Hey I'm 18 years old female in class 12th Pcb stream

I failed in 12th last year, that's why I am repeating the year. This year also it is the same, the whole year is about to end but I have not studied anything.

It is not that I have not studied anything, it is that whatever I study, I do not understand anything, like I do not even know the basics of anything, this time I really want to pass 12th with good marks.

And if I am not able to do this then my family will get me married and now I am afraid of this thing, should I not do this, there is no one here who can help me in getting good marks in the exam.

I have just joined this app two days ago, I don't even know how to use it, I have been posting since yesterday two days and I have not received a single DM or reply, does no one want to help me

One of my tuition mates told me about this app that it is very useful for studies, so I am trying it here one last time, my post does not get any views than how can people connect with me?

Please help me dm me or comment I hope this post get enough reach

For a while, we wanted to improve our processes and workflow without burning out, and we discovered a highly effective method: a "brain dump" combined with strict time blocking (assigning specific, uninterrupted 45- minute slots to a single task). It completely transformed our workflow.

Basically: first, get everything out of your head and onto paper, then filter for what really matters today. This prevents your brain from seeking distractions and keeps the focus solely on priority tasks.

If anyone is currently struggling with task paralysis, give this a try! How do you all organize your daily tasks?

I have tried absolutely everything, studied everything but when I sit down on a test I CANT DO IT.

I suck at essays and have no sense of everything. I have always been this way since I was in elementary school, I would cry everyday for math because I would get so frustrated when I look up and everyone's writing something. Like I try to put my effort in but for some reason I always fuck every tests up. Can't actually remember the last time I actually did very well on exams. I feel stupid and illiterate for everything. I have been wanting to get my brain checked if there's something actually going on with me because gosh damn I am so stupid, slow and get constant brain fog.

Anyone help me please I need to improve.

I am in my senior year in high school and words can’t even describe how bad my procrastination has gotten to, It’s horrendous.

It’s gotten to the point that even if I deleted all my social medias I will still just sit there doing nothing rather than actually doing my work early. I physically can’t do any work unless it’s the day before the due date and it’s impacting my mental health a lot. There’s like no cortisol in my body, I have such a lack of urgency and when the due date comes I get a sudden spike of stress. I genuinely don’t know what to do, I tried exercising before my work because I thought I had ADHD and I saw online that moving before doing work helps, which it did work for like 10 min. I literally tried every thing but with no successes at all.

Also when start one assignment the stress of the other makes me just dissociate and I will just sit there and zone out. It’s literally almost 10 at night and I have an art assignment to do but I feel stressed about college app so I just distracted my self with Netflix because if not, I would just zone out and disassociate. Music kinda helps but it’s annoying & distracting to me personally.

But like idk what to do, I have achieved many great things in my teen years that I feel really proud because of this habit my mental and physical health was the price I paid to achieve them. Moreover, I feel as though I can’t reach my full potential and it’s preventing me from a lot of the opportunities I would get if I actually get it together. if anyone has any solutions or tips pls pls pls let me know.

Woke up to a nightmare about failing in exam. and I think I needed that.
Couldn't study properly for 1day and at all for 2 days straight because of my job. and when I came home one of my cousins came and just doing constant chitchatting. How do you say No to someone, specially to whom who does understand that you don't have time, but still continues to waste your+their own time. I couldn't avoid her because I'm staying in their house and doing job and study here.ugh.

Hi everyone. I’m 19, and i’m already on my second university because i just can’t seem to make it work where i am. I’m studying psychology, but i don’t want to work in that field later on. I do enjoy helping people, but i really dislike studying online—which is what i’m doing right now. I read somewhere that if you want to find a job you’ll actually enjoy, you should focus on the things that come most easily to you. The problem is, none of the things i do are likely to earn me any money in the future. What should i do?

Hey!

I am a psychology undergraduate 4th year student. My semester ends are coming close with entrances for postgraduate.

But i don't feel motivated to start the preparation. I know time is running, tried talking to my friend and mentor but still I feel exhausted even with the idea of sitting for studies.

If anyone can help with this will be great. I just need some motivation or a less exhausting way of starting things.

It’s easy to just focus on the obvious stuff like headings, bold words, definitions, and whatever looked important BUT don't forget to pay attention to the random parts in between too!! (cuz well they aren’t really random).
when studying a chapter, I try not to skip:
little examples after a concept
explanations between 2 main points
diagrams+the text explaining them
side notes or footnotes that add context to whatever’s discussed
those sentences that explain why something works
sometimes the main definition makes sense but the example right after it is what supports or completes the topic. so now when I study a chapter I try not to just hunt for the “important” parts. I read the stuff around them too esp if I’m sitting there like “ok I kinda get it...but not really”

Mine

This may sound backwards but try putting wrong answers into your study sessions on purpose.  After I learn a topic, I’ll make up and write down a believable mistake and then try to figure out where it goes wrong.
But it’s important to not just make the wrong answer. Keep in mind that you still have to explain why it's wrong+what makes the correct answer different (that is the point in the first place).
It’s useful for situations where I keep mixing things up cuz I’ll learn to tell the reasoning behind an answer and not just memorizing the “right” answer.

Took me embarrassingly long to work this out.

Most of uni I reread. Highlighter over everything, reread the highlights, felt good about it. Then blank in the exam. I assumed I was just not doing enough hours.

At some point I actually tried self-testing. Closed the notes, wrote down whatever came out. It felt awful, I was getting maybe half of it, so I went back to rereading. Obviously I was worse at it.

Turns out I'd been measuring it in the one window where it can't work.

There's a 2006 study (Roediger & Karpicke) where students reread or self-tested for the same total time. Check yourself five minutes later and rereading actually wins. Give it two days or a week and self-testing wins clearly, 61% against 40% remembered. The rereaders were also the ones who felt more confident, which is the annoying part.

What's working for me now:

1. Notes closed. Write down what you remember. Ugly is fine, half of it will be wrong.

2. Open the notes. Whatever you missed is the part that actually does the work.

3. Same topic again tomorrow. Not in five minutes.

4. Then spread out, roughly day 1, 3, 7, 16, 35.

I use tryacademee.com, but you can use what works for you or do it yourself for free.

The five minute thing is what killed it for me the first time. Anyone else measure it too early and write the whole method off?

After studying a topic, I tell myself to explain the main idea in one sentence. It’s my quick check to see if I really understood the topic or if I just recognized the words while reading.

You can think of it as what if someone asked me what this is about, what would I say in one sentence? just ONE (not a paragraph or whole page). Then attempt to say it without looking at any notes.

If I can get the sentence out without staring at the ceiling for 5 minutes trying to remember what I just read then. if I have the word mitosis, I'd close my notes and try to explain it in one sentence. If I can get the basic idea out on my own, good enough.

But if I’m sitting there thinking “wait... the chromosomes do something..then the cell splits...what was that again” then yeah back to my notes.

Make guesses on what your professor would put on the exam! (and no not bc you suddenly became clairvoyant or anything)

I take note of the stuff they keep emphasizing/coming back to or give a bunch of examples for. Then based on these I’d think to myself “okay but if I were making the exam, what would I ask about this?” then I come up with a few possible questions before moving on.

I also look at HOW they explain things. If they keep comparing two concepts, I’ll expect something that makes me tell them apart. Also if they keep giving examples, I’ll expect some kind of application question.

Ofc you can never be 100% sure of what will come out in the exams but I just think it makes studying feel less like “read everything and pray” (and it’s always better to have an idea of what I need to know for the exam).