Hello Reader,

Al Khan here, for another "insider" info. (lol)

So one student in Ready to Pass that I'm personally working with needs to study hundreds of pages per SUBtopic for her exam.

No wonder — it's for her specialty boards. (Internal Medicine)

And looking at her exam coverage, there's just so much material, and I mean THOUSANDS of pages to study that you won't even know if you'd be able to handle it.

The tendency is to try to remember every detail that you see, fact-by-fact.

DON'T. You'll never finish all your materials that way.

It's physically impossible to remember everything if you're using a one-to-one memorization method — just study any memory champion who has recited thousands of digits of pi and you'll know I'm right.

You want to first encode a FEW things that will make the OTHER things easier to remember.

Build STRONG PILLARS first, then add anything you want.

This means elaborative encoding through frameworks.

Regardless of your material, ESPECIALLY if it contains a TON of freaking info, you need to find (or create!) the core structure first.

That should be the FIRST thing you should do.

Whether that's a textbook, a bunch of documents, thousands of lecture slides, etc.

ONLY THEN you flesh out that framework with the facts from your material.

So here's what I did:

I took some material and uploaded it to Claude AI.

Used a specific prompt to extract the frameworks. (I'll share the exact prompt below.)

The result: Even though I don't know much about the medical field, the frameworks made everything SO much easier to understand.

Now I can approach these hundreds of pages without feeling overwhelmed — because now I just went from "trying to remember everything" to "extracting what I need to flesh out my frameworks".

Applying Bloom's taxonomy, creating frameworks is actually at the HIGHER levels of learning — which naturally includes applying your frameworks to your material.

​[Here's the link if you want to see the actual result]​

Now, instead of drowning in details, you're working with clear structures that organize everything for you.

BEFORE, your recall path may look like this...

Prompt + Context → Item (x10000)

This is impossible.

NOW, your recall path looks like this...

Prompt + Context → Framework + Associations → Item

Try this approach with your next study session. Find the framework first, then add the details. Don't try to remember everything - build frameworks that do the remembering for you.

To smarter studying,
Al Khan

P.S. This completely changes how you approach massive amounts of study material. :)