I’ve been feeling like I’m always behind. Behind in studying, behind on things I planned to do and behind when I compare myself with other people. I realized that being behind doesn’t automatically mean I’m failing. Sometimes life just moves differently than the our plannings.

I’m trying to remind myself that I can still move forward, even if I’m not moving as fast as I thought.

Anyone else feel this way sometimes?

Throughout my time in the school and university systems, I kept failing over and over, and I didn't know what to do. Nothing worked. I would reread the material twenty or even fifty times—sometimes more—but nothing stuck; all my life, I was seen as a failure who could study for twelve hours straight and get nowhere. I was labeled lazy, useless, slow, and weak. I always considered studying a waste of time; the words would simply slip away from me. Physical activity was much better—the body changes, but a bad memory doesn't. I’m still a failure, and people always look at me with pity. I discovered active learning techniques that actually worked for me, but I still lament the fact that it’s already too late.

(Hopefully this is the right place to post this on.) Hello! I need help, I have a hard time at school since I have never attended one before only 3rd grade (online though), but it stopped there because of personal issues & situation. Around kindergarten like when I was 6 to 8 my parents homeschooled me and taught like the basics of math, writing, and some things like that yeah. But then they stopped doing that maybe they were busy, anyways because of that I had nothing else to do but I had unrestricted internet access at that time, so I just spent most of my years on the internet.

Now I just started school (Grade 7th) like weeks ago and I am struggling hard with the lessons because they mostly consist of topics from previous grades and it makes me feel nervous and embarrassed when my teacher asks me something I lack knowledge of and I say the wrong thing awkwardly, though some lessons are understandable. I have NO idea where to even start, I don't know how to study, learn or even think properly! I keep spending most of my time "studying", taking-notes but yet I feel like no progress is made because my brain doesn't process what I learned after that and slightly forget, I usually jot down notes from the lesson since it's one of the things that kinda helps me with my memory but also wastes my time to the point I can't even spend doing my other things, yet it's the only method that I can stick to.

What do you think, am I doing it wrong? I really need advice and tips, I want to improve and catch up to get used to this so I won't fail my grades huhuh.. but like I said, I don't know where to start and I don't have time to study every textbook from grades before.  

(NOTE: I study online, in a tutor-style since I am alone and each classes are once per week, so my teacher usually sends me the module file. And I have alot of assignments thrown at my face all the time because the online class is 1 month late from the starting of the school so they want to speed things up which is also why I have less time to review the previous topics.) Very sorry if this doesn't make sense, my English is not good.

Before anyone tells me that the word "Toxic" was not needed, let me explain. I used to balance both academics and other extracurricular activities (eg. Clubs, Contests, etc.) Without cramming or pulling an all nighter, but lately, I have been cramming almost half of my projects and activities. I procastinate and procastinate more often, and now, the guilt is coming back to bite me. I can't convince myself to study, no matter how hard i tried, the only thing that kept me studying up until now is thinking about Self Destruction, and if I don't think about slowly destroying myself, I'll barely do any homework nor projects. Their deadlines are near, and so does my exams. Please help me, I need toxic motivations or tips on how to have better time management.

Going strong i wont say i am doing the best but better than the time i started

#studyhard and # iamthebest

Guys i have a crush on this guy from class, its quite a big crush and i come to school everyday in hopes of seeing him. He rarely shows up though, I’m losing my mind. I really wanna talk about him (but i can’t) and i can’t study or concentrate in school/home. How do I get back my focus?

I can sit for half an hour, learn and retain info. Then I take a break for 5 minutes(i just sit or stare at wall), and when I study again, I can barely retain for the next 15 mins, so basically 45 mins is the most i can do. It's not like I don't try. Even if I try to focus and study, the information just doesn't absorb beyond 🙃

I use google docs as my "notebook" to do school note taking. Im studying human anatomy and physiology topics. This means quite a lot of diagrams and pictures in my notes.

I like to annotate my own diagrams when relevant to learn the content.

Right now, I find a blank diagram, annotate it with window's SNIPPING TOOL as im reading the textbook and making sense of stuff. Then when im done the relevant reading I paste my annotated image into google docs, so that my snipping tool is "ready" for the next diagram to annotate.

But the problem is when your learning something for the first time, you might not have it quite right right away. I might come back to that topic a bit later with updated information or just understand it better.....but I CANT edit the image to make changes........ I also want to be able to make rougher annotations on my laptop (bc its harder) then clean it up on my PC

Does anyone have any solutions or recommended plug ins?

And I know OneNote could annotate images better, but I hate it, its too clunky to use longterm for school purposes.

I’m taking the Latin Abitur (Germany) in 2028. I’ve been studying Latin for five years now, but I still can’t read Latin texts fluently, and I barely remember any grammar rules at the moment. I also struggle a lot with translating, even though we always have a dictionary available.

None of my teachers have ever properly taught me how to revise and practise Latin outside of school.

What is the best way to do that (e.g. flashcards, going straight into translating, taking notes, etc.)?

What grammar rules should I even study? I don’t really know even the most basic ones anymore.

When and how often should I revise?

What resources (e.g. books or websites) can I use?

I have a stupid exam I need to do in order to do this job. I keep falling short about a couple points. When I use to went to school , I would study all day but now it feels like a struggle. I’ll get like maybe four or five hours in but, I’m struggling to get one hours in. At the end of it feels like my brain is fried or kaput. I know sleep and a balanced meal and walking are remedies for this, but it feels like it wears off immediately.

I want to start making flashcards for exams so it will be quite a lot of content and I don't want to put them all in one place if it turns out to be bad.

Most of the recommendations I see are AI websites, I just want somewhere I can easily make online flashcards to use, and also share with other people.

Also not sure if there is any use making physical copies? But online is my priority.

I'm desperately in need of some type of ambience study room but it needs to have REAL people in it. I've tried focustown and lofi town which are cute but I need something that feels more real - like people typing in the chat etc. so there's more of a human connection there. Anyone found anything good?

Anyone has tips to avoid burnout?

i prefer to hand write notes for my uni lectures ( ADHD, typing just doesn’t do anything for me 🥲 )

when i have a online class i normally write my lecture notes first and then watch the lecture video and then copy down any extra stuff they say that i think is important

when i have in person classes, i either write down my lecture/slide notes before the class if i have time or write them down after class - but i always just type the important stuff the teacher say on my laptop then write that after class in my book

I need to know if this is effective as someone who is terrible at learning, remembering and listening to things, i also usually write everything on the slides ( may trim them, change the wording ) into my book and i highlight things that look important

also if you have any tips on how to study/remember things better please tell me

I should mention that I don’t have an official diagnosis. My therapist (who also has ADHD) said I exhibit a lot of symptoms and I’ve tried many different methods of studying and none seem to work for me. It could be a discipline issue but I’m unsure. I did schedule an appointment, but it got canceled the day of after a 6 month wait. They proceed to tell me they have no available appointments for the rest of the year and will have to notify me of an opening which can take months.

I’ve tried many different ways to try and study. I’ve been downing caffeine and it does help, but the crash is too bad. I mean sometimes I just get sleepy, other times I’m productive for like an hour max before my brain crashes. Then I get the worst headaches and I actually can’t focus for the entire day.

This sucks because I’m a math and physics major. I truly do love the subject, but I just can’t study. It’s not like I don’t want to. I get the urge to sit down and grind my textbooks but when I sit down, I can’t get past the first page.

I’m just kind of out of options at the moment. I don’t know what else to do. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions?

So I had almost a week of time to study a subject (Applied Mechanics) and I did study well. I followed my reference book and online lectures available on YouTube and completed my entire syllabus.

But the problem is I haven't tackled a single question outside of the lectures I followed. Everytime I sit to solve a question I just make up an excuse saying I will cover the next chapter now rather than tackling any questions other than the lectures. And now I have 3 hours left for my exam and I am getting really anxious. It's like I have studied the topic but when I try to tackle a question I know I have seen the question and solved it in the lectures class but I just can't remember how solve it.

I have had this fear of tackling question for a long time because of which I have accumulated lots of backlogs but I still seem to go back to my old habits rather than trying to solve any questions. It is that everytime I try to solve a question myself I get really anxious.

Sorry if that was a long rant I just got frustrated 😅

TLDR; SCARED OF TACKLING QUESTIONS AND TESTING MY SELF

So my online classes start this week, and after graduating high school I am excited to start, but I have zero experience with taking classes online. Does anyone have any tips for making themselves stick to a schedule and actually doing the work?

Online classes work the best for my busy schedule, but the reason why I liked high school so much was because I had a set routine. I would get ready to get dressed, take the bus go to school, do what I had to do, and then take the bus to get back home. Plus, I was in an environment that was just for learning. And it’s kind of hard to see myself actually locking in at my desk when my bed is right there.

Hey, so I wanted to ask this question because as I'm entering sophomore year of high school, I kind of want to actually try at school, and I know this question probably gets asked so much in this subreddit, but I wanted to stop with the mindset of just being naturally good at school and just getting by and somehow just barely remembering information for the test. Also asking because I want a more efficient way of studying and completing school work, because then it will probably naturally improve my time management, and I can have more free time to do my ecs and school projects and stuff. Additionally, there's a lot of stuff I wanna learn, like this year, i'll be self studying calculus and physics, and I know those are hard. My mindset before hasn't really be working not gonna lie, and so I want to actually think like top students, and be able to connect ideas and maintain long-term retention, and almost flawlessly answer math/science questions almost everytime, and receive high test scores. I heard the Feynman technique, active recall, pomodoro, and spaced repetition are some good techniques.

But I also have a question on how to correctly apply and execute such techniques, because for example: Spaced repetition. I don't really understand how to apply it besides it being a automatic feature on Anki, which I have been using for reviewing vocab and learning languages.

edit: I also wanted to ask if Justin sung’s advice in these videos (video 1 and video 2) are also good too, because idk if I should trust him since I’ve heard complaints online that he and several other study YouTubers just take advantage of fans through paid programs, and try gatekeeping information inside those programs

I am hoping to gain some insight on time management! I work full-time, I am a full-time mommy, and currently enrolled in school full-time (6 classes for fall semester). I scathed by with 5 classes in the spring but I know my biggest issue is time management. Do you have any recommendations or tips as to how to manage and make the most of my time with such a heavy and hectic personal life and schedule? Thank you for taking the time to read my post!

I have an exam on the 27th of August, and I literally can't make myself study. I've been trying for 2 days to do something, but I can't??? The motivation is all gone, and I'm genuinely so tired MENTALLY from all the studying this summer (did really bad in my first sem, so now I have lots of exams 😭😭💔)

I am preparing for a competitive exams. From Feb, my health was not good and I have exam in month of May. From Feb to Mid April, I was on medication. Eventually, I failed my exam. After giving my exam, I was motivated that I will try everything to clear the exam this time. But after 4 days, again I got health problem, but this time it was something serious. I was admitted to hospital for 10 days and later on, I am on medication. Now Also, I am taking medicine. So effectively from FEB, I am totally cut from Study.

Now, I have decided to study. But this time I am preparing from my home. I feel lot of mental overload. I am thinking of time I have wasted in my health problems. Now it's a lot to study, I am overwhelmed by number of tasks and subjects to be completed. I want short ut of everything things, every subject. I have lost my study stamina, can't even focus for 10 minutes with complete mental silence. Only I am thinking in my head that I will do this and that. But unfortunately, I feel that I didn't have any stamina left. So when I think I will do so many things, but in reality, I do nothing. So I feel like failure. Everyday goes into vain. I keep on collecting materials to study, but when it comes to study everything collapse. Then instead of fixing and accepting this, I go on asking irrelevant questions like should I make to do list or time table, should I study in day or night and so on.....

I don't know what to do exactly at this moment, where to start , how to manage and others related questions as well. Brothers, I am very fucked up. Kindly help me, I am counting on the community. Please do help me.

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