How the program is structured
The iCanStudy academic program takes the immense complexity of learning science and packages it into a step-by-step guide.
We want you to focus on learning and applying what we teach you, not wasting time wondering what you need to learn next.
Your first week
1. Complete your first lessons
You’ll learn about the program, what to expect, how it’s structured, and how to start thinking about a learning system in the first place.
Our lessons include:
Videos and text explanations
Instructions and activities for new techniques
Examples and detailed walkthroughs
Quizzes and checkpoints
Downloadable resources
2. Take your diagnostic assessment
We wish we had this when we were at your stage… Take our diagnostic assessment to identify your learning habits across 5 evidence-based dimensions. You’ll learn more in 30 minutes about how to improve and what’s holding you back than you normally would in 3 years.
(Trust us, we did it the long way 👀).
3. Complete your Catalyst course (and challenges)
After your diagnostic, we’ll build a personalised starter course for you. Complete the challenges we recommend to make the biggest difference to your learning system in the shortest time.
4. Take action
Completing lessons doesn’t make you a better learner. Learning to learn is about taking in the theory, understanding the tasks, challenges, and techniques, and applying them. Practise and apply what you gain from the program to your real-life learning.
By the end of your first week, you should:
Have a clear understanding of your learning habits
Understand what you can optimise and how
Have started optimising low-hanging, high-yield areas of your learning system
The weeks following
After your initial set of lessons, you'll move through the two phases of our program, described below.
High-Yield Phase (~1 to 2 months)
A hand-picked selection of high-yield techniques that help you build an effective learning system ASAP. The techniques here cover notetaking, in-class techniques, exam preparation, revision, scheduling, time management, procrastination, prioritisation, and more.
By the end of this phase, you should:
Have an effective and efficient learning system that immediately improves your memory, efficiency, and knowledge application
A strong, confident foundation of learning that takes most people years to develop
Growth Phase (~3 to 8 months)
After you've developed a strong learning system, we can begin a more intensive (but slower) cognitive retraining process to upgrade your natural information processing habits. This phase produces huge long-term transformations. However, due to the nature of cognitive retraining and habit unlearning/relearning, progress happens over months.
How you can expect to improve
As you learn new techniques, you will upgrade your learning methods gradually, step by step.
The most important thing about creating long-lasting improvement is that you do not change too many things too quickly.
We start with your current methods, identify the one or two things that are the highest impact to optimise, and work on that before moving on to the next one or two things.
As you progress through the program, your learning system will gradually become more efficient and complete, with each stage focusing on what is the highest yield to invest your time into improving first.
How we support you
Learning to learn isn't easy, but we're here to make it easier and faster for you than it was for us.
Throughout your journey, you'll receive:
Monthly live interactive Q&A and workshops by Dr. Justin Sung
Opportunity for personalised feedback and guidance by our expert coaching team.
Peer feedback from experienced senior learners through the community server
Access to all of our detailed Q&A and technique support articles to answer your most common questions about learning efficiently.
You may also be interested in our article on how much time you need to invest in the program.