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Yep, never was able to understand what I should be studying for exams. Always was learning the wrong things and then would be like where did that question come from? Then id try to just make stuff up to answer.
Got to college and it was even worse. They threw stuff on there from lectures that was not in the text book and of course I wasn’t paying attention or wasn’t even there. 🙄
of course the classes I was fascinated with I didn’t have trouble because I could almost recite the material after fixating on it. Wish I could have done that for all my classes. Maybe I’d have a degree right now. would have been nice to know about ADHD back then. Oh well. Such is life.
Straight up the same problem
I went to college twice and dropped out twice, it would have been nice to have the diagnosis when I was a kid rather than almost 30 but here we are.
Better late than never I guess but damn I would probably be in a way different spot had I known about it then.
I do have to say though my life has gotten substantially better since my diagnosis and taking meds for it. It’s been an absolute win in terms of my mental health in general.
This is why I always hated studying, I continue struggling with this even to this day.
I couldn’t tell you what my blood type is, but you can load up Contra and stick an NES controller in my wrinkled hands when I’m 90, and I’ll input the 30 lives cheat without hesitation.
I’d say I’ve got my priorities straight.
I hated studying as a kid for this exact reason. I never knew what was important and what wasn’t; so I studied everything, got overwhelmed because there was too much to remember, and then studied nothing. Fking ADHD.
This is why I always do better at studying when there’s a study guide telling me what specifically I need to study.
Everyone does, but for some of us it’s damn near impossible to study without a plausible reason.
I teach networking and programming, to a mainly high school age group. My students have a significantly higher than average occurrence of issues like ADHD, autism, and dyslexia.
If I assign reading to my students, I will at least post questions that you should be able to answer after reading. Often we will spend time in class going over what the students are supposed to get out of the effort.
Typically we’ll start a chapter of networking by attempting the end of chapter quiz. The feedback will tell you what sections you need to pay special attention to.
I’m not trying to toot my own horn here. It boils down to me needing the kids to pass and get hired as trainees to keep my job in the long run.
I got better at this by doing debate in high school. In most forms of debate, it’s standard to take pieces of evidence and only read certain words to make it shorter and more concise.
The way I did it was this. I started with highlighting any sentences that provided information I considered essential to the article as a whole. Then I’d slowly just start bolding the stuff that was important from that. Then highlight everything from the bold that isn’t redundant or bad writing. It was an endless loop for a while, but eventually I got to the point where I could just highlight with zero iteration because I got used to finding what is and isn’t important.
This is why I love my teachers. They make me a paper with everything I need to study and only the information I need so I don’t have to go through the book and guess what I need.
