focusednotes

Hey so, I decided to do another masterpost. This time on exams. Some tips for studying at the very last minute if you are like me, disclaimer: I am not in any way supporting cramming but this is just to help you through if you are left with no choice other than cramming.

Cramming

Cramming tips that actually work by @optomstudies

The night before the exam

What to do the night before an exam by @beautifullearning

The night before your exam by @tiny-personal-university-thing

The night before exam and I didn’t study guide by @renaistudying

The night before test and I haven’t started studying by @getstudyblr

Revision methods

Revision methods that actually work by @alimastudies

The 5 Best Revision Methods by @bstudies

Study tips

More unconventional study tips by @minimaliststudy

A stash of tiny study tips by @justestjarchives

College study tips that actually help by @samsstudygram

Five tips for study marathons by @booksavolonte

General study tips by @plantednotes

More study tips

My study tips by @anatomyandcappuccini

My study tips

Personal study tips

Quickfire study tips by @annabaestudying

Quick study tip by @studyspiratiom-coffee

Rare study tips by @studybllog

Scientifically proven study tips by @swankiegrades

Secret study tips I wish someone would have told me by @fearlessroadtomd

Some rare study tips by @organisedorgana

Top 5 study tips by @studyign

Weird study tip by @artemissstudies

101 study tips by @study-early

Study tips by @howtohighschool

Study tips from someone who has already been there by @haylstudies

Study tips straight from my professor by @just-refuse-to-be-stopped

Study tips that helped me get back on my feet by @sillydaisies

Study tips that aren’t bullshit by @thebitchwhomadeit

Tips for effective study by @kimtented

How I write revision summaries by @athenastudying

Ways to study for exams that are actually productive

10 mistakes when studying by @howtostudyquick

Memorising information

How to memorise information by @monetstudy

How to memorise information faster by @qxzu

Memorization tips by @aescademic

Memorization tips by @determinationandcaffeine

Memorization tips by @studyquill

Exam tips

How to cope with exams by @uk-studying

How to revise for exams by @a-pro-s-studyblr

Studying for exams by @orangeblossomstudies

Tips for doing well on your exams by @aboysstudyblr

Tips for doing well on your exams by @thepeachystudies

Exam tips by @studywithmaggie

Exam guides

Finals: study guide for the brave by @educatier

Pennyfynotes guide to exam season by @pennyfynotes

Quick guide to doing the finals by @inkskinned

Test taking tips

How I revise for exams + tests

How to study for a test by @tbhstudying

My test taking tips by @55studies

Test taking tips

Exam preparation

How to make a stress free exam plan by @marias-studyblr

How to mentally prep yourself for a test by @eruditicn

Procrastination

How to beat procrastination by @eintsein

Types of procrastination and how to deal with them by @emmastudies

Time management

Time management by @academiceve

Time management tips for busy students

Motivation

My motivation tag

Other masterposts by me

Notetaking masterpost

College advice masterpost

Apps for students masterpost

me: 

In the Horn of Africa for the most part you are inherently identified by your language. You become a sub-group of something else once you lose that language. That’s why the Jiddu Oromo are Oromo but are recognized as once formerly being speakers of and subsequently distinctly ethnic Jiddu. That’s why the Gabra Borana are known distinctly as the Gabra despite no longer being ethnically distinct from the Borana due to lacking their own language. Yet on the other hand you have the Irob clan of the Saho ethnicity who culturally are similar to Tigrinya-speakers in my specific part of Ethiopia but are not considered Tigray because again, they speak Saho. No matter how Tigray-like their culture is they cannot be Tigray because they do not natively speak our language. That is the commonality amongst almost all cultures in the Horn of Africa.

So for all the unuanced and unwarranted opinions by those who are outside of the inner circle that is understanding why a speaker of an ethnic or regional language there is a thousand different viewpoints on why each culture is the way it is regarding language. And in a continent where language is not as integral to identity as nationalism is, this can be entirely overlooked. But what makes this troublesome understanding of the social dynamics of language worse is that it seems individuals on Langblr have no trouble at all acting like the rest of the world is less logical than the Western European viewpoint and hence have an unabashed willingness to attempt to place their own worldview and cultural understanding of language as the archetype for how the social dynamics of language should be.

If you inherently feel the need to comment on this “discourse” but have never been an individual who speaks a regional or ethnic language, that is called privilege. You do not have to live with the burdens created for us by being open about this discourse, you simply get to comment. You get the opportunity to say “okay well that’s one speaker and that speaker can be contradicted” just to justify your desire to have something that you didn’t care about until someone said you couldn’t have it. Like children, you want what is not yours to have and you seek what you didn’t even acknowledge the existence of not a minute before, simply because it is something you cannot have.