>>13737528As someone who has probably read every Cal Newport, Barbra Oakley, Malcolm Gladwell self-improvement author and watched every Ali Abdaal, Simon Clark, errichto vid plus my own experience, I probably know every guru advice, gimmick and learning hack on the Internet. The supposed strategies for types of knowledge
>Memorising facts - discrete one-to-one information e.g. systolic pressure of human heart(medicine), definition of an ideal gas (physics)These are facts with a single cue and a single answer that you know will come out.
>Cornell note taking method>"Active recall framework" of taking down questions instead of answers in notes (Ali Abdaal swears by this, claims the summa cum laude in Medicine at Cambridge did solely this). Create a massive list of questions with everything that you might need to know, study with spaced repetition and highlighting facts you couldn't remember. >Anki flashcards>Memorising information for unexpected questions with many possible, complex but not necessarily precise answers, e.g. essays on eating disorders (psychology), history of industrial revolution (politics)This are basically essays where you need to string together concrete facts/examples but also link them in such a way to present a new perspective/deep understanding of the topic. This is memorising facts but many times harder. In addition to memorising facts
>Two step "Essay memorisation framework". One, you create frameworks of any topic that might be relevant to what the essay might ask to string facts together into a topic. Two, you grind this into your memory with Anki, writing it out and other such methods so you can regurgitate entire paragraphs at will. Do this till a point that on exam day you just think about ordering the paragraphs>Physical mnemonic technique to hold this massive amount of information, study in contextually and mnemonically relevant locations, e.g. a doughnut shop for eating disorders