Assuming you're talking about IB Exams, you WILL get 6s and 7s on your tests. I was the worst fucking studier on the planet and I got 5s on 3 of them, 6s on the other 2, and a 7 in English. I am telling you, without any sort of exaggeration, that I did NOTHING to prepare for any of these. Maybe a tiiiny bit for math, and I guess I DID have to do the actual projects for Digital Arts or I would fail.
What I'm saying is if I put no effort in and pulled that off, you can put effort in and do better. Just remember that the exams are a formula that you can easily solve because it never changes. And that you can download old IB Exams and use them as practice
I am talking about the IB. That is very comforting to hear. I am mostly worried about my Biology and Chemistry scores since they are HL and relevant. My school and teachers are very helpful too, we always practice on old exam questions and the people who have taken the exam at my school usually do very well and they've said that they were very well prepared. So i think it will go well, but I also have 1. very shitty self control and 2. often shitty self-confidence too which results in me not feeling like studying because i feel stupid and then not studying because I don't have the self-control to pull myself together and just sit down and study.
But I've started using the pomodoro method and trying to just see studying as time put in towards a goal and see that as a success instead of feeling like I need to understand everything right away and preform.
I've heard about the Pomodoro before. I might try it out with something like this. It sounds like a good idea, but if I focus too much on time I'd be afraid it would distract from actually learning. I've found that it is very easy to fool yourself when it comes to learning, that glossing over something for thirty minutes feels like accomplishing a lot. Make sure that you keep challenging yourself in those thirty minutes!But I've started using the pomodoro method and trying to just see studying as time put in towards a goal and see that as a success instead of feeling like I need to understand everything right away and preform.
Will do! For me feeling accomplished means I want to do more, so it has helped me in just sitting and studying for a long time because it is broken down into half-hours and the 5 minute break helps "resetting" so that I can concentrate. I have terrible study habits by the way, so the fact that this is a step up might just be because anything would be.