r/GetStudying

It feels like students today are expected to:

• get high grades
• build experience
• learn new skills
• network
• Stay productive constantly,

all while trying not to burn out mentally.

Sometimes it feels like there’s never really a point where you can fully relax anymore.

Hey, I just finished my final exams and I finally want to learn how to study in a way that helps me remember things for a long time, not just until the next test. I’d really appreciate any advice or tips.

How do you stay motivated and study when there’s no stress or deadline pushing you?

What review methods actually keep you engaged while studying? Flashcards used to work for me, but lately they've started feeling repetitive and my brain just checks after a while. I still need a good way to review consistently without turning studying into autopilot. I've tried rereading notes too but that gets boring fast as well.

I've been procrastinating and today I'm gonna study for 2 hours after 9hr of school.

Also I'm kinda feeling a bit tired rn and yea I wanna sleep so bad. Idk I used to like drink tea before I study but that was back then when I have like exams coming up and I wanted to stay up late til 2AM-3AM but how about now? Any health solutions? Because I will study in a bit which will be at 20:00. Also I have like 6 subjects and I have to review and stuff but idk which one to review first and after like I want to review them equally but idk how. And yea I do have ADHD so I can't just sit there studying the whole time. And I'm interested in like those white noise, pink noise and brown noise...so do they actually work? Like do you have to wear headphones when listen to them or just with your phone or laptop? How do I not get bored when I'm tryna do an exercise thats hard and it's boring? Because I always give up. I'm pretty motivated rn! But idk how to start. Any tips? Thankyuuuu🍀

still curious what people here use for studying though because most i tried before this felt completely unreliable

Okay, before I start this I just want to clarify that I want as harsh of the truth as anyone can give me and this may get a little deep 😭 Since I was a kid everyone told me I was smart, the kind of smart you don't find often and I will be honest it gave me a bit of an ego. I could not even look at the study material and still get good marks that were above the average. I always told myself that if I just locked in I could easily get a 95+ ATAR (this is like a 3.8 GPA equivalent I think if thats what anyone uses) and the like. Now I'm in my final year of school and after many maybe-maybe nots I decided that I truly want to be a doctor and get into medicine. The problem is that since I've never studied before because I never needed to, I can't get myself to do it. I have ADHD and some other things (not an excuse I know) and I struggle to get any motivation to actually put effort in. Before this was fine because I didn't need to but now I'm nowhere near the marks I need to get into the university I want, nor a good UCAT score. I can in theory get my marks where they need to be in the nexts few months but I am really struggling on how to actually DO that. I don't know if anyone will relate to this but if you do can you PLEASE tell me what you did to get yourself to study and/or find the motivation to try at the very least. It isn't that I don't care - I really do, I just can't seem to get past this invisible wall of procrastination/laziness. Any advice or hard truths would be very appreciated and I'm sorry this is pretty long🙏😭

im about to do an online exam for geography and i dont remember anything

I used to be really really bright student up until a few years ago. I used to love studying, enjoy studying and it never felt like a chore or a task to me.

these past years have been horrendous to me. I got diagnosed with depression and general anxiety, and no matter what I try to do nothing is working for me.

I have no interest in anything, not even a hobby of mine. I used to love art and reading but I haven't touched them and my books are rotting.

I know I'm trying to get better but I genuinely want to love studying like I did back then.

I am burned out, i cannot get myself to study and I seriously can do anything but do it. If I can get myself to study for it, I get exhausted afterwards; honestly during highschool, I've done nothing but study.. gosh I even did so much all nighters at that point, it gave me panic attacks, pressure, and stress.

Now I am in uni, I seriously cannot focus anymore. I don't have the motivation do it nor the will. Everything is just so overwhelming and tiring. Please help me how to get out of it.

I have 20 days left for the exam and there is a 400 page book which I have to learn. The exam is objective based(MCQ) and is based on this book. So what should be the strategy so that I could complete the book and would be able to recall answers.

My exams are after a few days and I didn't study. Every time I try to study, I'm frustrated and bored, and I feel that there is no point in studying and that I will fail. Anyway, I want a way that makes me study without boredom.😖

I’ve been using YouTube playlists (IELTS listening, TED Talks, podcasts) as my main way to study English lately, and I’ve hit a familiar wall:

The studying itself is fine — but managing transcripts, notes, and useful phrases is so tedious.

My old routine was a mess: opening every video individually, copying subtitles by hand, saving notes all over the place, and losing good lines I wanted to review.

I’ve been trying to build a better system for myself to handle full playlists at once: getting transcripts, quick summaries, and organized review cards in one go. It’s made reviewing long videos way easier.

I know a lot of people here use YouTube for language learning too — how do you guys handle transcripts and notes?