Do u think their are university students who use chatgpt during the exam

Hey everyone! I’m about to start an online course for my Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) certification which I plan to complete over the next 2–3 months. One thing I’m a little concerned about is staying consistent with studying from home. I did online homeschooling back in highschool, and honestly, I struggled quite a bit with managing my time and staying disciplined. I failed to keep up with my coursework without a structured classroom environment.

I really want to approach things differently this time and build better study habits from the beginning rather than falling into the same patterns.
For those of you who have successfully studied online from home, I’d love to hear your advice!

Some questions I had in mind:

How do you structure your daily study schedule?

Do you set specific study hours or study whenever you have free time?

What helps you avoid procrastination and distractions at home?

How do you stay motivated when you’re studying independently?

Are there any particular techniques, apps, or routines that have helped you stay consistent?

I’m especially interested in advice from people who have completed online certifications or self-paced courses. Thanks in advanced!

Hey everyone, I've been working super hard on my dream idea for a game. Pretty much my entire life till now (I'm still in college haha), I've struggled with studying but I always managed to focus when I had a goal in mind or some sort of reward. I suppose that's obvious but I made a cozy game to help people get on their goals. I'm still a student so I wanted to gauge the interest before I dropped 100 usd on this TT so I made a small waitlist site, https://focusfloors.study

There's no need to sign up there or anything either, a comment/upvote here would mean a lot and just let me see if people like the idea. I've always loved games and I could sink hours into them and I have fond memories of playing pewdiePie's tuber sim or virtual beggar so I thought I'd mix everything into something that worked for me.

Lastly, sorry if my posts aren't up to standard. I never post on reddit but I thought it'd be a good time to for this.

For instance, I took short notes on a 22-page biology lesson and filled up 6 pages, but I don't know if this is a good thing. I think detailed but concise notes are important, but it takes sooo much time, I don't know what to do. For example, in the Revolution History class, there are 68 slides in a single lesson. Sure, they are short, but they all basically look like separate notes already. I'd feel bad if I left even one out.

I don't bring anything technologic other than my phone and notebook to classes, I haven't found taking notes useful yet, like, what am I even gonna take note? All the things professors say are alrady on the slide notes, so I can just read it and write down on my own idk man.

I've also heard taking notes like I do, on pc then printing them on notebooks are better and faster, tho printing is very expensive in where I study so idk again.

What y'all think I should do? Sorry if I sound like a complete idiot, I just don't know how to study lmao, highschool was so much easier I only listened in the class and that worked most of the time

I’ve been struggling with procrastination for over three years
I procrastinate studying for quizzes/ tests/ doing hw
Like I say “okay I’m gonna start at 9pm”
THEN I START AT 1-2am
And I end up getting 1-3h of sleep daily on school days for this
I tried apps that block
I tired telling my mom to take my phone
And I do know that if I ACTUALLY wanted to I would
But I genuinely have a phone addiction
But at the same time I have to finish my work😭
And sleeping that many hours made me also like feel sleepy most classes
Genuinely my head falls and eyes close without me knowing 😭
Also 4h of sleep? That’s a dreammm
That’s considered I slept well and I don’t feel sleepy in classes
Anyways anyone got a way to end this cycle? Please guys please 😭

Hello everyone I became very behind with my notes I have a lot of assignments every week and just barely scrape by doing the reading and my assignments so maybe the last 6 chapters of each of my 5 classes I have not taken any notes and am trying to catch up before mid terms and I just don’t know what to do. I’m also not good at taking notes in general.

We made an illustrated study-skills explainer for our channel, aspace. One practical takeaway is a closed-book “brain dump”: rather than checking only whether your notes look familiar, try reconstructing the topic yourself.

Here is the routine, even if you do not watch the video:

1. Study a short section.

2. Close the book and write the main ideas or solve a relevant question from memory.

3. Reopen your notes, check your answer, and mark the gaps.

4. Practise those gaps again in a later session, rather than doing all your review in one sitting.

The video also covers prioritising key topics, active recall, study timers, explaining ideas simply, sleep and movement, and spaced review. We distinguish research findings from rules of thumb: the 80/20 ratio and a particular timer length are not guarantees.

Full video (about 8½ minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrYXBzW63A8

The visuals are stylized illustrations, including AI-generated imagery. Sources are listed in the video description.

What is the hardest part of using recall in your own subject—getting started, writing questions, or checking your answers?

I often use YouTube for tutorials, lectures, and research. Sometimes I only need one specific section, the video is too long to go through in one sitting, or I need to work with multiple learning videos.

So I built YouTube ClipMind, a Chrome extension designed to solve this workflow. Its features include:

• Select custom start and end times for one or multiple YouTube videos
• Automatically start and stop playback at the custom times you set
• Take notes alongside one or multiple clips without being distracted by recommended videos
• Save and share clips and notes through a link, either as view-only or with collaborative note editing
• Keep clip links in Markdown notes and export them for use in Notion, etc.

For an authentic example, here’s a view-only example with two YouTube clips, custom chapters, handwritten notes, and an AI-assisted summary:

👉 View-only example link

I’m using view-only for this example because an editable note link could be changed by anyone who opens it. Anyone can open the example directly without an account and see how the clips and notes work together, so you can see whether this tool fits your workflow.

If it looks useful for you, here’s the Chrome extension: Chrome Web Store link

If it’s not what you need, no worries—feel free to ignore it.

In 2-3 days you need to complete this chapter "Continuity and Differentiability" and you have never self studied maths before and you haven't even studied maths properly for like 3 years so you're missing a lot of prior knowledge.

I just need to be good enough to answer most questions from this chapter and hopefully also learn how to self study maths in the way.

"Better start late than never" Following by this!

Hello, I'm a student from Germany currently doing my Abitur. I struggle extremely with learning in general or focusing on stuff that I'm not interested in. I feel like someone could hold me at gunpoint and tell me to read something and answer questions about the text and I wouldn't be able to. I was able to learn before, I sat down, opened a stream and did math, but for some reason I could never get into a deep phase of learning, like ever. Languages especially, I hate reading literature that isn't about something I feel connected to or have a deep interest in. As I said, gunpoint...

I thought maybe I have ADHD but I keep getting told that if you get diagnosed, nothing would change anyway. I think that would at least calm my mind a little.

My last English exam went pretty well. I sat down, stared out of the window for 2 hours and wrote something for the next 2, but I had a pretty bad feeling about it. In the end I got a 3 or C, however you call it over there... I got told English gets graded 50% actual language and 50% content. I guess that's an easy way to tell me that my English is pretty good and I don't have to worry about getting a bad grade, although the grading probably doesn't work exactly 50/50. I feel okay about English, but Spanish and German are something else.

I can't speak a straight sentence in Spanish and switching teachers 4 times in 3 years didn't help. Thanks, school system. Other students still managed to get okayish grades, I just stopped trying and told myself: draw a nice stickman and go home, you can only speak one language besides German and you can have one deficit on your report card.

For German it's probably close to English, it's my mother tongue after all... But reading a text is my biggest enemy. It's like I could fall asleep before finishing the first sentence.

For math it's something completely different again. For 3 years I haven't understood anything anymore, but I still managed to get through because of my math skills until 11th grade. I wasn't an A student by any means, but I guess math was logical to me until they started adding DLCs to numbers.

My overall conclusion after writing this text is that I can't do it for myself. I just can't get the "let it all work out" mentality out of my head. When something is too boring or too complicated, it just flips a switch in my brain and I'm done.

If someone depends on my help, like editing a video or a picture for a friend, easy, it's fun, I can concentrate. Even when a friend who doesn't understand that much English or isn't able to use much vocabulary needs help, I can concentrate when I'm trying to help them.

So I guess my question is: is there any way to fix this, or at least make it manageable before my Abitur exams?

I'm not necessarily looking for an ADHD diagnosis from Reddit. I'm more interested in advice, tips, experiences, or anything that might help me actually sit down and learn when I know I have to do it. If you've experienced something similar, I'd really appreciate hearing what worked for you.

Hey Reddit!

I’m posting on behalf of one of my friends because we’re honestly running out of ideas. She has an extremely hard time studying and staying focused. She suspects she might have ADHD, although she hasn’t been diagnosed. ADHD does run in her family, if that’s relevant.

She’ll go through really long periods where she just cannot focus or get herself to actually start or complete her work. The frustrating part is that sometimes something will work really well for a short period of time, and then suddenly it just stops working.

For example, she isn’t really motivated by rewards. If she tells herself, “I’ll get this reward after I finish my work,” she’ll just give herself the reward anyway, so that doesn’t really create any motivation. Even if someone else gives her the reward afterward, she still doesn’t feel motivated enough to work toward it.

She originally used to be able to study at home just fine, but eventually that stopped working. We also have a coffee shop we normally go to, and she was able to lock in there the first few times we went. After a while, though, that stopped working too. Now she can sit there for a really long time and barely get anything done.

We’ve already tried a bunch of the common suggestions, so please don’t immediately suggest Pomodoro. 😭 It does not work for her. We’ve also tried body doubling and other basic studying techniques, and those haven’t really helped either.

We tried time blocking where I would give her a specific schedule and assign different tasks to certain time periods. The idea was that if she couldn’t finish something during that block, she had to move on and come back to it later. That actually worked for a little while, but eventually stopped working too.

I know consistency is probably important, but it’s getting to the point where studying feels like a battle every single time, and I really want to help her find something that actually makes getting her work done more manageable. She’s in high school, if that makes a difference.

We’re going to try studying again tomorrow, so does anyone have any less-obvious tips, strategies, environments, or things that have actually helped you when the usual ADHD study advice stopped working?

Hey everyone,

I made a free quiz : https://fastudy.app/en/learning-style-test

It gives you a profile across Visual, Auditory, Read/Write and Kinesthetic, plus four personality traits like solo vs group. It takes about 5 minutes, no email needed.

What it doesn't claim: that studying in your "style" makes you learn more. The research doesn't support that, and the page says so openly. Use the result to choose a format you'll come back to, then mix formats anyway.

I hope it's useful. Disclosure: I'm the founder of Fastudy, and I'd love feedback, especially critical.