Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)

The real truth is that the good advice has always been dispensed, it's just that students don't want to listen.

1. Follow actively the lessons.

2. Study and exercise every day what you covered in the previous lessons

Every one of us has been given these age old platitudes, but, as spaced repetition, testing, and active recall prove, they are actually an excellent starting point for good performance

They told us which chapters to read before each lecture, nobody else that I knew did it. I did. It was super helpful.

I suspect the reason is that most late-teens/early-twenty-somethings are not responsible/emotionally mature enough to put in the required amount of work in the relatively free environment of university where nobody is checking if you’re doing your homework or show up to class.

Every undergraduate student I met over the age of 22 was much, much better than their young counterparts within the same ability cohort.