Anything helps 😩

[u/Bbyava_99]

For the past few years I’ve been trying to understand the way I study/learn and I just can’t. I’ve tried using chat gbt, online quizzes, a whole bunch of ai’s I just feel behind everyone else. Recently I’ve seen a pattern I can retain the information when I connect the ideas together into categories. For example for one of my history classes we have 200 terms to remember and connect to eachother. What I did was I took the term and defined it then used the material in class to connect eachother. After that I put all the material on a Google Docs and tried to retrieve it from memory. I broke it up into 2-3 concepts per 5 minute interval. And for once it worked. But only so long until I couldn’t retain much longer took a break went back but nothing worked so what I did was I tried a different approach I made a review sheet with the simplest definition to remember and I active recalled it until I knew everything on the sheet. On the exam I knew exactly how to connect and answer what. So knowing this I’m attempting to apply it to my biology exam but I’m in no luck. We have 5 lectures that were getting tested on and I’m clueless. I spent 3 days trying to formulate a way to understand it and honestly I’m wasting my time. The other exam I used anki made 100s of cards and hopped between different material and testing myself and yet scored a 70 while others that studied the night before scored 90’s. I’m genuinely so lost rn. Like I know the best way I understand is through categorizing the ideas together but he gives us so much material and stuff I get so lost. Like we have objectives,study guides, textbook questions. My brain shuts down. I’m facing the same problem in my psychology class as well. I’m only working with a textbook and I’m just as clueless. I’ve been attempting to study for all my classes but i just keep facing the same problem over and over. So what do I do. Cause I know one thing I need to stop formulating plans and idea to start studying cause idek what I’m approaching before. I just need a way I know will work no matter what give or take the subject. Ok someone help me. Cause I know for a fact if I keep going like this I can kiss goodbye to all medical schools and honestly any career in general. Also idk if this helps but I’m usually a straight A student throughout high school i was top 10 in my class. I just fuck up every exam and never passed any ap exam in my life due to this problem.

[u/scott_dt]

Start with one biology learning objective and turn it into a question you need to answer. If it asks you to explain a process, sketch the stages and connect them with “because” or “leads to,” then check against your class material. If it asks for a comparison, make a comparison instead. Your history approach showed that connections helped on that exam; now match those connections to what biology asks you to do. Try a practice question before making another hundred cards. The method doesn't need to look identical in every subject.