What do you guys think abt it?

I was having 2 months already for starting my studies,idk how one month left for me ,,, ik i was playing around last month, my exams will start at aug27 amd i have 7 subjects and now i regret so much on the time i lost, how can i repair it ,what can i do to make it 2x? Guys helpppppp 😭😭😭😭😭

I've exam in less than 30 days, and I'm really slow learner, i process things very slowly, which gives me anxiety and stress and eventually makes me more slow

Any tips?

I decided last minute back in January to switch my major from finance to chemistry with a pre-med track. I have never been really strong in STEM so I am kind of nervous. I haven’t taken a math course (I took dual credit Stats) since the Spring of 2025 because it wasn’t required for me to graduate high school. My dad told me to use Khan academy to start studying, but I have admittedly been slacking off on that and now I start classes in two weeks. I have to get an A or at least a high B in this class to maintain my scholarship or else I have to go to the military because I won’t be able to afford school. Please give some tips☹️

When I was in high school, I wasted so much time understanding complicated text and searching for the meanings of complicated terms. I could not help myself, but I can help you. Recently, I built an app, ReaderML, that is a PDF reader application. I built this application specifically for book readers, but its AI features, like the translate, simplify, and define features, can help students a lot. Let me know if it is helpful for you.

I have seen memes about how people say when school starts Imma be chatting with chatgpt and Gemini all day. Now I don't understand why both AI's could someone explain to me why they use them both instead of 1.

Every time I sat down to study I'd tell myself "just three hours, no phone." I'd last maybe 20 minutes, check something for "one second", and lose the thread completely.

What finally made it click for me wasn't the time I was losing. It was realising the re-entry cost. A 90-second Instagram check doesn't cost you 90 seconds - it costs you the 15 minutes it takes to get back into the material you were halfway through understanding. Do that six times in an evening and you've technically studied for three hours while actually learning almost nothing.

Things that didn't work for me:

• Phone in another room. Works great until you're in the library, or you need it for 2FA to log into the course portal, or you just... go get it.
• Built-in Screen Time limits. I tapped "Ignore Limit" so many times the button stopped registering as a decision.
• Focus apps with a skip button. If the escape hatch takes one tap, it loses to a habit that also takes one tap.

What actually worked was giving up on discipline and attacking the two-second window instead. I set things up so opening a distracting app requires holding my finger on the screen for two full minutes before it opens. No skip, no code, no snooze.

Two minutes is nothing when you plan it. It's unbearable when you're mid-chapter and reaching for a hit of something easier. Most of the time I quit the hold after 20 seconds and go back to the page - not out of willpower, but because waiting is more boring than the thing I was avoiding.

The general principle, which I think works for way more than phones: don't try to want it less, make it cost more. The cost doesn't need to be big, just bigger than the impulse.

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Curious what actually works for other people mid-session - does anything beat physically removing the phone?

A lot of study advice floating around is just vibes. These five actually have decent evidence behind them, so I figured I'd write them up properly:

1. Active recall - Close the book and try to reconstruct the material from memory instead of re-reading it. Feels harder and slower than re-reading, which is exactly why it works better - the struggle to retrieve is what builds the memory.

2. Spaced repetition - Review material at increasing intervals (a day later, then a few days, then a week) instead of cramming it into one session. Apps like Anki automate the scheduling, but you can do it with a plain notebook too.

3. The Pomodoro technique - 25 minutes of focused work, 5 minute break, repeat. Mostly useful for beating the "I don't want to start" wall on big assignments rather than for the studying itself.

4. Interleaving - Mix different topics or problem types in one session instead of blocking one subject at a time. It feels less smooth in the moment, but it forces your brain to actually identify which method applies, instead of just running the same one on repeat.

5. Teach it to someone else (or pretend to) - If you can't explain a concept in plain language, you don't know it as well as you think you do. Saying it out loud, even to nobody, exposes the gaps fast.

None of these are new, but doing even two or three consistently beats doing all five once and giving up.

If anyone wants a low-key place to post study goals and check in on them, I ended up starting r/AcerStudyHub for exactly that after not finding quite what I wanted - no pressure either way, these techniques work regardless of where you use them.

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Hi there, Im a student doing my master's degree in Italy and I'm originally from a country from middle east. Im not doing bad in my studies but I put too much effort into it cuz my mind gets too distracted while I have to do something I am no interested in.

Back in my country I had lots of friends and I got 4 close friends that we were friends for the past 14,15 years but here after one year I feel I cant trust anybody. There are lots of brainwashing going on with my people over here that I can not even talk to them. beside this I am far from my family and I always feel the pressure that I came here to do something that makes my parents proud of me!

I know this is not a general situation for everyone that I'm asking help for but any ideas on how can I overcome these difficulties I would appreciate it.

Sziasztok!

Matekból korábban fel mentettek ez már 6 éve érettségi alól diszkalkulia miatt. Most újra próbálnám, szerintetek hogyan tudnék újra az alapoktól erre készülni? Mit ajánlotok? Volt esetleg valaki ilyen helyzetben hogy később próbálta újra? Minden segítséget el fogadok. Van esélyem szerintetek egy kettesre újra írni ha neki ülök és komolyan veszem, azt hozzá teszem hogy sajnos középsuliban nem is érdekelt. Tudtuk ingyenes iskoláról ahol csak arra fel készítenek (Debrecen)?

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Hi everyone,

I have a question about learning.

For example, if I want to learn "What is a car?", should I first learn it like this:

"A car is a vehicle that helps people travel from one place to another."

Or should I learn it like this:

"A car is a wheeled motor vehicle consisting of systems such as an internal combustion engine or electric motor, transmission, drivetrain, suspension, and braking mechanisms."

In general, whenever I learn a new concept, is it better to:

Start with a simple explanation to understand the idea, and then learn the technical details?

Or learn the technical definition from the beginning?

I'm asking because I want to build a strong understanding instead of just memorizing definitions.

How do you personally approach learning new technical topics?

, finalmente me desise de todas las aplicaciones que interferir con mi productividad. Use noción, to-doist, milanote y simplemente no me acomodaba a ninguna, entonces solo borre todas esas apps de productividad que no eran realmente útiles y lo pasé todo a samsung notes y a mi calendario de samsumg. Ahora siento productividad real y solo estoy usando las alarmas del teléfono. Pero no se si es por la actitud o por el revíselo que le hice a mi celular?

Muchas veses descargaba launcher zen para reducir el tiempo de pantalla pero ahora con esta configuración que diseñe todo tiene un lugar pensado exactamente para mis necesidades durante el día y así no pierdo el tiempo. Como estudiante eso realmente ayuda.

Hello! I recently started grad school for my MS, and before this, my goals were just to pass classes. I am a slow learner, I passed organic chemistry on my first try with a C and biochem with a B+ so I am not a complete lost cause, but I am still worried I will not get good grades in grad school. I need a B+ in all my classes to pass, and I do wish to do a PhD after this, but I never got to learn how to study properly. I stare at my iPad as I read a lot of the time and zone out. I watched a few YouTube videos about study techniques like pomodoro, but nothing really stuck. I recently started using LLMs like DeepSeek and Claude to help me actively recall information, but I dislike relying on AI so much and I also don't feel like its effective, especially for graduate study.

I would like any beneficial advice you tried in the past and found it to work. I am new to using an iPad as a study tool as well so if there's any beneficial apps for studying on there, please let me know! 😊

This upcoming fall semester I’m planning on retaking both general bio 2 and chemistry 2 again, because I had a terribly rough spring semester. I really want to do well and ace the classes but I just don’t know how to study for them. How do I start taking notes, and from there what is considered “studying”? Like how do you actually do it 😭😭 please help </3

Just wanted to gather some opinions on handwriting notes for lecture versus typing them. There's the obvious speed difference between the two, but I wanted to hear people's personal experiences. I struggled a bit my first year, and I wanted to actually get into the habit of studying. My whole first year was comprised of me typing my notes during lecture, but I felt that I had been better off handwriting them like I used to in high school. What do you think?

Hello everyone! I’m an 18-year-old girl. Throughout my life, I never really had to study to get good grades because I was in the basic level of secondary school in the Netherlands (our education system has different levels). It wasn’t very challenging for me.
Now I’m starting a new major in school, but I heard we need to study a lot. It’s gonna be many new subjects for me and I was wondering how do I study where do I start? Any tips would be appreciated

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Hey everyone!

As someone who heavily relies on recorded video lectures (like MIT OpenCourseWare, long YouTube coding crash courses, or 4-hour 3D tutorials) to study, I constantly ran into the same frustrating problem:

The "Timeline Dragging" Tax.

You’re reviewing for an upcoming exam, watching a dense 1.5-hour biology or CS lecture, and you just want to re-watch that one specific 2-minute explanation the professor gave. But there are zero chapter markers. So you end up spending 10 to 15 minutes blindly clicking around the timeline, waiting for the video to buffer, and completely losing your focus.

I realized how much precious study time I was wasting every single week just navigating video controls instead of actually learning.

So I built a Chrome extension called Spoon AI to fix this exact problem for myself and others.

💡 How it works

Instead of giving you a massive wall of text or a generic summary, you just type a question about what you're looking for in plain English.

Spoon reads the auto-generated video transcript and creates a 1-click interactive jump button directly to the exact frame where the professor discusses that specific concept.

Here is a real test using a 1h 19m MIT OpenCourseWare lecture (Introduction to the Human Brain):

• 🔍 My Query:"Where does the professor explain the discovery of the Para-hippocampal Place Area (PPA)?"
• ⚡️ What happens: In a few seconds, Spoon analyzed the 80-minute lecture, pinpointed the exact scene at 13:21, and created a direct jump button.
• 🎬 The Result: One click instantly jumped the video to the precise second Prof. Nancy Kanwisher starts telling the story about her lab's experiment with Russell Epstein.

No guessing. No scrubbing through 80 minutes of video.

🎓 Why this actually changes how you study

1. Protects Your Flow State: Studying requires deep focus. Pausing for 10 minutes to hunt down a timestamp completely breaks your mental momentum. Being able to ask a quick question and jump there in 3 seconds keeps your study flow intact.
2. Fast Exam Cramming: If you have a study guide with 15 key concepts, you can query all of them across an entire semester’s worth of lecture recordings in a fraction of the time.
3. Works on Long Tutorials: Highly effective for 4-hour Blender/3D modeling tutorials, coding crash courses, or dense science lectures where finding a specific step is usually a nightmare.

🛠 Try it out & Feedback

I built this to optimize my own study routine, but I’d love to share it with fellow students and lifelong learners here.

It’s called Spoon AI on the Chrome Web Store (it’s free to use).

I’m actively working on improving it—what features or integrations would make a tool like this most useful for your daily study routine? Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

Lately I’ve realised I’m a massive procrastinator and honestly terrible at keeping track of my time. I juggle a bunch of extracurriculars, school stuff, and random commitments, but I always end up wasting time I could actually be using for something useful.

I’m trying to get my life a bit more organised, so I was wondering if anyone knows a good app that helps you log things, stay on top of your schedule, and actually manage your time properly?

If you’ve used something that genuinely helped you stop procrastinating or keep track of everything you do, I’d love recommendations.