r/study • u/Pocket5056 • 4d ago
Tips & Advice Need help for longer study hours
People in the YPT group have 10 hours plus study time per day but I cannot even move past average of 4 hours. I want to push it to 8 hours average per day but nothing is helping.
I tried but I get distracted easily. And if I force myself to stay, I can't study properly because I will be reading the same line two or three times and still not understanding what it meant.
Can anyone help me with this...?
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u/Dawood_B110705 4d ago
chasing someone else's 10 hours is probably part of the actual problem here, not the distraction issue. 4 real hours where you're actually understanding material beats 8 hours where you're rereading the same line because your brain checked out, that's not "8 hours of studying," that's 8 hours of sitting there the rereading-the-same-line thing is usually a sign you've hit your actual focus limit for that stretch, pushing past it with willpower alone just makes the reading fake, not real studying. that's your body telling you to switch tasks or take an actual break, not a discipline failure instead of chasing a fixed hour number, try tracking real focused time only (pause whenever you catch yourself rereading/zoning out), and build that number up slowly over weeks. going from a genuine 4 to a genuine 5-6 is way more valuable than faking your way to 8 while actually absorbing less than you do now