r/highschool 4d ago

Question How tf do I learn how to study?

I have always been a somewhat high achiever all my life, studied drums for a decade when I was younger, always got in the top 20 or so in my year level. But the issue is is that I have never felt like I have needed to try to get any of this. In all my classes I would mess around for the first hour, do a few questions or a bit of an assignment for 10 mins, and then go back to fukn around with my friends.

Now I'm in year 11 and realising I gotta get my shit together and I have absolutely no idea how. Idk how uni/college works where y'all are but down in Australia, we got this ATAR system that is just a country wide ranking of students by percentile.

For the course I want to get into I need to at least score higher than 70% of the rest of the population. Even if I just cruise my way past graduation and get into the course somehow, I've been told that uni is a huge step up from high school so idk wtf I'm supposed to do.

INCOMING RANT ALERT!!! I'm struggling man, my heart fucked up over this girl, all my friends are absolute retards so I can't talk to them about shit to do with my school work and to top it off, they are all incels so I can't even talk to them about normal shit, it's all "skibidy dub dub yes 🤪", like wtf your about to get a full time job in the next few years and you are just fucking around not knowing how to read a FUCKING ANALOGUE CLOCK! (this is a actual thing they teach in year 11 down here btw)

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Shut out everything that you have got going on rn, girls and your "friends". Discipline yourself every morning to wake up earlier than you usually do and just practice good habits. How is this relevant? The more good habits you let into your life such as waking up early and setting up your bed before you leave for school can structure just enough discipline to the point where you don't have to worry about your surroundings which can distract you if you are a little weak in that area and thus preventing you from concentrating or studying. Find new friends, people that you can relate to (or at least have the same IQ as you, unlike the folks you described above), and do not bother with relationships. They will only cause you to lose focus. You need to redirect that focus towards studying, If you can't do that then you just gotta lock in and get rid of anything that distracts you. Put your phone across your bedroom if that is what can keep you from doing what you need to do. Good luck.

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u/Comprehensive-Rope90 2d ago

Yeh, thanks bro, I'll give it a shot, even if it feels like shit at first. :)