Comments on: The Grade Whisperer: Ron’s Feeble Focus

By: Rucha

Rucha — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:43:00 +0000

But I am 16 and living at home…

By: Whoo…I’m back | That African Girl

Whoo…I’m back | That African Girl — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:09:02 +0000

[...] passionate about. I couldn’t come up with anything until I ran into this post on Study Hacks: The Grade Whisperer: Ron’s Feeble Focus. My favorite quote from the [...]

By: Jeny

Jeny — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:46:59 +0000

Fantastic advice – I’ll be sure to use it for next term!

By: Douglas

Douglas — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:08:44 +0000

I haven’t searched your entire site yet, however do you have any tips on non-standard students? Such as parents. I have two boys and my wife works. So when I am not at school I am home watching my boys while doing my homework, talk about distracting. Plus its not like I can go hide because they are both under 5, dangerous if left alone.

By: Parkaboy

Parkaboy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:12:35 +0000

Rock and hard spot: while this may seem extreme, sometimes when I have online homework, I make use of a grease monkey script, called invisibility cloak that disables browsing to any website but my homework, more info can be found here,

By: Focus Study Tips

Focus Study Tips — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:06:41 +0000

Great approach you have given us for focusing better in our studies (and send my regard to Ron, too. I'm sure he is grateful for your help). I particularly agree with you on also taking note of the location a person should be studying or taking care of any part of their coursework to keep in focus. This is sadly one of the reasons why people seem to lose focus. Most of us have this misconception that to focus is to stick one's nose on anything and that's just it. They fail to realise that in focusing, your have to take care of other aspects, like defining what makes you focus, avoiding distractions and to take each task one at a time, and not gobble it all as a whole, which only causes more stress. If you are in a distraction-prone venue, of course you can't focus. -Focus Study Tips

By: Nolan

Nolan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:25:50 +0000

I recently discovered the beauty of printing out my WebAssign homeworks and doing them on paper before I entered them in online. I found that I had plenty of room to do my work on paper, got distracted less, and got more of the problems right the first time. The same goes for any online readings or research articles. I get much more understanding from being able to take them off-line, highlight them, make comments, etc. all away from an electronic device!

By: Ilham

Ilham — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:22:31 +0000

Hi there Cal,

Thanks a lot for this post. This was exactly the same problem I was having, I can continue at times but mostly it is difficult to continue or even begin. I will set into motion some of these ideas right away.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:30:33 +0000

I read in your read book that if you’re working hard, then you’re doing something wrong. Doesn’t that apply all the time? I guess hard work is sometimes necessary after all.

By: Connie

Connie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:37:32 +0000

I like the idea of having more specific work tasks, but what about computer science courses that require a lot of programming? how can you account for last minute bugs? sometimes I’m able to finish very fast, and sometimes it just takes forever.