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i’ve compiled a masterpost of tips that i have reblogged over the past few months and i thought it would be easier to have it all in one place. none of these posts are by me! huge thanks to everyone that has created these tips.

exams

finals: survival guide for the brave

pennyfynotes’ guide to exam season

study tips for exams

tips for doing well on exams

how to

how to accept and grow from failure

how to avoid education burnout

how to be an efficient test-taker

how to cope with exams

how to get straight a’s

how to get straight a’s 2

how to overcome failure

how to study effectively

how to study as a busy student

how to study when you don’t want to

how to utilise your studyblr

how to do well in a class taught by a crappy teacher

improve your handwriting

improve your life

productivity

5 easy productivity tips

7 productivity tips

productivity 101

the no bullshit guide to getting your shit together

school

4 tips for delivering a perfect presentation

a self care masterpost to help you get through school

school cheat sheet

back to school

back to school advice

habits of successful students

search google like a pro

useful things for those going back 2 school

study tips

6 things people don’t always tell you about studying

effective note taking

memory tips

my 3 steps in studying

memorisation tips for different types of learners

random study tips

study habits

study methods

study smarter

study tips

strategies for writing good conclusions

things not to do when studying

tips + tricks for learning a language

types of study breaks for every situation

unconventional study tips

when to use

work smarter, not harder

misc.

four rules for a disciplined life

self discipline tips

self soothing techniques

small gestures of self-love

tips on how to get up earlier if you aren’t a morning person

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Study methods, (sorted and organised af)

We all find ourselves in a pinch when studying for a particular subject, or some concepts or just studying in general. And then we play the blame game - I’m stupid, I suck at studying, I dumb, yadda yadda yadda.

But sometimes, the fault isn’t ours. Our study skills are largely influenced by external factors that have nothing to do with our brain (because well all humans have the same brain to begin with, yeah? It’s just some know how to use that thing, and some are still learning how to). So here’s so ways that might help you make the most of all sorts of things that are thrown your way:

1. Teachers

Teachers influence our academics deeply and therefore it is important to know how to adjust our methods according to the types of teachers that teach us!

“The best teacher ever”

You love them, and are generally doing well in their class.

They know how to balance the amount of speech and writing part in class just perfectly and their explanations are heavenly.

For their subjects, practice papers are the best because they’ll help you lock all the info in your mind for eternities.

Solve as many tests as you can find, and get all your doubts solved by them at the end and I promise you will never have difficulty with that particular chapter again!

“The I’m-gonna-fill-the-board-with-my-marker teacher”

Doesn’t even bother speaking, just enters the class and starts writing up stuff in the board.

Class is generally noisy because their backs are turned towards you 90% of the time.

Just copy down everything form the board. Don’t leave out a single word.

Review whatever you’ve written once you get home and find out what is it that you don’t understand.

You’re lucky if they teach you math /physics /numericals based topics, because you have an entire guide on how to solve each type of sum with steps and formulas!

Once you’ve marked your doubts, take them to the teacher, or to any other teacher who teaches the same topics and get it cleared. Pretty sure you’ll rock their subject!

“The speaker”

Babbles on and on all the time, doesn’t know that the board exists.

Won’t even breathe in between the doesn’t care if nobody is listening - they’ll finish their part at all costs.

Try recording their lectures, you don’t necessarily have to take notes in class.

Once you get home, play the entire lecture and take notes now - you’re most likely to cover all important points.

If there’s something you don’t understand /think you missed, get your doubts solved by them or maybe online. This way you can do some time pass in class while not missing out at the same time!

“The quiz master”

Asks hella lot of questions, engages the class as much as possible.

Best thing to do in their class is to sit in front (it won’t make you a loser really) and listen to their questions carefully, note them down and participate.

Participating will get you noticed and also help build your confidence - and you get to impress the teacher so it’s a win win!

Prepare some questions for them in advance and keep asking, this will create a sense of ‘I’m a good student’ kinda thing in you (trust me I feel like a heavenly potato) and get your queries solved!

2. Subjects

There are subjects that you’re so good at you could practically teach them, and then there’s math (no offence, math lovers). And physics. And chemistry. And everything that you don’t know.

Problem solving subjects

Math and physics can be a real pain, but referring to solved examples in your textbook, or your teacher’s solutions makes then 37363x easier.

A list of formulas is a must, I prefer sorting my formulas chapter wise in sticky notes but you can totally make a 'formula + solving methods cheatsheet’ to help for finals!

Practice problems are life savers!! Keep solving until you’re pretty sure you’ll crack these types of questions.

Mostly there is a certain way of solving certain problems, figure out that common way for a bunch of problems and nite the method down. All you need to do during the exam is figure out what type of problem you are dealing with and how to solve it will be known to you automatically!

Find a good teacher - maybe a school teacher, a tutor, a classmate or maybe your dad who happens to be a math expert. You need one person to guide you through the “numerical labyrinth”. There are many awesome people on the Internet (studyblrs I’m looking at y'all) who can help.

“Theory based subjects”

History and essay writing type of subjects can be difficult to tackle, since there’s no logic you need to apply here - they only test your memory half the time.

Bullet points are so helpful when taking notes for such subjects idk I just fall in love with words that are bullet pointed.

Aesthetic note making, embellishments and all that jazz totally works here because the more time you spend with the information, the better you remember it and are able to retain it.

Try recording the lectures and playing them in your free time (as podcasts and all), maybe when cleaning your room or making yourself breakfast or doing mundane chores.

I once slept with my earphones on and was playing 'the French revolution’ and the next day I topped our test on that topic. Now this may not be a legit tip but hey - you’re sleeping. Come on.

“Diagram and sciency subjects”

Most of us consider biology to be our favourite, but fail to do well in it sometimes. This is because we’re studying the whole thing wrongly.

Biology can be a very visual subject so all you artists bring out your creativity!

Imagining the structures of your body, an animal’s body, plant’s body, cell’s body heck any body will help you clarify the concepts in your mind.

Try breaking up large words to understand what they mean. I began learning Latin (and abandoned the effort) to grasp the biological terms better and it helps! Your language is strong - your biology is strong.

Aesthetic notes all the way down!

Chemistry can be made pretty looking with colourful reactions on paper, and there’s always mnemonics to make it fun.

I always try to form mnemonics which reference my favourite songs/dialogue /fandom stuff to spice stuff up. For example, to remember the preference order of functional groups during nomenclature I came up with “PS Sam Winchester Loves Eileen And they go on A date Next friday” (hey spn peeps how’s this?). Write down the first initial of every word you need to remember and come up with combinations, you’ll love it!

“Easy af subjects”

Personality Development and Social Science were these type of subjects for me.

All I did was read through the textbook the night before exams and I’d get a pretty good score.

Tree diagrams and tables often help with these.

Explaining the stuff to someone does the job too!

“Languages”

Three things - Duolingo /memrise /any app, flashcards, YouTube.

Your textbook is likely to have lots of practice activities, solve each one of them.

YouTube will help you with the pronouncing part - check out songs in your target language to improve!

Grammar is important, so you understand your grammar in the beginning and your base is strong.

Come up with terms in your head in your target language, although they’re wrong - there will be a point where you’ll be thinking in that language as a habit.

Don’t be afraid to mispronounce, vomit words as much as possible.

If you don’t have a vocabulary book, make one right away!

Langblrs are so amazing don’t let that resource slip out of your hands!

3. Random tips

Change of environment usually motivate you so keep changing your study space from time to time.

Ana Mascara, study with jess, @studyquill @revisign @tbhstudying @studywithinspo have some fabulous YouTube channels and they make 'study with me’ vids too which are just too motivating so check them out!

Khanacademy, CrashCourse, ASAP science are there to clear your doubts - use the resources!

Keep two notebooks - one for class which has messy notes and scribbles and another for home with the neat and aesthetic ish.

Keep track of your portion and note your syllabus.

Highly recommended - study journal. Want me make a long ass post about it? Lemme know!

Playing teacher is a promised way to engrave the info in your mind. So go teach your friends or mom or dog or teddy! Teach me if you want to!

Make sure you have a no study day at least once 2 weeks? Because it’s important. We don’t want to get burned out!

Ted talks can be motivating!

Writing mock exams is so helpful you should totally do it!

Sleep is more important than you think it is, so sleep. Go dream the hell out!

That’s all for now folks, hope this helps a bit! My inbox is always open if you guys have any questions!

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How to study journal (and probably increase productivity)

As requested by some of you who read my post on Types of study methods to suit your current position, here’s how to study journal!

First of all, study journaling is an idea that I came up with somewhere in the beginning of December, and then used it for a week and checked its mechanics - which is why I think I can say that it is a nice way to boost your productivity and academic skills.

And I’m saying academic “skills” because I don’t really think that anyone has any less capability to do well in studies, it’s just a matter of time when you actually realise the right method to study. And once you do that, it’s like bam - you got it!

This idea hit me first when I heard about bullet journaling, and many studyblrs also kept mentioning to keep track of your study sessions and stuff, so I just mixed it all up and conjured this “studyjo” (lol that’s the worse name).

Here’s how you can studyjo :

1. Basic af essentials

A journal, duh.

The whole concept of studyjo is to boost your productivity, not your fancy ish, so picking a cheap ass journal isn’t gonna kill you.

My dad has a thing for collecting diaries and journals, so I usually pick one from the storeroom - which is why the one I used was of the year 2015. I mean, we’re gonna make our own custom calendar inside anyway so it didn’t matter to me.

You want a fancy ass journal? Go for it. A cheap ass composition notebook? Go for it. As long as it has pages and you can access it from your class/college /home/car/train/any spot on earth its eligible!

Writing tools, duh.

Use a brush pen, sharpie, markers or a pencil - doesn’t make a difference as long as it writes well.

So there’s a lot of you guys who think embellishing our notes/bujo is a waste of time, then by all means keep it simple.

I like colours because my eyes automatically want to look at them which complies me to go over my tasks again and again.

Of you think aesthetic is your thing then by all means use it to your advantage.

That doesn’t mean that you’ll stress over maintaining the pretty pages, we’ve already got enough stress to work with.

2. The basic spreads

Yearly calendar

You must have a page for yearly overview, where you can mark down all exam/assignment/project /event dates.

Sometimes the teachers tell us about our assignments 6 months prior too, at that point the monthly spread isn’t helping - use the yearly spread.

I write our finals dates, important exams, any birthdays, college events, orientation dates, class meeting dates, open House dates and holidays, etc in this calendar.

Keep a little notes section below your calendar to write down extremely important stuff that happens through the year.

Motivational quotes (if they help you) are the best to write down here, because you’ll be looking at them throughout the year.

Dashboard

You are a student, which means that sticky notes are your BFF.

I note down all my deadlines on a sticky note (when in college) and put it on my dashboard.

You can also keep any board passes/bits of paper you receive from the school.

Use one of those envelopes as a pocket and store all miscellaneous papers inside it. I also keep some question papers there.

Store flashcards (the thin ones ofc) in that pocket if you’re going to be carrying the journal everywhere with you.

I also keep a list of doubts that I have in some concepts so that when I meet the respective teacher I can just whip out my doubts list and get it cleared.

Monthly spread

This is where you start the planning.

Make a checklist /whatever sort of list you want of all tasks study related that you need to do. This includes assignments, homework, project, studying a topic, study dates, etc.

It’s best if you sort that list subject wise, but mine is just a general list tbh.

Learn how to break down your tasks. If you have a test on Chapter 1 in Friday, do section A of that chapter tomorrow, section B two days later and section C the day after. And make three separate checkboxes for each section.

The smaller the task, the easier it is to accomplish it.

Have 5 checkboxes for a huge task, so that even when you’ve done a portion of the task you’ll feel that sense of achievement when checking it off.

Keep them short and to the point. Nobody is gonna read a huge ass paragraph on completing that math homework.

Study session tracker

The main purpose of studyjo is this tracker.

Everytime you sit down to study, note the time at which you started, the topic you think you’ll study now.

When you finish studying, note the time again and write down what you actually studied.

Rate your study session as per the satisfaction it gives you.

After some sessions you’ll actually want to study because you wanna add another session details to the tracker.

This works - I had three 2 hour sessions in a week because I wanted to add to my list of accomplishments and feel proud of myself.

Leave little comments on what you think you could’ve done to improve the quality of session, or what concepts you want to do next.

3. The not so basic but recommended spreads

Monthly calendar

Good to have a month wise calendar for better planning.

I note all weekly quiz dates and birthdays and upcoming holidays here, along with some plans for posting on this studyblr too!

You can totally try inspiring quotes here, along with some plans for the month.

Add little goals to achieve this month. My goal for December was to master derivatives, and I’m pretty sure I’m doing derivatives better than before.

Goal tracker

This is divided into two parts : major goals - which you add near the yearly spread and baby goals - which you can add near the monthly spread.

Major goals are generalised and just for motivation.

Minor goals are broken down major goals with details of how to achieve it and they’re the ones you actually will achieve too.

My major goal for 2018 is being consistent. I broke it into a minor goal as ‘study session of at least 30 minutes every day’ without missing!

Productivity tracker

Using graphs, charts, tables and other such diagrams to mark every day you think you spent doing something productive is very amazing.

I make a graph of each day that I got some work done, marking the wasted days with read and productive ones with blue/green.

This helps me point out the days where I’m usually not productive (which happens to be Wednesday and Thursday for me) and the days where my work is super flexible and productive (Monday is awesome).

You can fill in boxes for every day you studied for 1 hour minimum or something, if you like.

Project planner

This can be essential too sometimes. This is a spread you dedicate to planning out a long ass essay or a presentation or a speech or maybe a project.

Make tree diagrams/pie charts and write down notes on how you can structure your project - the conclusion, beginning and middle being the skeleton of each project. (want another long ass post on project planning? *everyone groans*).

Make detailed plans for the project and include dates that you can dedicate for the project making and all.

Mark those dates in the monthly calendar if it helps.

4. Random pile of tips

A weekly date strip is very useful for me. I write down the dates of the coming week on a strip of paper and stick it to the margin of my checklist page.

Mention your name and contact on the cover if the journal in case it gets lost.

Use sticky notes to leave little messages for your future self - I write stuff like 'keep going girl you got this’ and 'I’m hella proud of you babe’. It makes you smile lol.

Add a pen pocket to the journal if possible, that’ll make it easy to note things down on the go.

You can keep a mindfulness sort of page where you can dump all your feelings down?

Or a water tracker cuz damn this potato is always dehydrated.

Try writing down why you want to study - to impress the teacher? Get a good grade? Show off to others? Get closer to your career goals?

We all want to do stuff for selfish reasons sometimes, it’s okay if you note them down because what I noticed is that whenever I wrote down stuff like 'prove to them that I’m awesome’ or 'make the bio teacher adore me’ I actually wanted to work towards it. Maybe it’s just me. Worth trying tho.

Keep the last two pages for emergency note taking and instructions given by the teacher just in case you have nothing else atm.

Voila, here - your studyjo is ready!

Do let me know if you found this method useful and feel free to drop by any questions - my inbox is forever open!

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Do you like to read books/novels and can’t afford to buy them all the time and don’t have access to a good library. Here are some e-book sites links I use. 

b-ok  (best)

PDFdrive (good)

8ebook  (mediocre) 

ibookpile (mediocre)

vk.com (only for latest romance/YA/new adult novels)

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haikyuu quotes that inspire me to go on

 “Opportunities present themselves to those who have prepared.” Tashiro Hidemi

“Someone who can’t see the opponent standing right in front of him, can’t defeat the opponent that lies beyond.” Iwaizumi Hajime

“Sometimes, things that you start on a whim end up becoming important to you, too. To get started, I think you just need a little bit of curiosity.” Shimizu Kiyoko

“If we go for what’s somewhat safe here, it’ll mean we never changed.” Sugawara Koushi

“The fact that he’s different from other people will probably end up being his strength” Utsui Takashi

“Talent is something you make bloom. Instinct is something you polish.” Oikawa Tooru

“Motivation? What more do you need than pride?” Yamaguchi Tadashi

“You don’t win alone. That’s just how it is.” Kageyama Tobio

“It’s not impossible. It’s just hard!” Bokuto Koutarou

“Is losing really a sign that you are bad? Or is it instead meant to be a trial? A test to see if, once you’ve been knocked down, you have the strength to stand back up again?” Takeda Ittetsu

“Nothing is over. Tomorrow, the day after, for the rest of your lives. You can do anything you set your mind to.” Takeda Ittetsu

“Knowing that an end must come is all the more reason to begin anew.” Akaashi Keiji

“Because people don’t have wings, they look for ways to fly.” Older Ukai

“No matter what other people may say, we are the protagonists of the world.” Akaashi Keiji

“Townperson B can fight too!” Yachi Hitoka

“Do you know what’s so wrong about being afraid of stuff? It’s because it’s a big waste of an opportunity.” Noya’s Grandpa

“Even if we’re not confident that we’ll win,even if others tell us we don’t stand a chance, we must never tell ourselves that.”  Sawamura Daichi

“Do you need a reason to not want to lose?” Hinata Shoyo

“Being good means being free.” Yamaguchi Tadashi/ Hinata Shoyo

“But how will you win if you don’t keep moving forward?” Sugawara Koushi

“To achieve something truly great, one must take it step by step from start to finish.” Takeda Ittetsu

“We aren’t limited to only one way of being great.” Hoshiumi Korai

For today you happen to be the defeated. But what will you become tomorrow?

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OKAY PEOPLE I FOUND A VEEEERY VERY USEFUL THING to use instead of buying a stitch holder. I don't know if that is already a common knowledge but you can use the wire of a notebook to hold stitches. You just need to unravel it and put some small pendants on both ends and uala.

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Sooo im watching haikyuu!! For the first time and wjen i saw tsukishima. DUDE HE IS THE EXACT COPY OF MY LITTLE BROTHER IM NOT KIDDING

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“[…] but love is good. It changes people, for better or worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of love helps you grow up.”

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Im so fucking tired. And the only reason im still trying to do stuff is because of those small sparkles of seratonin I get from watching animals do dumb stuff.

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Funny how Corona saved me once again. I only had to write one test where i got a B yeeey. And now have to write the damn presentation on kafka's book 😶.

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Dead Girls Don’t Cry — Rosarium Part I

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Im sorry this is probably boring but who cares it helps me

Well this thing is kinda slowly maybe starting to go as planned. I only read kafka today in the mroning but i finnished the seconfld chapter so thats nice. I did my biology virus notes yesterdayplus all the definitions for maths. Todaj i still have to study math theory and history+ continue with answering questions for viruses and make notes.

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Allright so i have to start planning my days ahead. So this will be my way of saying "get your shit together" to myself.

I have a theoreric test on wednesday, a history test on monday next week, a questionaire on thursday in biology and an english test on wednesday. I have to read Kafka:Amerika and write a presentation for it and i have to practice Bizet for my orchestra.

Today: its evening so i will just get over the vocab. For english

And make a short revision of maths theory.

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Someone's trying to follow me and my mom home, Jesus Christ this is terrifying

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Wtf

yooo everybody. my mom and i were goofing around and found this seriously FUCKED UP site. all your information, (phone number, nam, address even) is available for 2.99. like everything. please watch this video on how to remove it. (im not sure if it’s there for minors, but if you’ve ever owned/rented a house you’re definitely there. it’s worth checking it out to make sure.)

video on how to remove information. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPFLagxnDsA

fucked up website: http://www.spokeo.com/

also, if you’ve lived in more than one place/state it has you multiple times, remove all of your profile things. (it had my mom 4 times, all over our state. even from when she lived in a house 9 years ago.)

psa over.

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Read this and save a life - YOUR OWN

From a surgical nurse and certified CPR teacher:

Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:

1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.

2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.

3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.

4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.

5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.

11. Rather than sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person’s life.

12. If this message comes around you... more than once… please don’t get irritated... You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.

please take the time and boost this post by reposting it and sending it to those you love because we all need to understand how to quickly deal with heart attacks