How to Study to get A?

Study less and do well in exam!

That’s what super students do. They don’t study hard. They study smart. What you are about to read is how smart students manage to do less and get more.

Efficiency means using less resource, such as time and energy, to get better result. That’s the secret to smart studying. The student who studies 30 minutes a day and gets straight A in exam is efficient; where else the nerd who studies 9 hours per day and gets the same result isn’t. The nerd is both hardworking and highly inefficient. You won’t want to be a nerd, unless you enjoy studying the whole day without a life.

When we talk about efficiency, we must mention resource. Yes, I know you seldom think about “resource” when come to study skill but learning about it speeds up your journey to success. Resource is whatever we have with us to achieve our goals. It’s limited, so we have to manage it carefully. For example, everyone only has 24 hours a day, and a few weeks more to go before exam. If a student uses it on unproductive activities like partying and sleeping whole day, the time resource is wasted. If you use your time well, probably you will have enough time to prepare for exam while going out with friends every weekend!

To use our resource well, we need to create a study system. Our resources will be channelled into the study system to produce result, such as better understanding of a subject, or well remembered facts. Without a study system, our resource will not be well used, which results in wastage a.k.a. inefficiency. The good news is that creating a study system is rewarding. It’s our actual “success formula”, which can be brought forward to our further level of education. The study system you use for O-level education can be used in A-level education and university courses. Maybe you need to adjust the study system to suit the new environment, but it will stay there with you for the rest of your life. Sounds like a good investment, don’t you think so?

Although an efficient study system uses less resource to yield better result, we still need sufficient amount of resource for this system to work. Let’s say, in our study system, we need to study one hour a day. But if we only have half an hour a day to study, things won’t work. That’s why we also need to manage our resources. For this scenario, we need to manage our time so that we can free up more time to study one hour a day.

Here’s the summary of our magic formula:

Resource + Resource management + Efficient study system = Success

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Now let’s have a look at resource. Which resources can we exploit to achieve study success? I shall list six of them here:

Time

Knowledge

Human

Material

Money

Energy

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This is the basic of how to study efficiently. I shall proceed to the details of how to carry out the whole master plan in my next post. For now, let’s enjoy a cup of coffee, shall we?

Why I shoud I become a Doctor?

This might be a question that many of students preparing for MCAT exam ask themselves. In fact if they happen to be on the right track, feeling confident about their performance on the exams, they might ask it in a different way. They might ask "How should I benefit the society by carrying the title of M.D.?"

People always bring this point up to me that you should become a Medical Doctor abbreviated as M.D. Why? is it just because the initials of my name are M.D as well?!:) nope it should not be because of that.

A true friend in his last year of Medical School told me "... we are not good doctors! we are basically good test takers!"

So before asking yourself all the unnecessary thoughts, question your ability to take incredibly hard exams!