Hello guys, so I'm a ca inter student preparing for Jan 2027 exams, I really get exhausted sometimes studing alone, so if there is someone in the same situation, DM me and we can have some study sessions together.

I live in South delhi.

I'm going to start my masters as a part time student on the 13th of September... Any advice/tips for me? I'm looking forward to start a new chapter in my life.

Hello, I am a 27 year old college student & I am embarrassed to admit I need some major help. Currently studying for COMPTIA A+ for my college cybersecurity program. All I literally have to do is listen to the lectures, take notes, do a little practice quiz, etc. However the issue is my brain. I will try so hard to focus on my schoolwork & my brain will do one of 3 things.

1.) Think about topics that I actually want to do, like a fun activity, or something that I want to buy, or something completely off topic but I love. Literally I will be thinking of everything else but my lecture.

2.) I will try and fall asleep. & It won’t matter when. Even if it’s after I first wake up, it’s like I took sleeping meds my brain will literally shut down.

3.) I will muster all I can to listen word by word. Almost as if I am putting all my mental strength in a straight jacket and using all that I can muster to focus on understanding my work. & All that I will hear essentially is Charlie Brown’s teacher sounds. I don’t understand a single thing that my professor is talking about.

My mentality was for a minute — just to keep showing up and eventually something will click. Keep showing up trying to understand and eventually. I will catch on. But I sat at my desk yesterday, desperately trying to understand for hours, and I fought back tears because I didn’t understand any of it. I had sat there for over 3 hours trying to. I refuse to go into my 30s without something to show for it. My fiancé is also in cybersecurity and he is supposed to be teaching me. However, I’m also a grown woman, and I can’t possibly expect him to sit side-by-side and grab my hand and walk me through every single piece of it. Even when he tries to explain it to me it’s on such a high-level that I don’t get it. He naturally gets it and he is unfortunately not that good at breaking things down for me.

A few factors as to why I think this is. Firstly, whenever I was younger, a teacher who had a weird personal vendetta against me told my mother that she believed I had a learning issue, and she recommended that I put on ADHD medication. So at the age of seven or eight, they put me on a high dose of Adderall. I will never forget how much that changed my brain and the world around me. I had quit the medication cold Turkey sometime in middle school. Since then, I’m not sure if my brain has ever went back to normal. I’m not even sure if that’s what this is.

* trigger warning (abuse)

Another factor might be I have experience some pretty insane and intense trauma, from being strangled I almost lost my life, and my brain was without oxygen for a chunk of time. The doctor’s working with me said had it been any longer I probably wouldn’t have made it. I don’t want this to turn into a trauma dump fest. I do think that that is an important part of this though. Being as how shortly after that, I had trouble formulating sentences like normal.

Obvious factor is just how much I’ve probably fried my attention span with things like TikTok and cheap dopamine checking my phone in the mornings.

I thought it was my phone all of this time so I even purchased a lockbox to lock my phone up until the time goes off that I want myself to focus on studying. However, I’m realizing that is not it at all. It’s truly just my brain. And I know this sounds like a load of BS and I’m throwing myself a pity party. I’ve been around people like that. However, I’m promising you. I’m just trying to understand how I can keep my focus whenever I’m studying and actually absorb the lecture. Because yes, I can sit there and listen to the lecture and take notes but if you asked me after the lecture was over what we talked about, I couldn’t tell you.

Please, if anybody has ever experienced this and somehow figured out a way to help yourself focus and actually understand the material, please feel free to comment anything that may have helped you even just a little bit.

I want desperately to be a functioning part of society & make my years of suffering mean something, I want to prove to myself I can do it despite what my challenges have been.

Hi, I’m an high school student. I’m struggling a lot with studying. I always say “I’ll study tomorrow” and end up having to study everything the NIGHT before but, even then, I just end up doomscrolling instead of at least reading the material. Even if I don’t have anything to get distracted with, I’ll just stare at my notes and think about anything but studying. Any tips?

Every long break I've had this semester, I come back and spend the first ten minutes just trying to remember what I was doing before I left. So this time, before I close everything for the weekend, I'm writing down exactly where I stopped in each class. Not detailed, just enough that Tuesday-me doesn't have to reconstruct anything.

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There's this thing I started doing a few months back where I write for about ten minutes before I open any book or notes. Not about the subject, just whatever is rattling around in my head from the day. It started as a general journaling habit and then kind of bled into my study routine by accident.

The weird part is that sessions where I do it feel noticeably less scattered than ones where I just launch straight into the material. My brain seems to settle faster. I can't tell if that's real or if I've just convinced myself because I like journaling anyway and want it to be useful in every context.

What I'm actually curious about is whether anyone has tried something like this deliberately, not as a vague wellness thing but as an actual study technique to clear mental clutter before focusing. There's probably something in the productivity podcast world about it, and I've heard bits and pieces, but I'm more interested in what people who actually study regularly find works.

Also genuinely unsure if ten minutes is too long and I'm just burning time I should spend on the actual material. Would shorter work the same way, or does it need enough time to feel like it landed?

Let’s stop pretending finals week is some heroic struggle against an oppressive academic system. It’s 2026. We are living through the absolute golden age of automated academic performance, yet every single exam season, my feed gets flooded with the exact same pathetic whining: "The workload is too heavy," "The professors are unfair," "I'm burning out."

Enough. If you are failing your classes or struggling to get straight A's right now, there are only two explanations: pure laziness or sheer stupidity.

AI does 95% of the heavy lifting for you today. You have tools that can summarize a 400-page textbook in thirty seconds, generate fully formatted citations, solve complex calculus problems with step-by-step logic, write clean code, and draft structured essays before you even finish your morning coffee. You don't even need to be a genius to use them—you literally just need to know how to type a semi-coherent prompt.

Using AI to crush your exams isn't "cheating"—it’s basic efficiency. In the real world, no employer gives a damn if you spent forty hours grinding through a syllabus by hand or if you used an LLM to master the material in forty minutes. The market rewards results, speed, and leverage. If you refuse to use the most powerful leverage in human history because you're "too honorable" or too clueless to figure out basic prompt engineering, you aren't noble. You're just incompetent.

Complaining about deadlines when an algorithm can draft your term paper while you sleep is embarrassing. If you can't figure out how to pass a standardized university exam with an artificial superintelligence sitting in your pocket, you simply don't belong in higher education.

Stop making excuses, learn how to prompt, and start using the tools available to you—or drop out and make room for people who actually know how to survive in this decade.

Looking for people to join my study server! 📚

I’m pretty consistent and usually study 10+ hours daily, from around 5 AM to 10 PM IST, with a few breaks in between (which can last around 2–3 hours) on discord. I’m currently preparing for NEET 2027.

I’m looking for people who:

• Actually show up and study consistently, preferably daily
• Have their own study goals and routines
• Keep the group focused during study sessions
• Are comfortable with long study sessions and regular check-ins
• Most importantly, don’t join for a day and disappear 😭 I’m looking for people who genuinely want to stick around long-term.

You don’t have to study the exact same subjects or follow my exact schedule, but consistency is a must.

That said, I don’t want this to be a server that’s just about studying 24/7. I think studying alongside a community makes it much more sustainable, so there’ll also be plenty of time to talk, take breaks, and get to know each other.

DM me only if you’re genuinely committed to being active in the group!

Genuine question. Posting this as I am writing down notes but I really want some music that can motivate me to study more. I know it can vary, some may say "listen to your usual fav" but it really isn't working as I end up literally singing the lyrics or mainly vibe with the song.

So what do you guys usually listen to when you REALLY need to lock in?? T_T

I’m in Year 11 and I really want to become a much better student, but I feel like I don’t really know how to study properly or use my time well.
The subjects I mainly need to focus on are General Maths, General English, Study of Religion, Film/Media and Design.
My goal is to get around 80–90%+ and eventually be one of the better students in my classes. I don’t just want to scrape through assignments though, I actually want to understand what I’m learning and be able to go into an exam confident that I know the content.
Maths is one of the main things I struggle with. Sometimes I understand something when it’s being taught, but then when I get a different type of question in an exam I don’t know how to apply what I learnt.
English is probably an even bigger problem for me. I really want to get better at essay writing, using better language, analysing quotes properly, explaining techniques and actually building a strong argument. I feel like my writing just isn’t at the level I want it to be.
I’ve also realised I’ve relied on ChatGPT too much for assignments. I would use it to help write things and then rewrite it in my own words, but I’m starting to realise that it hasn’t actually made me better at writing or thinking for myself. I want to get to the point where I can sit down and actually write a good assignment myself.
I also struggle with actually remembering what I study. I don’t want to spend 2 hours “studying” and then realise I barely remember any of it.
So for people who are A students or consistently get high marks, what actually helped you get there?
How do you study for exams, improve at essay writing, remember content, practise maths and organise your time during the week?
I’m willing to put the work in. I just want to learn how to do it properly instead of wasting time or relying on shortcuts.

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Three-day weekend coming up and I already know what happens: I come back Tuesday, open my laptop, and just stare at it for ten minutes trying to remember what I was even doing.

This time I'm writing down exactly where I am in each class before I close the laptop Friday. Not a summary, just literally "stopped here, next thing is this." Cheap insurance against future me having no idea what past me was thinking.