Book Review: "The Only Study-Guide You'll Ever Need" - Jade Bowler

Personal Rating: 4.6/5

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Ahnaf Anjish | October 21, 2021

Hey guys! Welcome to the blog post. Today, I want to review a book that I read recently, "The Only Study-Guide You'll Ever Need". It was the maiden book written by a famous StudyTuber, Jade Bowler. The book became an instant bestseller, and loved by most of the students. As she passed her highschool recently, it is believed that most of us can relate to her ideas. So, without further ado, let's dive in!

The first thing that I noticed that she referred to various research papers whenever necessary, but the book is not a summary of those papers at all. She used her own, informal tone - which is known well enough to her regular viewers. The book was full of both fun and grim experiences, and her storytelling is amazing. The book is of 13 chapters, and all of them are organized and correlate to each other very well. She described various methods and hacks in details, and she also gave her own thoughts on "Night-Before-Exam Preparation". The best part of the book is that she thought of her readers as humans, not some productive 24/7 working robots. The way she included the Mental Health Portion is very basic, yet valuable enough. She also included a note from various famous StudyTubers after each and every chapter- which has provided a great insight on those topics.

Even though the book is great, I still found some drawbacks. For me, I didn't like the style of her "Revision Timetable System". I found it quite rigid personally. Instead, I prefer Ali Abdaal's Retrospective Revision Timetable a lot. It's much more superior and dynamic than what she mentioned in her book.

Overall, I think that the book is quite a good read, and probably it's truly the only Study-Guide you'll need - if you are comfortable with her rigid system of daily routine.

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