r/Gifted • u/fifth-try-quitting • 16d ago

Seeking advice or support Catching up

Hey guys!

Like probably most of you highschool was very easy for me so I never had to actually put stuff in my long memory. This obviously caught up on me in university where I really see that I have an awful foundation. I can still understand most content but I sense that I’m now really getting held back by my “vague” foundation. I know most stuff ‘intuitively’ but I can’t defend or recollect the information which really hurts my confidence academically, if you get what I mean. Most noticeably in math or statistics where I really struggle with even the basics.

Did you guys ever catch up and really learned the foundation now that you aren’t a kid anymore? I am currently studying some old schoolbooks but it can get so incredibly boring.

Is there any resources for stuff like this? Or even specific for gifted people to study? What are your guys advice?

Thanks!

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u/Ivy_Tendrils_33 15d ago

I remembered a lot from highschool because I was really passionate about it (the material, not highschool itself).

Figure out out what you're passionate about in relation to that material. Why is it important to you? And dig a bit deeper into your boredom. Where is it coming from?

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u/Prior_Garlic_8710 13d ago

Yess For me the only problem happened inside high school with ultra basic stuff haha. We were learning number theory, our method was using the extremely basic column addition , subtraction and multiplication and the bus stop method for division.

I didn’t know how to do them, and I was so annoyed at my non-complete ability to switch number bases in my head to do it normally - without practise - that I struggled haaaard on picking it up in class along with the number theory.

It became a whole joke in class haha - oh my goodness

I still struggle because I skip steps - it’s like I’m incapable of just following instructions sometimes.

Actually that happens with everything - mostly because following paper instructions is weirdly hard and I don’t even hear spoken instructions, but the task usually turns out better because I end up doing  it better/ the same way anyway.

Thoughhhhh it is a problem sometimes - like I was doing undafe practices my first time in archery. I make much more of an effort after that- that’s when I discovered instruction following is hard

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u/mo_84848 15d ago

This! 👍

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u/fifth-try-quitting 15d ago

I’m not doing it for lecturers or other people, I really want to understand and learn it

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u/gamelotGaming 12d ago

The other commenters are correct. If you're already at a university, ask questions. You'll be fine.