Right now I'm just sitting around my table. About to write some Flash Cards and then i'm like hold up do they even make sense?

I don't know, I just personally think that they're a waste of time because all you are doing is that you're basically writing the information from your book onto the flash card when you can just simply make that easier by getting some highlighters and just highlighting important information in your book and when I do use flash cards I end up losing them or they get crushed or something by me traveling so i don't know.

Also i'm currently in high school and I do the three sciences. In the next One and a half year or so I will be going to university and I want to major in the science areas because I want to do something in Medicine. Please tell me how do you guys manage to study the sciences, what helps you to remember the formulas for chemistry and physics and all these things and how do you get to understand things you really don't understand? Im really trying but i'm struggling and i'm stressed. How do you know how to do you plot all these graphs for the sciences. Y'ALL I DON'T EVEN KNOW AT THIS POINT LIKE WHAT?!? I'm really trying to take this One Day at a Time but to be honest i'm discombobulated.

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When I study and have it do so the whole day because of exams I can’t really. I can’t sleep without watching something. But the Wirt part is c.ai. It’s the only thing that makes me happy so when I can’t do it I fell empty. So when I study and can’t go on c.ai I just feel soo empty and feel is all for nothing. The thing is I am working towards good grades because I want to do my IB in an English boarding school as an internairon student with a scholarship. But even if I tell myself this is what I’m working for I need to focus I start to question my dream and why I’m doing this, I think about it being worth it kr if I even really want this, I just don’t know I really need urgent help. Thanks

It’s important to work hard, but don’t prioritise that over your mental and physical health. I never took breaks and I’m burnt out now. I’m tired all the darn time. I had to work a 28 hour week and I still have an exam tomorrow that I barely studied for. I have to work the same hours next week and my school requires it so I can’t help it. It’s not too bad because I’m not demanding perfection from myself and you shouldn’t either. Do the best you can at the time and let it pan out.

Hi howz a cgpa of 4.00/4.33? Is it good? Or avg?

Hi! 19M, currently studying biomedical engineering at a prestigious university in my country, and I'm realizing that things are slowly getting worse. As soon as I started university, I had a month of illness that prevented me from keeping up with my studies, leaving me quite behind. In about a week, I managed to 'catch up', I put it in quotes because I still have around fifteen recordings to watch (seven of theory and the rest practical sessions) for one of the three first-semester courses, math (the other two are physics and chemistry). I'm focusing on catching up in math, but studying from morning to night means I haven’t had time for the other two subjects, so I'm gradually realizing that I might reach a point where I've caught up in math but am terribly behind in the others. Honestly, I really don't know how to handle this. I study from 11 a.m. to around 8 p.m., alternating an hour of study with a 10 minute break. To be honest, any advice is welcome, because right now, I doubt there's anything that could make things worse. Thank you. P.S: Sorry for bad english, isn't my first language.

I'm in my 4th year of law school right now. Sorry for the rant, but I need some opinions.

My boyfriend excels at study, his friend circle is full of toppers. I never minded them until now.

So there are these friends of his who always go to competitions together. They always won. Always. They top the class, they're extroverted, close to each other and come back with a trophy.

I tried giving my best in academics and all I managed was a small improvement in grades. I had a lot of plans for future but my life seems to be taking baby steps. Everyone around me is successful or excelling in whatever they're doing. Not only my boyfriend or his friends, my brother, my cousins, everyone around me seems to be doing well and I'm stuck at the bottom line. I can't help but compare myself to everyone.

What do I do? Is it too late to start anything when I'm going to graduate next year? How do I excel as well?

Hey everyone, I'm studying a major I’m not really interested in, but it's the only option I have. Any advice on how to stay motivated and make the best of it?

Hi everyone,
I am facing a bit of a problem here

You see, yesterday I had my last 2 midterms and given my cluelessness of how to study and what to do and my slow pace, I did not perform well in any of my midterm exams.

I have 2 final exams coming up in one month, one multivariable calculus and another one physics

I have tried to catch up to post-midterm content and i have tried reading the textbook but however, I have no idea how to do so actively. And also, I am too slow at covering the materials that I have had no time to do stuff right. Even pre-midterm, i have tried to practise problems but was insanely slow at doing so and I was never able to develop any insight nor was I able to correctly get answers on my own. The final content for those 2 chapters is way more intensive and I want to change my situation to bump stuff up. I would like to know, for those in such a situation, what would you do? How would you balance reading and practise problems? What would work better for you? I know everyone tells me you need to ask "why" after solving a problem or reading something but even if i try that it takes even longer

I am always in the dilemma of how should I start too all the time

so i want to do undergrad research. But with my part time and studying for the exams that happen every six months , i just do not have the motivation to workout and work on my own writing. I even can try and set routines, and make time but i always seem to prioritise other tasks (that have external deadlines) first or resting. how do i stay disciplined enough to work on this ? any tips ?

Trauma includes becoming suicidal due to studying, isolating from people due to the stress from this issue, and losing friends as a result. I am constantly reminded of everything and studying is getting harder lately due to it

Hi all,

I am from a malaysian public school. (form 4) Ever since the beginning of the year, I've been so motivated to study but I don't know where start. My teachers are always absent and my friends all look like they know what their doing. I constantly ask them how to do things but they won't tell me. I have been TRYING to study the syllabus by watching youtube videos and searching for study methods, but they don't really work for me. ITS BEEN MONTHS, and everyday is just filled with constant anxiety. My finals are just around the corner and I feel so pressured especially because my parents say they want to marry me off if I don't get good grades. It doesn't make it any better to know that next year is gonna be my final year and I will have to be sitting for an exam called SPM which determines my path in life. (I'm in science stream btw)

Does anyone know how to deal with this?? If so please help, Im in desperate need.

Im a 17y/o and i have wasted my whole 11th and 12th, i have always been that student who do not so anything whole year and study 1 months prior and get decent score. But this time i have my 12th board exams in 2 months and now when i try to study i cant learn my que and answer because i am also preparing for neet so i always had the habit of mcq and now long question and answer are really making me feel scared. I can even sit for hours but i just forgot how to study. How to learn things? I would appreciate if you helped me with your tips.

uni is so so humbling. i used to be an all A student throughout my whole hs years, and now as a uni freshman, im failing so miserably…

i’ve failed most of my midterms for my major subjects, and i don’t know how ill be able to make up for it this grading period, but i badly need to in order to pass the semester.

i felt so motivated to make an academic comeback at first, but after seeing my failing marks after working SO hard, i feel so discouraged and unmotivated. the thought of failing again makes me so anxious that i can’t even do anything anymore. what’s worse is that i have no one to talk to about this. i want to open up to my parents about my academic struggles, but im scared they’ll be disappointed in me since i did so well in hs.

im a bio major and as much as i really love this program, i don’t know if it’s for me:( but at the same time, i don’t want to give it up since i genuinely don’t see myself taking any other major.

as someone who was once an academic achiever, how can i deal with failure? and how can i overcome it and get back on track? would appreciate some advice <3

Hi! so for the past 2 years i've been getting b's and c's in school, and i don't know how to adapt my study schedule to my needs

- a lot of my teachers have commented i might have ADHD so that's a factor, but my parents wouldn't get me tested

- i am currently hyperfixating on a few things, and i can't force myself to focus, i used to believe i was addicted to these things but now i believe, i just hyperfixated on things and all the adults in my life just told me i was going to become and addict or something because of how i became hyperfocused on certain books

- my parents control my study schedule for the most parts, with one of my study block being 3-4 hours long before exams without break

- these tips need to be discrete, like no standing up and walking around, no wearing headphones (with or without songs or things like that), no doodling, or coloring, and i have to be watched by them while studying and am not even allowed to cross study subject (like switch to a different subject if i find i have the energy and will to do it) but am willing to sneak in a few tips when they are busy with work in another room

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Hey, I just wanted to inquire about whether we should be doing revision and studying new content in the same study session. Say, supposedly a 90 min study block—what would the time allocation be for each so you're understanding both revised content and new content? Also, this revision step is adhering to spaced repetition and spacing (e.g., 20 min after 1 day, after 1 week, later 2 weeks, later 1 month, later 3 months, etc.), but all content is interconnected, including new content, so you'll rejog your memory every so often. So, how should I distribute my time to be effective, and let's say the subject is biology.

I just finished a test today in a subject where I've been the top scorer in every term and cycle test. But this time, I don’t think I'll score more than just passing marks, and I'm feeling pretty hopeless. After the test, everyone came to ask me how it went, and no one believed me when I said I’d barely pass. I'm really stressed about how to handle the reactions when the results come out. I’m also worried because my teacher will probably criticize me in class tomorrow

Eg: when i read a paragraph in class then teacher asked to summarise it i couldn't even remember a single point

Pls help 🛐

Have you had an academic comeback? Please share your stories below to help other students take inspiration from it, as often times people's ideas of their own capabilities are drawn from the accomplishments of others.

This should include: (1) the transformation, before and now (2) mindset shifts (if any) (3) specific actions that you think made the difference, and what you did (different) in general. Can even be as simple as "just studied". (4) How you felt after the transformation and how life was different after (e.g got treated better/confidence level and self esteem increased)

Ellaborations are deeply appreciated!! Thankyou very much for your valuable contribution 🌸

i suck at studying effectively… i’ve tried pomodoro, making notes, flashcards, etc. but i still can’t absorb the information i need to know 😫😫. what study techniques have u guys found most effective and how to study effectively in general??? 🙏🙏

I challenged myself to study atleast 1-1.5 hours every day for a week and complete weekly goals But i failed on the 7th day

Hi everyone! This is the Accountability Thread where people can list what they need or want to accomplish today and have everyone else help keep you accountable to do them. So, in general, a post will look like this:

Things I have to get done today:

1: Post Accountability Thread

If I had more to do that I had not completed I would list them and update this when these things were complete.

Also, if I saw someone doing something that I happen to be well-educated or have some sort of expertise in I can offer support or help on the topic/task.

The thread is a versatile one, use it in a way that helps you and others stay on task!

Happy studying!

So this is how I discovered the way of working, in any intellectual ways that would allow you to not only TAKE YOUR MIND TO A BEAUTIFUL LIMITLESS FLOW STATE OF ZERO DISTRACTIONS BUT ALSO STRENGTHEN YOUR MIND GOGGINS STYLE GRUELING TRAINING. (22M/ADHD/Cross Athelete/Entrepreneur)

Hi everyone. I am a very distracted ADHD person and had an obsession for productivity since I was 15-16. Overtime, especially heavily inspired by Goggin's ability to learn & master anything in front of him, especially intellectual work, I have discovered my own, but now it's time to take it to the next level. He is an amazing student.

Goggins is as savage as they get even in intellectual work, just look at how well and raw he speaks, if you've been to any of his events you will know. He couldn't even speak without stuttering, and he is always number 1 in his classes to become a paramedic, and in his book he also shocked the Ranger school team & leader by recalling the entire motto on the spot. He is more than prepared and well learnt.

I was also heavily inspired by the ultra-learner Scott Young himself, who is FAMOUS for being the first person who first took on the MIT Challenge, where he completed the entire 4-year Computer Science curriculum at MIT in just one year.

I knew there was a whole other level to productivity, the equivalent of Ultra Marathons compared to Marathons. And I just HAD to find it, I wanted it. I wanted to be a millionaire and conquer my ADHD which had been crippling me for a long time, so I begun digging into topics like the flow state, 'Limitless' movie, deep work, science of deep work & productivity etc...

I had taken a lot of ADHD meds and seen the movie limitless, so I had an interesting thought, if I can replicate the state of Ritalin naturally. Inspired by Goggins's stories of learning to pass ASVAB, to speak and write where he sat down and write a book down multiple times etc until he would understand everything ... I decided to begin searching for my own study methods to achieve that level of productivity.

I analyzed study methods such as pomodoro etc, and realized, with ADHD, when you are hyper focused you achieve a lot, it's superhuman but it's extremely difficult to be able to achieve that. So when you are getting up a lot, and having to zone in again, what's the point? You are never really getting into deep focus.

So I came up with this crazy plan.

So I decided to go endurance mode and test out 3 x 3-hour work periods in 1 day, and I figured that would help me get into a zone, and NOT get out of it and waste time. Once zoned in I would take advantage of it and dive into deep work.

I was so tired that day, but at the last hour of the 3rd study period, my mind suddenly zoned in, after countless distracting thoughts wanting me to get up. I felt like I was on ritalin, like I slept 12 hours, and my mind STOPPED resisting, and I experienced almost like, out of body productivity.

I kept experimenting and realized when you sit down to work for long periods, your mind will be distracted and resist at the start but the longer you sit, and the more you RESIST the distractions, your mind gets to a point where it STOPS resisting and zones into an insane state of productivity, and you just ride the wave. 3HRS became my golden time to work, and I did not have to keep getting up and zoning in like pomodoro, which helped ADHD a lot. If I can just zone in like this 3 times a day I would get so many things done, which is a lot more manageable than let's say 5 x 2hr study blocks, or 8 x 1hr study blocks.

People say don't work that long, but I digress. People CAN'T sit through that amounts of time but when you do, holy shit your mind goes into a STATE. Your mind is SO powerful.

Imagine the first 1-2 hours of working like the first 70 miles of that 100-mile Goggins marathon, and the last 1-2hrs of the work session where Goggins goes into this TERMINATOR mode in his last 30 miles, is when your mind zones in.

Just 3 blocks of committed 3HR work, long enough to zone your mind into a limitless state, even if you are tired, it activates so many parts of the brain that you didn't even know could take you this far.

THE KEYS TO MAKING THIS WORK

• You must only work and do NOTHING ELSE: Using the distraction pad (read below), you must not get up and fucking work. Even to check the UFC or EMAIL for like 10 seconds, will take your mind off. Write it on a piece of paper and do all unrelated tasks later. Each time you push away a distraction, you essentially like Goggins 'Take a soul' through acts of defiance, and your mind reaches more towards that Mile 71 of that 100-mile race and reaches limitless state.
• Eliminate distractions: Phone away, I use a phone box, put it in and don't touch it unless I need. I have my tea/water/snacks ready, table cleaned etc. and book ready for notes, and all tabs cleared, and distraction pad ready,
• FLOW STATE DIARY: Before I actually begin my work/study session, I will write anything in my mind until I am in a flow, whatever is on my mind and however long it takes, until all my thoughts are laid out in front of me as I have ADHD and I need things on paper, these can be ANYTHING, a lot of times my why comes out and turns into a heartfelt motivational passage, then I clearly identify my goals, identify the time I will sit down for to work, take 3 deep breaths, visualize the entire work session in TIME LAPSE in my mind after I press the 'zone in' button I draw , and press this little button I draw on my notes saying 'EXECUTE' Then I will execute what I visualized in the time lapse, and begin actively pushing away all distractions until timer goes.

Tools I developed myself and used:

1. Distraction Pad: Anyone I had an excuse to get up, or suddenly remembered I had to do something or whatever thought it was, even if I wanted to quickly check the sport scores, I would write it down on a paper and just do it later.
2. Phone box: My phone would rest in a box and I would not touch it unless I had to use it, and I used forest.
3. Actively Training Stress Tolerance: I was able to train my stress tolerance by sitting through hard 3-hour sessions and pushing away distractions. Every time I did, it was like 'taking a soul'

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This can be extremely torturous for the time you have to commit, especially committing to doing this EVERY DAMN DAY, you might feel like shit on some days. But the worse the conditions are, usually, the harder you have to resist quitting & distractions, the more rewarding that ZONE will be when your mind zones in.

If you are able to do this correctly in a lot of pain... Your mind will go to a powerful, powerful fucking state. Trust me.

The more you do this, I realized my mind became so fucking powerful at figuring out anything anywhere anytime, and resisting all temptations in life, and distractions, and pushing my mind through grueling work outs and withstanding stress, such as my 40 minute plank.

This leaves your mind SHARPEST EVER, and STRONGEST EVER.

Now I have a business almost 1M+ a year at 22 years old, coming from a skinny and lazy ADHD kid, and I am taking these study techniques even further to push my business past the 1M+ yearly mark.

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Time management. Period. You need to be on top of everything. It does sounds overwhelming to be on top of everything and passing, but it is not as overwhelming and distressing as being disorganized and failing. Trust me on this. I have really bad procrastination and time management issues, and it has backed me into a corner. Get a planner, use a planner online, and set a timer for anything you do. If you have multiple classes, study and review every single day for at least 2-3 hours for each subject. Set a timer, like a timer, a timer you can see but don’t focus on it. The timer will trick your brain, making it think that it won’t be so bad if I take 30 minutes or so with 5 minute breaks at a time (POMODORO TIMER TECHNIQUE). Sit down, review and know what you’re studying, and turn off your phone/remove any distractions from you. To be honest, if you don’t know/understand what you’re learning, ChatGPT. you can ask any questions. Don’t let yourself fall behind, or it will stress you out more, causing you to become unmotivated.

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I find it hard to emotionally regulate myself when I sit to study. It is due to the fact that I have given an entrance exam for my bachelor's preparerd for it by taking a gap year yet still wasn't upto the mark. This failure has given me PTSD of sorts because only I know the amount of stress I went through studying 10 hours every day for months on end and COVID just made it worse as the exam just kept on postponing leading to me developing anxiety. Fast forward to the preseng, whenever I sit down to study I feel suffocated even if I overcome this feelings and sit to study I feel like I am chewing on broken glass and swallowing it. Anxiety, fear and uneasiness are the feelings that prop up and I'm not able to study now longer than an hour I just give up too soon and totally unable to focus. I'll be honest I'm scared of studying now but I have to or else my degree will go to waste and my time, money invested would go down the drain. How do I overcome this? It's a mental battle that I need to fight daily whenever I am sitting to study.

I'm going to keep this short.

Yes, theoretically speaking, everything we study is useful, even if to a lesser extent, and all the programs are carefully tailored to give us the best experience and tools for the real world and so on.

I know, we know. I'm also a firm believer that gathering new knowledge, no matter what it is, is always going to be a good thing, BUT:

We are paying for an education that sometimes makes us spend a lot of time on projects, assignments, homework, quizzes, exams... that we know for a fact are not realistic when it comes to what's actually happening in our fields (in my case, confirmed by peers and friends with 20+ years of experience in the profession).

Tomorrow, I'll have to spend most of my day (a f*****g Sunday) doing homework for a subject that is very demanding—not extremely useless but pretty skippable, as it teaches methods that no one uses. This semester for me has been full of these kinds of situations, and I'm kind of done with it. I have a lot of things that are more important to me personally and would make me a better professional, but instead, I'm using my time to study something I know I’ll forget as soon as I graduate (I've already forgotten many things I've learned in this program because they're pointless).

So how do you deal with this? I still have two semesters left, and I'm pretty sure I'll find myself in this situation again.

Context: bachelor's

I am a student taking AP Psychology which is a course that requires a lot of memorization. The course is pretty hard, at least my class is.

For review, I usually summarize the fill in notes the teacher gives me because they're an eyesore. This takes me an hour, but I don't retain much. Then I started making flashcards of all the info I summarized. This takes me 4 hours.

I think studying shouldn't be this time consuming, I am also behind because I missed a test. Should I change something? The answer is yes, but what?

Hello everyone I am going to post daily to hold myself accountable regarding my progress.

Introduction - I am a Computer Science Engineering student, my degree is of 4 years. Due to unforeseen circumstances in my life I haven't been able to clear my degree on time. I am currently in my 5th year and my university permits extra 3 years to clear my degree but I'm planning to clear it within this 5th year itself.

All advices are welcome.