u/Far-Impression2284

For example, rereading vs. active recall.

How do I cope with years of comments and humiliation from people who tell me I'm useless, lazy, and irresponsible, that I'm not good enough, not even mediocre, even after trying everything and managing to focus and work hard? I still feel like I can't even be half as good as the average person, despite putting in double or triple the hours. I have no refuge or hobbies because failure always seems to follow, wherever i go. People know "I'm privileged" and have many more hours to work on what I want, but I still fail and they put the burden on me, .

That's it, I need to learn mostly from books, it's all very strict, everything by heart, that's how I'm evaluated and I'd like to learn a technique other than active recall or flashcards.I try to apply it, but I only remember some phrases, and I don't remember the ones that don't have a visual anchor.And it's complicated to create a locus that is associated with an entire paragraph.

I've tried it with short data sets like 20 random numbers or words; it's fast and works on the first or second recall. But I don't remember, recall with entire paragraphs.

How they do it? I know several classmates (about three) who manage to memorize everything photographically, literally, with 99% accuracy, and they always get perfect scores because of it (I'm studying a subject with dense information). I don't know how they do it, but I always see them reading intently once, and then when the exam comes around, they regurgitate everything from memory. That's never happened to me; even after rereading more than ten times, I forget everything and fail with very low grades. Only active recall works for me. It's very frustrating and painful

Stimulants are supposed to significantly reduce symptoms related to impulse control, concentration, and memory. In other words, it's expected that many people with ADHD would experience a significant improvement in their performance.

Could you share your experience regarding improvements in academic performance and memory?

A few weeks ago, I was diagnosed with AuDHD. Everything started to make sense: why I was always useless at memorizing facts, and why I was and still am terrible at studying, a complete failure. I finally understood why it took me six more repetitions than everyone else to memorize something, or why the next day, after reviewing the material for ten hours, I couldn't remember a thing. I would fail every subject with a 1 or 2, spending days without sleep or food, only to go completely blank during the exam. It wasn't because I was 'lazy' or 'spoiled,' as I was always called, but because my brain works differently. It’s a mind that simply doesn't memorize from reading and rereading for days on end, it doesn't want that information in its long-term memory. How do you deal with a memory that doesn't exist? (Being in a career where I have to read mountains of text and memorize everything by heart certainly doesn't help)

I'm studying a very theoretical and memorization-based degree. And I can't imagine how people studied and memorized things before without tools like Anki, Active Recall, or Feynman. If I use techniques like reading and rereading, transcribe by hand, I only retain about 5-10% of the information.