how do you get in the zone for studying?

I don’t need to, I know everything already

i just force myself to do it, the hardest part is starting getting on from that is easy work but if guess i do have a little routine i usually make myself chai or if i’m at uni get coffee before i start

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couldn’t ever bring myself to do it regularly

you just start

20 on 5 off rinse and repeat

1. Do not study until exams
2. Get a good summary of your course
3. Wait till your gut tells you you need to start studying NOW if you want to pass
4. Start studying, start lightly (I never clocked in more than a 3 hour day at the start)
5. Accelerate (5 hour days)
6. Finish up (8-10 hour days 1 to 2 days before the exam)

Using this method, I graduated from one of Belgium's top business schools with really good grades.

10 hour days, dam that's discipline

nerd coulda done like 1hr days from day one and been chilling the whole time

1. Postpone
2. Postpone
3. Postpone
4. One week left, start like a zombie
5. Diamonds are made under pressure

Success not guaranteed

Well I got the same routine, except 10 hours a day is quite long

Yes but that would have required attending lectures and having a lot of discipline. It also doesn't make you feel quite alive like my method does. You can conjure some mania if you do it my way and that's a pleasant feeling.

Have to cram in the last bits otherwise I wouldn't make it

Studying 80-90% of the material and hope for the best is also a routine, it's a more safe russian roulette

Lo-fi music, separate study space, and no distractions nearby

The Russian Roulette approach never appealed to me, except for my accounting exam. If I'm gonna do something, I'm gonna do it right.

Idk i never studied

That was always risky when I did that since I end up sending my first draft 5 mins before the deadline

Well technically it's study whatever you can in what time is left. Sometimes that's 100%, other occasions it's 80%. The tension right before getting the test, hoping you don't get questions about material you didn't really study is a feeling as well

Sending the first draft of my bachelor's thesis 5 minutes after the deadline while still being hungover as f*** is a feeling I'll never forget.

The risk makes the reward even greater

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

The only deadline I missed, honestly. And my final draft showed my last edit was before the deadline so that was my defense.