 Hey friends, welcome back to channel. In today's video, we're on top of the biggest thing that you're doing wrong that is just totally screwing up your grades and your study system. Let's get into it. So if you clicked on this video, that means that you either are studying more hours than you want, not getting the grades you want, both, or you're just like curious. And really today's video, I'm gonna walk you through a system where you can say I'm doing that correctly or I'm completely bombing this because this is a video I would have wanted when I was a first year medical student where I was studying 10 hours a day and barely getting any sleep and just hoping that I could make it through. And so if you're struggling in the same way I was when I was a first year medical student, then this video is for you. Now the bottom line, the biggest problem that most students have with their study system is an issue with fragmentation and to really help make sense of what fragmentation means for an optimal study system, it's better to understand kind of what most students do wrong. Now I've learned this to my own personal experience by being a really bad medical student my first few months, as well as working with students who have just been struggling through our one-on-one coaching programs, which if you guys are interested, it's a big link down below. But really being able to see from an observer point of view, as well as my own experience, I'm saying it doesn't really make sense how you go from here to here, here to here and then expect yourself to do really well on the exam. Most students will be exposed to information through a lecture or syllabus. That's kind of the classic starting point. But then how they go from their lecture to something they can use to help review and retain information before the exam is pretty fragmented from student to student. I'll give you a few examples and you can tell me if this is something you're doing. A lot of students will go to lecture, write their notes or type their notes on an outline and then they either review it on their night or they'll forget about it. Ideally, it will come to those notes as the test gets closer and closer. But from the time that they spent creating those notes, there was really nothing effectively done until they had that old beat moment before an exam. On a similar note, there's some students who'll say, okay, I am going to write notes on a PowerPoint as I'm watching a lecture and then when they go home, they're gonna review the PowerPoint over and over and over again. But every time I ask a student that I coach and saying, how much did you actually remember from that PowerPoint when you walked away? And most of them say, honestly, like not very much. And then they may come back to those PowerPoints before their quizzes and tests and wondering why their retention is really not that crystal clear or confident. And as a third example, sometimes I have students who say, you know what, screw lecture, I'm just gonna watch these videos from this high yield resource or company that I paid a resource for and then take notes on like a high yield resource or my notebook. And I ask them, okay, like, well, okay, that sounds good. How often do you come back to your notes that you create? And they'll say, honestly, not very much. And so you can start to see this theme of how ineffective students will get presented information, put it into a sense that feels very natural, but then never really use it into something that they can continue to review over and over again. And even when I meet students, I say, oh, I do review my PowerPoints from the lectures each day or my notes each day. My retention is simply not there. And the biggest problem there is that, again, you're fragmented, you learned your information and you basically took that information and you put it into something you can't review without being very passive about it. There's no question, there's no review, there's no assessment of how well you know this piece of information versus that piece. And so before we get into the solution, ask yourself if you're doing this on your day-to-day studying. Ask yourself, are you being presented information and then putting into a form that's not really helping your long-term retention? If so, you're likely wasting time because the amount of time it takes you to gather the information is taking too long and unfortunately retention that you have down the line is not that high. And so the solution of fragmentation is to ask yourself, how can you go from information being presented to being created in a format where information can be tested? So for example, the most optimal situation would be if you went into lecture and then listened or read your notes and then your professor says, here are 20 practice questions that if you know it, then you understand this lecture. Unfortunately, that is not a common practice and so students will then try to fill in notes and then eventually go to some kind of practice questions or quizzing themselves to be able to say, okay, I understand this. And even if there is a source of practice questions that you may have from either a paid resource or an institution provides you, a lot of us just filled the steps from information being presented to being questioned on those information with just a lot of stuff in the middle, with outlines, with videos, with group studying and it just takes so much of our time because we hope that it makes our grades on these practice questions look better. But reality, the most efficient method would be to be taught something, be tested, review your mistakes and then have some system where you can avoid making those mistakes in the future. A few solutions that I suggest a lot to my coaching students is to avoid fragmentation. If you do take notes, take your notes in the form of questions. That way, if you really need to review your lecture, you can say, can I do all of these questions from the lecture when I was listening? Instead of saying hypertension is treated by these five medications, you can say what five medications can you get for hypertension? If you can see that on your notes saying, I know the answer to all that, then you can move forward. But if you don't, then you can go back to your slides and saying, what are those three extra medications that I did forget? And so now you've created a system where you're taking notes in the form of questions, the form of quizzing. Again, you're testing yourself. And then if you do have a source of practice questions that your institution gives you or that a high yield resource gives you, it's also adding to the questions in itself. And so now you've already started to create this very natural and efficient flow of information being presented to you, to information quickly being tested by yourself as you're creating a notes. And the last bit of wrinkled that can really make a study system super efficient is now you go from information being presented to information being tested and then having a system saying, okay, whenever I do miss something, I'm going to either put into a flash card into like an actual physical flash card into a word doc of all the things that I miss. And then I have to come back to this like for 10 minutes a day, for 30 minutes a day, for one time on the weekend, every single Saturday you pick. But now essentially saying, all right, Lux, you're going to learn something, you're going to test yourself based off of the notes you create in the form of questions or just immediately jump into practice questions. If you do miss something, you're going to create a word doc of everything you miss or an Excel doc of everything you miss and then you have to review it. Then I make sure I don't make my same mistakes. I'm learning stuff, getting tested and making sure I don't make my same mistakes. And you keep repeating this process. You can imagine as you get closer and closer to test day, you have made so many more mistakes versus the student who went to lecture, wrote down their notes, never really use their notes to test themselves. And then freaked out when they had two or three days left before exam day or as most of us know in college, which is like cram session over the night, you don't ever give yourself a true opportunity to build that confidence of saying, I've made this one mistake on this one topic eight times. If this topic was to show up on actual test day, I know I'd be able to confidently answer it correctly. But to really have that luxury of confidence going into test, you have to go from a fragmented system to one that says information is going to be presented, information is going to be created in a way that easily can now be tested on versus something I just kind of pass the review and then have some system where you can say, everything I do miss, I'm going to avoid missing in the future. I'm going to review all of this over and over again. I'm just going to repeat the cycle over and over and over again. And that confidence will increase, your retention will increase. And then suddenly, just suddenly, just because I've done this so many times. And again, if you guys are interested in the one-on-one coaching program, you can just see some of the results that some of our students started to see after we create the system for them, which is my time suddenly increases. I'm reading books, people are asking if I'm in medical school or if I'm in college. And that's simply because you just took out all of that fluff in the middle that really wasn't helping with your final grade, although you thought you did. And really you go from being taught, being tested, retention, improving over time, and then boom, you're just a little bit more relaxed, a little bit smarter, and then things just become a little bit more natural. But that guys is kind of your step-by-step system on how you basically make a perfect study system for you. I didn't specifically talk about one study strategy that will work for me and will definitely work for you because that's not true. But the real question is, how can you go from getting to that study strategy that really works for you as quickly as possible and then avoid making those mistakes as much as possible? So that way, when you go into quiz and test day, that confidence is always there, regardless of what study strategy got you there. Now, like I said, after listening to that, if you're like, I can see opportunities where I'm being inefficient, I can be more efficient, and I wanna see how that process will work for me. If you wanna see what results your old coaching students have gotten or current ones, just after one or two coaching calls, click the link down below to just be able to see the results of our medic night students. And then if you're like, I don't really have the time or luxury of having a one-on-one coach, but I wanna really be able to do this myself, then check out the level up your studying program where essentially we do this on a three-week basis instead of somebody individually walking you, you can then make those decisions yourself. If you're not quite ready to invest from some stranger on YouTube, no worries. Check out this video right here on how to study in medical school step-by-step. And hopefully that video will help you out as well as our entire study playlist so I'll also link down below a full of videos that we made for you here at MD journey over the past few years on how you can get those better grades, but doing it with less time, and most importantly, with the less stress. But that, guys, is how to improve the biggest issue with your study system. If this video did help you, hit that like button down below, really just smash it two, three. 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But that being said guys, thank you so much for watching to the very end of the video. Thank you for your support. Hopefully it was a little help to you guys on your journey. Thanks for always being a part of mine. If you did enjoy this video, check out this video right here on how you can use Anki Like A Pro and this video right here on how you can learn to study in medical school step by step. Hopefully you guys enjoy these and I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace my friends.