I’m studying for a test and the only resources I have are the presentations and somebody’s notes in text form. It’s a knowledge-retrieval test (no counting/reasoning), and unfortunately I don’t know what the questions look like so it seems I really will have to go through everything covered.

Now of course some inanimate notes and a PPT file are the most un-captivating learning format that a person with ADHD could face. One thing I’m good at is going down rabbitholes, so I thought about just googling questions I have about the things written on each page. But the notes go on for 60 pages and it would take a really really long time. I’m lost for ideas. Has anybody found any learning techniques that help when focusing on things as bland as this?

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Make flashcards of short questions + answers from your notes. You can use Anki for that (on Android it’s AnkiDroid), and you might want to watch this quick tutorial by Derek Banas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5urUZUWoTLo

    One way you can speed up the process of making flashcards is via an AI (not necessarily ChatGPT, I tried Mixtral 8x7b on a few Wikipedia pages and it also works well for this, it’s opensource and you have a free demo here: https://huggingface.co/chat/).

    You could ask the AI:

    Extract a precise and concise answer to the question “[INSERT QUESTION]” from the following paragraph: “…”

    The reverse also works:

    Formulate a few short questions that are answered by the following paragraph: “…”