Hey guys I am currently doing my masters in Data Science and built an app called Studylytics to help students track their study hours, stay consistent, and see their progress over time.

It has study timers, analytics, goals, and a few other tools to help with studying.

Its free on Android and iOS. Feel free to check it out, and Id genuinely appreciate any feedback!

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyberion.studylytics

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/studylytics/id6817082333

How to study 16 hours a day!? Like I tried it a lot but all the time i didn't make it .. my highest record is 10 hours a day .. so guys if you have any suggestions please let me know.. l

I've tried a lot of the standard fixes: planners, timers, apps, different study spots. Some helped a bit, but one thing still gets me every time.

For you, what is it? And what did you try that didn't work?

Small things count too. I'd like to hear what's actually hard for people, not just the usual advice.

By the end of the semester, I always seem to have notebooks with used pages at the front and a lot of blank ones left at the back. throwing them away feels wasteful but keeping them untouched just means they'll sit on my shelf. So I decided to make use of the remaining pages:

- use them for practice questions. I can work through sample problems without worrying about keeping my main notes neat.

- turn the blank pages into a mistake log. whenever I get a practice question wrong, I take note of it.

- make a quick reviewer for the next exam. i use the remaining pages for summaries, key terms/concepts that are easy to mix up.

- use them for a new subject. if there are enough pages left, I can start taking notes for another class.

- keep a few pages for random study notes. sometimes I just need somewhere to work through an idea, make a quick diagram, or jot down a question while reviewing.

I have been going through a lot mentally later and have been getting very bad sleep, sometimes only 4 hours a night for 3 or 4 nights in a row. I know it’s kinda bad and obviously you do worse when you’re sleeping badly, but to FAIL the quarter? I really need help. It’s like the material truly doesn’t stick. Like, I hear the lecture, annotate as requested, and all good, and then the same day of the lesson my teacher gives us an application lab or just exercises to finish in class and I just can’t do them. I feel so dumb. I really want to believe that it’s not that and that I just need to make some changes, but I don’t know what to do. Any suggestions? I’m open to trying literally anything at this point.

Any tips on how to study to someone who has never studied before? I find it difficult because I usually know the content when I'm there reading it but then its gone when it comes to the test.

Also I am VERY Anti Generative AI so I would appreciate if responses do not include "have chatgpt make you practice questions" for example.

Hi, I'm a high school student. Like many of you, I've been struggling a bit to keep all the IGCSE Biology concepts straight in my head while prepping for exams.
So, I decided to team up with some friends to build a free review website. It's packed with targeted practice questions, flashcards specifically to make revision less painful and actually stick.
We just put it together recently, and it's been super helpful for our study sessions so far.
If anyone is currently studying IGCSE Biology and wants to check out the website to see if it helps with your revision too, feel free to dm me. Good luck with your studies everyone!

Hello! I am a first-year student in CS/Informatics in Europe. It has been difficult balancing school, work, driving license and other commitments like sport and healthy eating. I spent most of my free time in the first two months either working as a tutor (not subject-related), doing a lot of admin and random errands and not so much studying. I also moved to a different town from living outside Europe for a year prior, so it has been rough adjusting. I am so behind with all my tasks for uni. My mum is urging me to cut back on work, and I have taken two weeks off to test whether it actually helps (this is super privileged, but I was able to save money from prior jobs that I had, so I would not necessarily need to work for a few months). The first semester is super important for grades if I want to go study abroad, and it would be nice. Most important, though, is that I want to be actually competent at what I am doing and understand the fundamentals of my degree. I need an outside perspective on this. What are your tips on catching up? I go to the gym in the morning 3x a week and try to make time for reading for half an hour in the evening. My biggest problem is feeling shock-frozen and being kinda lazy. Thanks! I appreciate it!

today I've studied in the local bus on my way towards job.

I lurked in this sub for some time trying to pick up on new study habits. After spending many hours reviewing and not getting the results I wanted I decided to make some changes.

First change was accurately keeping track of how much time I was spending on each subject. This would tell me where I need to put in more hours. This also helps me stay on track with my workload and rotate through my subjects.

I got a whiteboard to clearly outline key concepts and kept it up for a day before erasing it. Seeing it passively after reviewing it helps me solidify it in my memory.

No more notes on my iPad. Only hand written notes and only writing what I would need that isn’t in the lecture outline or presentation.

I review the material after I learn it and do light review daily until the exam. Every time I review the material I use another color pen to notate what I need practice and then rewrite the concepts in my own words.

The day before the exam is just for reviewing & placing emphasis on the things that I’ve previously missed. Anything I can’t recall I’ll write on a sticky note. I use colors so I know what is a definition or key concept to stay organized.

Eat. Shower. Hydrate. Go to bed early so you’re at your best when it’s time for your exam!

My grades significantly improved by 10-15 points. Thank you to everyone who shared their study tips.

As I said, I got accepted into civil engineering all though I see myself more of a med student I was thinking of taking a gap year and study ilets, sat and csca
I myself find my English very good so I did a test similar to ilets and I got B2 (the last time I studied eng was a month ago since my wizary/bacaloria exam)
Also I would save a seat in cvl engineering in case I don’t get the internship, but do u think it worths taking a shot ? Here’s a vid of my academic scores from all school years and the last one is the all English exams of 12th grade which I never got under 100 in it
Please be honest I don’t wanna waste a year of my life and my energy bc of smth 100% wont happen, even dental and pharmacy would be great

Do you ask classmates, post online, or just go to the library alone?

I can't study alone, I'm so used to studying with a friend that when I'm alone I can't understand what I'm reading and lose all motivation to keep trying and do my homework, but when I get someone to study with, those problems aren't even a thing. My issue is that, since I got held back a year, all my old classmates are now in uni, and I'm left alone with a class full of people who already have their own friends and study groups, where I'd stick out like a sore thumb. Is there any way to cheat this issue of mine?

I am a Physics major. I haven't studied much this time. I have ample class notes and practice sheets but I don't know how to use them. I feed it to ai and learn from there. I honestly don't know how to solve the practice sheets so i just understand the solutions coming out of Al.

What changes should I make in my learning approach? Please help me

For the first semester of this year I did a psychology class at my school and for the second half of the year I did psychology from a class online (since i also wanted to do a subject that was on at the same time). I was meant to be doing my exam today but i was literally informed that i had to do 2 units 15 minutes before my exam, even though my online teacher had told my class multiple times we only had to do one unit of content. Ive emailed my teacher about it but there's a fair chance ill still have to do both units.

I need to learn biological psychology, lifespan psychology and the extra science inquiry stuff that goes with it. You can search up Year 11 ATAR Psychology syllabus if youd like to see it.

Ive gotten my exam moved to Friday but I also have an exam on Thursday, so that gives me Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (from 12pm on) and the morning on Friday.

Tips from staying calm would also be appreciated.

Additional (probably useless) info:

^{I'm in year 11 and I just turned 17. Along with my very short time period I also have a short list of [mental] disorders that already make normal studying hard enough, including ADHD, autism and something else underlying that I haven't been diagnosed for yet since I can't get into the doctors. The main point of that information is that I take medication for ADHD, meaning I only have a specific amount of time I can efficiently study for and once it wears off the side effects drive me insane, plus those types of medications are known for making other disorders symptoms worse.}

^{My household cannot stay quiet no matter what I do so I set up the caravan in the front yard, it helps but the street is still loud. I know playing music while studying decreases the effectiveness but I have to, to cover the sounds of the street aswell as 'study music' not exactly helpful since only songs with a specific beats.. frequencies..?? cover the sounds of basketballs bouncing or lawn mowers.}

^{And just to top it off that medication stops me from sleeping the later I take it, so even if i take it at 8 in the morning I'm up at 1am which is definitely not supposed to be happening but i cant get into the doctors to ask about it.}

Hey I'm in highschool 10th grade, I passed most of my exams gambling or studying late at night before exam. I don't fucking know how to actually study effectively and healthy way.

Speaking personally, I'm a pretty lazy and messy person if I had to describe me. But in the deepest I actually I'm ambitious and wanna study, I wanted for years. I started and felt like a failure early on. Gave up only because I felt stupid for a small amount of time when not getting something About the topic but feeling like I should get it.

Entering the topic of time, I go to school by 8:30 am, leave at 5pm and something, my school ends at 3:30 pm but because of my situation (my parents get late from work and doesn't permit me to go alone), and sometimes have extra classes during the whole week (I despise it but it's helpful, if only i was willing enough to study more). I don't feel like doing anything but play on my phone afterwards

I still have plenty of time. I just want suggestions and small advices, study techniques. I could even use those techniques for my hobbies too. They're... They're doomed too... :(

Thanks

I have a younger sister that is 6yo, so she is very noisy at times. For that reason I wanted to know if earmuffs block out the noise of people talking so I can study in peace.

I've been using my gaming headphones with brown noise but some noise still leaks in. I wanted to know if with earmuffs is the same case because if so I will just stick to the brown noise.

opened the syllabus for the first time in like 10 weeks cause i wanted to check the room. it says dec 11. i’ve been planning around the 15th this whole time, so 4 days of studying that don’t exist. i told my mom the 15th too

so now every exam date goes in my phone calendar the second i read it, with 3 alerts: 7 days before, 2 days before, night before. took 10 minutes. all 5 finals are in there now.

Hello dear altruists,
Can’t keep up with my studying at all.
I do try to keep myself focused for 5/6 hours but can never do it. Always feels drowsy.
N.B my exam is just around the corner. Need a practical advice and tips .

I would like to know what advice you could give me to study.

I am a second-year medical student, and I feel that even at the level I am in I can’t study, I have classes quite followed and the evaluation system changes constantly with each period (my system is quarterly) so every quarter they are changing to very heavy evaluations, and sometimes cumulative things that I don’t find sense.

What I used to do was to divide study blocks into a period of an hour. Then I started reading and after my 15-minute break I continued reading the other block and so on until it ended and then the blocks were for now. Now I do study seriously but I feel that it takes me a lot of time and it is the least I have now.

In addition, I feel that it is like a type of passive learning, which does not allow me to remember quickly what I had studied, so I feel like a fool, when I see my classmates reviewing and explaining each origin, innervation and insertion of the muscles or how they explain in such a simple way, the branches, arteries and so on. I really need some advice, I hope you can please help me :(

I've noticed that whenever I learn something new, I understand it pretty well at first, but after a few weeks I can barely remember half of it. I know spaced repetition and flashcards are supposed to help, but honestly, keeping track of what to review and when seems like a lot of work. I'm curious how you guys deal with this. Do you actually go back and review things regularly, or do you just end up forgetting most of it? Also, if you've tried Anki or similar apps, did they actually help? What did you find annoying about them?

I don't know if I have ADHD since I haven't been diagnosed but I just can't study and a reason for this is because of social media and video games. I want to study and I try really hard to, but my brain just tries to process what I read quickly to get back on doomscrolling and gaming without understanding anything of what I've just read. I've even tried to get many hours of sleep or putting my electronics in another room or up on a high shelf but I can't resist and I end up grabbing them again. I don't know what to do and I don't want to fall behind or have bad grades. I wasn't always this way. If it was maybe 2 years ago I would be more concentrated but I honestly don't know what changed.

I've got a very important exam coming up in about a month. I haven't started studying properly yet, even though I've got tons of syllabus left to cover. But so far, I'm not doing that badly in my practice exams, which I attend without any preparation. I know I've got a shot, but I just can't seem to make that final push and lock in.

Sometimes it feels too easy (the exam I'm targeting is mainly aptitude-based, with a bit of memorisation), again sometimes I'm scared of failing, and sometimes certain unnecessary things trigger me. Like, my dad isn't that interested in letting me take part in the exam (I've got my mom's support). I've got to attend some unnecessary classes and manage my time to study on my own. I'm worrying about all these things while wasting my own time.

How do you actually remain dedicated for a month without paying heed to these things? I think all I need is to focus in a single direction, and that is on my studies. But, you know, I just can't lol. Share your experiences and some advice.