 Okay, so I have gotten asked this question probably since like early creation of this channel Which is like how do you study for PA school? How do you study for undergrad? How do you study for anything? And I know that lots of people want to know, you know How do I study all this material that I have to retain and be able to retain it and then recall it and then Essentially ace my exam. And so that is what I'm gonna be talking about in this video Well, I'm gonna be talking today about how we're gonna ace all of these exams that we have right, you know And essentially what that means is studying the material being able to not only know the material recall it But apply it and so I'm gonna give you like seven simple tips in less than 10 minutes So that you guys can take these apply these tips and you know Essentially ace every exam that you have coming up if you're new to my channel You just stumbled on this video because you know, you want to learn how to study go ahead and hit that subscribe button You know, you can take a look around Stay for the PA related content and you know some of the non PA related content as well Okay, so the first tip that I have for you guys is reading the material And I know that this is like so basic But honestly not everybody thinks that they should read the material some people feel like hey It's okay to actually, you know, just listen to the lecture and that's fine Because they can just hear something and recall it and be able to like spew that information out and it's good But that is not the majority the majority of us actually needs to read the material So go ahead and make sure that you are reading the material that you're supposed to be studying And and already right there you are, you know, like 30 of the 30% of the way there to being able to ace this exam The next thing that you should be doing is taking notes. Now when I say take notes I want you to hit three points in your note taking skills Okay, when you're taking notes, you should not only just be Listening to your lectures like, you know getting that auditory aspect of it down But you should be looking at the lecture look at your teacher look at what they're saying look at the points that they're hitting Because it's important that you highlight some of those things that they're highlighting because hey It might be on the test especially if your lectures or your teachers are the ones that are creating the exam Pay close attention to the things that they're stressing not only are you seeing it and hearing it But you should be writing it right and there's like something that goes to say when you write things down You remember them. Okay, the more you write the more you remember. So you're not only hitting it visually You're not only hitting it auditorily But you're also doing like that textile and writing it down when you hit those three points You are going to really be able to engage with that material and hopefully be able to Retain that material retaining comes with repetition. So again You're you're just a step closer to being able to really grasp and understand this material But you know, you're only two of the seven steps down So make sure that the you're following these steps directly, okay? The next thing that you should be doing is making a study guide So that's like I think a big thing people most people are like, well, how do I make a study guy? You know, you write the material down. You're already there You've been writing material from looking at the lecture and listening to the lecture with your Your particular teacher or you know the PowerPoint that they are presenting to you So you what I did is not only did I Write down like what my teachers were stressing But I also wrote stuff for my study guide when I was reading the book and then I would combine those two things together Now I studied differently for different classes in keeping the same Concepts but my study guides changed a little bit So for my pharmacology class or for classes that were more like not necessarily like super question and answer like straightforward I made bubble maps bubble maps were easy for me to understand and recall material because I can see where the different Bacteria's were or you know, the Gram stains were What they looked like all of those things were placed in the various different areas and then I could be like Remember Gram stain up here and if it was purple it was this and if it was pink it was that, you know I can go down and be like all that bacteria. Yeah, and sludge them and all these various different things That made it really really easy for me to recall when I was studying for those exams But for some exams a bubble map like just wouldn't work because there was more material that needed to be placed on That study guide and so for those exams I would make actual study guides from the combination of those two Different notes that I did and I took at the beginning of like my lecture or you know my introduction to that material I would combine those notes into the study guy type it up on my Microsoft Word and then print it out so that I can go You know take it on the go with me wherever I was and just kind of be flipping through and highlighting and writing Notes and just going back to it for more repetition. The next thing you should be doing is using your resources You have resources in terms of your teachers You have resources in terms of your library and books you have resources in terms of your friends That may be taking the same course with you or that may have taken a course prior to you And so for me I always went and I asked questions I asked for like after school time before school time with some of my professors So use those resources I also use the resources of my friends there were times when there was materials where my friends would have actually like gotten Kind of information that they saw or they deemed important And I just didn't hit that point and I'm like, oh, yeah, I should have you know, like that is actually a great point to remember So it's important for you to glean and lean right lean on those friends and glean from the information that they have So use your resource the next thing that I think is like essential in any Studying and remembrance for testing and exams for you to ace these exams is to do Questions you have to do questions now There's this beautiful thing called cubings and cubings are great because a lot of the cubing questions sometimes You know, you see them apply like come up and pop up on the actual exam And so for that you're like, okay Well, I kind of seen this before or I've seen a variation of this sort of something that kind of sounds like this Let me I think I remember this so that's important for you to kind of just touch on but doing questions allows you to Kind of see at an accurate representation of do you actually grasp this material, you know Because if you know the material you'll be able to apply it and that application comes in the form of the answer to the Question that you're being asked So it is essential for you to do as many questions as you can Continuously do more and more questions as you feel more comfortable with the material The next thing that I think you should do is small groups now this kind of goes back to my kind of leaning and gleaning on your friends, but Small groups in terms of study groups, right? And now some of you may be like, oh, like that's not me I can't do the study groups like it's distracting and honestly like there they can be distracting for me as well I do better. I feel studying on my own However, I promise you if you if you go and study with a group of friends that are in the same class We're doing the same material it will be Beneficial now this does not have to be the only way that you study But I think that it is a way that you should implement Into your study habits You can be like those people who are at the beach who like you see they kind of run and they just dip their foot in The water and then they dip out and then they go and they lay on the beach, right? Because they like sunbathing rather than actually being in the water you can dip into the study group You can get the information that you need You know see the things that you may have some deficits in that your friends may not and vice versa And then you can just dip out and go and study on your own And lastly that the last and I think one of the most important things that you should do when studying for any Thing but specifically exams is giving yourself time You have an exam coming up in like two weeks or a week Like don't start studying for it two days or a day before because that's just cramming. That's not studying that straight-up Memorization you don't know the material you're not confident in it and you are bound to fail Okay, I like trust me You're bound to not get the best grade that you could possibly get had you have Given yourself enough time to study if you are a week out from the test or two weeks out from the test Kind of go through these steps that I've listed in a systematic manner from like day one to three Because the more you go over the material the more you're gonna be Confident in that material the more you're gonna retain it the more you do the questions The more you're gonna be able to apply the material and then ultimately be confident when it comes to day of the test To actually take the exam and ace it. I think one more tip It's not really for studying but just in terms of test taking day is don't let fear own you You know because a lot of times like the fear of the exam will essentially kind of negate everything that you've studied So when it comes to it just be confident that you've studied everything, you know this material You've done the best that you can and knock it out of the park. Thank you guys so much for listening and watching Go ahead and leave a comment in the comment section below Please go ahead and also subscribe to this channel and like this video Follow me on Instagram and on the PA and on Instagram and get that C University. Thank you guys so much for watching I will talk to you guys next time