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The Fascinating Turnip · 12-14-2011, 06:43 AM

Long gone are the days when I could just study the day before every test and do quite well.

I'm studying Law now, and it seems that whichever studying method I choose, I always end up wasting enormous amounts of time, becoming absolutely knackered and retaining not even 10% of what I studied. It's fairly depressing and makes me want to stab myself in the eye

Perhaps the whole issue lies with the motivation. My only motivation seems to be something along the lines of: "I better not get myself into situations which will probably result in a lecture", and that's a fairly pathetic outlook. The bottom line is, I don't really seem to care. At all. Is this what keeps me from effectively retaining the knowledge present in the ridiculously large number of pages I have to read? Probably...But what to do?

12-14-2011, 06:43 AM	#5 (permalink)
The Fascinating Turnip Moper Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 510	Long gone are the days when I could just study the day before every test and do quite well. I'm studying Law now, and it seems that whichever studying method I choose, I always end up wasting enormous amounts of time, becoming absolutely knackered and retaining not even 10% of what I studied. It's fairly depressing and makes me want to stab myself in the eye Perhaps the whole issue lies with the motivation. My only motivation seems to be something along the lines of: "I better not get myself into situations which will probably result in a lecture", and that's a fairly pathetic outlook. The bottom line is, I don't really seem to care. At all. Is this what keeps me from effectively retaining the knowledge present in the ridiculously large number of pages I have to read? Probably...But what to do? Last edited by The Fascinating Turnip; 12-14-2011 at 07:01 AM.