The truth
To the people who spend time on social media and want to grow their grades, just try and give up social media for a week.
Unfortunately motivation is temporary for me. I even set up an instagram account dedicated to studying but the hard truth is, it's temporary and a way for me to procrastinate.
There's plenty of good study blogs on TSR, instagram, tumblr but if you're reading this and you feel that these study blogs aren't actually helping you, maybe it's time you go cold turkey and cut social media from your life as it is doing more harm than good. It can be uplifting when people give encouragement on your blogs so perhaps these blogs are something you can dedicate 20 minutes at the end of your day to.
However you can probably gain more from being self driven. When I compare myself to someone that doesn't use social media, I realise that those people don't need social media because they are self-driven to work and with the time they've not wasted on social media, they've used this to find their way of studying and they use this time we use for social media on expanding their interest in their subject.
Now this interest in a subject is what fuels the energy to learn and do well in a subject. Of course there are people who get through a subject with a textbook, but what inspiration can a standard textbook alone give (unless it's collins advanced science, they are brill)? Those that get the full marks are the ones who began their extra reading with several resources from the beginning of the year.
This isn't to say that it's too late, it NEVER is, but the point of this post was from something I saw earlier: it was just saying how we cannot rely on motivation from others. Instead we need to cut our distractions and understand what we are studying for.
What are YOU studying for?