Name: 我是如何在劍橋大學排名第一的--《作文記憶框架》。 (How I ranked 1st at Cambridge University - The Essay Memorisation Framework)
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welcome back to the channel. If you are new here, my name is Ali

I'm a junior doctor working in Cambridge and in this video

I'm going to share with you the essay memorization framework that I

used when I was in my third year at Cambridge University.

in which I was studying psychology and I actually ended up  winning the prize for best

exam performance in the year (yay) group and I've pretty  much exclusively

attributed that to this essay memorization framework

This method should work for most essay based subjects,

but even if your subject is an essay based

I hope you might still find this video useful and pick up a

few tips and techniques along the way and of course, everything I'm

going to mention is going to be linked in timestamps in the video

description and in a pinned comment so you can skip around the

video if you feel like it, let's just jump into it

So there are basically two stages to this method.

and the second stage is the memorization stage.

So in the creation stage, the objective is to create

first-class essay plans for every conceivable

essay title that they could throw at us in the exam.

we're going to be committing all of these essay plans to memory

by systematically using active recall, spaced repetition,

The idea is that by the time the exam rolls around,

you'll have memorized so many essay plans that a lot of them will

because you've predicted the titles and you'll just

be able to regurgitate stuff from your brain onto the paper,

but even if stuff comes up that you haven't memorized

You'll know so much about the subject and you'll have so many

content blocks in your head that you'll be able to generate a first-class

Let's now talk about the two components: the creation state and the memorization stage in turn.

So the broad objective of the creation stage is to create a large

number of really really good essay plans that you can then memorize

In the memorization stage and regurgitate onto paper during your exam.

Now, it's probably beyond the scope of this video for me

to teach you how to write a good essay and

probably also beyond the scope of my own expertise.

But I will share some tips on three main questions and that's

firstly how you decide what essay titles to pick.

Secondly, how you plan the essay and thirdly how you make sure your essay plan is really really good.

So let's deal with those in turn so firstly how do we decide what I say is we're going to prepare

the objective here is to scope the subject and find essay

titles that cover the entire breadth of the syllabus. Now the easiest way to

do this is to look at past papers and look at whatever pause papers you

have available and see what essays have come up in

the past and you start off with those and then once you've planned

out those essays, you'll know enough about that subject in particular

that you'll be able to put yourself in the shoes of examiner's and start thinking,

what's a good essay titled that I've not yet asked about?"

If you haven't got past papers available that I'm very sorry to hear that.

You're just gonna have to put yourself into the examiners shoes from the get-go

or you can actually go to your teacher, your professor, your lecturer, or whatever and say, "hey,

what's the sort of essays that might come up in the exam? What are some things other things

So, having made a list of what essays we're going to plan,

we then need to actually plan those essays and this is the fun part.

This is the part that actually requires doing some doing some cognitive labor

So the way I would do this is that I'd give myself one day per essay plan.

I was a slacker only made like five essay plans.

In the second term I made about ten, and then, in the Easter holidays

i've really ramped it up and made about 35 different ones.

And the way I do it is that i'd start off with a question.

So, for example, do animals have a theory of mind and then I would use Google

To get as much information as I can about that particular question

I would ignore the lecture notes initially

and I would ignore the recommended reading

I'd start off with Google because Google was, it was like a really

good way to find the answer to any question that you want.

And often I'd be linked to review articles and review papers,

and I'd be reading through those review papers

Oftentimes, the review paper would directly answer the question,

in which case I've pretty much got my essay.

I just need to turn it into my own words,

but a lot of the time, I'd be following references from the route

I would then look at the lecture notes and the recommended reading

and this meant that a lot of my material was hopefully more original

than everyone else's because most of the students

would have built their essays based around the lecture notes.

Whereas I was building my essays on a random Google search.

So, I would start off by creating a research document on

that particular topic and pretty much copy and paste every relevant bit of every

So, this is my 10 page document about theory of mind.

I've copied and pasted various bits and rephrased various bits.

And you know, very random. I don't even know any of this anymore.

This is, and you, know included links at the bottom to

where I got the information from so if I need to return to it,

And then once I've got my research document, I spent the  next few hours

planning out the essay and actually writing it out properly.