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Técnica de Estudos da Nazli - Aprovada em Primeiro Lugar em Vários Concursos

Main summary

Key takeaways

Educational

Main ideas & lessons

  • Use a high “cost-benefit” study resource: The speaker’s primary method is studying from PDFs, because (in their view) they are the most efficient for learning quickly.
  • Don’t over-focus on “review only” schedules early: They tried a popular system (described as one-day-per-period / 7-day-interval review) but found it caused confusion because they realized there’s more to reviewing than simply studying for short intervals.
  • Study first, review later: They read the subject PDFs first, then do a review only after finishing the subject.
  • Build exam-ready summaries: While reading, they highlight and turn content into quick-to-review materials so they can avoid re-reading the full PDF repeatedly.
  • Combine theory with practice questions: After summaries/reviews, they do practice questions, and they keep returning to theory close to the exam—especially for essay/explanation questions.
  • Use randomized practice to avoid illusion of mastery: They emphasize doing questions randomly across topics rather than sequentially, to prevent “inflating” correctness from remembering only what’s currently fresh.
  • Work is multi-phase and spans months/long-term: Reading + reviewing + question practice is portrayed as a medium-to-long-term project, not a short sprint.

Detailed methodology / instructions (step-by-step)

1) Core subjects selection (example from the speaker)

They started with six foundational subjects in the tax/fiscal law area:

  • Portuguese
  • Math / Mathematics
  • Logical reasoning
  • Financial mathematics
  • Constitutional law
  • Administrative tax law
  • Accounting

(They describe these as core subjects for fiscal/tax law preparation.)

2) Study cycle (how they scheduled learning)

  • Pick the six subjects as your base set.
  • Split the week so you study them in parts:
    • Monday: study three subjects
    • Tuesday: study the other three
  • Use PDFs in order while studying.
  • Delay review until the subject is completed.

3) When to do review

  • They stop studying/reviewing at around 7:30 PM and follow the “review later” approach.
  • Once a subject is finished (e.g., tax law), they go back to:
    • highlighted notes from that subject

4) “Highlighting over highlighting” workflow (their method)

They created hierarchical emphasis through layered highlighting:

  • Start with a large highlight using one color.
  • Inside that highlighted sentence, identify even more important words, and apply another color to those smaller parts.
  • Eventually it becomes extremely selective:
    • mark the most important word/part (they mention an asterisk or “focus” marker).
  • During studying (especially with multiple rereads), they repeat the same passage with different colors so the “keyword” level becomes the focus.

Purpose/benefit they attribute to this:

  • With repetition, you end up effectively remembering the keyword and the location/structure of the content—helping recall during tests.
  • It reduces time because later rereads become much lighter: you mainly confirm what you already emphasized.

5) Turn reading into quick review materials

For each subject:

  • On the first pass, highlight and start worrying about future review.
  • If a good professor summary exists:
    • use it (and edit/add notes, e.g., in Adobe).
  • If no summary exists:
    • create your own.
  • For law-heavy topics (e.g., constitutional law):
    • write key points directly in/alongside the legislation itself.
  • Produce review resources in multiple formats so future review is fast.

6) Review pass #1, then practice questions

  • After the first review:
    • move to practice questions
  • Practice structure:
    • compile a notebook
    • answer questions randomly (cross-topic mix)

Why randomness matters (as stated):

  • Sequential practice can make you think you’re learning (“correct answers inflated”) because you’ve gone a long time without seeing other parts.
  • Randomness forces consistent retrieval across topics.

7) Approach exam day / after the exam announcement

  • After the exam announcement, they go back to:
    • their summaries (theoretical base)
  • They note that some people do only questions (thousands), but they prefer to:
    • revisit theory especially for essay questions (knowing how to explain, not just choose an option).
  • Then:
    • do questions again using:
      • summaries and the law/legislation close to the exam.

Additional points mentioned

  • They attribute discovering/extending the method partly to an uncle (an auditor at the Federal Revenue Service) who studied in staged passes:
    • first skim (~5%)
    • second pass using pencil to engage more deeply
    • third pass (not fully specified in the subtitle, but framed as increasing engagement)
  • They discuss the idea that some people only highlight when new and don’t re-highlight fully later; they suggest that approach can also save time.

Speakers / sources featured (as named in subtitles)

  • Main speaker: Nazli (referred to as “Nazli”; video title indicates her study technique)
  • Host/Interviewer referenced: Diego Pureza (DP podcast; “biggest podcast for competitive exams”, mentioned as having 100,000+ subscribers)
  • Relatives/profession referenced: the speaker’s uncle (works at the Federal Revenue Service; described as an auditor)
  • Institution referenced: CNE (National Education Council) (mentioned in a general explanation about extracting essential points from pages)
  • Platform referenced (not a person/source with a speaking role): Instagram
  • Software referenced: Adobe (for adding/editing notes)

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