r/GetStudying

It is 3am. i started yesterday at 9am. no breaks. house since midnight, coffee count lost, left eye doing its own thing at this point

something snapped in my brain yesterday and just went "we are not sleeping until we know every cell that has ever existed" and i just went with it. 19 hours later here we are

1400 practice questions. i could genuinely teach the krebs cycle right now i'm not even joking.

i was cooked at hour 8 but then the house just carried me through idk man the bpm does something to the brain chemistry. past hour 12 i stopped feeling tired and started feeling invincible which is probably not a good sign medically but here we are

bio test is tomorrow. going to sleep now and i will either wake up as a genius or not wake up at all, honestly both outcomes feel acceptable

update after the test if i survive. gn guys

today's goal

3hr 8mins further maths today

I always knew that "not having enough time" was an excuse from my side or maybe I just didn't know how to make keep the time.

I always had time. I just accidentally kept donating it to my phone. Very real.

I'd tell myself "just five minutes" bam, 25 minutes gone.

I told myself "one notification" and never came back.

Just a quick break-- the break turned into the study session, or vice versa.

It was never 5 hours at once but bit by bit, time will leak, unless I have zero time.

And what helped wasn't cutting off social media entirely, going full-throttle discipline mode.

Here's the key: Make studying, slightly, just a little easier, than going to your phone. Just a little easier. It can't be more easier than that.

Nothing extreme: just small things like keeping your books already in place, cleaning up the desk beforehand, already having notion or whatever study tool you use on screen, putting your phone just far enough that you'll sit down to study for a bit than go get it.

Also: let's stop promising "I'll focus this time" broken promises start to matter less and less to your brain. Then you'll subconsciously know that you aren't going to study even after saying that, but you'll just promise and move on.

Another very important tip: keep yourself focused for the first 20-25 minutes. Tell yourself it's "just 20 minutes" and then you'll find that it's easier to continue afterwards.

BASICALLY: Make getting distracted just a little more annoying than studying. Hope this helps.

I got 328/335 in A level economics last summer, scoring 99% in paper 1, 100% in paper 2 and 94% in paper 3. My results are in the attached image (marks are scaled) and thought I would share my revision techniques here to see if it can help anyone.

I started by making flashcards from the spec using physicsandmathstutor.com then memorised on quizlet write mode but I found this so boring and procrastinated so much I gave up halfway through. I still did all the section A short answers from every past paper and memorised short answer definitions and formulae and used a whiteboard for diagrams since those you have to memorise no way around that.

For the essays I started using ChatGPT, went through every past paper every 5, 8, 10, 12, 15 and 25 marker, for 5 and 8 I would write the answer for all others I would just write plans then feed into gpt with mark scheme and level descriptors and told gpt to rip it apart find any reason to mark me down be pedantic. I would then see the gaps it highlights and work through with gpt going through each point like 'oh so I should have written like this...' essentially just using it as a private tutor. I would also take any points I wasn't sure on and talk it through explore all angles to make sure I properly understood it rather than just having it memorised for recall and this helped me work on my chains of reasoning making sure everything has a place in the essay no wasted lines everything builds from the previous and flows well.

My other weak point was evaluations, watched some econplusdal youtube videos on evaluation then worked on them with gpt same way getting it to rip them apart. Once I started scoring 18-20/25 on my 25 markers with gpt ripping apart my essays that was when I knew I was really getting full marks since the reasons gpt was deducting for began to sound quite silly.

I only tried AI revision for economics since I wasn't sure how it would go but now in first year uni I used AI to revise for all my modules, 2 days per module from scratch not having attended any lectures and I am on a first. I have moved off GPT since I haven't rated their models recently and you reach chat length limits quite easily doing AI revision which means you lose all your context when you start a new chat so I moved onto c137.ai to get around this.

Would highly recommend trying AI for revision or learning since its way less boring then straight memorising and you actually understand topics rather then just being able to recall them but you must use it like a personal tutor, you cannot just get it to do the work for you you need to be asking questions properly understanding writing in your own words.

I made a little progress by answering 200+ qbanks. i still felt its not enough. Please give me more study encouragements. 💪

It’s always better to study without feeling like you’re studying. I’ve been sitting here studying philosophy for two hours now !

I had trouble understanding HVAC systems, so I started simplifying them into visual diagrams.

It really helped me understand the big picture faster.

If anyone is interested, I can share the free pack in the comments.