You studied for weeks. You read your notes so many times you could almost recite them in your sleep. You walked into that exam hall feeling solid. Then the paper lands in front of you and suddenly, just like that, your mind goes completely blank in an exam. Everything you crammed, every formula you memorized,…
It has been a long time and a hard experience to understand why students fail exams, simply because I was one of them. Not once. Three times within a year in the academics. I had prepared papers I thought I was supposed to have, papers I actually thought I was supposed to have, and I…
The knowledge of how to use active recall to pass exams was what made me change my approach to studying and the outcomes were evident in my grades in just a month of switching. I will explain to you what I did, why it works, and what the research indicates are the ways the mechanism…
I used to multitask while reading every single night, and for a long time I genuinely thought that made me efficient. Textbook in my lap. YouTube playing. WhatsApp notifications sliding in from the top of my screen. I was covering ground, I told myself. I was getting things done. At that point, I took a…
You opened your textbook, took your seat at your desk, and have even written the date on top of your notepad. And then nothing happened. You had sat there staring at the page in terrible expectation that something would move you. It never came. Sound familiar? One of the most valuable skills a Nigerian student…
There was a time I would sit in the exam hall, stare at the paper… and my mind would go completely blank. Not “I forgot a few things” blank. I mean everything disappeared. My heart would start racing. My hands would start sweating. I would feel like somebody was sitting on my chest. And the…
There’s a kind of frustration that creeps in slowly. You sit down at night, books open, telling yourself, “today will be different.” Then your phone lights up. You check one thing… then another… and suddenly it’s late, and nothing meaningful got done. That was my everyday life. Not because I didn’t want to study. I…