Hey man I've been there. I used to literally never study for my tests due to procastination and lack of motivation but I do good now. At least you're conciously incompetent which is good.
Here are my studying tips:
1) Study FIRST thing when you wake up in the morning. Don't brush your teeth or have breakfast or look at a single social media post. Just wake up and study. This time of the day will be the easiest to study because you'll find it the easy to not get distracted because you haven't been exposed to dopamine inducing things like vidya and social media yet. the more active your mind is the harder it is to sink in information. And the calmer your mind is the more receptive it is to information so make the most out of your mornings.
2) Take breaks tho. If you're someone who has barely ever studied before you will likely only be able to study in short intervals before you start getting distracted. It's like running. If you try to run a marathon in one go having never ran one before you'll end up pushing yourself way too hard to only make it a quarter of the way and having to drop out because you pushed yourself too hard. Whereas if you take breaks you'll be able to last for longer and cover a longer distance.
3) Get enough sleep. Circadian rhythm n shit. Water is wet.
4) the best method of studying is active recall. Don't waste your time making flashcards on paper n highlighting n shit. Get an app where you can make yourself questions and answers or make it on a word document. Obviously for concepts and case study questions u will need to study them slightly differently tho. But active recall is scientifically proven to be the most effective way to study.
6) be in a different room to things that can distract u if u can. Or one thing I did was put my xbox battery controllers all in different draws in the room so I'd have to go through more effort to play on it if I wanted to.
Ye. I think the best advice is the first one. I knew what I had to do to study but I just couldn't bring myself to do it and would always get distracted. Until I learned that the best time to do it is very first thing in the day and that the more shit you do throughout the day like vidya n all dat, it all builds up and makes your mind unclear and easier to get distracted. I personally find that once I've played a single game of something on my Xbox, for the rest of my day I find it impossible to revise so avoid video games on days u want to revise at all costs. Same with TikTok tbh.
