Took me years to admit my old study habits were useless.

[sugitan187]

I’ve been through the usual study carousel, flashcards, colour-coded notes, fancy apps, long nights rewriting everything I already knew.

Most of it felt productive, but didn’t actually for my academically challenging degree.

The only thing that’s consistently worked for me:

Go through my material once

Turn it into questions

Test myself and see where I mess up

Only re-study those weak spots

Run it again a couple of days later

It’s not pretty, and it’s not comfortable. But I’ve stopped trusting my brain to just “absorb” stuff unless I’m pulling it out under pressure; it’s not really there.

It’s worked for me.

What about you? Got a system that’s actually held up over time?