The Testing Sandwich Technique
Added 2025-04-18 09:12:07 +0000 UTCNotes are downloadable in the attachment.
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Great to hear the resources are helpful! The key to learning the knowledge you get wrong is to build in a way to test yourself on that knowledge with spaced repetitions. The fact trainer tool on the members site is good for this. The other option is to re-do the same MCQs (I re-did the same set of MCQs many times for my finals). You could add a note about a key fact to the textbook, but make sure you are creating a way to practice recalling that fact in the future. Recalling is the key to making it stick, not writing it down.
Zero to Finals
2025-10-29 06:22:41 +0000 UTCHi Tom, currently revising for UKMLA in March - finding your resources really useful. Would you recommend annotating/highlighting the textbook when doing the MCQs? Obviously there is a risk of overdoing it so how is best to learn the knowledge I've got wrong?
Millie
2025-10-28 18:16:49 +0000 UTCHi Fernanda. I would suggest trying to go through the whole of cardiology in one study block (although you may need to split this into a few sessions). The whole of cardiology should not take you more than 3-4 hours total if you keep pushing through and don't get stuck. Do SAQ on the member site before studying it, then MCQ on the members site afterwards. Hopefully the video illustrates this process.
Zero to Finals
2025-04-20 07:37:38 +0000 UTCTom first of ,t hanks for all your work providing us with this all this tech for a better use of our study time. Im currently sstruggling on how to study topics; or in my case in subtopics. For some context: im on my final years of medicine and im dedicating one hour on a specific subtopic to learn each day (this is equivilent to one chapter form a section in the ZTF book) lets say today im going to study heart failure. I get confused on how should i test my self; or even if the right arpoach is going though sub topics instead of the whole cardiology secction in one study session. Can you guide me though this? Thanks again for all your work. Greeting from Brazil
Fernanda Carneiro
2025-04-18 12:39:41 +0000 UTC
