How To Cram For Your Exam (Scientific Tips)
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Step 1: Suffer.
Step 2: Pray really hard.
Egg MY LIFE WHEN I WAS INDIA FOR 2 YEARS
Wow that's my life rn. I read hard but still fail. IDK what's going on seriously and it hurts alot.
*Step 3* : STUDY
@@madhusrivastava426 step4= anxiety
@@clipit4503 step 5: CRY
Anyone else spend 99.9% of their revision time planning their revision and never using that revision plan?
When we created revision timetables in English, I immediately lost mine and found it the next week, but then never used it anyway
Danielle Mansfield I spent a solid full weekend getting a timetable for revision and stopped using it after an hour
ThatGuyBen YES haha
Yep
Bahahahah mee
Who here has an exam tomorrow and craming?🙋♀️
Armyyyy n sameee ur name
I have an exam in 3 hours and I'm cramming 😭
@@minihwas trusttt i have 5 left omggg had one today yesterday tmro 😭😭😭 while my friends r chilling
@Lana Joy no AS level ughhhh gcse was stressful but way easier
BTS Jung kook is my Bias I have a exam tomorrow but it’s math and it’s my strongest subject so I’d don’t care staying awake till 12:00 a.m.(midnight)
I just realized something. According to the evidence in this video, exams are a quite stupid way of learning. Most people stress a lot during exams, and if your stressed you are a lot less likely to remember that in the long term. This allows you to forget all of the knowledge you learned during that test for later life. In conclusion, you probably won't need any of the information that you have to know for exams and if you do, you'll forget it more easily because you were stressed during your exam.
Just my thoughts, thanks for reading!
YASSSS PREACH
I agree. I also think tutoring is a waste of time because you obviously get way too much stress and then all you can think about is study, study, study and have no time with yr friends and family
If you study, you shouldn’t be stressed.
@@elvir182 you say that but there are people who do hours of studying everyday and guess what, they’re still stressed.
@@mumfriend2545 Yeah and in the midst of a pandemic i was caught off guard by a sudden history test after coming back from e-learning because i thought was going to be done today, due to the amount of exams we missed they are now being bombarded on my class adding stress to me and my classmates. I ended up getting good grades on most of them
Who actually never done study all nighter? It's always planned but you just fall asleep and then try to study morning with much more pressure lol
ME rbn, loosing the battle with my black coffe next to meh :(
Lucky, I literally have 1 to 3 hours to sleepy every damn exam
ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴅᴏ ᴀɴ ᴀʟʟ ɴɪɢʜᴛᴇʀ
Reyco 2.0 I swear
Tbh pressure in the morning always ends up giving me better grades than all nighters
Summary of the vid:
- Create and use a memory palace.
- Use mnemonics/songs/rhymes.
- Re-reading doesn’t make a difference.
- Try to destress by testing yourself.
- Exercise a little before cramming.
- Figure out and stick to YOUR studying style.
- Get sleep if you’ve already studied.
- Rock to sleep if you don’t have time.
My finals start tomorrow holy shit
Boards hai na bro
10th ki
12th grade
good luck!
Just burn a book and drink its ash. That ways you can cramp its contents more effectively. Trust me, it works.
Needed this. Now i’m gonna continue watching CZcams.
Because I'll be five times more effective when I study anyways sooo... I have time
Lmao😂😂😂
Me
Me😂
apps
*Quit scrolling & get studying lmao.*
Ty
Okok i stop watching YT :/
F you... you know me so well
Needed this thank u closing out of CZcams now
Mysterious Moony Xx yet
I think CZcams is spying on me....
Same
Yess
Gosh same😭😭
Sane I have boards and haven't done shit
😶 me too but I know why .
*_*Studies hard*_*
(FAILS)
*_*YOLO*_*
(PASSES)
Duchi FRRRR DOE WORKS EVERYTIMEEE (well not everytime but, you know what i mean bud).
Not gonna lie I can relate
Duchi I can relate
I fail either way :,)
@@tasfia6799 Bullshit
DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE A ROCKING BED?!
Seriously! Also not all people can afford those fancy beds that hang
Same 😭 I’m not old enough to buy things, and I don’t have an allowance, and I can’t fall asleep quickly sooo basically I’m doooooooomed 😭😅
Buy a cheap hammock ;)
I didn't even know that was a thing
Forget The Exam, This Video Was Stressful.
yoooo my exam is in a month so I wasn't rlly stressed....until I watched this vid, now shit I cant even read properly
Lmao.
Stfu
@@preeti7277 Yup
I know
2:00 congratulations, now I will stress about trying not to stress
shit
@@henrijayy same
Same
Lucifer McSatan same.
lol me too
When you really think about it, is sleep really that important?
Yes Danny, yes it is
@@lonewolf9494 Yes. It's estimated that 2.28% of the entire US GDP is lost due to insufficient sleep.
@@DominatingDrew EVERYONE GO TO SLEEP ON TIME! WE NEED MORE MONEY!
@@Hayden_981 It's not just money though. Poor sleep increases risk of accidents, cancer, mental health problems, and obesity. Not to mention, getting good sleep may be one of the biggest factors in happiness. The concerning thing is that studies have shown that people lose their ability to feel how tired they are after chronic sleep deprivation and go around bragging about how they "only need 5 hours" when in reality they're making themselves stupid and unhealthy.
I sleep fro 12 am to 8 am
And sometimes i think what i did the whole day from 12pm to 8pm,i can do all those things twice.
I don't know if there's any scientific evidence behind it, but I always found that recording my professor's lecture, then going home and re-WRITING my notes in a more neat manner, and including the things I may have missed from hearing the initial lecture into my rewrites, always helped me. I almost always aced my tests, sometimes with a perfect score. I'm not sure if it was the METHOD with which I studied or the fact that I had an amazing professor.
Probably both.
OH, I use this method too. Writing helps me remeber things better, plus this way I not only got double practise but also since my notes were so tidy I would always feel motivated to study. In college, I would make rushed notes in a doctor's handwriting and come home and write neatly, with additional important points.
@Tanish 13 Boku No Pico
Summary
You can't learn, but you CAN store short-term info.
✓ Try the famous Memory Palace technique
✓ use pneumonic devices, rhymes or songs. The weirder the better
✓ don't waste time on re-reading your notes. It makes no difference
✓ stress causes memory impairment so CALM DOWN. Take deep breaths
✓ test yourself, take practice tests
✓ mini-workout or just take a walk
✓ look for ways that work best for YOU
✓ sleep if you're done with syllabus
✓ rock to sleep 😂 yeah seriously 4:25
I'm surprised this isn't sponcered by skill share
Audible
Cool
Tik Tok.
Grammarly
Edubirdie
The best way to cram for a test is to binge watch Rick and Morty
Ah, I see you're a gamer as well
bro when is season 3 coming?
Such wise words !
@@aleph9911 season 3 already out mate
i can already feel my iq rising
I have 5 exams this week:
Physics 1
Calculus 1
Chemistry
Technical Design
Optional Psychology Course
R.I.P
Basiclly everyday welp thats nice!! "We all love exams" 😑
how did it go? :p
Are you alive?? 💐
Bro I have 8 plus a presentation worth my whole score
I’ve got: English, Maths, science and geography in the next week
It doesn't matter if your exam results are shitty what matters is that you actually tried to make a difference and that you actually did something to be better. That's more than what most students ever did.
The rest of the frickin world: *cute sentiment, but I need GRADES*
Should I kill myself?
@@_aworldthatspoke950 no
@@_aworldthatspoke950 please don’t kill your self, gets some help .
That’s great and all but that doesn’t matter if it’s not what my mother thinks
My exams are over… and I didn't study
I got my results
I PASSED
I'm soo proud, gives me hope lmao 😂😂😁😁😁
Lucky,I have ,y math and Latin final tomorrow and I’m horrible at both
Good luck!
YAY! I'm so proud of you!
1) you’re lying so stop trying to seem cool
2) no one cares
3) you definitely spent hours revising
My memory palace is on fire. I-it’s burning down...
Stormie Staley spongebob? Is that you?
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You’ll have some lit memories
Sherlock no likie
This made me laugh 😂
during my 1st term exams I stressed so much about exams that I could not even study properly and I got 76% on those exams but then during my 2nd term exams I decided that I will not stress about exams because stress only made them more hard so I tried to stress as little as possible and i got 92% on those exams . It proved to me that stress only make exams more hard
Reading your notes twice might not directly help you remember things better, but it might make you more confident and reduce stress.
guaranteed i'll watch this in a state of panic the day before my a levels
same 😅 but we still have time! 🤗
samee
My AS exams after 2 month and i dont know anything lol
You are not alone, really!
@@nicolle456 not anymore
Is this a blessing or what? Tommorow is my bio exam.
Same!
Boards? I have from saturday
Physics exam for me lol
Bio test tomorrow too ;.;
sameeee
Currently cramming for an AP class because I haven't paid much attention all year, wish me luck y'all🙈
When you’re supposed to be studying but instead you are scrolling through YT comments Like me
Am also doing the same
I have an high school entrance exam tomorrow and I’ve done NOTHING
Literally a day after my mock exams...thanks
I did my mocks last week and guess wht i didnt fail but my score went down😭😭uhh m soo stressed
jungkook plus taeyung don’t worry, mock exams are set up for you to not do as well so I’m not doing as good you have a greater chance to do much better in the real thing (ᵔᴥᵔ)
@@lilohigh6002 thnx 👌👊
@@lilohigh6002 Not true in my experience.
Chosen Rubric I mean I was trying to motivate but okay 🤷🏻♀️
You are in right time, in india exam is on 2 mars.
My exams are starting from 7th of march
Already going on... tomorrow computer
I finished mine today..
Marathi day after tomorrow.
Tommorow my exam starts 😶😶😶😶😶😶😶
imagine watching this whilst being anxious about exams tomorrow *crying + laughing* couldnt be me
GOOD LUCK fellow year 11 students ~ see you on the other side
Fun fact: Having too much stress can weaken your immune system regardless of temperature. Trust me, I been there and I even got sick after the exam for the summer.
I just finished my exams yesterday and I'm sick af rn
I kinda lost a few kgs during exam week.
Sounds like a nice plan to skip exam days by getting sick
Here are a few ways to ‘trick’ yourself into calming down :)
1. Slow your breathing down, make sure to exhale longer than you exhale. This will slow your heart rate
2. Tense for 5sec and relax your muscles, helps relieve tension
3. Splash cold/ice water on your face or hold something cold to it, slows heart rate
They’re called the TIPP skills if you want to know more
i always say i will study later i got lots of time!!! then i keep saying that till the sun goes down!! and then i sit down to study and i just can't focus. so then im tired so i sleep n then i force myself to wake up early to study.(:
withered rosepetals that’s called procrastination 😂 I do it too
The day before my English literature exam,I hadn’t known anything bout anything. I finished an entire novel of 400 pages from 10pm to 5:30am along with the meanings and stuff of the important quotations and stuff and then from 5:30am to almost 7am I finished all 5 poems and memorised all the poets as well as knowing what every word meant through figurative language and shit. I ended up getting average grades so I’m proud. Very very proud
1:32 the last minute cramming tip is not studying too much? got it.
XD
Just in time!! Thank you!
Right? I take an exam tonight
your welcome 😉
*one more trick*- stop watching CZcams now & go study 😆
stop using teacher jokes
Thanks armpit
arpit parekh stop using teacher jokes.
@@mopbuckets4734 stop using others comments 😃
@@Savvy07 stop your existttttt
AsapSCIENCE: "short term memory"
People with ADHD: *visible confusion*
Sleep is for the weak
Justin Y. OH MA GOD IT’S YOU
Wow ur here as well?
Bruh? You gained like 80,000 subs
Wtf in 1 month😂😂😂😂😂
does youtube pay you to comment in videos?
Weak is for the sleep
Perfectly coordinated for my math exam next week.
I have one too. Good luck!
THANK YOU!! I have 3 midterms coming up Monday and Tuesday I needed this!!
Yes! Finding what works for yourself is so important! I've tried the memory palace for a very long time since I've heard everywhere how effective it was but it never worked for me. Then I tried it with songs and poems and it's perfect for me! You have to find what works best for you
Good night. I have exam
Good luck but it’s morning time lol
@@afsanachowdhury514 Different time zones 🙄
Mr. Nemesis says the person who said ‘grammer’....
Showaib Zaman
Me too but i have two exams tomorrow that im barely studying for lol rip
@@abhishekraman9803 ikr, indians have the best english knowledge.
I basically just crammed for my gcses last year and I got all A*s so I must have been doing something right 😅 for me the most important things are:
1. Eat lots of good food; exams and cramming need lots of energy, no need to count calories for now, just make sure it’s not junk food because it stops you from thinking clearly. I ate loads of porridge, bananas, walnuts, dark chocolate, veggies, salmon, rice, dhal, avocado, berries etc.
2. Drink loads of water!!!!
3. Cram in the evening then sleep well, it’s 1000 times better than staying up all night revising even if you cover more stuff. At least for UK exams it’s less about memorisation and more about applying knowledge, so your brain needs to be alert and rested. Anyway, sleeping after revising helps with remembering it.
4. Use the pomodoro technique, it helps a lot with knowledge retention, concentration and efficiency when you’re studying intensely
At least u can watch this instead of doing ur revision and not feel guilty 🤷🏻♀️😬😂
this is a first time my online friends said im cramming on studying, and i don't even realized that i am.. it's such a blessing to have friends like her even my irl bestf doesn't even care about me
My mid terms are next week and are really stressing me out but i have realized that editing videos relaxes me a lot and makes me feel better. Hope i get good grades. Fingers crossed.
@CanyonsLegend you don't know that
good luck!!
Instead of crossing your fingers study lmao
Good luck
Midterms in March?
1:06
I wish the Krebs cycle I have to cram was as easy as this :(
i swear. i hate that. with all the carbon and oxygen being released at each step
I took a test on literally 5 days ago... Wished this was here a week before
I literally have a science exam the day after tomorrow and I'm watching this instead of studying
Good for you
M2
I was in a seminar with an expert on retention, and he showed us scientific studies on breath-right strips, and wearing them while you study, and when you take your exam. It could increases your retention by 10%.
I can’t find anything on it presently, but I’m going to try it 👏 just a tip!
*watches this video the night before an English and maths exam
I am doing it for history lol
Ik the knowledge just wanna know extra tips
Man your lucky
I was supposed to have an exam today but it got delayed until tomorrow 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I was supposed to have a French vocab test but my teacher forgot lol
Bar Exam tomorrow!!! I am sending positive vibes to everyone who has something big and challenging coming up! Believe in yourself!
great video!!! as always!
This would've been of much greater help to me this morning
i’m hear 2 hours before an exam trying to cram topic 1,2 and 3 of biology chemistry and physics. wish me luck.
Did you get good grades ?
@@SherlockHolmes-lq8ro I ACTUALLY DID AS WELL and im predicted two 9s and an 8 now :P
@@shreya7285 i am sadly an idiotic Sherlock fraud
@@Yimika777 damn that's nice. I had my Maths paper 1 today and did terrible. Was fairly easy though. Regretting that i did not revise now
By God grace 😌
That info about the hippocampus is really interesting and makes a lot of sense! Thanks asapscience
*I love your drawing, Mitch and Greg♥*
I read a few books on memory techniques and methods. Some knowledge like the periodic system and complex biologic systems is helpful to organize with the use of methods like the memory palace. But most knowledge is most useful if you actually understand it and can apply it.
This was uploaded at the right time. My test is in 2 days :^)
That Mnemonic device helped me a lot! Thank you!
Thank You.... This will help me cram a script, it is different but it works...
I usually remember where the info was in my book so I imagine the book in my head
The fact that the examples you're using are exactly what I have in exams :")
that memory and neurochemical bit in this video is something I needed to revise for my psychology exam tomorrow thanks
Wow, perfect timing like always
What about relieving subconscious stress? Fun fact, before I went to University I was a chef and have the temperament under stressful situations that helped me in that field. I organize based on challenge level and do prep work well in advance. This results in me being a pretty chill dude. However, this semester things have started happening like a few strands of hair REALLY prematurely greying, or going to the doctors in pain and being told: "this looks like [insert condition] but it's non-adherence to the conditions actual symptoms means it's stress causing it."
I workout three times a week, I make sure to chill out with both of my favourite stress reliefs----CZcams and Video Games an hour and a half a night, I constantly listen to therapeutic music like dreampop because I love it, and make time to watch one movie a week. In short, I don't know why my body is screaming at me that I'm stressed.
Me after failing my exams :
A single piece of paper can't decide my future
Rereadig definitely improves understanding of dense subjects.
Ironically enough my test tomorrow is about neurology and psychology (I'm studying to become a nurse) and this information not only helpful in telling me how to study more effectively but also explained me small parts of the material 😂😅 thanks!
who tf owns a rocking bed. cause i don't know anyone who does
Why am on this video.. I have graduated from university 1 year ago
Rahul Devgun
LOL 😂 😂
Lucky you
idk, I sometimes just sing the abc’s when I’m bored even though I’m not in kindergarten...
THANKK YOUUU
I have my first 10th grade science test soon and I reaaaally want to nail it!
Thank you so much for this ommgg
Guys, here's little something I do
I usually study an hour or two before my exam. When I have my notes, I take a bondpaper and re-write my notes there. Re-writing keeps my memory fresh so whenever I answer, I can almost usually remember which quadrant I wrote this or that, making it way easier for me. Dividing it into sub-cateogires also helps.
Maybe I'm a visual person..? That may be why an after image is the best way to let me remember things.
Mid terms tomorrow at 8 am it’s 11 pm and literally haven’t done ANYTHING 😭😭
OMG I CAME BACK FOR THE SAME REASON 9 months later and seen my own comment and was shocked 😭😭 dang caught lacking 2 years in a row
@@uhhitzmahad1955 so how did it go
@@pinkcherry9695 I got a 87 which is a b but pretty good for like 4 hours of cramming after not paying attention the whole quarter 😭
@@uhhitzmahad1955 how are you doing now?
Pro tip: Best way to cram for an exam is Test Banks/Previous Exams/Problem Sets with Slader by your side. Combine all for optimum results.
Bruh thank you SO much. This saved my life.
Thank you so much for this video... I don't have an exam now but this information will definitely be useful in the future 😁
Damn i do have an exam next week i guess i need to watch this video :(
I wish this came out when I was still in school xD
I often watch videos while playing games and when I rewatch them I always get rly high quality flashbacks to wherever I was in the game and sometimes even wut I was doing.
Great that I'm watching this 2 weeks AFTER my exams.
Good for me.
Happy state testing! I have math testing tmrow, wish me luck!🤞🏼
How was it ? I hope u did well ^^. Welp what a coincidence, I've got math tomorrow too
Thanks! They split it into 2 parts so I have to do it today too -_-. Good luck
@@grass4655 Darn, I hope you got a satisfiying score on that day! Oh and thanks! for me it went pretty well ^^
Me: Watches video
Also me: Completely forgot everything I watched
Just had exam , the cortisol , sweat and memory problem happened for me. So i slept immediately and read after waking up. It helped me a lot. Really guys !!!!
Rocking to sleep. Great advice. That’s what I learned. I’m literally going to get a rocking bed :)
I don’t think I’m going to make a song just to memorise ._.
“OOPS I DID IT AGAIN”
I did flash cards before bed. Somehow overnight it clicked from doing that.
Thanks For Useful Info! - Still Will Try Using Better Techniques!
I needed this a couple of hours ago 😬…
Memory Palaces be like,
So Vietnam war happened in my toilet. Where Usa comes regularly to drop bombs.
And Still my mom send me to concentration camps (schools).
This is hilarious as hell
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Shamim Farooqui ....
I really hate that every time I study for hours a day, it doesn’t make a difference. When I wake up the next day, I forget everything and nothing even clicks. It’s as if I never even studied at all. What works for me is sleeping in the afternoon, waking up in the evening, then cramming all night and day until the exam starts. Everything that I’ve learned has been part of my everyday life, if I stop taking a subject I’m familiar with, I forget and never get any feeling of familiarity whatsoever.😢😡😢😡😢😡
Reading the answers for the questions many times actually works for me (and then having people ask me the questions after I've read it a few times to see how much I remember)
Thank you for existing
Going Meds in the future :)
About to go build a rocking bed before my exam wish me luck.
I'm having a mental breakdown because the exam tomorrow is the most important.
how'd u do?
Pretty Well
Where was this when I needed it Thursday night?
I love how he does everything on a board and marker