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Hello Everyone,
Most of my friends use Anki in medical school and so I thought that it would be a good idea to start implementing this into my MCAT studying right now. Though I did well in undergrad, I had some awful study methods. I used to literally transcribe everything from the slides onto a paper and basically say things over and over again to memorize it. This was inefficient and took an insane amount of time and most of the time, the long term retention was terrible.
I have this phobia that unless I am writing stuff down while reading a book, I am not actually learning anything. It's not just the main points, but sentence after sentence encompassing everything. I know that this is likely just due to habit, but I really want to change this now.
So, for example, after reading a chapter in a book (I am assuming most people don't take detailed notes and just try to understand it), I presume people shift to ANKI. However, i'd imagine that 90% of the cards you encounter from a premed deck (even if it's pertaining to that one chapter) will be esoteric and you probably don't know the answer to many of the cards after your first pass. So, how long are you supposed to spend on each card? I worry that if I just read it for 5 seconds and click 1, without truly internalizing it and understanding it, I won't remember it. Any advice? At the same time, my friend scoffed at me when I said it takes me an hour+ to go over 100 new cards and that I shouldn't spend a minute on a card.
Any help would be great!
Thanks
Most of my friends use Anki in medical school and so I thought that it would be a good idea to start implementing this into my MCAT studying right now. Though I did well in undergrad, I had some awful study methods. I used to literally transcribe everything from the slides onto a paper and basically say things over and over again to memorize it. This was inefficient and took an insane amount of time and most of the time, the long term retention was terrible.
I have this phobia that unless I am writing stuff down while reading a book, I am not actually learning anything. It's not just the main points, but sentence after sentence encompassing everything. I know that this is likely just due to habit, but I really want to change this now.
So, for example, after reading a chapter in a book (I am assuming most people don't take detailed notes and just try to understand it), I presume people shift to ANKI. However, i'd imagine that 90% of the cards you encounter from a premed deck (even if it's pertaining to that one chapter) will be esoteric and you probably don't know the answer to many of the cards after your first pass. So, how long are you supposed to spend on each card? I worry that if I just read it for 5 seconds and click 1, without truly internalizing it and understanding it, I won't remember it. Any advice? At the same time, my friend scoffed at me when I said it takes me an hour+ to go over 100 new cards and that I shouldn't spend a minute on a card.
Any help would be great!
Thanks