 you as a person. That's not they're designed to do. They do
35:45 say anything about your character. They not say anything about who you are
35:52 or anything like that. All it ask the question of Did you learn
35:56 information that was taught in the And if you do poorly on it
36:00 on the exam. The answer is you didn't learn the information in
36:05 way to demonstrate that you weren't That's it says. All right, so
36:10 you approaching exam in that way, oh, the significance of this is
36:16 to see whether I learned this Now you gotta do is prepare for
36:20 prepared to study the material. That's . Now I know some of you
36:27 scared of multiple choice exams. I multiple guests because, you know,
36:31 really to go through that. And there's a methodology, all right,
36:36 works very, very successfully. You , if you want to do some
36:39 of strange voodoo way, that's But this is the real simple
36:42 because you need to understand that there simple questions, and there are hard
36:46 on the exam and everything in There's actually six different levels are called
36:50 Blooms levels, and we're not gonna now all that stuff. But the
36:53 is that in order for you is get average in the 60th percentile for
36:57 75th percentile that means need to be lot of easy questions up there,
37:01 ? If you have equal distribution than average would be a 50.
37:05 So knowing that there are more easy and hard questions will make this kind
37:09 help, You understand? So what want to use? You want to
37:11 a question number one and you run , working way all the way through
37:13 exam. Now you will be allowed scratch paper. All right? When
37:19 when you sign in the exam, will have to demonstrate what your what
37:23 test area looks like. And it basically say, OK, do I
37:29 phones? Do I see other Do I see anything that shouldn't be
37:34 ? And you can have a blank of paper. You can't have
37:37 but you can have a blank piece paper and you can have a
37:40 and you have to show the piece on both sides. Show that it's
37:43 blink. All right, so the here is you can write notes to
37:49 as you're going through the exam, ? And what's going to answer?
37:54 off only those questions, but you , the answers are popular. All
38:01 . So, in other words, going for the easy question. Question
38:04 one Easy question. Question Number three a hard place. Should skip
38:08 Question. Number four. Makes you a little bit hard. Question.
38:11 it. Plus the number five. question. Just start going through,
38:14 you just answer everything that you know answer without having to think other than
38:18 read the question. What's the answer come up with? Here's the answer
38:20 right there. And that's when I . If you come up with an
38:23 , you don't see her answer in list. You leave it alone and
38:25 move on, all right? And when you do that, you're gonna
38:30 that has been taking about 15 Go to the entire exam, and
38:34 probably gonna answer somewhere between a third half the question. All right?
38:39 is pretty impressive. And that means come all the way back to the
38:42 question that you missed. And now just gotta think, All right,
38:46 kicking it up. All right? these air gonna force you to think
38:50 little bit so they might not ask like it says. I'm just going
38:55 the color skies blue, all You don't see the list of blue
39:00 the list of choices, right? is the color of the sky?
39:03 colored skies blue. You see blue those choices. But if you pause
39:07 look at this is like do any these words mean right? So this
39:12 you to think a little bit and so that's what you want to
39:15 . You kind of want work those questions in that second. All right
39:22 what you never want to do is never want to mark a possible
39:26 In other words, like, I think it's CR market here,
39:28 I'll come back and I'll change my . Don't do that because the moment
39:33 you answer a question with a possible is the moment that you have already
39:40 to convince yourself that it's not the . So leave things blank. If
39:45 do not know 100% or if you're willing to say this is the
39:50 I'm going all right around three. it up to the next one you
39:55 it up. This is where you're be using scratch paper, right?
39:59 the idea is like, all if I can eliminate incorrect answers,
40:05 like question number six, OK, not writing. Toby's not right.
40:09 either CRD. Well, at least I've eliminated A and B, so
40:12 can focus in on CND around four where you make those guesses,
40:17 You're making educated guesses. So you're between CD, You're not sure.
40:22 then you have to look at the and okay, we'll see. Seems
40:24 likely because of this reason D seems likely because of that reason. That's
40:29 I'm picking, all right. And you do all that, you're probably
40:33 be done with exam is probably about to 45 minutes. Now, the
40:38 step is to check your examine. students were in screaming from the room
40:42 . I got I'm not changing my because this is where I get all
40:44 answers wrong. And the reason is you talk yourself out of right
40:48 I'm gonna show you how to avoid . All right, a question especially
40:54 choice exam that you see is going be a true false state.
41:00 that's what all exams ours is. me the facts that are true about
41:05 it is. All right, So you're checking your exam, you need
41:09 treat your answer as if you're answering that One question. You don't want
41:14 look at any of the other right? So you're always gonna have
41:17 or five answer choices. You're gonna one. So what you wanna
41:21 You wanna read your question and look your answer? If it makes a
41:24 statement, then you've done good. if it doesn't answer true statement than
41:27 done back, all right, if read all your answers, what your
41:32 is gonna do is it's gonna look and go, OK, well,
41:34 know, this could be right under circumstances. In other words, it's
41:38 to say, Look, I learned lot of information. I didn't see
41:41 question on one of the piece of information. So let me just try
41:44 jam this in here to prove that actually learned something, and that's a
41:48 of how you're gonna go run. if you read your question and then
41:53 answer, and it makes a true . Then you stick with it.
41:58 if it doesn't, then that's when go back and fix it. That's
42:04 you check so thank you for and I hope you try using
42:09 You don't have to. This is required. But if you don't in
42:13 greater bad, just remember there's a that works, all right. I'll
42:18 you the truth. I have tons students who come and start using this
42:23 . And again, it's not Doctor Smith. This is just a standard
42:26 of study. They go on a school, they come back and or
42:31 email me and still using that method taught me. I'm getting good grades
42:35 I'm at the top of my class make the class easy, or it
42:38 us material easy. Enjoy school. being that person, all right,
42:45 what the idea here because you're taking class because you like the material.
42:50 out ways to retain it and to yourself better. If you do
42:56 it takes all the stress out of the
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