Thanks, doc! My exam is in 8 hours.

I took quite high grades in my studies, and I recognize myself doing the very same tricks. This is great advice! Just one addition: If you completed a tricky exercise, dont just continue to a new exercise, but instead think about how you could have solved in in a simpler way and redo the exercise.

You've posted this at exactly the right time! I am having my all important maths exam tomorrow and the tips you have suggested really helped! Thanks!

Also, record the hours you spend learning (effectively, not slacking) each day. It will set a baseline for yourself and help you recognize when you are not really being effective anymore. If you only count productive working hours, I find 6 hours per day a real challenge.

Wow, fantastic video, really insightful and valid since it is coming from a math professor! main takeaways: 1) space courses out 2) actively learn, makes your brain work more/ suffer more therefore more gains similar to weightlifting 3) practice should be 80% ish your study, ie study by doing, not just passively "understanding" concepts, theory does matter, and its not all practice, but these leads into making it active, but questioning WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN, and also WHY WOULD IT BE ON THE COURSE... 4) MIND MAP, I barely use this, and I think it gotta be quite effective being able to see the bigger picture, and also makes everything feel organised and all there... 5) make predictions about what will be on the exam, i guess this just leads into proper preparation and knowing the slightest distinctions between q's in one topic to not get tricked up if one tiny thing is different overall, alot to take it, and harder to apply, but that is the goal, to apply everything said

To me, By far this has been the most meaningful and impactful video youv'e published so far. *THANK YOU ! THANK YOU !THANK YOU !* Promoting and creating resources and methods of ACTIVE LEARNING could be a distinctly lucrative avenue to pursue.

Would also be useful if you make a video about guessing the correct answer in an objective type exam, without actual calculating...sort of like using statistics and probability to make precise guesses that are more likely to be correct, anyway... this video was really helpful!

Thank you for the video! I'm a PhD student and tips like these are still so useful & are great reminders of how to be more efficient and help students! :)

5:00 *WHY* Regrettably, very few teacher/instructors/educators take offense when they'r asked WHY questions. Many take it as a challenge to their authority and even their competence.

Hello sir! Hope you are doing great. I'm really grateful to you for these insightful videos. I think I failed my Math mid-terms due to unprecedented circumstances and was really disheartened 'cause I love math and have always been good at it. But I really couldn't give up due a setback especially when it is MATHEMATICS and then I came across your channel and your videos really helped me. So from the bottom of my heart I want to THANK YOU SIR.

My exam for PhD intrance of physics is on 12th December. And I watch your videos to make my mathematical background strong. And you know physics is nothing without mathematics.

Not an articulate human right now because I’ve been cramming for finals but my compliment for you is that the way you speak is so fluid

Thank you so much sir..

I sooo needed this!!! My final exams are in a week Thanks a lot for the tips!

Math make me happy , its my hobby

Mathematica is very useful tool. I have the fifth edition of Mathematica which does not require a yearly subscription so I was lucky and it is still 100% functional. Mathematica will go step by step how to solve the problem, and you get the answer in seconds. NEVER cram math. It takes tons of time and practice (homework) to comprehend it. Pupils need to study every single day.

Thank u sir. This has been very helpful. Do u also have any tips on how to study for proving questions in a pure math exam? Such as understanding how to apply certain "tricks" used to proving related theorems to solve exam questions.

final next week, this video can't be more clutch, thank you

Thank you!!!! I needed this. My final is Saturday!

Real Analysis 1, Calc 3, Linear Optimization, Numerical Methods 1, and Regression exam next week and the week after. Thank you for the inspiration Dr. Bazett!

Thx from a Math Student from Canada:)

These tips are gold. Thank you for sharing these :D

Lol I thought, you would be busy with your daughter and video will be uploaded my exam. But here you are, thank you so much for remembering this family as well.

Perfect timing for this video!! thanks! (also just found out today all final math exams at my university are cumulative :((

Thank you sir for the advice, Been a while since I have seen a video from your channel since I didn't have any math subjects in the recent semesters. Will surely try to implement the tips in the video.

Thanks for this great video, I have my calculus 3 midterm in 2 days!

wow i would have never imagined this happened to you!,thanks for sharing it :). and thank you for your latex tutorials

Oh my god my exams are next week. This is really motivating. :) Let's do this!

My exam is in a month but I have to cover 4 different subjects Differentiation Topology Groups Linear algebra Lesbegue integrals So I am trying to start in the morning to at least read all of my theorems and rules. In evening I try tackle some exercices. I am going to follow ur amazing rules professor thank you

Great advice....thanx!

Hey Trefor, I'm wondering what sort of video(s) you could do that provides some form of general "therapy" for the relationship and understanding between instructors and students. On some level, your videos are already this sort of therapy: we should work to understand each other, and I think your videos help to accomplish this. Communication is key! But I'm thinking of something more specific. Effort post follows: Specifically, I sometimes see students placing the blame for their outcomes on instructors. Similarly, I sometimes see instructors blaming students for their outcomes. I'm thinking specifically of comments like "If only my instructor did X I would have been more successful" or "If only my students did Y, then they would have learned better." Every time I see or hear these sorts of comments, I bristle/hurt a little bit inside. I do not deny that we have all had bad teachers or bad students from time to time, but to me this indicates a very un-productive mindset about learning and education that can really stifle an open dialogue. Personally, I now make a habit to never frame things in terms of "blame". I try to always remember that my students are all very smart people with unique experiences and backgrounds, and that I often am ignorant to most of that experience (even in the few nice cases where we get to have a pleasant chat). What is more, learning and evaluating learning (which university education seems to demand) is super complex! There is almost never an explanation for something as simple as "it's their fault". E.g. the midterm average was really low. What does this mean? Were the questions harder than on the previous test? Was there a particular question that was worded in an unclear way (and carried a large enough weight to throw the stats off). Did it emphasize material that the students didn't focus on in their preparation (for any number of possible reasons, including possibly me giving them insufficiently clear information about what to study), did they have adequate examples and instruction for the skill I asked them to demonstrate, and so on ..... Framing things in terms of blame is not only counter-productive, it's also reductive. In the end, learning and education is a complex problem and students and instructors are, theoretically, on the same team trying to solve this problem. I think in the heat of a semester, or looking back from a distance, we lose sight of this from time to time. So yeah, can you make a video about that? As a bonus, I bet you'd get a decent amount of clickbait from it. You can call it "WAR: Students VS Profs!!" :P

2 weeks for exams? Not 5 exams in 2 days? Thats nice.

Got my calc 2 final on Tuesday currently studying old test 1 per day

taking my Calc 3 final for hopefully the third and last time 🙏🏼

thank you so much for this doc trefor! super glad ur one of us haha!

Here , 6/7 exams over 3 days

My cram time is pretty much an impulse function that fires three days before the exam

My exam is in 2 hours. Laplace transforms and fourier series

VERY GOOD video, Thank You :)

With active learning I fear doing something wrong which would ingrain bad habits/techniques. With passive learning I see that I can only learn.

8:45 IMO, there not enough pedagogic emphasis on learning from past mistakes. .

Could you make a video on how to study for the math 200 final, thanks

1:34 Why aren't those research findings applied and incorporated at every level of one's education ?

Hello sir!! I have been following u for quite a while. I have been wondering which math courses should I take up after my 4th semester is over and I have to choose a major. I am basically aiming for a physics major but I have been loving maths more than ever nowadays. I have had courses on analysis, linear algebra and probability. Analysis though very fascinating and shows how trivial things are not always trivial actually with rigorous logic I am not sure if I should take up analysis any more in my 3rd year. Can u share your opinions please ?

Cool Channel! Subscribed

How did you know im studying for my math final??

Thnks, sir ! Tomorrow is my exam.

It's always good to get some more tips to study effectively. Thank you :)

7:51 IMO, this unnecessary obscuration of similarities is the source increased anxieties in test setting . It's like test writers want to show how smart *THEY ARE* instead being primarily concerned with the adequate mastering of a subject matter by the student body.

Found this after dropping Calculus 2.

Hello, fellow Canadian....

Well, I still have three weeks

Hello Doc, Nice channel you've got! I've seen some of your other videos and I like your explanations. I'm interested in the textbook that appears at the 3 minutes and 49 seconds mark (3'49") in the video. It looks good and very detailed. Could you please tell me it's title. Much appreciated.

11:40 Do you have any studies about how making predictions improves learning?

Dude u can cram math🥴😳

If integration tell us area then why integration x^2 is (x^3)/3, what x^3 tells us ?

I will study maths from tomorrow 😃 Tomorrow never comes 💔🙂

I'm gonna call this Bazett Cramming

Dr Bazett, I think I failed my math methods final. But, I will keep trying. May need to retake class. Thats okay. Math is HARD. Btw, do you know any legendre polynomial/bessel equations and the such? :)

oo im from canada too lol

failed at getting to oxford and feelin like shit rn

Lol "Your grade doesn't define you." No, it just determines whether you get to continue at university and whether you receive funding or have to get a job next term... so yeah it defines a lot.

This guy sure does like to hear himself talk!