Go over past papers

>go over past papers
>tfw get below 40%
>tfw actually trying
>give up and shit post on 4chin

How do I git gud

I wish to know this too

Have you been over the content? My usual order of revision is
>create note/resource set (Physics so more notes than some subjects,key derivations etc)
>Do problem sets from textbooks, weekly problems etc, fully using notes where needed
>Go over topics you struggled/had to look at notes on
>Do past papers, making as much effort to not use notes as possible (unless you literally can't do the question)
>Go over topics you couldn't do
>Keep repeating with each past paper

Eat something to raise blood glucose, then go back to problem-solving

Easy as fuck

I finished my second year of my mathematics degree at a good uni with all As.

I hardly attend lectures because I hate the commute but my approach is as follows:
1. Start panicking about 4 weeks from exams
2. Start going over past papers, look up everything I don't know and write the notes in detail beside each question.
3. Repeat for about 5 or 6 exam papers.
4. 2 weeks left and I know everything.
5. Take it easy for a few days and panic involuntarily sets in again so I do them all again to find that I remember everything and can go over it an exam paper within 40-60 minutes.
6. Sit exam, finish in an hour and leave first to get early bus home.

I should add that panic motivates the hell out of me because I have a massive grant and scholarship that I will lose if I have to repeat.

Some things I often do during study is:
i.) Do no work if I can't do something after an hour of making no progress a certain day; I always find it easy the day after.
ii.) Have no friends and sit at my desk reading (not maths; literature and poetry) and shitposting from morning til night in all of my spare time.

Open to questions.

I have never made work while physics or maths notes, if I can't do a problem I just refer to textbook examples and work through that. Are notes the key to success?

I have around 2 weeks. Is this long enough to get good for physics and math exams?

I also masturbate several times daily to relieve stress. Would stopping this bring about positive benefits for exams

>practice problem sets over and over, can do the problems perfectly every time
>get exam
>it's 70% trivia

Same as me lol engineering student but next year switching to physics

>I also masturbate several times daily to relieve stress. Would stopping this bring about positive benefits for exams
No, I have a massive porn collection and masturbate around 2-3 times a day. (Oh the pains of being unattractive and having a high sex drive)

>Are notes the key to success?
OK. Listen carefully. They are the key to success, but not when taken in a passive way.
I used to take notes own from the lecture notes but I never remembered any of it. What worked for me was getting my hands on the past papers and finding things that I didn't know. When I found these I would look for solutions online or in the notes given by the lecturers.
Now the important part: when I found the solution I would do it out myself and then put notes beside the solution detailing why it was solved that way.
In this way you pretty much get the notes by heart thanks to the struggle to find the solution and then by having an immediate example to refer to.

And yes, you have plenty of time. I'd usually have everything sorted after about 1-2 weeks. But I'm manic, I would study all day as long as it was going well. If it wasn't I knew it would be better the next day after relaxing for the day instead of banging my head against a wall for two hours trying to solve something.

Again, I'm a mathematician. There is a lot of overlap and benefit you could get from my methods but you may need to adapt these to your course.

But keep your notes alongside your exam paper solutions, that's the key.

What kind of papers were these and were they opinion based in any way?
Hell, were they questioning some facet of nature in any way, putting forth a different theory than what the professor believes?
If any of those is true, then ignore the professor's shitty opinions and decide the validity of your claims yourself.
If not, then practice writing papers God damn.

>I'm a mathematician

keep telling yourself that

kek

I reread after posting and knew someone would pick me up on that.

How does it feel to literally be a meme, undergradfag?

I have 600 euro per month in disposable income from grants and scholarships. It feels pretty good.

Anyone who doesn't work for 10 hours per day, genius-tier hours, then you're a pleb. Newton worked 17 or more by comparison.

It's widely known that genius-tier motivation will lead to 10 hour work days minimum in what ever subject you're learning. Eat some nuts and other brain foods faggot.

Also, I'm a mathematician.

leel

>Newton worked 17 or more by comparison.

tfw working 17 hours a day on alchemy with no results ;-;

>Same major. Also highly ranked school
>Have social life
>Put in half your effort and get the same grades

How does that make you feel, user?

Notes are stupidly helpful. If class is too fast to write notes and understand them at the same time, just write everything down mechanically until class ends and then review the notes later.

butthurt

Want to be good?
if you arent doing you should be practising

>department only gives us access to the 2 most recent past papers
I hate it

why is cat so angry?

he failed his math exam

Learn the theory, try more difficult problems or figure out your own problems until the exam content seems menial.

>Work hard
Work smart

Focus on mastering what you got wrong instead of tallying up what you got right. Learn from your weaknesses, do the same paper again a few days later. Repeat.

just keep working you double nigger.