Studying with Chad

[Kratoz24x]

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So when I'm watching chads videos, everything seems to make sense. However, the information just doesn't seem to stick for more than 10 minutes. Did you guys have to watch the videos again for it to cement? Or am I just doing something wrong

My schedule for the first 3 weeks was to go through Chads genchem + orgo 2x, read cliffs and bio KBB and orgo as a 2nd language. am i trying to do too much?

 

[Hope45]

So when I'm watching chads videos, everything seems to make sense. However, the information just doesn't seem to stick for more than 10 minutes. Did you guys have to watch the videos again for it to cement? Or am I just doing something wrong

My schedule for the first 3 weeks was to go through Chads genchem + orgo 2x, read cliffs and bio KBB and orgo as a 2nd language. am i trying to do too much?

Take your own notes while watching his videos and go over them daily. That is what I did and helped me retain the information.

 

[TXpredent]

I took my own really detailed notes and did the quizzes afterwards. You'll see that when you hit the practice problems phase of studying that his info will start to "stick".

 

[Kratoz24x]

Aight guys, lets hope this works. Thanks

 

[sacapuntas]

I thought doing the quizes right after the videos helped a lot, even if I thought the material was easy. I also made a lot of notes from which I made flash cards which I thought was also very helpful.

 

[Kratoz24x]

I had a similar problem when I first watched Chad's videos. My first mistake - I took super detailed notes on my computer. DO NOT DO THIS. I didn't retain anything from them plus it was super annoying to type them up and open up the doc later to review.

Then I started writing out detailed notes by hand which was better. BUT the thing that helped the most was creating a 5x8 notecard for each of the 7 chapters with the basic info and exceptions to the rules. This made me scour my notes and decide what was worth writing down and what wasn't.

After doing your notecard, I studied it. Took it all in. Then I put it away and took all the quizzes at once. By doing that, I was confident that my quiz scores reflected my retained knowledge, not my fresh-in-my-mind, oh-yeah-I-just-saw-that-trick-in-the-video knowledge.

My notecards will also come in handy on test day when I'll be freaking out in my car, trying to review. Instead of flipping through 20+ pages of chem notes, I'll have it all on 7 handy dandy notecards =)

I think I'm gonna swaggjack this idea. Thanks man. Good luck on your studyin and your exam

 

[MuskieMan33]

I noticed the same thing during Organic Chem when I took the course the past two semesters. I had one notebook and I started off just reviewing my notes and reading them, nothing stuck. Then I tried to rewrite my notes, still didn't help. But when I started doing every practice problem I could from the textbook, Orgo as a second language, and redoing in class quizzes and tests, things started to stick for me. So by the end of the semester I had multiple notebooks with practice problems that I never looked at again and one notebook for lecture notes. The more problems I did the better I started to do in the class, so stick it out and do as much "homework" as you can. It helped me, hopefully my advise can be of some use to you as well.

 

[Kratoz24x]

Yeah. The general consensus is that problems help stick. So as soon as I get done getting through the material with Chad, I'm planning on going through the Destroyer, ACS, qvault, and back through Destroyer.