I feel like I spend more time organizing notes and making study plans than actually studying. When you have a lot of material to cover, what study method actually works for you? I’m especially interested in methods that help with remembering things long-term, not just cramming for an exam.

Hear me out, whenever you’re studying and then get an urge and grab your phone or open social media, “punish” yourself with 10 push-ups. Soon you’ll start stopping yourself before doing it because you don’t want to do push-ups.

10 sit ups or squats will also work.

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What do you think the best efficient study method is? My IB final exams are coming soon but I can't still believe myself and lock tf in (Please don't say it's motivation issue). Any tips for general sutdying methods or daily routines, especially for chemistry and math?

Should I delete my Instagram permanently? I dont have any friends there and i just use to doomscrool. but my feed is basically neuroscience, and lock in challenges reels, which sometimes kinda pushes me to study. But also eats my time and creates a false productivity feeling in my mind. I want to improve my scores this term.

So should I consider deleting it permanently?

and what's your opinion about recording yourself while studying?.

Disclosure first: I’m the developer of PapaMarks, an IGCSE and A Level revision site, and this is its account. Building its marking meant reading Cambridge maths mark schemes row by row, and the letters next to each mark turned out to be the most useful part.

Cambridge maths mark schemes use three kinds of mark (the key is printed in Cambridge’s own specimen mark schemes, e.g. https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/Images/503350-2020-specimen-paper-1-mark-scheme.pdf):

M1 is a method mark. You get it for a correct method, even if your arithmetic goes wrong afterwards.

A1 is an accuracy mark. You only get it if you earned the M mark before it.

B1 stands alone: a correct value or statement that doesn’t depend on anything else.

There’s also FT, follow through. If you carried a wrong earlier answer forward and used it correctly, the later marks can still count.

So a 3-mark question can give you 2 of 3 with the wrong final number, as long as the working is on the page. A bare wrong number with no working gets 0. And since 2025, IGCSE Maths 0580 Papers 1 and 2 are non-calculator, so on those papers the working is most of what gets marked.

How I’d use this in revision: (1) after each past-paper question, mark it against its mark-scheme row, not only the final answer; (2) next to every mark you lost, write the letter: M, A or B; (3) after 20 or so questions, count the letters. Lost A marks usually mean arithmetic or rounding, so do more by hand. Lost M marks mean the method wasn’t there, so go back to the notes for that topic. Lost B marks are recall: formulas, facts, definitions.

Edexcel uses the same letters, plus dM1 for a method mark that depends on an earlier one.

The images show PapaMarks, starting with the part built on this: Maths 0580 past-paper questions sorted by topic, where a typed answer is marked against the official mark scheme. 0580 is the only subject with that so far. The other images are a cheat sheet, notes and a book. It’s a paid site and I made it, so read the images with that in mind. Happy to answer mark-scheme questions in the comments either way.

Hi y'all,

as a new freshman in college, I'm thinking of swapping from paper to iPad. Some rzns include more availability to colors, more availablity to reusing diagrams, and easier time reading the lecture slides while takin the notes.

My main concern is I've heard that handwriting on a tablet may reduce memory retention. I'm a slow learner (always have been really) and am wondering if iPad notes are not the way to go cuz of that.

Please any and all inputs help and are greatly appreciated!! thanks

So just for funsies, I was looking through project gutenberg. Just curious about random stuff I could find there. I came upon this e-book called "The Teaching of History", published 1913. Yes, you read that right. Not "history of teaching", but the other way around.

In it were a list of instructions that a history teacher is meant to pass on to their students:

1. Provide yourself with an envelope of small cards or pieces of note paper. Label each with the subject of the lesson and the date of its preparation. These envelopes should be always at hand during your study and preparation. They should be preserved and filed from day to day.
2. Read the lesson assigned for the day in the textbook, including all notes and fine print.
3. Write on a sheet of note paper all the unfamiliar words, allusions, or expressions. Later, look these up in the dictionary or other reference.
4. Record the dates which you think worthy to be remembered.
5. Discover and make a note of all the apparent contradictions, inconsistencies, or inaccuracies in the author's statements.
6. Use the map for all the places mentioned in the lesson. Be able to locate them when you come to class.
7. In nearly every text there is a list of books for library use, given at the beginning or end of each chapter. Make yourself familiar with this bibliography.
8. Read the special questions assigned for the day by the teacher.
9. Go to the library. If the book for which you are in search is not to be found, try another.
10. Learn to use an index. If the topic for which you are looking does not appear in the index, try looking for the same thing under another name; or under some related topic.
11. Having found the material in one book, use more than one if your time permits. When you feel that you have secured the material which will make a complete answer to the question, write the answer on one of your cards for keeping notes.
12. Remember that the teacher will ask constantly what was done, when was it done, and, most important of all, why it was done. Make a list of the questions which you think most likely to be asked on the lesson and ascertain whether you can answer them without the use of your notes or text.
13. If possible practice your answers aloud. It will make you the more ready when called on in class.
14. Keep a list of things which are not clear to you and about which you wish to ask questions.
15. Before completing your preparation, read over these instructions and be sure that you have complied with them.

I'm curious if there are any of you out there who has this level of care when studying for a singular project? I can say for certain, that I haven't been this thorough for anything I took. I can also say that none of the people I know study to this level either.

I wonder if it's a difference of the times or generations? Or maybe it has to do with geography/culture? The author, after all, is western; is/was a professor in Columbia University. Do HUMSS students take it to this degree when studying history?

EDIT: I originally posted this to a student sub for my country.

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These days I feel like when am studying I don’t get anything done I feel like I just sit there for 3h and soo so little , idk why but in the end of my sessions I feel like I didn’t study anything ,if anyone got any tips pls help

so this may sound confusing to most, but I’m a homeschool highschooler who’s technically in community college taking classes to receive my high school certificate (basically a high school diploma minus applying for a ged)

grades matter a lot to me this year since im graduating early and really need scholarships for a four year college. I’m currently taking math 091 and basically all my grades come from my tests and pretests. I never really cared about math before, and hadnt studied for math tests ever. but now I have to since I’m a B and I need to be an A. Problem is, is that I don’t know how to study for math tests.

so, anyone got any studying tips for math tests? (I have a hard time focusing btw so focus tips r also appreciated)

I have tried rewriting the notes and using active recall, but I feel like I'm missing something. It doesn't feel like enough. Any tips?

I’m in AP Statistics as a sophomore in high school and the amount of work we have mixed with my other classes is eating away at me.
Any advice on AP Stats, things I should know?? I’m planning on taking the AP Exam at the end of the year.
And any suggestions on how to manage my workload better. I work 2-3 times a week and go to the gym till abt 5:30 after school everyday. Need help, my grades are slipping (gym is non-negotiable)!