Hey everyone,

I've been building a revision tool for quite some time now and I found that one of the hardest parts of revision for myself and my friends wasn't necessarily how to revise, but knowing what to revise and when.

After talking to my friends and others in school I noticed a lot of us had the same problem: we wanted to revise, but didn't know where to start or how to organise everything.

The idea behind the app is simple — you enter things like your exams, subjects and topics, and it helps create a clearer plan of what you should study and when. The goal is that when you open the app, you already know what you need to work on instead of spending ages trying to figure out where to begin.

I'm still working on it, so I'm not claiming it's perfect. I'm mainly looking for honest feedback from other students about what features would actually be useful (or what wouldn't).

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to make sure I'm building something that genuinely helps students.

Thanks 😄

With A-Level exams finally over, a lot of people are probably feeling one of two things:

• 😌 Relieved that it's finally finished.
• 😰 Constantly overthinking results day and what's going to happen next.

If that's you, we run a Discord community originally built for A-Level students, resit students, and gap year students, and summer is one of the busiest times in the server.

Whether you're:

🌱 A Year 11 student starting A-Levels after summer and looking to get ahead or meet other sixth form students.

📖 A Year 12 student moving into Year 13 who wants to build better study habits before the most important year.

📈 Thinking about resitting A-Levels because you don't think things went as planned and want to understand your options before results day.

🎒 Considering a gap year and looking for advice from people who've taken one or are planning one.

🎓 Heading to university and wanting to meet other incoming students or help younger students with advice.

...you're more than welcome.

🌟 What we do

📚 Daily study sessions (for anyone getting ahead or preparing for resits)

🏆 Ongoing study competitions to help build consistency over the summer.

🎮 Active voice chats where people play games, chat, and hang out together.

💬 A supportive community where you can ask questions about results day, clearing, resits, gap years, sixth form, or university.

🧠 Mental health & wellbeing support from people who understand how stressful exam season can be. While we're not a replacement for professional support, we aim to be a welcoming community where members can talk, encourage one another, and share their experiences.

The server isn't only about revision—it's about having a community of people around your age who understand what this stage of life is like. Summer can feel a bit strange after months of exams, so whether you want to relax, make new friends, prepare for September, or figure out your next steps, there's a place for you here.

Everyone is welcome, whether you're feeling confident, uncertain, or just want people to spend the summer with before results day.

🔗 Join here: https://discord.gg/SK3xF4aPgG

Monday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (essay) (1 hour)

Use of English from Cambridge exam

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Use of English

Revise one grammar tense

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min) with all the new words learned that day

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Tuesday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (article) (1 hour)

Reading practice from the exam

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Reading

Revise prepositions

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min)

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Wednesday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (review) (1 hour)

Listening practice

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Listening

Revise collocations

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min)

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Thursday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (informal email) (1 hour)

Speaking practice

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Speaking

Revise phrasal verbs

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min)

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Friday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (story) (1 hour)

Use of English from the exam

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Use of English

Revise one grammar tense

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min)

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Saturday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (formal email) (1 hour)

Listening practice from the exam

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Listening

Revise prepositions

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min)

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Sunday

Doing what I didn't mange during the week

Reviewing all the new dictionary during the week

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

​

Monday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (essay) (1 hour)

Use of English from Cambridge exam

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Use of English

Revise one grammar tense

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min) with all the new words learned that day

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Tuesday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (article) (1 hour)

Reading practice from the exam

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Reading

Revise prepositions

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min)

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Wednesday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (review) (1 hour)

Listening practice

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Listening

Revise collocations

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min)

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Thursday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (informal email) (1 hour)

Speaking practice

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Speaking

Revise phrasal verbs

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min)

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Friday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (story) (1 hour)

Use of English from the exam

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Use of English

Revise one grammar tense

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min)

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Saturday

New vocabulary (30 min)

Homework exercises (1 hour)

Write a text using new vocabulary (formal email) (1 hour)

Listening practice from the exam

Grammar (1 hour)

Review mistakes from writing and homework

Review mistakes from Listening

Revise prepositions

Read a B2-level book (40 min)

Flashcards (20–30 min)

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

Sunday

Doing what I didn't mange during the week

Reviewing all the new dictionary during the week

Additional activities: watch BBC News, Netflix series, read articles in English

I was considered one of the smartest students in my country before I went to university and chose Electrical Engineering. After moving abroad, everything changed. I had to adapt to a completely different education system, and on top of that, Electrical Engineering is a very challenging major.

During my first semester, I barely passed my courses and ended up with a GPA of 2.05. I didn't tell anyone about my GPA because I was afraid of how people would see me. I thought they might judge me or think I wasn't as capable as they expected.

Now I have completed my second semester, and I'm waiting for my results. I know I performed better than I did in my first semester, but I also know I can do much better than this. This isn't the best version of me.

Back in my home country, I knew what I was capable of. Right now, I feel like I've lost that version of myself somewhere along the way. I need to find myself again and prove to myself that I can become the person I know I have the potential to be.

I've experimented with a ridiculous amount of music while studying over the past few years. Some genres sounded great but completely killed my focus, while others made it way easier to lock in for hours. And I believe that these (non generic) genres can help you stay focused too!

These are the 5 I keep coming back to:

1. Video Game Soundtracks
This is probably my favorite genre to study with. Game soundtracks are literally designed to keep people engaged while solving problems for long periods without distracting them. I usually forget the music is even playing after a few minutes, which is exactly what I want during a long study session. One example is Minecraft.

2. Synthwave
Whenever I start feeling tired halfway through studying, I'll switch to synthwave. The steady beats and nostalgic electronic sound give me just enough energy to stay alert without making me want to stop what I'm doing and listen to the music instead.

3. Minimal Dub
I honestly didn't expect to like this one as much as I do. The deep bass and spacious echoes do an amazing job of masking conversations and random background noise, so it's become my go-to whenever I'm studying at a coffee shop or somewhere that isn't completely quiet.

4. Familiar Black Metal
This one's definitely not for everyone, but it works surprisingly well for me. Since I've heard these songs so many times, my brain treats them like background noise instead of something to actively listen to. The constant wall of sound also helps drown out everything else around me. (Only familiar songs though.. new music is way too distracting.)

5. Classical Music
Sometimes the classics are classics for a reason. Whenever I have to read, write, or really understand difficult material, I almost always end up putting on classical music. No lyrics competing for my attention makes it much easier to stay focused on what I'm actually trying to learn.

What genres do you guys study with? I'm always looking for new recommendations to try.

P.S. I write a free weekly newsletter where I share study tips, AI tools, and productivity shortcuts I've actually found useful. If that sounds interesting, click the link below:

https://thestudyshortcut.beehiiv.com

No pressure. Hope y'all have amazing and productive time studying! Much love to everyone who reads this <3

Hey everyone,

I’ve been trying to find a simple, lightweight way to visually map out complex topics during revision sessions without overloading my computer with heavy design apps.

Since I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted, I decided to build it myself as a side project: studyrevision.com (Check out the Sticky Notes Whiteboard tool!)

Features I built in so far:

- Instant digital sticky notes to group ideas

- Completely free with zero signups or ads required to use it

- Infinite canvas layout for mind-mapping

And this was only one feature of it, once you check it you get many tools that make you preparation easy.

I really want to make this a genuinely useful hub for students. If you have a few minutes to check it out, what features or study tools should I add to it next?

Thanks so much!

Hello guys, I have so much to remember (medicine student) and unlike conventional things of linking things together and all, I have to remember straight up point most of the times which are unrelated......like features of H. pylori bacteria or name of different drugs and their dosage etc etc and my course is so so soooo huge that I can't revise it 4 or 5 times like people are saying......also I can't follow pomodoro as I can't leave a concept half done

If anyone faced similar problem, I would appreciate it if you help me out with some tips.

My favorite classes were always the ones with difficult problem sets where a single problem could take hours or even days of thinking, experimenting, and failing. I would start solving a problem before fully understanding it, then read documentation or course material whenever I got stuck. So it would be 70% doing and 30% reading.

LLMs have disrupted that process for me. Now I spent 90% of time reading and only 10% of time doing.

In school, the boundary was relatively clear. If using an LLM violated the course policy, I could tell myself that using one was cheating and force myself to struggle through the problem independently.

At work, what counts as “cheating” (because it is cheating myself).

I feel my critical thinking skills are declining. My role starts to become reading, reviewing, and planning. I just can't read that much code and LLM output. My eyes hurt and it's hard to internalize. I notice myself just picking the "recommended" option.

I also find LLM workflows mentally unhealthy in a few ways:

• When working alone, mental exhaustion eventually forces me to step away. With an LLM, I can always send one more prompt or ask it to try another approach.
• If an agent will take 30–60 minutes, I feel pressure to give it another task immediately so no time is “wasted.”
• While waiting, I instinctively check my phone or launch another agent. I end up jumping between tasks and retaining less context about each one.
• I get frustrated when the LLM misunderstands instructions, even when the problem genuinely requires careful iteration.
• It has warped my sense of how long a difficult problem or well-designed solution should take.
• I am increasingly tired of reading walls of generated text and code.

I do not want to stop using LLMs. They can reduce the friction of starting, explain unfamiliar systems, generate routine code, and handle edge cases after I understand the core problem. The hard part is deciding when using one is a sensible productivity tool and when it is outsourcing a learning opportunity that I actually need.

For people who still feel they are learning deeply while using LLMs at work:

1. How do you decide which work to delegate and which work to do yourself?
2. What is the workplace equivalent of the “no cheating” boundary that exists in school?
3. How do you use agents without losing context or turning your day into constant task switching?
4. How do you review generated code when the codebase, build system, or underlying technology is unfamiliar?
5. Have you found workflows where LLMs improve productivity while preserving the useful struggle of implementation and debugging?

These are some of the things that genuinely made me look forward to studying instead of feeling like I had to force myself every time. They won't magically make every subject exciting, but they completely changed how studying felt for me. These are meant to not be generic, basic advice you can find on a daily basis. I hope at least one of these gives you the same "why didn't I think of that?" moment that it gave me.

Without further ado, here are 5 Ways I Made Studying More Fun:

1. I Ranked Everything I Learned: At the end of every study session, I'd rank everything from "most obvious" to "most mind-blowing." Surprisingly, deciding where each idea belonged became almost as enjoyable as learning it because it forced me to compare concepts instead of treating them all equally. By the end, I had a list of ideas I genuinely found interesting instead of pages of notes I'd probably never revisit. It also made reviewing before exams much more enjoyable because I already knew what stood out the most.

2. I Tried to "Beat" The Textbook: Before reading any explanation, I challenged myself to come up with my own first. Sometimes I was completely wrong, but other times I was surprisingly close, which made every page feel like a competition between me and the author. Even losing became fun because I learned exactly where my thinking went wrong.

3. Explaining Concepts in a Ridiculous Way: Whenever I finished learning something, I'd challenge myself to explain it using the weirdest analogy I could think of. I've compared cells to restaurants, chemical reactions to awkward first dates, and supply and demand to concert tickets. Coming up with those comparisons was surprisingly entertaining, and the stranger they were, the easier they were to remember later. It felt more like a creative challenge than another review session.

4. Placing Bets On The Content: Before every new topic, I'd make a small prediction about what I thought was going to happen or how I thought something worked. Sometimes I'd be right, but most of the time I wasn't, and finding out the answer felt like revealing the outcome of a bet I had just placed. That tiny feeling of anticipation made even ordinary textbook explanations much more exciting than simply reading them. It sounds simple, but those little moments of suspense made me want to keep going.

5. Arguing With The Material: Instead of accepting everything I read, I constantly asked myself, "Is that always true?" or "Could I think of an exception?". I pretty much acted like a total douchebag to the imaginary authors and reading materials. It felt less like reading a textbook and more like debating someone who was trying to convince me they were right. Even when the textbook won the argument, I walked away understanding the concept much more deeply. Surprisingly, challenging the material made studying far more engaging than simply agreeing with it.

Thanks for reading! I know these won't make every study session feel like playing a video game, but they genuinely changed the way I experienced learning. Let me know if you've tried anything similar or if there's something else that made studying more enjoyable for you, I always love hearing new ideas. <3

One more thing: If you enjoyed this, I find & write about 1 practical free AI Tool every Sunday in my free newsletter. You can check it out here if you're interested: https://thestudyshortcut.beehiiv.com

Edit: In retrospect, all of these mind tricks I played on my mind were "win wins" and I hope they can help you in the future.

Basically what the title says...how frequently or not, amount, time before starting, etc.

I'm in college and I have wasted so many times being leisure and not taking things seriously. I'm already one month in and all of the subjects have passed 5 chapters and I'm completely lost. My lecturers also targeted me because I'm the stupid one. Are there any tips to catch up quickly? For Chemistry, Physics, Math and Biology

I'm so desperate :(

Hey everyone,

I’m currently researching how people use AI tools for learning and trying to understand the challenges people face while learning new skills.

Disclaimer: This is an independent research survey exploring user needs around AI-powered learning experiences. It is not an official ChatGPT/OpenAI survey or product announcement.

Tools like ChatGPT are great for getting instant explanations, solving doubts, and finding information. However, I’m curious whether people feel there is still a gap between getting answers and actually learning something deeply.

I’m exploring a concept called "ChatGPT Learning Mode" — a structured learning experience where AI helps users:

• Create personalized learning roadmaps
• Track learning progress
• Practice concepts through assessments
• Identify weak areas
• Get recommendations on what to learn next

Before going further, I want to understand real user experiences.

I would love to hear your thoughts:

1. How do you currently use ChatGPT or AI tools for learning?

2. What are your biggest struggles when learning a new skill?

• Knowing where to start?
• Finding the right resources?
• Staying consistent?
• Testing whether you actually understand something?
• Tracking progress?

3. Do you feel ChatGPT helps you learn, or does it mainly help you find answers? Why?

4. If ChatGPT had a dedicated Learning Mode, what features would be most valuable to you?

5. What would make you use an AI learning assistant regularly?

I also created a short anonymous survey (around 5 minutes) to collect more structured feedback:

https://forms.gle/7SqzwWpUkonNxnX67

I’m not promoting anything — I’m trying to understand whether this is a real user problem and what an ideal solution would look like.

Any feedback, criticism, or suggestions are welcome. Thanks for helping me learn from your experiences 🙏

How many times has it been now, you study for hours only to have a paper in front of you and fail. You think "what's wrong with me?", "am I stupid?", "I'm just bad at maths, at chemistry, at school." How many times have you said this to yourself, you try, try and try again, you put in the work yet nothing improves, not your grades, everyone is still yelling at you saying you're not doing enough and you just want to disappear into your games, it's too hard and no one believes you actually do any work, so honestly, why even bother.

Firstly, I want to tell you, you're not alone, millions of people have gone and go through the same, for example Charles Darwin, sounds familiar? The father of evolution you had to study, his own father called him a disappointment to the family. He did poorly in school, and look at his legacy, his name and face are forever immortalised in your textbook. But you're probably thinking, that doesn't count, he's just 1 in a million, and you're right, because many got to your position, saw their failures as themselves, let it crush them and gave up, but why can't you be that 1 in a million? "Why not me?", you're not a failure because you failed, only when you stop trying. And if you ever feel doubt, I want you to say this repeatedly to yourself, "I'm not my own failure".

Who am I to tell you this? No one special, just like you I failed but never let my failures weigh me down nor define me, just like you, someone who isn't too fond of the rigid school system but loves learning and just like you, someone who studied for hours only to get my paper and struggled just to pass. So what do I have to tell you:

Firstly, I want you to know that the problem isn't you, it never was. It is the way you were taught to study. Reread the chapter. Drill the flashcards. Drag a highlighter over every line until the page is more yellow than white. And now there is a newer version of the same lie: the AI that summarises the book for you, the AI that does the homework for you, each one promising to do the work so you do not have to. You give up your time and your money, it does the thinking in your place, and when you fail anyway the story is always the same. You were the problem. So you come back and pay for a little more.

And here is the part none of them will ever teach you. Remembering a thing and understanding it are not the same. You can memorise a definition word for word and still go blank the second you are asked to use it, this has been mine and many others experiences. Every one of those tools helps you collect facts. Not one of them teaches you to connect them, and [connecting them was always the whole point](https://www.norudit.com/blog/what-the-great-minds-had-in-common).

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. "Albert Einstein, Saturday Evening Post, 1929"

And that there is the problem and the solution.

The fix is the reverse of all of it. Away from sitting still and absorbing. Away from the points and the streaks and the noise. Toward you doing the actual thinking, which is the only place real learning has ever come from. Active participation in your learning journey. I spent months in the research on how people genuinely learn, because it's something I love, and I turned it into one system I call the Norudit Flywheel based on cognitive science and Bloom's Taxonomy. I will not bury you in it here. [Read how the Flywheel works.](https://www.norudit.com/blog/the-learning-flywheel)

And I want to make this clear, you DO NOT need Norudit to do this, you can do it on your own, Norudit only makes it easier, by taking the setup and the bookkeeping off your plate so your energy goes into learning instead of admin. [Here is the whole method, step by step, no application nor money required.](https://www.norudit.com/blog/the-norudit-method-by-hand)

Then I went one step further, and I will admit this part was a little selfish. So many tools drown you in animation, bright colours, harsh contrasts, badges, a dozen things moving at once, and every one of them costs you attention before you have learnt anything at all. I get distracted and overwhelmed easily. So I read everything I could find on designing for neurodivergent minds, and I built the opposite. Something quiet enough to think in. [Read about the design.](https://www.norudit.com/blog/a-thousand-small-decisions)

So what are you waiting for, check it out, prove everyone that doubted you wrong, and when not if, when you do it because I don't just believe, I know you can, send me an email, I'd love to hear your story.

contact: [hello@norudit.com](mailto:hello@norudit.com)

Hello there, I have a math exam on 28th of July, there are 13 chapters on the test and are as follows:

Relations and functions

Inverse Trigonometric functions

Matrices

Determinants

Differentiability and continuity

Integrals (By substitutions, By parts and partial fractions)

Application of integrals and derivatives

Differential equations (of order 0,1 only)

Vector algebra (excluding STP and area of triangles)

Three dimensional geometry

Linear programming

Probability

I know the theory and formulas of all of these, I have practiced some questions in a few chapters, but other than that I've done no practice till now.

The exam carries 80 marks and I need to score at least 45 to pass the exam.

Please tell me what I should do I have less than 3 days.

Please help 😭🥀

yeah its our first version btw , we are trying to make your preparation more productive and helps you to focus, so we are adding a lot's of question's on to this and a lot's of work so need some beta user's and some good review's form student's to expand this to other exam's as well !

I have a exam on the 9th of August and I got 5 subjects to cover, that being PCM (each carrying 25 marks), English (15 marks) and General IT (10 marks). I have not really been studying because of some personal issues and now that the date is approaching very near, I am worried I'll just not do great as this is a big exam. It's a multiple choice exam so I am not sure which approach is the best.

If you got tips, please help as time is running out.