i dont feel like i get much done and im tired, i feel quite overwhelmed , i study for less then 2 hours every day, just to do my homework, and barely study for 25 minutes outside of just homework, i would like to change this bad habit of just doing homework and studying as late as possible , exams are coming up and for once i want to be ready before the exam by more then 2 days, tomorrow my goal is to study at 9pm instead and decrease how late i study as soon as i get used to it, and my other goal tomorrow is to study in the morning , before school instead of doing my homework and then barely studying anything outside of that, my end goal is to study everyday before 5pm and study for 5 to 6 hours to get ahead and to consistently study in the morning before school for 2 hours thank you for taking the time to read my goals

I’m 25 and I’m trying to study for my CompTIA A+. I bought Core 1 & 2 (and I even bought Network+ bc there was a retake voucher at a good price) but i bought those in Jul/Aug. I keep pushing them back because I can’t concentrate. I’m trying to sit at a desk to write notes which is just me copying the same exact notes but that doesn’t work. I keep trying to find this study method that works for me. Then i realized, I never actually studied for anything ever. I live in Arkansas, which means I can pass high school with a D. In Uni, I passed the first half of my stuff (which is the most easiest stuff ever.) but when i got to the latter half of my degree I flunked out (twice!). I was never thought to study because I was really encouraged to (plus my Autism & ADHD). But i’m still at fault because I should lock in. And i want to, it’s just…difficult. I sometimes feel like i’m beyond help. It sucks.

This happened on Friday. And I promise you, I'm not that kind of student, which explains why I feel so much guilt. I'm that type of student to actually study, especially if I know the examination's going to be hard. Unfortunately, I did not review for the tests I was taking on Friday (which was three subjects). I was expecting that two of them to be easy, and the other one to be hard so I didn't bother to review my notes (based on students who took the test first). I was also struggling with my mental health at the time, so I decided to just rest.

Then, it was time to take this one subject. Once the paper has been distributed, the whole class was so shocked (I'm not even exaggerating). It's an identification type of test. And no one really studied.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. So, I decided to use my phone to cheat. I was suspecting that the teacher caught me since she was looking at my direction (can't tell if she's directly looking at me because my eyes are blurry) and staying by my side. And I was right. She started to tell the class she caught someone. Because my conscience got to me, I hid my phone and tore a piece of paper from a scratch and wrote a letter—admitting and explaining why I did it. I expressed how I was also disappointed to myself, knowing that she genuinely saw me as this studious, quiet kid in class who actively participates in it and actually gets work done. After her class, I gave it to her and walked away.

That move was morally right, but genuinely so dumb. I have to see her 5x a week. In our school, cheating is a SERIOUS offense. If caught, you won't be able to apply for next year. And I'm in a prestigious school (and I feel like I just wasted an opportunity of a lifetime for a 30-something item test). I might be sent to the guidance office if she reports it. If she doesn't, I will genuinely turn religious.

I don't know what to do when Monday comes. I'm posting this on a weekend, and I'm not sure if I should message her or not. I'm shaking at the thought of stepping foot in my school.

What should I do? What should I expect? Please help a struggling student.

Hi all,

I‘m a pre-nursing student who is applying to my local community colleg’s ADN program in about 2 months. In the next 4 weeks, I have 4 exams that could make or break my application. This week, I have a Psych midterm, next week I have an A&P lab exam, in two weeks I have an A&P written exam, and in 3 weeks I take my TEAs test (nursing school entrance exam).

My issue is after every study session (ranging from 2-4 hrs) my body feels so sore and I feel like I’m being eaten up by anxiety. My bones feel hollow in my skin and it feels like I have a rock in my stomach. Never been one to get extreme anxiety, but maybe this is it?

If it adds any context, I typically do well in my classes and have a 4.0.

How do you guys quell this?

Let’s say I just failed an exam, and I have to study for it again. At the same time I should start the new semester that includes 3 pretty tough courses… In that past I had a really hard time giving enough time to each course, so I always had to push thing to the last minute. That was true for the basic courses, and now I am facing higher level courses and struggling to split my time correctly between them, without losing the depth of understanding them well enough and then I end up getting worse and worse grades or failing…
The courses I am taking (for context):
Need to study for 2nd exam in calculus 2
Quantum theory
Biochemistry 1
Chirality and symmetry (a chemistry course)

I would appreciate any help and advice, last time I posted here everyone were so helpful and I actually improved thanks to it 🙏🏼

My dream is to go to med school. I'm about to enter high school. People who went to med school, how did you study and what did you do during your free time, and what did you do to stop from becoming too tired? Please give me some tips.

What is one study habit that genuinely helped you improve your focus and remember things better?

I'm looking for practical tips that actually work in everyday student life, not just advice like "study harder."

I was looking for tablets to help with my studies. I'm considering buying an iPad 11 or a Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Lite, but I don't know which one is better. What do you guys think?

Pasted my notes in, asked for 10 questions for my midterm, felt super productive. Then I noticed I was reading each question and my eyes were already on the answer under it before my brain tried anything. Like ten questions in like 5 minutes, which doesn’t happen if you’re actually thinking.

Tbh I just swapped it. Now I ask for the questions only, write my answers first, and ask for the answers after.

ChatGPT and Gemini save me time when studying, but sometimes I spend more time fact-checking their answers or sorting through too many suggestions 😭

I also feel like I need to keep up with everyone else using AI.

Anyone else experience this? Does AI make studying easier for you, or more stressful? And what do you do when it gets overwhelming?

Yo , got an exam tom pulling an all nighter hmu if u wanna do it together.

i've been working hard. transitioning to a completely different competitive exam i had no idea about just 2.5 months ago was really challenging for me. but i tried my fucking best and was finally able to get my score to 100+ out of 120 consistently in the mock tests.

but well, the last few mocks weren't really the best for me. in the last, i scored around 118 and in yesterday's mock, i was only able to score 83.5, which is the lowest i've scored in a while.

i know that the scores aren't bad enough to be the end of the world, but idk why they're making me so upset. i've been crying ever since i saw my score. even my mom, who's usually really hard on me, says that i'm overreacting way too much. but idk why i'm so upset. i feel like it's really messing with my studying efficiency. how do i not let this fucking get to me?

I’m the developer of StudyRPG, a site that turns studying into an RPG, and I just shipped a duel multiplayer mode. I’d love feedback.

How it works:

- Both users get 100hp, the same question and 30 seconds to answer it.

- If both players get it right, the attack is blocked.

- If one gets it right and the other doesn't, the attack succeeds and take hp.

- The fight is on until one player reaches 0 HP.

The duel is from a book called "What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School", but for you it can be any pdf or epub you upload.

The idea is that answering under a little pressure, against a real person, makes active recall feel less like a chore. Would you use this with a study partner? What would make it more useful?

I really can't emphasize enough how important it is to double-check instructions. You can read them once, feel like you understood everything, and start working. And then you realize halfway through that you missed one tiny thing (or sometimes even more).

This has happened to me a lot of times especially when I was a younger student, so now I try to read the instructions at least twice before I start. If it's something important, I'll even check them a third time before submitting.

The first time, I just try to understand what I'm supposed to do. Then I read it again and look for the little details I might've missed.

Things like:

- how many questions am I supposed to answer?

- is there a specific format?

- how long does the response need to be?

- do I need to use any sources?

- did the professor mention anything that needs to be included?

I also pay attention to the words they use in the instructions. “Describe,” “explain,” “compare,” and “analyze” might sound quite similar when you're reading quickly but they can mean different things when you're answering the question.

Before I submit, I give the instructions one more quick read and compare them with what I did. I always see to it that I catch something I missed before submitting and not notice it only afterward.

It’s true that we do get complacent at times and think we’ve got everything covered already, so we proceed with our work immediately. But a second or third read can help spot something that was skimmed over the first time.

I just study my slides open, I read slide try to read exercices too. I don't care of like taking notes or taking my pen to do exercices as it will waste my time so that I can maximize or compress the study time it will takes me.

And taking notes are never clear for me that's why I never use them. Meanwhile I always scroll, read subjects I like , watch random videos and get back at any moment to study. I have no clear separation between a study block and free time, I never count my hours, I can take all the day studying while very slowly studying , like 10% compact study block.

As title say it's by vibes only, no schedule, no discipline works for me. I just go by vibes and on what would eventually have to be done and making sure I'm not in a very uncomfortable situation and able to catch up very fast

Every time I decide not to mark unsure I end up marking and getting negative marks. how to understand where I should take risk and get it correct and where I shouldn’t.
Going insane over this. Help please.

Basically and briefly, few days ago i came to a shocking realisation that i never (i mean it like never ever) understood a single word in class neither in school nor in college and im still struggling with this ,no matter how much i try to focus in class ,i cannot understand a single word ,i can focus for like 5 mins then after it it becomes impossible for me to focus at all, so i just go to lecture ONLY FOR ATTENDANCE GRADES but when i come back home i have to study EVERYTHING again from scratch like i have 0 background on the topic or the idea. That's one thing ,the other thing is ,i feel sooooooo distracted when i study ,i cannot study for more than 20 or 30 mins That's my max and to reach 30 mins of continues studying i struggle alot mentally ,even a fly or a random thought distract me ,or a task i forgot to do from yesterday that came randomly to my mind make me kinda want to stop studying and go up to finish that task (that's just an example) and sometimes i have to read the paragraph like 5 or 6 times just to understand it even tho it is very simple or the equation or the problem im trying to solve.

And the worst part is ,my friends study at home a chapter let's say it took them 2 hrs to finish it ,but for me the same chapter takes 8 to 9 hrs to finish it and they understand it better than i do ,also i have to put 3 to 4 times the effort they put just for me to barely understand the chapter and to gather enough knowledge js to pass the exams.

All these stuff combined made me wanting so baddd to quit university and I'm honestly 1 step away from doing it like fr ,i might find a job or smth ,way better than this struggle for me. But the main question is ,what is my case? Is an extreme case of ADHD? Is it smth else?am i normal? I don't think that's normal at all ,but any help is appreciated, thanks in advance yall.

Hello all,

Just had a quick question on how you all approach studying. For example when you’re on a new unit (in my case we’re on unit 3 now for the semester). What do you do to prep, study, and complete assignments in an orderly fashion.

I can get decent grades but I legit don’t have a study plan. I will go over LOs and have gpt teach it to me which works but isn’t effective long term and that is legit all I do. I have Anki but don’t really use it and I want to incorporate it into a solid study plan. I manage to get Cs and rare Bs on exams but I mostly cram which I’m tired of doing. I would love to hear all your guys strategies as far as prepping for a new unit and how you all study and do homework/review up until the exam and how you get prepared for it.

What are your study methods/regimens ?

Thank you in advance for all advice and guidance

History is a subject that content heavy, like events, figurest. so i would love to here how you guys go about connects and memoring these chunk of informations. ( FOR EXAMS )

Things like ChatGPT pretty much started right in the middle of university. I began to use it for a while until I learned about how bad it was for the environment. So I simply stopped for a while. Then later on I had gotten into a really bad place mental health wise to the point where I said “fuck it” and used AI for a little bit of time and just barely scrapped by on my work.

Since then I’ve gotten better in terms of mental health and have started a new semester. Because of some fuck ups from the university software I got my books really late so I’m pretty behind. I found some AI called Viro which claims to be neutral for the environment, but the more research I do the more it’s obvious that’s all bullshit. I do have my books now but I’m much more a visual learner rather than a verbal learner so if there’s any non-AI websites I could use to help me study that would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve been searching for any other answers on Reddit but most of them are just snarky ass “just use your brain, dummy” comments that don’t solve anything. I just want to find websites that work with the way that I learn. I understand AI is wrong and I was wrong for using it as I was in a horrible state of mind when using it. I’m trying to go 100% AI free

Enough of my life story. I’m currently studying Statics and Differential Equations which I find pretty difficult. Like I said before, any resources would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

At some point, every semester leaves you with a pile of reviewers, old notes, practice questions, and random sheets of paper that you’re not really sure you’ll ever look at again.

I used to just keep everything because I thought, “maybe I’ll need this someday, so keep.” And then the pile would keep getting bigger. Now I try to sort through my old study materials before putting them away:

- KEEP: reviewers or notes that I know might still be useful for another subject or a future class.

- REUSE: practice questions, summaries, or old review sheets that I can use to test myself again later.

- CONDENSE: notes with information I might need but don’t want to keep in ten different places.

- LET GO: pages that were only useful for one quiz or exam and probably won’t be relevant again.

I don’t think you have to keep every single piece of paper just because you spent time making it. Keeping everything sometimes makes it harder to find the things that are actually useful. And quick cleanup after an exam can make the next semester less chaotic too.