Is it normal that i can't study?

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WHY?! I have tried numerous times and several different ways, I just cannot for the life of me just sit down, look at the book and absorb all that information. I started off by just reading the textbook and I didn't remember a thing when it came to testing myself. I started over and started writing down key notes, which seemed to be going well for a short while and then I switched into zombie mode, I just read and wrote and had no idea what I was doing. I isolated myself, (because I get easily distracted) and it was just me, the book, my notepad and the laptop. I used the laptop as a reward system, where as I finish a section I will reward myself by playing 10-20mins of a casual game. I was yelled at for having that in my study area and I was told I must separate my study area and leisure area. So I did but that lead to studying for 15mins and leaving the study area for at least and hour. I am running out of time for the actual test, feeling extremely depressed, useless, anxious and frustrated and my warring emotions are definitely not helping me with concentration.
I had experienced this during school days when I had no interest in the subjects and I didn't even make it through grade9, and I thought now it would be different because I know what I want to do and I have selected a subject of my interest, and to accomplish what I want to do I have to go through painstaking boring studying, I just find it so impossible to just remember this information.
Does anyone else have this problem? How do you deal with it?

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  • coffeebreath
    11 years ago

    Maybe instead of your study methods consisting completely of reading and writing, you could break it up a bit by searching for videos online which explain some of the concepts, theories, etc. that are relevant to the topic/s you're studying. I find that videos help a lot, because something could be explained in 5 minutes that would take me considerably longer to read about in a textbook.

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  • davesumba
    11 years ago

    if you want to actually learn the material, and not just memorize it for a test and then forget it. make notecards, and go over them throughout the class, not just 0-7 days before a test. it doesn't take long to study some every day, and if you go over something 27 times (sometimes less), it is committed to memory more or less permanently. yes, studying a lot can be boring, but that's what separates the college graduates from the college drop outs.

    my study style up until this year was go over my notes and/or the book an hour before the test, and i'd get a's and b's on all my tests, cause its fresh in my mind. but once i became an upperclassman in college that just didn't cut it, the next semester when i'd take a class further in my major, i've found i don't remember basically anything from my previous class to help me out.

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  • Justsomejerk
    11 years ago

    I have this problem and I don't know how to overcome it. I've always just relied on having good common sence and a lot of guess work but as the subject matter becomes more difficult, my system fails me.

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  • KeddersPrincess
    11 years ago

    I can't study math, but with anything else I'm a crammer. I can read it about 2-3 times and pretty much have the whole thing down.

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  • Fammer3
    10 years ago

    I have the exact same problem. I can study, for maybe an hour or 2, but only. ONLY. If i have this huge test that i mustn't screw up. If i'm not forced to, i am so easily distracted while studying..

    I can only focus on things that really interest me, and i guess it's the same for you.

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  • Zetsubunny
    11 years ago

    It isn't exactly normal, but it is common. You could take reading classes to help you focus. You don't seem to have a reading problem, just a focusing/comprehension problem. This means that you either can't pay attention very long or you can read but not exactly take in what the reading says.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      I read many novels and that I find very easy to follow. I definitely don't have a reading problem, it's more like a selective concentrating disorder. If I'm not finding what I'm reading too interesting I switch off.
      I did the test this Saturday and noticed that the only question I had answered thoroughly and correctly was on a topic that I took an interest in, the rest of it was mostly guess work and what I think I might have recognized. It was really not worth it for the amount of time I put into it

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  • ☭алин
    11 years ago

    Yeah I just memorize it all a couple mins before the test

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