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Oochillyo
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Advice on how to learn better? (G) Dec 18, 2022 19:47:04 GMT -5

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Post by Oochillyo on Dec 18, 2022 19:47:04 GMT -5

hey everyone

how are you all

Probs recovering after my novel length thoughts on Horror films ha

I sort of just wanna talk

is there any science stuff to be found about how to learn better / be determined enough to learn, I heard it all the time during school all these hacks ect and highlighted cards ha

Just scared , I dont know if I have a lesson tomorrow (for driving) and if so I would rather lie but I cant - gonna get asked have you booked your test so far no, sort of wanna keep forgetting about it after having a nightmare when trying to cancel it when unwell and I haven't really practiced for ages just want it all gone so tired of theory test hanging over my shoulder, I've been thinking about practicing with my friends but I have more chance of getting struck by lighting ha

Half of it is common sense they say just scared cause my family paid for it , my Brother is a genius and I dont wanna go through this again and get told you didn't try hard enough, I was doing tests like every day for a while then the driving started going down hill so I gave in thinking whats the point if I cant even drive and just wanted to focus on getting better with that which last time I cried to the teacher again and hopefully its gonna be fixed with auto for a change just fed up of tests - I gave up at school with revision for a lot of subjects and I dont know if its really been my style anyway

At school I was great at Science always have been and apparently maths anyway in the middle set and eventually moved up to 2nd and nearly in first with 7's sometimes and 6's in exams , then we had terrible teachers and especially for maths we had awful ones and I didn't get it anymore maths become worse and worse, things dropped and then everyone says revise and I started that and each time I really tried like with science and revised I got worse marks in my exams then with no revision, think it all confused me and this kept happening in all subjects revision was making things worse and stressing me out so I gave up on it, we had bad teachers a good maths one then he left and a scary one and by this point maths was like gone for me and science the teacher was over ruled by the class we learnt nothing every lesson and someone throw acid down my neck so that's that

I even did after school maths in the last year, and you know what - we had a big like summer holiday and when I went back we did after school maths (oh I had a tutor for many years too for maths) and every after school lesson was just the teacher giving us a test paper and thats that - just do an exam each time and I got back from this break and literally maths went out my head nothing in the papers made sense I couldn't do it and I cried cause just soo sick of it going wrong and everyone doing it and I had no idea how to do maths anymore and its always stupid as each teacher has their own style and says this is the way to do it then you get a new teacher and everything they taught you is wrong and doesn't work anymore and I had that with the after school everything she said was opposite to what I had learned and this exam back from holidays really killed maths for me

So apart from English were I was good, then went down a bit I think and then had a scary teacher who looked exactly like my Brother I dropped but fortunately had the best teacher ever and who became my support teacher when I was home schooled, he is soo kind and really helped me and I did some revision but it was helpful and the lessons were good crazy class but friendly in a way, I started opening up and he gave me all these sheets for revision about the stories ect - I smashed it

two 5's in English and he said he was soo proud of me

I could just remember a Christmas Carol back to front wrote soo much about it and the poems was touch learning 15 off by heart and they ask you about 2 at random but I got it

soo sweet

So other all I am not super at revision and everyone says half of driving is common sense yes but whats the rest soo many questions just fear it and wanted to get better at driving now scared about booking and arriving at the right place and the test need some help I think like maybe practice questions here just to get me back into it cause the thought of it all worries me enough were I just dont wanna look at revision questions for it anymore

Also I kept writing and writing kinda a comfort cause its all playing on my mind and I dont wanna sleep dont know if I have the lesson tomorrow as I say nobody has told me and its not a weekend day now just scared of it all this test aspect is affecting the driving aspect cause I fell like the teacher will be disappointed in me ect

So any science ways that can help or maybe a few practice questions like some real some fake I guess to make me thing about it ha

Take care everyone stay positive hugs

Regards - Declan Sargent

Last Edit: Dec 18, 2022 22:20:20 GMT -5 by heatherly: Removed one remark about this being in a science thread to not cause confusion, as it was relocated.

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Advice on how to learn better? (G) Dec 19, 2022 5:05:34 GMT -5 heatherly and Rebecca Jo like this

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Post by jen on Dec 19, 2022 5:05:34 GMT -5

The main way I found things to get easier was to be really interested in what you are learning. I am very nerdy though and sometimes even just shuffle facts and figures, trying to see patterns etc just for fun. When I was little I found that my father was not good at practical things and I was not so much into knitting or cooking at the time so I had to teach myself if I wanted to do things. I explored from an early age, even things I shouldn't have. Sometimes I have been in the position of pushed into a bottom set, as in maths for instance. A setback rather than permanent, as I later proved. Just work your way through things approaching them to be problems to be solved, not feared.

My experience is to read through things, but then put it aside before you get tired. Read through again later, and so on. I had a friend who had a positive attitude to exams, which I didn't have. You take the course, do the work and pass the exam. It sounds too easy but it's a state of mind worth having.

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Advice on how to learn better? (G) Dec 19, 2022 8:42:11 GMT -5 heatherly and jen like this

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Post by a_muppet on Dec 19, 2022 8:42:11 GMT -5

The main thing to learn is what type of learning suits you?

I need to understand it first, then I practice it. If the exams are essay based, I write out the essays numerous times as practice.

I had a revelation in my second year. Before that my exam target was 50%. Then it dawned on me that if patients asked me a question, I ought to know the answer. After that 100% became the target. When I sat exams after that, I used to smile as I looked at the questions as I knew that I had all the answers.

It was particularly odd, as I could hear people around me crying as they read through them. They had not put the work in that I had.

Caution, I am feral.

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Advice on how to learn better? (G) Dec 19, 2022 19:01:59 GMT -5 Rebecca Jo and jen like this

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Post by heatherly on Dec 19, 2022 19:01:59 GMT -5

I think you need to 'learn' your personal learning style. Some people do better with visuals, some better with audio, some better with just reading, and some with a mixture of any of these.

You know yourself best, so what works for you on average? Once you know that, then you can look for resources that are geared toward that learning style to help you learn best.

I also find taking breaks regularly can be helpful. Don't try to cram information all day long, as it likely will backfire, especially if the material is something you don't really enjoy learning about to begin with.