Should I just give up?

Hey, what helps me is rewarding myself with chocolate every time I complete a section of work and it calms me down too. Sorry if this isn’t of much help.

Hello hello ashclouds!

First of all take a little breather, lets put this in perspective for you;

1. First off I'm really impressed with your resilience, you've done well despite all of the difficult things you've obviously gone though. You're so close to freedom, hang in there!
2. We still have time! Don't worry, you can get things started, its not too late.
3. believe it or not, lots of students are in a similar situation to you and they will also make it. We'll all make it together.

Okie dokie so here's a couple of my tips (from someone also with low attendance, poor time management and ABYSMAL concentration, and they've kind of worked! ) I'm gonna spoiler tag it bc I have a habit of writing LOADS!

Time management:



Concentration
(From a recovering chronic procrastinator ):


Pulling yourself together:


Phew! That was a lot! Sorry for talking your ear off but I wanted to make sure I got everything down for you. I really really hope it can be helpful in some way for you. If you need any more help just ask/send me a dm and we'll sort it out together. It doesn't have to be super scary, you can do it!

Good luck!

In terms of improving concentration and time management, I find that the pomodoro technique is really helpful. You basically set a timer for 25 mins, have a 5 min break and do this 3 more times (so you've done this process 4 times in total) and then have a longer break, like an hour or something. It gets you being productive but it's not too intensive/boring/time wasting!

For not feeling overwhelmed, breaking big tasks into bitesize chunks is really useful. Projects such as coursework are just a lot of small tasks clumped together!

Also it's a bit cliche but doing past papers/exam practice and studying mark schemes is so key, I have friends who have basically told me this is can be more important than the content itself. Obviously, you do need to know subject content but exam technique can go a very long way.

Also speaking to teachers/friends/family etc can really help, you might have already done this but I knew it helped me reduce my stress levels personally and get good advice about things like revision/balancing work and life etc.

If you don't mind me asking, what subjects are you taking?

Hope this helped!

Thanks both of you, hopefully I can force myself to try to follow your tips, it really means a lot!
Itsy, I'm taking English lit&lang, business and sociology

Hey, what helps me is rewarding myself with chocolate every time I complete a section of work and it calms me down too. Sorry if this isn’t of much help.

You're more than welcome mate and hey I'm taking Business as well! What exam board are you with for Business? I'm with Edexcel.

yay I'm not alone 😂😂 How are you finding Business? Imo the textbook is wayyyyyy too long. I have a peer who got an A* last year from using these revision guides from a brand called anforme, which I only discovered earlier this week. They're much more straight to the point and are tailored for the Edexcel exams. He made flashcards of the points in the revision guides, did practice exam Qs/essays, used the case studies in the Edexcel textbook and swore by the peach structure when writing essays. He told me that once you have the knowledge, if you apply the peach structure to your essay writing, then getting doing well on essays should be much more straight forward.