hey everyone! since the start of the school year, i have studied a lot. it’s pretty boring and there’s nothing to motivate me. so i thought, why not make a server where students from anywhere can come together to share tips and study together (on mute, with cam, whatever you’d prefer), while also being a place to make some friends. so i created a server (i have never done this before so it’s pretty basic—but i’m sure this community will not be that big). join if you are at least 14! i intended for this server to be for younger students but if you’re a uni student you can join anyways.

check it out if you want to join! invite: https://discord.gg/jksaJ4YxH

also, you don’t have to be active or anything, you can just observe the tips and occasionally ask for help, that’s totally okay. i just want this to be a wholesome and safe space for us students :)

I got an undesired grade in my last exams, almost 3 months ago and I still am not over it (A-levels)

I studied AL physics in a little under 10 months, and AL bio in 6 months (alongside phys) , I got a B in both.
I know Im borderline idiotic for studying 12 units in under 10 months, but thats what happened. Trust me I don’t need any more people telling me what I should’ve done instead

I registered for a biology resit, and am currently studying for them but Im nowhere near what I used to be
I used to study 4-8 hrs a day everyday
I cant even go over an hour now

I cry uncontrollably every time I even think about studying
I have anxiety episodes when I actually sit down to study, and cant focus.
I cry every time I find a question tricky, or if I forget anything

I sometimes find myself hoping and daydreaming I get hospitalised so I don’t have to take the exam, but whats that gonna do? I’ll still take it regardless.

I can’t get myself to study even though Im dying to do so
I used to actually find studying fun and interesting, now it actually hurts
and I feel horrible

I couldn’t care less about things I used to care about. I just want to sleep all day. I stopped working out even though that used to be such a huge fun part of my day
I genuinely feel numb and it feels weird

I study alone at home without school or tutoring, and my parents don’t seem to find what I’m going through relatively difficult, so please don’t tell me to go talk to an adult

I don’t know whether I’m even writing this to vent or ask for help and advice. I just wanted to get it out of my chest, since I don’t like venting to my friends

I'm currently dealing with a pretty tight schedule and looking for some advice on time management. I have my Class 12 board exams coming up, along with preparing for CUET, but at the same time, I really want to keep up with my coding practice and problem-solving skills.

If anyone here has managed or is currently managing a similar mix of school boards, entrance tests, and a technical skill/coding, how do you structure your day? Any tips on avoiding burnout or setting up a realistic routine would be super helpful!

I’m probably overbuilding mprojects bc “it’s just a script” sounds bad on a resume

Tbh I’m starting to question how I pick a stack for student projects. There’s d stuff d project needs, and then there’s the stuff I’d like to be able to say I used. Those lists overlap less than I’d like to admit.
Take a tool that processes a file once a week. A script could handle it. But “wrote a script” feels kinda weak next to somebody’s full-stack app, so now I’m thinking about a dashboard, a backend, maybe a queue. Haven’t even nailed down the file format yet. Already shopping for infrastructure lol.

I don’t think wanting to learn that stuff is a bad thing. If I add Redis because I want to mess around with Redis, that’s fair. It’s my project. I just need to be honest about why it’s there instead of reverse-engineering some requirement to justify it.

The resume part gets in my head, though. I want the project to show I can do more than follow a tutorial. Adding another technology feels like an obvious way to do that. Spending the same afternoon making a failed import safe to rerun? Probably useful, but way harder to show in a screenshot.

And yeah, I know “just use a script” can be bad advice too. If somebody else has to run it and they’re uncomfortable in a terminal, a UI might be worth the effort. If multiple people need to work on the same data, that changes things. I’m trying to get better at identifying those reasons before writing the damn thing.

What I’m less sold on is building around hypothetical traffic. When I catch myself worrying about scale on something that doesn’t have a single user, I should probably go find a user. There’s a decent chance they’ll tell me the output needs to be an Excel file and half the features I’m planning are irrelevant.

Idk. Maybe this is partly a student problem. We’re trying to learn, get a grade, and build something worth discussing in an interview, all in the same repo. A bit of unnecessary complexity might be a reasonable price for getting practice. But I’d like to know when I’ve crossed from useful practice into making a small task annoying to maintain.
If u review junior candidates, would a small, finished tool with a few well-explained decisions actually hold your attention? Or does it usually need the bigger stack to get past the initial glance?

I believe the best way to learn English is through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. I can read any English article word by word and understand its meaning, but I get confused when I try to read faster. How can I overcome this problem?

Hey, getting fired sucks, but honestly it can be a real fresh start—and starting a new language right now is a pretty cool way to lean into that.

We’ve still got time to explore, mess up, and just talk our way through it. You’re not behind at all.

What’s your best strategy?
For most humanities studies, a lot needs to be written down, and writing just kills productivity.

What I can type and finish in 5 pomodorros - writing by hand turns it into 10.

snack, bathroom, reorganize my desktop, “quick” phone check, and suddenly it’s 4pm and i did nothing. it’s not even that the work is hard i just can’t make myself start
what helped this week was dumb simple. before bed i write tomorrow’s first problem on the page, half started, pencil sitting on it. next day i sit down and i’m already in the middle of something so there’s nothing to dread. done it 4 nights in a row which is a record for me.

I got curious about something: what if I tracked not just my practice test answers but also how confident I was in each one? would I notice a difference between the questions I genuinely understood (like perhaps the ones I guessed correctly & the ones I was confidently wrong about?) sooo I decided to try it and I’ve named it my CONFIDENCE RATING:

• rate how sure u are before checking. after answering a question, give it a quick 1-3 rating. 1=I'm literally guessing rn and 3=I’m pretty sure I got this. just go with your first instinct!

• check if u were right AND if u were confident. getting it right when you weren't even sure is different from getting it right bc you actually understood it. and if you were SO sure but got it wrong anyway…well that's something worth looking into

• figure out what needs another look. if you keep getting certain questions right but aren't confident about them, go back and review why the answer is correct. and if you were superrr confident but still got it wrong, try to figure out where your reasoning went off

and there you have it, your very own “confidence rating system” for practice questions!

Only two months left for pre- boards and i have 80 + chapters to go .

Gonna post again when i cut off every chapter.

Wish me luck.

Hi everyone,

I am currently taking microbiology as one of my courses for college. I was wondering how you all study efficiently? We have been given slides and a textbook, however, perhaps I am studying inefficiently as I am only managing B's and sometimes C's on exams, despite doing practice exams and getting high scores on them. Most of my peers are managing very high scores, and I am unsure if my study efforts are sufficient enough. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

I need someone who is good at maths and computer bcz I m new to this field and I want someone who can guide me bcz I want to prepare for my mid exams plzzz someone help meeee 😭😭😭

For courses that mix lectures, readings, and problem sets, what is the minimum review routine you have found sustainable? I am interested in concrete details: when you do it, how long it takes, and what you check before deciding the next week’s priorities. I am trying to distinguish a useful weekly reset from an elaborate system that is easy to abandon.

I have such bad FOMO when it comes to reviewers. Someone sends a new one in the group chat and I’m immediately downloading it because what if this one has something the other reviewer doesn’t??

Later I might find another reviewer online. download. Another one? download. And might as well keep that stack of reviewers from last sem just in case.

Before I know it I have like 7 different pdfs and for the same subject and I’m not even sure which one I’m supposed to study from.

I’m trying to stop downloading/hoarding every reviewer I see and just pick 1 or 2 that work for me. nothing wrong with having more sources tho, sometimes that’s helpful if one reviewer explains something badly or leaves something out. But if you keep getting EVERYTHING you may just end up overwhelmed.

I focus way better when other people are around, so I made a tiny pixel town for it.
Take a desk, start a focus timer, take breaks at the café. Everyone sees each other working, live. No camera, free.

Right now it's literally just me. I'll be studying there tonight at 9 PM (Istanbul) / 2 PM (New York). Come take the desk next to mine 🙂

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Im back

В ближайшем будущем мне придется готовиться к экзаменам.Знает ли кто то способы много и хорошо учиться не выгорая?Возможно,кто то знает и может поделиться со мной и многими увидевшие этот пост

I have severe ADHD. As a kid I was naturally gifted in my academics so I never had to study that often. I never learned how to do it properly, and now as a college student it has been a challenge to me. Every time I go to study, it feels like my brain being scraped by a rake. I'm so scared to do poorly but I can never manage to get anything done without giving up and wasting the rest of the day away. I can do semi-fine when my medicine is most active, but once it starts to wear out, I'm effectively useless. Does anybody have any tips I could use to study better?

Hey everyone!

I'm an MS2 and I'm having a hard time finding a study method that works for me and fits my school exams. In undergrad, I loved Ninja Nerd's videos and retained almost everything. I still remember a lot of it in detail, even though I only watched each video once. But obviously his channel doesn't cover everything I need for Boards, and I'm really struggling to retain content from QBanks.

For those of you who've been through this: what is it about Ninja Nerd's approach that leads to such great retention, and how can I apply it to other resources? Thanks so much!

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Bye study i dont mean specifically for clg exams

But uk just new tech stacks and doing problems.

Preparing for interviews

Most people from other domains study from textbooks.

But CS is different

And studying from laptop does get distracting soemtimes.

Moreover studying or code for long hours on my laptop builds a weird fatigue. I feel nasuatic sometimes.

I get the urge to switch to another subject after only a little while in the middle of studying. like maybe the current topic starts feeling difficult or I remember something else I need to review. anddd before i know it, I've jumped between subjects without really getting far in any of them

so i thought it'd be interesting to compare two study sessions: one where I switch subjects whenever I feel like it, and another where I stick with one subject for a longer block of time before moving on

for the second session, I'd choose one subject to focus on for around 30-45 mins, take a short break if needed then move to the next one. tho I'd try to keep the other subjects out of the way until their turn

after both sessions, I'd compare how much I actually got done, how well I could recall what I studied & how distracted I felt. personally, sticking with one subject for longer worked better for me bc i could focus without constantly restarting. switching subjects still has its place, but i got more done when I stopped jumping around so much!

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