nusois, I was valedictorian back in high school. AMA about studying and I will answer>>75433for learning english, don’t just memorize a bunch of vocab and grammar. instead, learn specific things that are useful in sentences and that you say a lot. examples:
‘i realized’, ‘as a result’, ‘most importantly’. You don’t even have to do this in a structured manner, just out of curiosity.
focus on these and you’ll realize you can speak a LOT more fluently and can talk about actual things.
if its language in the essay writing sense then it works the same way. starting the essay is the hardest part, so come up with a standard way to do it so you don’t have to think about it from now until the end of time. for instance I start all my essays with some relevant generalization about the subject (‘we live in a society where…’, ‘ever since the dawn of civilization…’)
for any other subject, you need to understand that there is a very efficient way to learn them, and it isn’t what you think.
When I study I don’t
a) do any homework
b) sit there for hours memorizing stuff
Here’s what IS important:
a) understanding the content
b) knowing what kinds of problems might appear and understanding how to solve them
I’ll elaborate on b). The truth is, teachers aren’t creative and there are only a few different ‘types’ of questions that can arise with relation to a certain topic. If you know those, you basically can solve any test without wasting hours of your time on bs homework or ‘practice problems’. You can ask chatgpt something like ‘how is imperfect competition tested microeconomics’ and get a good idea that way. Go through the problems it gives and ask it how to solve each one and genuinely try to understand. You don’t need to ‘memorize’ the way to solve any sort of problem, you will internalize it subconsciously.