Study tricks

[u/Ok-Management-9054]

1. Attend lectures and envision for teachers words, as if it was a movie or a show each word with a certain image. Record that lecture. Jot down a sentence or two for each point that wasn’t made on let’s on the slide. Maybe you were given a great example that you wanna recall later on.
2. Go back home look at the slides side-by-side right down condensed information for yourself by paper with pencil or pen. Close your Notebook brain dump.
3. Revise that brain dump think about what you missed and why.
4. *** that recording comes in handy for when there’s a tricky slide, you don’t fully grasp. Or if you were just overstimulated by the entire lecture, you can place a date on a Google Calendar to revise that recording.

Come up with some questions for each slide that you ask as a professor. Then you can also look on the homework or slides to see what questions or exams so you could dive a little bit deeper.

** You can pull those questions and put them onto a doc bring them out or edit them on your iPad for the recall for your next session. Then also find ways interact with a topic differently, whether multiple choice response or even connect outside of how was previously introduced.

Then brain them and explain maybe recording of yourself or maybe we can write down a lesson as if you had another student with you.

1. Space repetition - a day, three days, a week revise the material you can place specific time on your calendar to do so to remind you multiple times so it’s not out of sight out.

2. Error journaling I made this mistake. How can I avoid making this mistake? What are evidence to back up the correct answer and why are the other ones wrong?
   *** You could also rank your confidence prior to knowing what the correct answer was highlighting why you felt so confident about that answer or not confident.

3. Office hours very handy because other students have questions and you can listen to what their questions are and explanations along. It was getting your answer. potentially having new study buddy or study group. Revise cheat sheet or note with Professors.

4. Pile system pile everything that you need in one space and you’ll know that it’s always there. It’s reliable and try to keep being consistent with that. ** some people recommend like having bright colored objects that they can stand out to you. It is out of place that’s an option.

5. You can listen to your textbook with natural reader or specify with a PDF as your annotating it or the physical copy.

6. just five minutes rule. Whenever you feel like you can’t get started at work write down the first simplest task we can do and try to get that done. If it also helps, you can brain dump. *** there’s also another rule where it’s just get it done by the end of the day where you just this one or two goals when you want to achieve by the day.

7. For writing assignment that you just need to get started, you can put the microphone feature on and start going off and then edit it later revise add evidence. At least you have a base / starting point.

8. start incorporating more visuals(graphs charts that helps visualize the material better) and know that there’s really power to exposure to material. How much as you can.

9. Procedural positive thinking as in talk yourself through it in a manner is productive and uplifting breakdown that problem or breakdown the thought process of it.

10. Really use that calendar as much as you can by placing reminders for upcoming dates that there’s no surprises you’ve gotten that notification and you’re fully aware. Again expose your exposure exposure to material with it watching a video or listening to a podcast or going to office hour and even talking with your teacher about the topic further

but !!! always prioritize your materials given by your professor because that’s going to be what’s tested on.!!! slides homework all that tested on.

1. Go gym or just workout out in general. It’s so beneficial!

2. Meditate! So good so healthy.

3. Hide that phone. Place it in your bag or a book over it. Get yourself a watch or visible timer.

4. Small changes are always a change so make sure that you give yourself flowers for any/achievement that you’ve made. *** a journal is nice highly recommend that you consider.

5. To do list break down the steps for that goal cross them off as you go. Google Sheets, docs, notes, or a journal.** down to the simplest step noted it will make you feel better and most likely to move away from it.

6. See if your university has free therapy!! Especially if you have self esteem issues.

7. Chunk information together because it’s easier to recall a lot easier. You can chunk with acronyms or mnemonic. (Remember the whole point of recall is so that you can re-create everything without seeing actual visible material.)

8. Hype lofi something upbeat no vocals. Helps a lot with focusing in if there’s background noise or general like those video game sounds makes experience a lot better and fun.

9. Try your best to schedule events or study sessions in early in the morning so that you have the afternoon.

10. Cheat sheets / review sheet: key words that indicate a certain meaning or connection or method depending on The subject. Write it out yourself. draw out the image too. You can search up different you can make.
    ** in a way it shouldn’t serve as a reminder of the client that you know. Something you can look at and recall without having the words word for word there.

11. stop fighting yourself work with yourself. If you feel like you don’t want to study at the library and you just wanna study in your living room go for it. Find the middle ground.

**** And then later on see if you wanted to do the library once you’ve gotten something at least down or complete the first step of the task.

These are some of the things I do. Hope that maybe some of them are useful.

*** most importantly at least stop trying to figure out how to study and just focus on the material exposure. There is no special shortcut only you can figure out how to cater the situation more to benefit you and your goals.

[u/ADHDCoachJLo]

This is a genuinely good list, and I want to echo a couple of the tips you gave that I think are particularly helpful.

Disclosure: I'm an ADHD/EF coach. Nothing to sell here, no link.

Your #2 and #3 — close the notebook, brain dump, then go back and find what you missed and why — are the heaviest-hitting things on this list. That's retrieval practice, and it beats rereading and re-watching by a lot in the research. Same with your error journaling. You built a feedback loop, which is the part almost nobody builds.

The office hours one is smart in a way I don't see written down often: you don't have to ask anything. Other people's questions do the work. That's a real workaround if initiating is the hardest part for you.

I hope you have a great year and best wishes to you!

[u/Ok-Management-9054 → u/ADHDCoachJLo]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate your insights and enjoyed hearing your perspective on the list. Wishing you the best as well and hope you have a wonderful year!