How I study 13 subjects at the SAME time

Summary

The speaker recounts their overwhelming transition from primary to secondary school, where they faced 16 new subjects. Initially struggling, they discovered a strategy to prioritize subjects, focusing on a few to achieve success before moving on to others. This approach led to a dramatic improvement in their grades, including in languages they had never studied before. The speaker emphasizes the importance of prioritization and studying similar subjects together for efficiency. They offer a free master class and a program called 'Student Accelerator' to help students excel academically.

Takeaways

• 🏫 The speaker transitioned from primary to secondary school and experienced a significant increase in the number of subjects, going from 5 to 16.
• 📚 Initially overwhelmed, the speaker had to learn to balance an extensive curriculum, including new subjects like Japanese, Latin, and various arts.
• 🕰 The speaker's commute to school was long, adding to the challenge of managing schoolwork and extracurricular activities.
• 📉 Initially struggling, particularly with Japanese, the speaker eventually improved to achieve A's in all subjects by the end of the year.
• 🎯 The importance of prioritizing subjects was emphasized as a strategy for managing a heavy academic load.
• 📈 The speaker suggests focusing on a few subjects at a time to achieve success before moving on to others.
• 🔄 A concept of 'maintenance' was introduced, where once a subject is brought to a good level, it requires less effort to keep it there.
• 🔗 The benefits of studying related subjects together were highlighted to leverage overlapping content and improve efficiency.
• 📝 The speaker recommends dividing the school term into two-week blocks to focus on specific groups of subjects.
• 🧠 Creating neural pathways by linking similar subjects can enhance memory retention and understanding.
• 🚀 The speaker promotes a program called 'Student Accelerator' that aims to help students become top performers without excessive studying.

Q & A

What was the speaker's experience when transitioning from primary to secondary school?

The speaker experienced a significant shock when transitioning from primary to secondary school due to the sudden increase in the number of subjects, going from five to sixteen, including new subjects like Latin, Japanese, and computer science that were previously unfamiliar.

How did the speaker initially attempt to manage their studies with the new subjects?

Initially, the speaker tried to divide their study time equally among all sixteen subjects, allocating only 7.5 minutes per subject, which proved to be ineffective.

What strategy did the speaker adopt to improve their grades?

The speaker adopted a strategy of prioritizing subjects, focusing on three at a time, mastering them, and then moving on to the next set. This allowed them to make significant progress and eventually achieve A's in all subjects.

What is the 'Student Accelerator' program mentioned in the script?

The 'Student Accelerator' is a program designed to help students become top performers in their class without needing to be naturally smart or study for long hours. It includes a free master class and a special pre-launch sale ending on June 1st, 2024.

How did the speaker deal with the challenge of commuting to school and managing extracurricular activities?

The speaker faced a long commute to school and participated in extracurricular activities like music lessons, which added to their struggle. They had to learn how to balance all these demands alongside their academic responsibilities.

What subjects did the speaker find difficult to manage at the beginning of secondary school?

The speaker found it challenging to manage new subjects like Japanese, Latin, and most of the science subjects, as they had not studied them before and had to start from scratch.

How did the speaker's approach to studying for language subjects differ from other subjects?

For language subjects like Japanese, Latin, and French, the speaker focused on them intensively because languages cannot be crammed for and required consistent effort to build proficiency.

What method did the speaker use to reduce the workload when studying multiple subjects?

The speaker grouped similar subjects together for study sessions, taking advantage of overlapping content and concepts to reduce the overall study time and enhance retention.

What advice does the speaker give for students struggling with multiple subjects?

The speaker advises students to prioritize subjects, focus on a manageable group at a time, and maintain a long-term perspective, ensuring that all subjects are covered by the end of the academic year.

How did the speaker's experience with their Japanese PL (probably 'Japanese Proficiency Level') test illustrate their turnaround in academic performance?

The speaker initially scored very low on their Japanese tests but managed to achieve A's by the end of the year, demonstrating a significant improvement and mastery of the subject.

Outlines

00:00

📚 Overcoming Academic Challenges: Transition to Secondary School

The speaker describes their initial shock transitioning from primary to secondary school, where they went from studying five subjects to sixteen, including new ones like Latin, French, and Japanese. They emphasize the feeling of being at a disadvantage, especially due to their long commute to school and the need to balance extracurricular activities. Despite initial struggles, particularly with Japanese, they managed to turn their grades around by the end of the year, achieving A's in all subjects. The speaker then introduces a program called 'Student Accelerator,' which aims to help students excel without needing to be naturally smart or study for long hours, and invites viewers to a free masterclass.

05:01

🎯 Prioritization and Strategic Studying for Academic Success

The speaker shares their strategy for balancing multiple subjects, which involves prioritizing and focusing on a few subjects at a time to achieve success before moving on to others. They suggest dividing the school term into fortnights and concentrating on a specific group of three subjects during each period. This approach allows for deep focus and progress in selected areas before revisiting other subjects. The speaker also recommends studying similar subjects together to leverage overlapping content and reduce study time. They emphasize the importance of making connections between subjects to enhance memory and understanding. The speaker concludes by encouraging viewers to watch a free masterclass and take advantage of a special offer on the 'Student Accelerator' program before June 1st.

Keywords

💡Primary School

Primary school refers to the first stage of formal education, typically for children aged 5-11. In the context of the video, the speaker reflects on their limited exposure to only a few subjects during primary school, which contrasts sharply with the broader curriculum they encountered upon entering secondary school.

💡Secondary School

Secondary school is the next phase of education following primary school, usually for students aged 11-18. The video discusses the speaker's experience of transitioning from primary to secondary school, where they faced a significant increase in the number of subjects they had to study.

💡Curriculum

Curriculum refers to the subjects and courses offered by an educational institution. The video script highlights the expansion of the curriculum the speaker experienced, moving from five subjects in primary school to a wide range of subjects including biology, chemistry, physics, and more in secondary school.

💡Prioritization

Prioritization is the act of arranging tasks or subjects in order of importance. In the video, the speaker emphasizes the importance of prioritizing subjects when faced with a large number of them, as a strategy to manage study time and improve performance.

💡Extracurricular Activities

Extracurricular activities are pursuits undertaken by students outside of their academic curriculum, such as sports, music, or clubs. The speaker mentions juggling music lessons and other extracurriculars alongside their academic subjects, adding to the complexity of managing their time and focus.

💡Struggle

Struggle refers to a difficult or challenging situation. The video script describes the speaker's struggle to balance the numerous new subjects and extracurricular activities they faced in secondary school, which initially led to poor academic performance.

💡Turnaround

A turnaround is a significant improvement or change in a situation. The speaker talks about their academic turnaround, going from failing grades in subjects like Japanese to achieving A's by the end of the year, demonstrating their ability to adapt and overcome challenges.

💡Balancing Subjects

Balancing subjects is the act of managing one's time and effort across multiple areas of study. The video's main theme revolves around the speaker's journey and strategies for balancing a large number of subjects, which is a common challenge for students in more advanced educational settings.

💡Student Accelerator

Student Accelerator appears to be a program or initiative mentioned in the video that aims to help students excel academically. The speaker promotes a pre-launch sale of this program, suggesting it offers strategies and techniques for students to become top performers in their class.

💡Maintenance

In the context of the video, maintenance refers to the ongoing effort required to sustain a certain level of performance in subjects once it has been achieved. The speaker advises that after pushing a subject 'past the success line,' it requires less effort to maintain that level, allowing for focus to shift to other areas.

💡Overlap

Overlap in this context means the shared or similar content between subjects. The speaker suggests studying subjects with overlapping content together to increase efficiency and retention, as understanding one subject can reinforce knowledge in another, such as studying biology and chemistry consecutively.

Highlights

The speaker experienced a significant increase in the number of subjects when transitioning from primary to secondary school.

Initially overwhelmed by the new subjects, the speaker felt at a disadvantage due to the lack of prior exposure.

The speaker's commute to school was significantly longer than most peers, adding to the challenges faced.

Initially struggling with new subjects, particularly Japanese, the speaker had to find a way to balance and excel.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of prioritizing subjects when juggling many new ones.

A strategy of focusing on a few subjects at a time, rather than spreading efforts thin, led to success.

The concept of a 'success line' is introduced to illustrate the goal of passing and excelling in subjects.

The speaker found that maintaining a subject's level of knowledge once achieved is easier than constant improvement.

The strategy of studying similar subjects together can increase efficiency and retention.

The speaker suggests a fortnightly focus on a specific group of subjects to effectively manage study time.

The importance of long-term planning and not being discouraged by short-term stagnation in certain subjects is highlighted.

The speaker's personal turnaround from failing to achieving A's in all subjects demonstrates the effectiveness of the strategies shared.

The speaker introduces a program called 'Student Accelerator' aimed at helping students excel academically.

A free masterclass is offered to teach students how to become top performers in their class.

The speaker encourages taking action and making use of the resources provided to improve academic performance.

Transcripts

so during primary school I literally

only did maths English topic science and

PG as my subjects and so when I

graduated and I went into secondary

school I was obviously in for a big

shock because suddenly the five subjects

I were used to were split into maths

English biology chemistry physics

computer science geography history drama

Latin French Japanese music DT art and

Theology and philosophy quite a mouthful

right you can imagine how alien it felt

to me and I'm not even exaggerating

those were all the subjects I had to

take because I just come from a normal

school where one teacher would just

teach those five subjects before and

this was suddenly a massive leap I just

felt like I was run into the Coliseum

battle arena armed with nothing but a

pair of Crocs and for me I was even more

at a disadvantage because not only had I

not had the luxury of studying such

subjects before so Japanese Latin and

most of the subjects of facts were all

brand new to me I live very far from

school so While others enjoyed like a

trivial 10 to 20 minute commute to

school and maybe even 30 minutes for

some people I was taking opers of 80 to

19 minutes to get to school and on top

of that I had music for Less and other

extracurriculars so juggling all of this

on top of the 16 new subjects that I had

to take it was a real struggle and I had

to learn how to balance them all I be

honest I was failing but could you blame

me I had so many subjects to balance and

I actually found my Japanese PL while

recording this video and as you can see

I was getting 10 20% in my tests at the

start it was shocking it was really bad

but by the end of the year I got A's in

all my exams and the same Japanese

teacher couldn't believe it either

because there was such a turnaround if

anyone knows how to balance many

subjects it's me and it's something many

people find difficult as school maybe

it's a couple of subjects that are

holding you back or you struggle to find

the time to study all of them whatever

it is here's how to balance many

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of the offer after so the first thing

you have to do is prioritize so when I

first had all these subjects to do and

it was like my first week of school I

did the most logical thing after I come

in from school I around 2 hours and so I

split it equally amongst my 16 subjects

Al so 120 divid by 16 and what's that

7.5 I had 7 and 1/2 minutes to study

each subject and now you can see the

problem 7 and 1/2 minutes is nothing so

after I sit down and chose my favorite

music track the 7 and 1 half minutes

would be over so I had to rest

strategize and I've talked about this

principle a lot in my other vide videos

but I don't think I explained it well

enough so if this is the line for

Success you have to cross that line to

pass the class get the a you obviously

it's pretty self-explanatory you have to

get past that line but by focusing on

all 16 Subs at once trying to push all

of them towards the success line like

individually so I'd like move maths up

one then English one and everything up

by one trying to do that one by one I

actually didn't get to the success line

for any of my subjects as they see the

man who tries to catch two chickens

catches none I've explained this before

but you really do have to prioritize if

we are just focused out all the energy

instead of of spreading it across 16

subjects I just focused it into three

suddenly I found success in three of

those subjects instead of failing all of

them I was suddenly getting A's in three

and once you've learned the content and

put in the time and got the effort to

get it past the success line maintaining

it at that level is relatively easy just

so as you review it little but often

just even a couple of minutes a day not

convinced you only have to do one set of

chest exercises a week if you want to

maintain your chest muscles in the gym

but as soon as you want to increase that

as soon as you want to push it as soon

as you want to like see gains in your

chest suddenly you're having to do four

or five sets a week that's why the girl

who took 28a levels which by the way is

insane because most people here only

take three a levels and still struggle

she worked in this way she worked

through one subject in its entirety one

course at a time and then she moved on

to the next because once she push it

past the success line maintaining it's

easy but if she had tried to push all

208 subjects in the same way all up to

the success line she would not have been

able to do that maintenance requires

little effort and it's making progress

and increasing your knowledge that takes

effort so I realized this and what I

started to think was okay so maths

English science and topic I already did

that so I could focus on these less for

a little while since I already knew a

lot of the stuff and then I thought what

subjects are cramble and which are not

the scientists are new but they came

naturally to me and they're mostly like

just content and memorization based so I

figured I could cram them I'd always

read books so English was pretty calm

and math was also fine because I mean

you know why so suddenly the 16 subjects

were down to 11 and that was already

manageable and then Arts music DC like

these subjects I didn't really need to

study for either just pay attention in

class and they practical their Hands-On

kind of subjects so as long as I pay any

attention in class I was fine and so

that's why for the first time I only

focused on Latin French and Japanese but

why firstly they were brand new subjects

i' never done them before but secondly

they were languages and languages are

the one type of subjects which you can't

cram for and it took a while but since I

was only focusing on three subjects I

rapidly made progress in them you guys

can agree as long as you do your

homework and listening class the lessons

aren't actually overly complicated so I

did this for the other subjects that

maintain them whilst focusing while

grinding on the languages but slowly and

surely I was confident in them and since

I had already bu up proficiency and was

good at those subjects I moved on to

Humanities history geography and

computer science and then I brought

those up to a high level as well whilst

only doing like 2 minutes of Japanese

Latin and French vocab as to not lose my

knowledge in those and soon I was in a

good spot for all 16 subjects and of

course that's a very very simplified way

to view it and a lot of things went into

it other than that but you have to

realize that this success bar exists and

maintenance is the strategy once you

bring it up you maintain and then you

move on like that I'd say to split your

school time into fortn nights 2 weeks

and seeing those two weeks you're going

to focus on specifically a group of

three subjects make those your priority

and level up in those it seems scary to

prioritize certain subjects while

neglecting others because inevitably

you're going to see like the other

subjects they're just going to maintain

at like the sea level you're not going

to see improvements in those but the

thing I say is that I was literally at

that point where I was focusing on all

subjects at once because I was scared of

leaving like some behind but the thing

is you're not leaving them you're coming

back for them would you rather not make

the finish line for any of the subjects

like costing and fail all of them or

bring some up maintain them and then

bring the rest up because I'm telling

you that works and as you can see it

worked for me because I got AED by the

end of the year you have to think of the

long term you're not seeing the big

exams right now so there's no point in

trying to bring them up all at once as

long as you get there by the end of the

year so splitting your time up into

fortnite and then prioritizing what

you're going to focus on then is a

really effective way to do it and as I

said before the man who tries to catch

two chickens catches none focus on the

cool ones first and then move on and

another tip I have for studying multiple

subjects at once is to study similar

subjects together although many people

argue that like after you studi math you

want to do English tring bury it up and

like make it so you're not tired of like

math-based subjects I actually disagree

you should study overlapping subjects

together I always studied maths and

physics together I always study biology

and chemistry together and I always

study r& DT together Latin and French

together why because they're

interconnect they share a lot of the

same content so by studying the same

group of subjects together you're

actually able to spend less amount of

time studying for them because by

studying for biology and then chemistry

her love is already overlaps and then

you've already study for a lot of it

same for Latin and French and same for

the other ones this overlap is one you

want to look for because there's love

subjects and if you study for them

individually the 16 subjects that's like

16 subjects amount of work between like

the similar subjects if we can imagine

there's like even just a 25% overlap

between them that will shave off a huge

amount of time you have to spend on them

so for your subjects group together

which ones have kind of overlapping

topics if there are any and then start

to plan your study sessions in a way

that you study these subjects at the

same time it will enhance your knowledge

and also make it so you remember the

same thing for longer because if you

think about it like as I'm studying

chemistry I'll be like oh like the enzy

so yeah we cover that in biology and

suddenly I've made a link in my brain

and your memory is just a collection of

these links neural Pathways and so by

making it between subjects it makes it

possible because you're studying similar

subjects together so utilize this to

your benefit and do that many subjects

can be daunting and just like I showed

you earlier I was there I had it worse

than anyone like being overloaded by

these subjects it felt like such a huge

jump but think of it as a seasons and

take it step by step and a calculated

push in certain areas will make it so

that instead of this all like taking up

mindset you want to be pushing some at a

time that's how you make progress once

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