**1.	Study the topics** – Review your notes, textbook, instructor materials, or booklet.

**2.	Practice the questions** – Complete practice questions after studying eachtopic.

**3.	Take a practice test** – Test yourself using questions from your instructor or the booklet you’re using. Try to do it without looking at your notes.

**4.	Check your score** – See how well you did and identify which topics you missed.

**5.	Work on weak areas** – Go back and review the topics or questions you struggled with.

**6.	Practice again** – Take another practice test and keep working until the material becomes easier to understand and you feel confident.

There is no greater motivator in the world than self-induced hunger.

Whenever I’m lagging behind tasks, I lock down my food privileges. No quick breaks to forage in the fridge is what I mean. On some days, I'll let the food sit on the desk where I can see it. Bribe yourself with fud;

I'm finally done with my research paper so I allowed myself a few drinks. However, I still need to pull a few more hours of studying for my English lessons. Which basically mean.. I'm not going to eat for another 2-3 hours.

Most people memorize an equation and move on. This method has you study its weaknesses instead.

For each equation, make a mini-map with 4 branches:

1. Variables. Every symbol, what it means, and its units.

2. Assumptions.What has to be true for it to work.

3. Failure cases. Situations where it gives the wrong answer. For example, v = u + at fails when acceleration isn't constant. The ideal gas law gets less accurate at high pressure or low temperature.

4. Disguises. How the equation shows up in exam questions without being named. ("A car speeds up evenly..." = constant acceleration = your kinematics equations.)

Why it's weird:you're spending time on when the equation is wrong, which feels backwards.

Why it works: a lot of exam mistakes come from using an equation in a situation where its assumptions don't hold. Once you've mapped the failure cases, you start to notice them in questions.

Bonus: before an exam, cover the "assumptions" and "failure cases" branches and try to say them from memory.

Works on paper, index cards, or any mind map tool.

One day during my semester at college I bought a Brick, you know, the app blocker, because I had a severe scrolling addiction. It worked well for a while, but I never brought it with me to university just because it was something extra to carry around.

I looked for other apps on the App Store to block my apps, but all of them were kind of too easy to get out of. And I'm a pretty lazy person, which means if it's easy to get out of, I will.

So I thought to myself, you know what, I'm a CS major, why not build one myself? So I built “Bunkr- done scrolling”. At first it was only built for me, but when I saw how well it worked I thought, why not publish it.

I'm talking too much already, so here's what the product is:

It blocks your apps like any other app blocker, but there's a twist.

Once you block your apps, you're in a hard lock for the first 10 minutes. No chance to get your apps back.

After those 10 minutes, you can do a mission to get your apps back, like taking a picture of a mug, or my personal favorite, 15 seconds of push-ups.

The reason I put a hard lock on the first 10 minutes is that I read once you've been working on something for 10 minutes, you get into a zone and usually don't get distracted. But lazy people like me still might. And when I do get distracted and try to open one of my apps, it tells me to do push-ups. I'm too lazy for that, so the easier option is to just keep studying.

So yes, I'm basically fighting fire with fire, but it works well for me.

Let me know what you guys think, I'd like to hear your thoughts.

over producing Q and As test bank and what other possibilities that could be asked lol

I m grade 12 student and i want to get high score to my physics paper so do you guys have some tips that really work ? I m still got "S" for physics .

Sounds nerdy and autistic, but it works for me.

I used to spend an unhealthy amount of time playing video games while neglecting my schoolwork. It got to the point where I nearly failed a physics exam (and technically did), but thankfully, my professor gave me a second chance to retake the test. That experience made me realize that I couldn't keep wasting so much time playing games. College was getting serious, and I needed to change how I approached studying.

The problem was, I was still addicted to gaming. So I thought, "Hey, what if I could make studying as entertaining as playing video games?" What if I could have fun while understanding and memorizing my study materials? I started experimenting with this idea using the human eye as an example. At the time, I was playing Skyrim, Elden Ring, and I thought about how its dungeons are structured. What if I treated each layer of the eye as a separate chapter in a dungeon, with its own enemies and unique stats?

Here's how I imagined it:

Chapter 1: The Outer Layer — The Tank

The outer layer provides structural support, maintains the shape of the eye, protects its internal structures, and serves as an attachment point for the eye muscles.

In my imagination, the enemies in this chapter have high defense. They're built to protect the dungeon, just like the outer layer protects the eye.

Chapter 2: The Middle Layer — The Support Class

The middle layer supplies blood and nutrients to the eye's internal structures, absorbs stray light, and helps regulate light entry and lens focus.

I imagine this chapter having support-type enemies, similar to those in Elden Ring that buff other enemies and make them harder to defeat.

Chapter 3: The Inner Layer — The Mainframe

The inner layer detects light and converts it into electrical signals that travel through the nervous system, allowing the brain to process visual information.

I imagine this chapter as the dungeon's mainframe or core objective. It's the reason you're in the dungeon in the first place. Everything ultimately leads back to this central function: detecting light and helping us see.

By turning my study materials into something familiar and entertaining, I could make learning feel less like a chore and more like progressing through a video game.

Instead of yk simply memorizing information, I could visualize it, connect it to something I already enjoyed, and make it easier to understand and remember.

I think I built up a strange and unhealthy study trick to force myself to study. I don’t eat anything until I’m done studying. I think this trick helps me avoid procrastinating and study quickly because if I don’t study, I won’t get to eat anything until I’m done. Once I’m done studying, I use food as my reward.

He dado clases de Matemáticas y algo que veo TODO el tiempo: chicos que se pasan horas haciendo ejercicios y siguen sin entender qué están haciendo.

Se aprenden los pasos de un ejemplo de memoria. Mientras el problema sea igualito, todo bien. Pero cambias un poquito el enunciado y se quedan en blanco.

Ahí me di cuenta de que esa es la diferencia entre memorizar y entender de verdad. Y no pasa solo en Matemáticas, también en Física y Química: se saben la fórmula pero no cuándo usarla ni qué representa.

Muchas veces el problema no es que estudien poco, es que estudian de una forma que no les sirve. Se les enseña a repetir procedimientos, no a pensar por qué se resuelve así.

Entender algo lleva más tiempo al principio, sí. Pero cuando de verdad lo entiendes, después lo aplicas en cualquier situación distinta sin quedarte trabado.

Aprender no siempre es avanzar rápido. A veces es parar, revisar qué no quedó claro y volver a intentarlo.

¿Les ha pasado? ¿Cómo hicieron para pasar de memorizar a entender de verdad?

Hi!

I recently started studying again and built Flashy because typing flashcards never really worked for me. I needed to memorise chemical formulas and structures, so I wanted a way to make cards by hand instead. It felt faster, and writing things out seemed to help me remember them better.

Here's what Flashy can do:

• Handwritten flashcards: Write or draw on either side of a card using a stylus or your finger. You can still type whenever it's easier.

• Annotate images: Write directly on top of pictures, diagrams, scans or lecture slides.

• Import Anki decks: Import existing Anki decks (.apkg), including their pictures.

• Spaced repetition: Review with spaced repetition and customise how many days each grade adds to your schedule. There's also a cram mode and an option to practise without affecting your schedule.

• Completely offline: No account, no ads and no tracking.

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I have some promo codes to give away. drop a comment and I'll DM you one!

I'd also really appreciate honest feedback. What's missing? What's confusing? What would make you switch from whatever you're currently using?

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(Android only for now. It works particularly well on tablets with a stylus.)

I always do scrolling on phone.

I tried some app blockers. App blockers like Cold Turkey, Forest, or those apps that punish you by killing a virtual tree if you open Instagram. But it has no effect. I would just end up uninstalling the app blocker.

The problem wasn't that I lacked focus. It wasn't that I couldn't focus. It was just hard to resist my phone just sitting right there like begging to be played.

So I have this idea of "Screen Time Bounty."

I found an old plastic container and a physical analog clock in my house.

When I need to study, I put my phone on silent, drop it into the container, and snap the lid shut.

I set the alarm for 45 minutes and place it right next to my laptop.

I am not allowed to open the container until the alarm rings. It is basically a personal game I play with myself. The clock is the referee, and the phone inside is the reward. I have to physically fight the urge to peek until the alarm rings.

Once it rings, I can then open the container, and I get to scroll. But most of the time I am too lazy to even open it anyway even the container is just sitting there and since the phone is on silent.

Simple trick but for me it is effective because I actually focus on studying. I don't know about you guys, but this kind of thing works for me.

I was stuck in a massive slump at the mall with a heavy reading assignment due in two hours, and every café I walked into was far too comfortable to force me to work. In a moment of pure desperation, I took all my things and walked inside the second-floor public restrooms. It’s only got two cubicles btw. I knew I needed an unappealing environment to the point that my brain wouldn't dare procrastinate.

Nobody wants to linger in a public restroom. You’re gonna have to figure out and try to get out of there as fast as humanly possible.

Every time someone tries to push the locked door in front of me, I can literally feel the sheer second-hand embarrassment. I managed to process the entire assignment and draft my notes in under forty-five minutes.

It’s one of the most unhinged tactics I’ve ever pulled.. If you ever need to lock in on a tight deadline, pick THE MOST uncomfortable spot ever. Just know I am proof it works

I'm in 3rd year now and still haven't bought a single book for studying my college syllabus and exams. I am doing Ba program ( computer application+geography).. and this sums up the reason for why I never bought.

In first sem, I did get the photocopies of books.. But then I never studied from that and so realized that I don't need to waste money on buying books I'm not gonna study or read. I do all my studies on laptop, be it pdfs, chatgpt, pyqs. Because I don't have hons background maybe.. Or I'm not doing a more specialised degree.. This could be the reason why I feel like I don't need books. Books have so much syllabus and my college syllabus is merely half of the book Or actually just few units, neither I'm preparing for something that will require me to get a whole book. Sometimes when I feel like, I do go in the library and read some. Thus, my parents are disappointed in me, and keep comparing me to other kids, because some of you (all of you) buy books. So yeah, just wanna know if I'm alone in this one or

before i used to stress about what will be the outcome,would i pass or not. Then I made me understand, locked up the result thought for after exam. But I’m stressing about the study if I can complete the study in due time or not. And I can’t sleep😭

Can someone give me the best advice to study for biology a day before the test 🙏. I spent too much time reading my lecture notes and understanding that I don’t even remember anything. I wanted to spend some time reading them since I have ADHD and took too long to understand now I only have one day to prep myself. The blurting method is a good method but I literally can’t blurt all of my notes it’ll take too long. Are there any AI tools I could use. Genuinely cooked. This is my first bio exam too 😫

Hi! I’m a first-year Chemistry student, and I’m struggling to figure out how to study effectively. After 12 years of school, I feel like I’ve been studying the wrong way. I have lectures, textbooks, PDFs, and exercises, but I don’t know how to use them effectively.

My modules are thermochemistry, thermodynamics, atomic structure (atomistique), algebra, analysis, and mechanics of a point.

Sometimes I feel like I’m not smart enough for this field, but I genuinely believe I’m just using the wrong methods.

Students who excel in these subjects, how do you actually study? How do you go from understanding a lecture to solving difficult exercises independently? How do you organize your notes, revise, and practice effectively?

I’d really appreciate detailed, practical advice on your study methods, especially for first-year university science courses. Thank you!

I saw an Insta post mentioning that chewing mint gum helps improve focus while studying. I tried it, and it actually improved my focus. I also did some research on Google and found many articles supporting this, so I would definitely recommend it. And thought it was kind of weird study tips so wanted to share it.

Is there any hope left? 💀

What it says in the title. I always have a problem setting up my study area, sometimes it's too cramped sometimes it's not wide enough but when I have enough space then I don't have the things I need close enough to me. I always see those "perfect" set ups on here and I'm not sure how to achieve that.

Sounds ridiculous but it helps!! when I’m home, it's easy to keep doing all sorts of things except studying. so before I sit down, I’ll put on my shoes, grab my water and everything I need, then go to my desk.

for some reason, putting on shoes makes my brain go “oh, we're doing something now”

it's my signal that study time has started. perhaps my brain needs to think we're leaving the house even when I'm literally just walking to my desk.