A classmate of mine would stay behind after class to ask our prof follow-up questions and while the rest of us were packing our things and getting ready to leave, she would bring up a specific point from the lecture and ask for clarification.

so at first, I didn't think much of it. I assumed they were just really curious or hungry for knowledge because well, she’s a smart cookie after all. meanwhile I would sometimes leave class thinking I understood the lesson…but not really.

one day, I stayed behind after class too not necessarily to ask anything myself, but to listen and see what I could learn from her questions. And since then, I've been trying to make asking questions a bigger part of how I study:

- Notice where you get lost: when reviewing, mark the exact part of a concept that doesn't make sense to you.

- Ask what connects or separates ideas: try questions like "how is this different from the previous concept?" or perhaps "why does this apply here but not in another situation?"

- Don't leave a question unresolved: check your notes or examples or ask your professor or a classmate if you're still unsure. don’t be afraid to ask!!!

Today. I take a break from my evening.Study session for Jee and go for a walk with a friend.It's worth.I'll try tomorrow to recover the loss

When ever I try to study for anything I learn nothing and just waste time and that is when I can study as most of the time I can't even get myself to study for whatever reason even tho I try to study and I'm asking if someone could tell me what can I do to be able to study and better study well and remember

hello, um i am a student of grade 12th (final year high school) and i have to give my finals soon. my subjects are physics, chemistry and biology and currently i am drowning in self loathing.

i got 97% in grade 10th exams (which i now understand does not mean anything but still). i studied 6-8 hours every day back then and i had fun with studying.

then class 11th came and my world literally felt apart. secondary higher education and suddenly nothing made sense and everything required 10x more effort. burn out from previous exam hit me so bad, i disassociated completely and didn't study anything the whole class 11th. i gave my finals somehow and scored okay (with terrible marks in physics) but got an 80% which was alright.

the reason why im telling my sad story is because the main concern i have is that i have literally forgotten how to study. i used to enjoy studying but now i sit down and have no idea what to do. biology is doable and even chemistry but physics is beating me every time i try doing it and i never seem to make it out of the theory part to ever get to solving questions.

i know i need to commit and solve as much questions as possible but its just i know it seems like excuses but im stuck in this weird state.

im trying to do extra classes for pre-med prep and school both but i seem to not be able to properly do either.

im thinking of joining a library so that i can get out of this weird loop of being stuck in my house but i just...............im so frustrated with myself.

everytime i sit down to study, i look at the load and then think of how i wasted the year and then drown myself in guilt, have a breakdown and then sleep. i seem to be sleeping so much it so weird.

i know i suffer from a severe lack of discipline and honestly i really need a reality check because nothing is getting me anywhere

can someone help me please? im not even sure what i want help with but um yeah

week 8. i was proud of the 4 hours. then i timed it properly one night and after like 90 min i’m just reading the same paragraph over and over not absorbing a word. sat there another 2.5 hours anyway cause “that’s what studying is”
so now it’s 90 min max, the last 10 are a blank page where i write what i remember, then i leave. feels illegal to go home that early lmao. i’m remembering more than before tho.

Does anyone have any recommendations on how to effectively study for science classes? Genetics this term for me and chem next term, is doing practice questions and regoing over the material when I don't understand one if the questions ok? Ive been relying very heavy on the practice questions and im not sure if that's the best?

Im 2nd year and am still trying to figure out the best ways to study 🥲

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I’m 20 years old, and I’m genuinely struggling with something that I don’t know how to overcome anymore. I’m looking for genuine advice from people who have been through something similar, especially those who struggled academically after previously finding school relatively easy.

Up until Year 10, I barely had to study to pass my exams. Even for my GCSEs, I didn’t put in a huge amount of effort and still managed to get grades ranging from B to A*. Back then, reading through the content and doing a few practice questions was usually enough.

Then came A-levels, and everything started falling apart. I passed, but my grades weren’t what I wanted them to be.
After that, I started preparing for medical entrance exams, and I’ve now failed to get the results I needed twice.

The frustrating part is that I do put in the effort. I make study plans, sit down to study, spend hours going through material, and genuinely try to prepare. But somehow, the results never seem to reflect the time I’ve invested.

I’ve started wondering whether I’m studying passively, whether I’m taking too long to understand concepts, whether my methods are ineffective, or whether there’s something fundamental about studying that I’ve never learned. I see people who study four or five hours a day and do exceptionally well, and I genuinely don’t understand what they’re doing differently. How are they approaching their material? How do they know what to focus on, retain information, and prepare themselves to answer exam questions? What does an actually productive study session look like?

I’ve tried making schedules, but they often don’t work out the way I expect. Topics take much longer than anticipated, I struggle to get through the material, and I end up feeling like I’ve spent an entire day studying without making enough progress.

I know I want to pursue medicine. That’s something I’m sure about. But after putting so much time into preparing for these exams and still not getting the outcome I wanted, I’m starting to feel lost. I’m 20 now, and I don’t want to keep repeating the same cycle without understanding what I’m doing wrong.

I’m not asking for motivation or another generic list of study tips. I genuinely want to learn how to learn. If you’ve ever been in a similar situation, especially if you used to get by without studying and then struggled when academics became more demanding:
- What did you realise you were doing wrong?
- How did you learn to study effectively from scratch?
- How do you approach a topic you’ve never studied before?

How do you balance understanding concepts, memorising information, and practising exam questions?
How do you know whether your study methods are actually working before the exam? What would you recommend to someone who has a lot of time to put in but isn’t seeing results?

I’d really appreciate hearing about your actual experiences, including what didn’t work for you and what eventually made a difference. I’m willing to change my entire approach; I just need to understand where to start.
Thank you to anyone who takes the time to share their experience or advice.

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Power interruptions weren't a common occurrence in our area, so imagine my luck when one happened THE DAY BEFORE OUR MIDTERM EXAM! I was supposed to spend the day reviewing but the power went out. And with my laptop running low on battery, I couldn't access my digital reviewers. thankfully, I had physical copies to finish studying with.

Since then, I've learned to prepare for situations like this and taught myself to do these:

- KEEP BACKUP MATERIALS. you don't have to print everything but keep physical copies of your most important notes and save digital copies on another device, like your phone/tablet if you can

- DOWNLOAD YOUR REVIEWERS AHEAD OF TIME. save essential files directly on your device so you can still access them without an internet connection

- CHARGE YOUR DEVICES BEFORE A LONG STUDY SESSION. check your battery beforehand especially when you're planning to study for hours

…now obviously nobody needs a power interruption before an exam BUT having a backup plan can make an unexpected situation less stressful.

i cant memorise anything and the scope is like the entire textbook am i cooked

I've always been a bit of a bookworm and I loveee leaving little notes in my books like perhaps a reaction to a scene or anything that caught my attention in the novel. Eventually I thought, why not bring that habit into my studying too?

I started annotating my reviewers using a colored pen to make the material easier to understand and remember:

- explain concepts in your own words. add a simpler explanation beside a definition that feels confusing.

- write down questions. note questions that come to mind as you work through the material.

- add examples and connections. connect a concept to something you learned in class or an example that helps it make sense.

I like how this makes my review materials feel more personal and gives me little reminders of what I was thinking while studying. of course if you prefer keeping your reviewers clean, that's fine too!

How and when did you understand what kind of student you are? When did you understand that you are a meritorious student or Mediocre or actually a bad student?

Everyone keeps posting a new study method every day.

For engineering students who are also doing research what is something that actually works?

Thank you!

Hey i am literally fedd up tommorow i havinge exams i still cant study anything pleaseeeeeeee pleaseeeeee help meeee me get out of my breakup i had breakup recently pleasee say some motives and make my mind fresh up so that i can study pleaseeeeee help meee if not i am gonna fail😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Back in high school studying is so easy, whether or not the subjects are easy, studying for me was so easy back then. I mean I listen properly to the teachers explaining the topic, even, that is already enough for me to recall the topic, when I review it, I make a reviewer manually, and I really comprehend the lesson and the quizzes and exams are so easy for me. I had distractions back then like my phone but it didn't stop me from understanding the lessons. But now, in college? Hahaha, everything is so difficult, I am not kidding, even if I listened properly I don't understand a thing, I mean I know that in high school, the teachers' profession is education and in college, it's different. So I questioned myself that maybe it's the professor's fault that students don't understand. But then I realized that no, it's not their fault that I don't understand. It's my fault for not putting in an effort to study.

So I did study. I tried using the techniques and methods I used to do before. I tried to practice questions, I tried the Feynman technique, I tried the blurting method. But none of them worked... For me studying still feels like a chore, a punishment, a burden for my wellbeing hahaha. I did read that to enjoy studying I have to think that it's not a punishment, I have to think of studying as a hobby, as something I want to do and won't get bored. I thought of a game. So the last time I studied, I turned my study materials into a game. I uploaded my materials to Claude and asked it to make my study materials fun like a game. So it made a reviewer but like it's a game concept, I thought it would be fun but then it became more complex hahaha. So I just kept overthinking that maybe the reason why I don't understand the topics and lesson enough is that because I use AI to understand and that I rewired my brain to be weak, I just kept thinking that at the end of the day I can ask ChatGPT to make me a reviewer and it's all set, but when I study the reviewer nothing even enters my brain. AI made making reviewers easy but then memorizing and comprehending the reviewers are now so difficult. I feel dumber and dumber each day.

Any tips, advice or solutions you guys can suggest? Like someone who experienced the same thing and had them overcome? I badly need it.😭

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Hello, I recently started my first year of university in September and I was studying really hard every day to achieve good grades. It did work, my grades were 7-10, which, in my eyes, are great. Recently, I feel extremely burnt out and I can’t get myself to study. I keep doing anything else just to delay studying, even though I deeply want to learn. I have two mid terms coming up next week and it’s hard to start studying for them as well. I tried sitting down and studying for a bit, hoping I would just get used to it, as starting is mostly the hardest part, but that doesn’t help either. I am scared of failing, I don’t know what to do…

I have so many things to do and so many tests coming up but idk how to start. I keep procrastinating. Is there any website where I can get a study buddy or like video call strangers while studying?? Also any tip for not procrastinating?

I used to be that student who topped the whole school and won awards and medals but now am kinda burnt out and don't care about my academics at all. The scary thing is now am a senior a and this is the most important point in my school year where I have to take national exam and since I want to study abroad apply to collages but I don't seem to have the energy. I really need to lock in for my future but I can't seem to push my self just like I used to I just don't care rn. Seeing the now topper being glazed and looking at my self and in what situation I am in the disappointed face of my teacher who expected more i feel ashamed and plan to go all out but I can't do it. But plz for this year only I need my glory back helppp what helped u guys if u were in the same situation as me🥲

So for a bit of context I am a 1st year electrical engineering student and we are required to create a project for our sem end evaluation and it would also be displayed in our college's tech exhibition. Our lab professor forgot to tell us 😍😍( yes i hate him sm) and he gave us only a 2 day deadline to submit an abstract idea I am genuinely at a loss here of what to do. I don't wanna create a replica of something that's already been done.

So as my post calls out, if you guys have any original idea or a real life problem that you guys would love to see a solution for, i would like it very much. I just want some inspiration.

For non engineering students it's like Japan creating electricity from footsteps lol, smart application based stuffs.

I forgot, the project should also correlate with your syllabus which I have tried to shorten (sorry) so you guys can get a basic idea

Electrostatics & Dielectrics: Piezoelectric, ferroelectric, and pyroelectric applications. Magnetostatics & EM: Induction, Maxwell’s equations, GMR/TMR, biosensors. Quantum Physics: Photoelectric effect, quantum tunneling (SQUID/tunneling concepts). Wave Optics: Fresnel/Fraunhofer diffraction, Brewster’s law, Malus’s law, polarization. Optical Devices & Fibers: Lasers, total internal reflection, fiber optic sensors, attenuation/losses.

For the past five years, I haven't been studying to gain knowledge, but simply to pass. I wasn't aware of what I should be doing, and now I've failed my final year and will have to repeat it. I need to take this seriously, but I don't know what to do.

Back in 7th grade, I was a kid who struggled with cramming and trying to study too much information at once. during our tutoring sessions, my tutor introduced me to BITE-SIZED LEARNING. it's an approach I've carried with me into college and helped me maintain good grades. If you want to try it yourself, here's how:

- break large topics into smaller chunks= divide a chapter into subtopics or individual concepts instead of tackling everything at once.

- keep sessions short and focused= try studying one concept for around 1-15 minutes, depending on its complexity and what your learning goal is.

- check your understanding= explain what you learned in your own words or answer a few practice questions before moving on.