The Read And Recall Technique - Learn Everything You Study
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- Опубликовано: 6 апр 2025
- Read and recall is my strategy for learning information from a written source, such as a textbook.
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i have watched maybe over 30 videos about, active recall, spaced repetition, Feynman technique etc.. your real time demonstration was the one which explains everything clearly and shows what and how to do. excellent work, thank you. teşekkürler.
Wow, thanks!
😅 Seriously speaking,I mean there's no one who's done a 😢 a demo except Benjamin
@@BARGABEATS Maybe I need to make more study demos? Would it be helpful?
@@TomWatchmanOkay I just wanted to ask. In a situation where am reading information for the first time, let's say a chapter from Zunlmdahl's Chemistry textbook about Thermochemistry . So should I sit down, read the whole chapter and then afterwards wait for like 5 mins and then get a blank sheet and try to remember. Or should I should I study maybe a quarter of the chapter and wait for 5 mins and try to remember on a sheet of paper? My main question is how long should I wait to do RETRIEVAL after reading material? Is it 5 mins or 10 mins or maybe longer than that
Please if you see this message, give some advice on this.
Bro started speaking, I heard the british accent and subed IMEDIATELY. Excited to get into the video lesson.
Haha great stuff!
How prejudice! My gosh.
Thank you so much for this video. My name is Lloyd Ruyonga a medical student in Uganda, this video has opened my mind to help retain and recall the notes I read. Thanks so indeed Tom. It was a blessing finding this video
Everyone tell us about active recall and Feynman technique, but you explain in details how we can use it.
Thank you bro, I am a final year medical student.
Good luck in finals :D
This was the most straightforward, clear explanation, with a real life application. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Wow! This was so incredibly helpful thank you
Congratulations on the offer. Good luck in the A-levels. My other videos might help with A-levels also. I might make an A-level specific video at some point.
Thank you. This was really helpful. The way you explained everything so calmly and clearly made a big difference for me-I actually understood it! I’ve been watching videos like this because I thought I might have a learning disability, but now I’m realizing maybe I just needed to find a teaching style that works for me. Thank you for making this so accessible.
Fantastic!
Been a little struggling to retain information in human anatomy. I think with your technique, my information retention will get better. RUclips Rec at it again
Anatomy is tricky. The best way I have found is to do the read and recall technique, and keep testing yourself with spaced repetitions.
Very Very beautiful channel!! Extremely glad and grateful I've come across it
Thanks!
Thank you! Can't wait to try this out
Really nice video, great method, I think, and a lot of common sense backed by research. Great practical teaching too.
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This video is really helpful.... I'm about to complete my house job and sooner going to give my postgraduate exam but in my bachelors days I've been average student used to study before exam and just get passing marks due to such actions tbh I've forgotten how to actually learn I'm always thinking that I've to cram or memorize everything but after watching your video I got clear vision on how to learn and indulge myself in learning the material and enjoying it at the same time...
Now I'm going to implement on this and will update you in 1 month that how is my progress regarding long term retention❤... Keep making video buddy😊
Great to hear! I hope it goes really well. Let me know how it goes :D
This is very helpful, thank you !
Loved this video - started binging your content - but have not gotten to everything yet, so apologize if this question is something you’ve answered elsewhere. Say you are learning an important topic which is complicated and you just are not quite getting it. What is your process? Do you see this as an effective time to take notes, mind map, draw diagrams, etc? Maybe the answer is to find the resource or image that makes it click and then add that to do the hard drive followed by read and recall. Thanks!
This is a great question!! I'll make a video on this. But to cut a long story short - you already gave most of the answer. Use resources that make it simple to start with, and build up the complexity from there. Feel free to use mind maps, draw diagrams, try to explain it out loud etc, so that you can understand how the topic works. But remember, you are throwing away the things you are drawing / creating. The important thing is to LEARN, not CREATE. The thing you didn't mention is spaced repetition. When you first go through something, don't expect to understand it fully. In fact, if you grapple with it but still don't understand it, then give yourself a few days or a week away from that topic and come back to it, you'll find it suddenly makes more sense. Sometimes it takes a few repetitions before a complex topic comes together.
@@TomWatchman Awesome! Thanks for the response. I have been applying these principles as of late (going over heart failure and associated conditions in class), and I feel like my use of time is better spent.
Hi Tom, really enjoying, appreciative of and look forward to these videos.
When you touched on perfectionism recently it brought home to me that I’ve got perfectionist tendencies. Subconsciously maybe I knew this, would beat myself up about my lack of productivity thinking I was working hard, hard but definitely not smart!
In terms of memory I find that I can maintain the info in my brain for an exam. As you naturally drop off the study afterwards the info rapidly leaves. In terms of memory curve what have you found works well for maintenance of info for going forward into practice?
Thanks Tom
Haha I can tell from your excellent and detailed comment that you are a perfectionist! The only solution for maintaining the info is repetition, even after your exam! Without applying that information and knowledge, it'll disappear. After all the exams I have done, and the books, podcasts and videos I've made, I still forget information and need to study it again. Each time I retain more and for longer, but repetition is essential.
Haha that was my 4th draft! Brilliant, really useful to get insight from someone who’s done a bit of learning in their time, to say the least ha! Thanks Tom much appreciated.
BEST VIDEO EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for this insight 🙏 as a third year med student...i really need this 😊
Hey i am also third year medical student just wanted to know how are u doing , hope u are doing well .
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you that was very useful when u took us studying with you !❤-
Thanks! I'll do that more often!
Hey man, great video! The technique is really amazing and I've watched some of your content, really amazing work. ❤
Just one question, how would you apply this method to a totally new topic? I think it's cool and actually really effective, but the first step can't be done unless you already know something about the topic itself. Maybe, and that is my suggestion , if approaching a totally new topic one should mix this with techniques of effective reading:
1. prime the topic (chatgpt, yt videos);
2. Analyse the paratext and some priming questions;
3. Skim the text and acquire more information;
3. Create an initial mindmap or diagram of the topic;
4. Apply your technique, keeping in mind the priming questions;
5. Keep adding to the existing diagram;
6. Review the diagram and explain with feynman technique;
7. Test yourself by asking questions your professor might ask you in an exam (5-10 Qs per topic that can be answered in 3-5 minutes each), maybe using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy in order to help you create better questions.
I think this would be a pretty good method for a first viewing and learning of the topic, probably can be done in less than 2-3 hours per topic and can be pretty effective in mastering the topic, and then using again your full technique + re-using the questions for reviewing the topic in the future. What do you think?
It sounds good and very thorough but very labour intensive. If you were going through a topic like haemochromatosis, which I covered in about 10-15 minutes, the first review should not take more than 30 minutes. I will make a video on approaching a new topic for the first time :D
@@TomWatchman Yeah, if we're doing a review I'm on the same page. But I wasn't talking about the first review, I meant the first time you actually encounter the topic. Right after lecture or, if you don't attend, directly from the book. I mean, it's cool if a topic is like 3-4 pages long, but most of the time an entire chapter is like 30-40 pages long, with maybe 4-5 paragraphs with interconnected or related topics. How would you approach the first encounter with a completely new topic like Biosignaling and the role of cGMP and G protein kinase (or a different one, I just took what I'm studying😂), in order to achieve mastery and retention in it?
Thanks for the great video, will do and report back.
Appreciate the content
Well, how did it go?
Thank you for demonstrating the read and recall process in your video. I noticed that you attempted to recall some facts about hemochromatosis even before studying the topic, which raised an important point for reflection.
Can the read and recall method be effectively applied to topics we’re completely unfamiliar with? Would it be more effective to first read through the material to gain a general understanding before attempting to recall key facts?
I’d love to hear your thoughts on how to best approach learning when starting from scratch.
Lot of people asked this great question. I need to make a video on how to approach a new topic.
thank you very much I keep taking notes from the vedios and I'm writing every thing you said
Butttt he just said in the beginning: Learn, don’t create. It’s hard because we’re so used to that. I used to spend hours creating visual study guides and mnemonics in pharmacy school… taking out as much fluff as absolutely possible so I’d have something I could study multiple times. My friends and classmates would just wait till I did it then as if I could show/teach it to them. Funny how they weren’t nearly as burnt out. Creating sucks so much time. I’m prepping my licensing exam and this is just what I needed to see. Use a shortcut. Click transcript on the YT vid and copy/paste where needed.
Great video, thanks a lot......I really appreciate the effort you've put in making this video
First year med student. Subscribed!
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Welcome!
Wow very great effort
Thanks!
how to extract the important/worth remembering part from the book?? i get the whole process of read and recall..but one could only remember so much from the plethora of information available in the book..please enlighten.and thanx for the whole tutorial..just the video i was looking for.
maybe by pyqs and exam oriented topics
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Hey Tom! This video was excellent, especially how you actual demonstrated using the technique. (As I see from the comments, a lot of people agree.)
Would you be okay with me referencing this in my email newsletter? I'll link to this video and to ZeroToFinals.
Thanks! Absolutely - it'd be great if you shared this :D
Love it ❤
My medical school uses powerpoint slides, can I also apply the same concept? Like write what I think I know about the lecture, then read one slide and then cover it and try to write what the slide said? I usually copy like sentences from the slides in a linear form and it has not been working really well. For example, if I see like some amino acids can undergo direct transdeamination I just write that down.
Yes, absolutely. If the slides make sense already, there is no reason not to learn directly from them using this technique, rather than wasting time passively copying them.
How do you space out your recall sessions? Also, thank you sm for the demo!
I'm going to make a video on spacing today!
I understood what you said, but before appearing in an exam, we need a quick revision of topics. How to do that. Can i take notes of those key points and save them for quick revision.
Flashcards (questions on one side and answers on the other) would work great for this. But be careful - don't spend all your time creating resources and not learning them!
@@TomWatchman Appreciate your kind words. Be blessed !
How about if it’s ur first time going through the content? Would u still use the same technique
Yep! The only difference is that you won't have much to write about it before you start reading. Same technique for something you know nothing about - first write everything you do know (which won't be much), then read through, then cover up and write everything you just learned from memory, then go back and check again to see what you missed.
@@TomWatchmanwell said! Even crossover knowledge (or especially so) is useful, this is when we make neural links and remember details better
Actually i learn haechromatosis with you 😂😮 thank you so much
Great! Maybe i should go through other topics like this?
Any suggestions on how to make anki more engaging? I use the Anking deck for my USMLE step 1 content
Use the Zero to Finals members site "Fact Trainer" tool! Like Anki but designed specifically for medical exams and no need to create the flashcards yourself.
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Thank you
What if it’s totally new content and you’re reading/studying it for the first time?
Sir, Can u talk about memory palace technique ?
I'll keep that in mind!
But if I study something new and don't know anything about it before, how this method can help me?
You can use this strategy to help you understand a topic. Read through, cover it up and try to explain it from memory by writing it down. You can scribble down whatever and however you like to help you understand. The important thing is you are using the paper to help you learn, not to create your own notes.
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Damn bto your voice... I could listen forever.
Tom, listenman ?
Cool!
This only works if you have very little material to study because it is very time consuming
I disagree. It is much faster and more efficient than most methods (e.g., making your own notes or creating mind maps). Also, if you were to read without recalling, you might get through the content faster but you will forget more of it, so it will be a false economy.
Do you really think working on paper is better than iPad for notes?
You can absolutely scribble notes on an ipad - that would work just as well and is something i do myself too. I recommend hand-writing using an apple pencil, rather than typing. I do think hand-writing is better than typing. Also, remember to LEARN don't CREATE. Delete the notes after you have written them!
thanks! I love your video, but you use a lot of paper hahaha i hope is only for treh video
Haha I do use a lot of paper with this technique. I usually write much smaller, so the paper goes a lot further. Another option is to use an ipad and apple pencil in the notes app, which can easily be deleted. I don't think typing is as effect as hand writing.
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bro , you rimemebered almost all lesson
ngl, unnecesarily long in my opinion.
Try it! You might be surprised how quick and effective it actually is!
Can this technique be used to learn numerically-based subjects like physics? Also i really liked your videos and hoping for new such videos soon🤎
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