Why do some people require hours and hours of relentless studying? When I was in school, I knew people who would study a single topic, weeks on end, only to still get bad grades.
I don't want to seem too full of myself here, but I'm not going to lie, I was capable of obtaining top A+ marks by simply reading the book the night before the exam. I guess I was relatively lucky in school, but it made the whole concept seem a little wasted when I realised I could get top marks with *minimal* effort.
So back to what I was saying. Why do some people require such ruthless studying? And why do some lucky individuals such as myself require barely any?
>The science of studying. >The science of anime >The science of choosing a textbook >The science of shitposting
Levi Evans
>Why do some people require such ruthless studying? And why do some lucky individuals such as myself require barely any?
General intelligence. I don't think there's another way to put it. You get things fast, you remember them and you know what the teacher wants.
It works in a similar way at college, but there you need a bit more effort. You have to pay attention at what the lecturer says and study what he tells you to study.
Some people's mind are cloudy and they have hard time figuring out. I'm studying measure theory on my own at the moment. It's just boring.
Carter Evans
>It's just boring. Halmos - Measure Theory. What I mean is that details in theorems are easy to fill out and you need a lot of stamina and motivation to go through hours of tedious work.
How do mathematicians do this? I thought It would be more fun. If things get difficult you need to work on whatever your mind comes out with and it's still boring.
Jeremiah Williams
low IQ
Samuel Ramirez
>The science of typing all of that out for no reason. Congrats
Julian Ross
>What I mean is that details in theorems are easy to fill out >How do mathematicians do this? You're an undergrad right? Theorems being easy to understand is no problem - you should also be able to recall the theorem and the proof on demand too. What's the point? It's because it gives you a toolset to work with when you start working on real research - if you don't know the proofs to basic things, how are you supposed to come up with your own proofs? You'll end up having to recreate the toolkit all over again for yourself, rather than just taking the toolkit that's already there for you.
Sebastian King
while i experienced this before, subjects more toward comprehension, facts, working principle required least time allocation to learn and excel. e.g something that deals with fundamental
The same could not be said for subject which deal with technicality, independent topic which must be tackle on its on e.g calculus, some math branchs (ex.numerical method) only deal with algebra is easier if u great at procedural workflow. These subject which most people are bad at, have weak foundation even ample amount of time to study still dont guarantee great results. *with exception those with strong fundamentals, whose brain hard-coded in math (i knew some from my circle)
In format of minimal time maximum effort is for lazy resourcesful person, even with minimal information, a person can turn info into something useful marks-worthy and pass the exam in relatively good marks. i personally call this ability as "progress genius".
i also found that this ability is bullshit and wont work unless u are not in STEM courses, especially in engineering. Cheating and least effort to maximum results is the best combination in cases u have not study at all.
So answering the question, some people have flexible process thought that latched everything they see inside their head (probably a self-motivated positive person or slight psychopathic pessimistic person or best of both world)
and those who highly unmotivated, wrong priority, always distracted by unecessary unproductive stuff that try to study earlier with little or no succsuccess, and this reflected to their exam.
maybe there are research paper which discuss on this topic that better explain everything. anywy these are my two cents
*forgive my long rant i have exam soon and have to called my "progress genius" ability since i have to learn the whole semester in tight duration. wish me luck
Ayden Cruz
I understand that, but math overall is boring as hell and requires an awful amount of stamina. It gives me no joy.
Joseph Diaz
Quit this bullshit. videogames = life. Want to get good in something? You need to grind and you need to grind a lot. Some nerds at college will always tell you before a test ''oh man I studied so little, hope it's easy'' when atually they grinded for hours and hours.
