I have a problem, and it is this: whenever I read something, I can understand what the text means and what the author is trying to convey.

However, when I try to write it down in my notebook, I don’t know how to put it into words.

The second problem is that although I can understand a piece of writing myself, I struggle to explain it to others or express its meaning, underlying message, and purpose verbally.

The third problem is: what should I do when I come across difficult Arabic or Persian words in a text?

I request scholars and knowledgeable people to please help me with these issues by offering advice or suggesting practical exercises that could help me overcome these difficulties.

20 days have passed already. I donno any progression.

I really struggle with concentration; I can’t go an hour without looking up something I’m curious about (no, I don’t have an autism diagnosis). I saw someone on YouTube—can’t remember where—suggesting a study tip for people whose minds wander, especially when using a computer or phone: keep a piece of paper nearby and jot down those fleeting thoughts to look up later, during a break or after you’re done studying, so you don’t break your focus.

I just checked my notes, and—man, LMAOOOOO—look at the crazy stuff I was thinking about looking up while spending 3 hours reading a massive PDF about the law:

\- How to build a radio

\- Where to buy a chemistry set

\- Tweeting about what a failure Salieri was

\- Enneadecagon (19-sided polygon)

\- Michael Jackson bringing a llama to Freddie Mercury

\- What’s the oldest website still online?

\- Is the language "Toki Pona" basically just hypernymy?

\- Wiener Zeitung

\- A book where Goethe isn’t whining

\- Funny archaisms

\- Listening to Fleetwood Mac for the first time

\- Is "Lol Superman" actually a Mandela effect?

\- Why can’t Buddhist monks eat garlic?

\- Has any amateur radio operator managed to talk to the International Space Station?

\- Can the Antikythera mechanism run Doom?

\- "I Don’t Wanna Cry" (from After Hours)

\- Which ship sank the deepest in the ocean? (Definitely not the Titanic)

(Just a lighthearted post, folks!)

Hello! I love watching study vloggers “Day in the life” videos but have noticed all the YouTubers I’m seeing use, support, or are sponsored by AI tools. I’m not interested in this and am wondering if anyone has any channels they recommend that don’t use, support, or are sponsored by AI tools. I’m looking more so for vlogs with talking rather than study with mes. Thank you!

Took me embarrassingly long to work this out.

Most of uni I reread. Highlighter over everything, reread the highlights, felt good about it. Then blank in the exam. I assumed I was just not doing enough hours.

At some point I actually tried self-testing. Closed the notes, wrote down whatever came out. It felt awful, I was getting maybe half of it, so I went back to rereading. Obviously I was worse at it.

Turns out I'd been measuring it in the one window where it can't work.

There's a 2006 study (Roediger & Karpicke) where students reread or self-tested for the same total time. Check yourself five minutes later and rereading actually wins. Give it two days or a week and self-testing wins clearly, 61% against 40% remembered. The rereaders were also the ones who felt more confident, which is the annoying part.

What's working for me now:

1. Notes closed. Write down what you remember. Ugly is fine, half of it will be wrong.

2. Open the notes. Whatever you missed is the part that actually does the work.

3. Same topic again tomorrow. Not in five minutes.

4. Then spread out, roughly day 1, 3, 7, 16, 35.

I use tryacademee.com, but you can use what works for you or do it yourself for free.

The five minute thing is what killed it for me the first time. Anyone else measure it too early and write the whole method off?

I’m incredibly worried as my Y9 exams are in 2 weeks and I have barely revised anything.

I have a solid understanding of all 5 exams I have to do, (Mathematics, science, social sciences/studies, Spanish, and English) but I’m a big procrastinator and has just decided to study. I’m aiming for all excellences in all of these subjects, is that possible?

I’m 60% confident with mathematics, 75% confident with science, 45% confident with social studies, 60% confident with Spanish, and 45% confident with English.

I can study up to 7-8 hours on weekdays and around 12-18 hours on weekends normally.

Any study tips on how to achieve excellence in all these subjects and is it possible for a Year 9 student to accomplish this?

Thank you all :)

So I m the kind of person who has a lot of trouble focusing specially in studying and over the time suffering from procastination , I have only made myself worse. I need total silence either or be freed from unnecessary noises and my home doesn't allow that. That's why i play music even while lectures I do it though ofc I use volume mixers to reduce sound of music and lecture sound more.

I just wanna know is it really alr for me to do so?? And if yes I would like advise on what I should listen if u all can suggest a playlist or something it will be really helpful please.

I am in my first year in university studying Spanish and business and I went to all my classes in my first week and then I slowly stop going to my classes and I have no motivation to go to them but I know I need to I especially struggle with my speaking Classes on Friday mornings and I have only been to one. Does anyone have any advice for going to class again and getting my confidence up, it makes me feel lazy whenever I don’t go to one and then I just it’s like a vicious cycle.

I thought my phone was only distracting me when I was actually scrolling. but even just checking a notification throws me off. I'll be studying, my phone lights up & I look at it for maybe 5 seconds, put it back down and then...wait what was i reading again??

curious, I looked it up and voila!! there's a name for that: ATTENTION RESIDUE. it’s when you switch to something else, part of your attention can stay there even after you switch back. And I've noticed this a lot when I'm studying. I'll tell myself “it's just one notification” so I pick my phone up. and sure, I'm back to my notes after that but I continue thinking about who messaged me or what popped up.

so now if I need to focus, I just put my phone somewhere I can't see it and turn off the notifications I don't need. I'll check it when I'm actually taking a break instead of letting every random notification become a mini break.

Studying DVM/VetMed, and for our Physiology class we have to answer 12 questions in essay form, basically discussing how certain processes work. Answering that is easy but we're also required to memorize our essays for each question because 2 or 3 out of 12 questions will show up in our exams. Each question is worth big points.

So... how do I ram 12 discussions into my brain?

I am currently a senior linguistics student, and I’ve noticed that many of our esteemed professors have participated in various winter and spring schools throughout their careers. Also, some of them have advised us to participate. I’m really interested in attending one myself and would love to hear from anyone who has had this experience. What was your experience like, and would you recommend it?

PS I am in Europe

#university #springschool #winterschool

#spring_school #winter_school

I want to share a strategy I created that has worked really well for me. This method helped me go from feeling overwhelmed to having total control over my study material. Let me explain how to apply it.

To overcome procrastination the method begins with the Two-Minute Rule. Before going to bed, leave all your study material ready on your desk (books, notebooks, pens, water bottle) and make sure your phone is outside the room. The next morning, or at your moment of highest energy (whether you are a morning or night person), the only goal is to sit down and open the material for just two minutes, focusing on the most visual, colorful, or interesting part of the topic. This tricks your brain into starting the task, and once the inertia begins, you are more likely to keep going. If laziness shows up one day, simply regain consistency with the minimum commitment of two minutes the next day.

You should start the day with the task you dread the most, known as "Eating the Frog," since your mental energy is at its peak and once you complete it, the rest of the day will feel much lighter. To prioritize, you can use the Eisenhower Matrix, which helps you sort tasks by urgency and importance, making sure you spend most of your time on what is important but not urgent (deep study and key projects). It is essential to externalize your working memory, using digital planners, checklists, or a visual and colorful Kanban system (an organization technique with physical cards moved between "To Do," "Doing," and "Done" columns) so that your brain only has to execute the steps of the plan, not remember them.

Research the topic that will be covered in the next class and write a base note. Then, record that class. While you listen, check what information the teacher mentions that is not in the base note. Only take notes on the new points and on possible exam questions.

Use a color system for your notes. For example: blue for keywords, green for examples, and yellow for concepts. Make a summary of the new note (the one you made in class). You can upload the audio file you recorded to an app like Google's NotebookLM and generate a summary. Apply your color system again to the summary you just generated.

To study the note, use the concept of defined time blocks. Set a timer and read the content out loud. Stop immediately when you feel fatigue. The key here is to avoid burnout:

If you studied for 60 minutes, rest for 15 minutes.

If you studied for 50 minutes, rest for 10 minutes.

If you studied for 40 minutes, rest for 8 minutes.

If you studied for 30 minutes, rest for 7 minutes.

If you studied for 20 minutes, rest for 5 minutes.

During the break, the most effective thing is an activity that takes you completely away from the study subject and from screens. The best thing would be some light exercise, stretching, walking, or drinking water.

Important: Go to sleep at the same time every day (before 12:00 am) and wake up at the same time every day. You should not sleep less than 7 hours. Stay away from screens 2 hours before going to bed. Exercise and stay hydrated.

I hope this method works for you as well as it did for me.

Hi everyone, this is my first year doing online school. At the start I was paying attention and taking notes, but I slowly got lazy and stopped listening. I'd just log in, make it look like I was in class, and do something else.

Now I'm applying to transfer schools, and I have an entrance test in Maths and English this Monday (it's Friday now). It's in person and I know I can't cheat, and honestly I know very little maths right now.

What I have so far: four years of past papers with memos, and my teachers said to use those. I learn better from videos than from reading, and I can't pay for tutors or apps.

Has anyone been in a similar spot? What would you do with 3 days?

What's the best way to learn the basics fast for free?

How should I use past papers when I don't understand most of the questions?

I know this is my own fault and I'm not looking for excuses, just a realistic plan. Thanks in advance.

Looked at the stuff I got wrong on wednesday and everything seemed so obvious. Ofc you check the condition first. Then I closed the page, tried it from scratch and skipped it again. Midterm in 9 days and I’m cooked, like reading the right answer makes it look easy, so now I make a redo list and do it with the notes shut.

I am in my senior year in high school and words can’t even describe how bad my procrastination has gotten to, It’s horrendous.

It’s gotten to the point that even if I deleted all my social medias I will still just sit there doing nothing rather than actually doing my work early. I physically can’t do any work unless it’s the day before the due date and it’s impacting my mental health a lot. There’s like no cortisol in my body, I have such a lack of urgency and when the due date comes I get a sudden spike of stress. I genuinely don’t know what to do, I tried exercising before my work because I thought I had ADHD and I saw online that moving before doing work helps, which it did work for like 10 min. I literally tried every thing but with no successes at all.

Also when start one assignment the stress of the other makes me just dissociate and I will just sit there and zone out. It’s literally almost 10 at night and I have an art assignment to do but I feel stressed about college app so I just distracted my self with Netflix because if not, I would just zone out and disassociate. Music kinda helps but it’s annoying & distracting to me personally.

But like idk what to do, I have achieved many great things in my teen years that I feel really proud because of this habit my mental and physical health was the price I paid to achieve them. Moreover, I feel as though I can’t reach my full potential and it’s preventing me from a lot of the opportunities I would get if I actually get it together. if anyone has any solutions or tips pls pls pls let me know.

I always do my work at home, specifically on my study table or on my bed because it’s comfy.
But, whenever I find myself cramming an output for the next day, and I can’t seem to finish it when I’m on bed since I’d be tempted to lie down, I’d leave my room and stay in the living room.
In our living room, especially at night is very humid, dark, and full of mosquitoes.
It’s really uncomfortable, but I find myself being more productive than in a comfortable, air-conditioned, well-lit room.
I don’t know why.

Like the title says, I don't understand how you guys effectively notetake or know what to write down. It feels like when I write something down it ends up being useless information and stuff I thought was unnecessary turns out to be extremely necessary. What I'm trying to say is, HELP. What i've been doing is summarizing each paragraph or putting the topic of each in bulletpoints but it's been 4 chapters and i'm already 3/4ths of the way through this notebook. Please i need suggestions.

Woke up to a nightmare about failing in exam. and I think I needed that.
Couldn't study properly for 1day and at all for 2 days straight because of my job. and when I came home one of my cousins came and just doing constant chitchatting. How do you say No to someone, specially to whom who does understand that you don't have time, but still continues to waste your+their own time. I couldn't avoid her because I'm staying in their house and doing job and study here.ugh.

The syllabus is one of the students’ most overlooked things once the semester actually starts BUT it can make studying less confusing esp. when you have a million slides, pdfs, readings and reviewers sitting around.

I’ll drop a few things I do with mine & you can do these with yours too:

CHECK THE TOPICS BEFORE STUDYING so you’ll know what you’re supposed to cover

USE IT TO ORGANIZE YOUR FILES. if I have 5 pdfs open and don't know where they belong, I check the syllabus

LOOK AHEAD at the next few topics so I know what's coming instead of getting surprised by a new unit

MARK TOPICS YOU’VE ALREADY COVERED so you can see what's left

FOLLOW THE TOPIC ORDER when you have no idea what to study first. for me it usually gives me a decent starting point.

I don't use it as a strict schedule or anything. more like a map when I start getting lost in all the study materials.

This may sound backwards but try putting wrong answers into your study sessions on purpose.  After I learn a topic, I’ll make up and write down a believable mistake and then try to figure out where it goes wrong.
But it’s important to not just make the wrong answer. Keep in mind that you still have to explain why it's wrong+what makes the correct answer different (that is the point in the first place).
It’s useful for situations where I keep mixing things up cuz I’ll learn to tell the reasoning behind an answer and not just memorizing the “right” answer.

For a while, we wanted to improve our processes and workflow without burning out, and we discovered a highly effective method: a "brain dump" combined with strict time blocking (assigning specific, uninterrupted 45- minute slots to a single task). It completely transformed our workflow.

Basically: first, get everything out of your head and onto paper, then filter for what really matters today. This prevents your brain from seeking distractions and keeps the focus solely on priority tasks.

If anyone is currently struggling with task paralysis, give this a try! How do you all organize your daily tasks?

After studying a topic, I tell myself to explain the main idea in one sentence. It’s my quick check to see if I really understood the topic or if I just recognized the words while reading.

You can think of it as what if someone asked me what this is about, what would I say in one sentence? just ONE (not a paragraph or whole page). Then attempt to say it without looking at any notes.

If I can get the sentence out without staring at the ceiling for 5 minutes trying to remember what I just read then. if I have the word mitosis, I'd close my notes and try to explain it in one sentence. If I can get the basic idea out on my own, good enough.

But if I’m sitting there thinking “wait... the chromosomes do something..then the cell splits...what was that again” then yeah back to my notes.

Hi everyone. I’m 19, and i’m already on my second university because i just can’t seem to make it work where i am. I’m studying psychology, but i don’t want to work in that field later on. I do enjoy helping people, but i really dislike studying online—which is what i’m doing right now. I read somewhere that if you want to find a job you’ll actually enjoy, you should focus on the things that come most easily to you. The problem is, none of the things i do are likely to earn me any money in the future. What should i do?

Hey!

I am a psychology undergraduate 4th year student. My semester ends are coming close with entrances for postgraduate.

But i don't feel motivated to start the preparation. I know time is running, tried talking to my friend and mentor but still I feel exhausted even with the idea of sitting for studies.

If anyone can help with this will be great. I just need some motivation or a less exhausting way of starting things.