I’m studying for a test and the only resources I have are the presentations and somebody’s notes in text form. It’s a knowledge-retrieval test (no counting/reasoning), and unfortunately I don’t know what the questions look like so it seems I really will have to go through everything covered.
Now of course some inanimate notes and a PPT file are the most un-captivating learning format that a person with ADHD could face. One thing I’m good at is going down rabbitholes, so I thought about just googling questions I have about the things written on each page. But the notes go on for 60 pages and it would take a really really long time. I’m lost for ideas. Has anybody found any learning techniques that help when focusing on things as bland as this?
The best thing I can recommend is to “do them” again.
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But believe me, nothing beats rewriting the notes by hand again and thinking about them while you’re doing it. Why is this stuff important? What are some tie backs you can recall on for this concept? Any funny ideas you came up with that might help you to remember it?
Then, to add another layer, I digitize my notes with Obsidian. It’s a markdown note book that lets you tag stuff and then you can view a graph of the connected pages via the tags you tossed on each one to breeze through notes fast (great for doctorates and heavy degrees, or just stuff you plan on adding onto as time goes on.
It’s all about reanalyzing the material through different ways and angles. Writing stuff down seems to click better for most humans for some reason. You can also try finding some good YouTube content on the material and try challenge problems frequently. Don’t let failing scare you, analyze your failures and study yourself. Getting through school is just as much about learning the material as it is learning about yourself and how you beat perform and learn.
Hmm, that does sound like a good approach. Yeah, I suppose I just need to think of creative ways to make my brain use all the knowledge I rewrite so that it stays in there. The obsidian tags sound fascinating.