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tips for studying?
i have a big exam on thursday and i havent started yet. i have to study a LOT but i cant focus. any tips? i would really appreciate it
i have a big exam on thursday and i havent started yet. i have to study a LOT but i cant focus. any tips? i would really appreciate it
Try breaking a large task into smaller chunks or pieces. If you have to read a long book or many books, read a couple of chapters and take a break. If you have to cover a variety of topics, you can try to take breaks between topics. When you switch to a new topic try to find connections to the previous topic. This will help you remember the information. Try to make up examples that are real or relevant to your life, like if you are studying chemistry and are interested in food, think about chemistry in terms of food. Making up examples that apply to real life will help to. Try to take a short 5 minute break every 20-30 minutes, and then at the end of the hour take a 10-15 min break. I actually work at a university and have a lot of suggestions. Feel free to message me for more.
that is really helpful, i'll try it out. thanks a lot!!
Literally me, I have so many exams this week and idk why but I can’t seem to keep my head down!!
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i find brown noise really helpful and soothing
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thank you, i appreciate it :)
What type of exam is it?
the one you take at the end of high school. i'm from italy and it's called maturità, it's like the most important exam of your life and i'm treating it as if it was a piece of cake
@giuseppe I would say what helps me is structured time like I’ll write down my whole day and take periodic breaks so I don’t burn out. Focus first on what your struggling the most with and then figure out how long you can study for without losing focus. Take breaks and listening to music helps as well. Hope it goes well!
@Anonymous i guess i'll try that, thanks!
so I feel like I’m finally having an academic comeback after years of failing & I’m currently looking at pinterest for that motivation. there are videos that are helpful tools for college students like websites that read chapter books and summarize/create notes & it seems pretty cool. but I somehow deny using those tools bc it feels like I’m cheating. my mind is like, “no, you will study the TRADITIONAL way (which idek what it rlly is)” I don’t know why my brain is doing this to me. I feel like these apps could be beneficial to my learning. what’s ironic is that I literally googled all my assignment answers for one class at the last minute to get some grades in. this is a retake class but because I was so behind on everything, I just looked up the answers. so that really does count as cheating. like bruh 😭 I did it to save myself from a bad class grade. I’m definitely going to study the rest of this semester. I have officially began taking notes and actually doing schoolwork. someone help me!!! these videos look like great resources but my mind is telling me otherwise. another thing is that I’m still lost on what to major in. I keep changing career choices and my head’s gonna explode. there are so many things I wanna say but I don’t want the post to be long. I just want to get good grades and understand the material!!! someone help me >n<
I can't focus on anything but my thoughts. I'm so inside my head, and my mom always tells me to focus on my body and my surroundings, but I can't, or maybe I just don't know how. I try to, but it doesn't help. The thoughts are still there :(
For a while now, I've been having trouble concentrating... especially when studying... so I'd play the sound of rain or a forest or something similar to distract myself, and when I'd finish and turn it off... a pile of thoughts would come back to me as if they'd piled up on me!!! Anxiety, rituals... what should I do?
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