System

Mindset and Experience

Perspectives

How to Become a Straight-A Student

You CAN achieve superb academic performance AND all other awesome things you're working on

Check problems in exams and sheets
Pre-read before the lecture
You should need almost no extra studying after class; only review and articulation
Ask cool questions
Make connections with the professor

Check before studying
Capture and plan straight away
Start it from the day of the assignment to distribute the load
Don't get stuck
- Attempt for a reasonable time
- Ask classmates and TAs but don't look at the answer
- Let go and do other questions or even something else
- Retry
Set the deadline at least 1 day before the actual deadline
Genuinely solve it
Look for similar questions elsewhere
Lectures and tutorials reminder

Studying Tips
Academia
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Learning | Learning, thinking, and mindset
Academic potential
Spaced Repetition
Do periodic reviews (weekly articulation, in-between studying as an easy study task, as a recap before new material)
Feynman Style
Genuinely think about it
Active learning
Make sure to articulate your learning and internalize the material after/while breezing through them

Solve hard problems on the go
Tackle hard concepts in passes instead of one setting
Interleave multiple subjects/studying material for staying active and avoiding fatigue
Avoid getting stuck in a dark alley
Make use of valuable time. Do not let minutes slip away unless you know what you're doing. Make us of it for high priority tasks instead of wasting it at low priority ones
Make use of valuable resources
Don't get stuck studying inefficiently
- Dark alley
- Dark resources
- Dark concepts