Okay I need someone to try and explain why the hell I'm like this... I was sitting there lastnight reading something in the paper, and g/f was sitting next to me... and well, I never seen this word used before and for the life of me I couldn't pronouce it for crap lol... Then suddenly, I thought back to alot of my past... I've always have trouble pronoucing words and such... but if someone was to say the word, use it in a sentence and let me see the word... I would know the word everytime I see it... This is very upsetting to realize this, cause it's like what the hell am I to do when I take a foreign language ? lol... After reading many posts from other people and such, I'm afraid this is something more serious... heh It sounded like a LD or something of that sort... Let me show yall something heh... these are the placement test i took at my college :) This will make yall feel like geniuses :P

Placement TestsDate TakenScorePercentileStatusStatus Date
Reading Placement03/28/03 (81/100) Accepted 03/28/03
Writing Placement03/28/03 28(28/100) Accepted
03/28/03 Arithmetic Placement 03/28/03 42(42/100) Accepted03/28/03

Those scores are out of 100... On the math part I wasn't informed we could used a calculator... + threwout highschool, my math grades weren't nessiarly impressive :) (Highest Algebra grade was a 66%) Thats because I was to busy playing Diablo 2 while in math class on me laptop :p The english one well, they made us read like a 2 page thing and wanted us to correct that... so lol... I just clicked on random things and went on... Again on the math test one they wanted us to do square roots, but since i didn't pay attention to the person instructing us at the time, i didn't hear we could use one :P The reading part was cool... they give you this very short paragraph(YES!!!!!) and ask you questions about it :) Of course i kept going back and rereading it to make sure I understood it :p But anyways heres the math classes I've taken so far grades

MAT-101 51 ELEMENTARY ALGEBRAB
33MAT-102 51 INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRAC5.00

So are without my meds... infact... I've almost never took my meds during highschool :/

This is where i'm at atm...

Total Earned Credits 82.00
Total Grade Points 137.00
Cumulative GPA 2.978

heh... I feel like I could do much better... but the problem is I can't understand myself! :( Someone tell me what the hell is wrong with me :( Sometimes it feels like ADD, at other times it feels like i'm just an Idiot:( I can almost swear to you that i'm paying attention... I mean I got my pop and I'm up there watching the teacher understanding him and asking him questions and stuff... then once I step it's like ? ?? ??? WTF just happend... I mean I can hold the information in my head for like a few days afterwards but then it just goes off into neverland, I come back like hmmmm... OH YEA I Know what your doing! :) But then he gets into them word problems and it's like Oh shat :( I get all nervous and I start to panic... I can do math, but for some reason word problems I can't do...

My parents tell me, it's because I don't study... I admit I don't ever study... But, when we do the information in class... it's easy... even without the formulas being infront of me... but when it's test time... my mind blanks out... then after the test... I'll be like GOD DANG IT! I FORGOT TO DO THIS AND THAT AND THAT!!!! :( :( :( :( :(

I'm going to send you to our college forum, I think you'll get more input there. Off the top of my head you sound like an auditory learner. Let me see if I can find the site that had some decent tips. I can't think today.

Thats what alot of my teachers said... but I took a test right :( It says i'm 49% visual and 51% audio :( It means I'm ****ed up :( :( :(

Have you tried to practice actual problems instead of thinking "Yep, understand all of that. Let's move onto something else"? The fact that I would understand almost anything, in some cases before the teacher had explicitly mentioned it, killed my marks in maths (and physics) for a while. Understood it, but could never remember how to do it to an extent where I was able to apply it as well as I could have. And then there's the little petty mistakes I make like copying numbers down wrong. Need I mention I wasn't particulary interested in doing my homework either...

Sorry to sound like your parents, but give it a go :) I ended up with the equivalent of a B average and got the odd A on a test in maths by the time I had finished school.

I do guess my additude towards 90% of my classes is pretty much... TO easy lets move on! and my grades do suffer from it... but then again I lock up on test :/

I have the same troubles right now i should be studying for a certafaction test however i've been putting off well i was sick for awhile now it's just about picking it back up. With cisco some days i knew it on the ball other days i coudln't rember any of it it was really odd. That's where the studying comes in if you do more repations you might rember it you should say the terms and take notes using a cassate tape then listen to the tape after your clases might help.

Jeremy126--

I am going to sound like a fuddy-duddy but here are many reasons to do homework even if it seems repetitive or unneccessary since "you understand it."

There are things I must do in order to retain information or at least have a nodding acquaintance with it.

First, I need to relate the information to something important to me -- for example, I lost it every time I tried to do fractions or percentages but when I was able to relate it to let's say grocery shopping where I needed fractions and percentages to determine if what I was buying was a good deal, the concepts had a value to me. I could see a payoff from learning fractions. While I still struggle mightily with math, I am willing to relearn fractions and percentages over and over again -- to get to my goal -- an answer that has meaning to me.

Next, I got a tutor for math, maybe you should consider one for english. I was lucky. My first math tutor was marvelous but because I wanted to make sure I "got it", I got second tutor but discovered that she could not explain the concepts as clearly as my first tutor. So, find a tutor that clicks with you.

Then, I did the homework over and over again, I wrote out math problems on 3 x 5 cards and quizzed myself, I did extra assignments and self-quizzes -- while these techniques helped when it came to taking the tests -- I am still squeamish about math. I don't freak when I see y = 2x. It follows the adage, if you don't use it, you lose it.

I do the same routines with almost any new subject out of necessity not because someone has asked me to do it. I am bound and determined to own the information.

I think the same applies to English -- just because you have been introduced to a word and have heard it once does not necessarily mean you have the information imprinted on your neural circuitry.

You need to use the word in sentences, to speak it outloud in conversation. Write it again and again, use it in stories, learn its etymology, and don't be afraid of a dictionary. In a sense, you need to own the information completely. It needs to become a part of you. We do some of this naturally when we are interested in a particular topic.

It's hard to see a payoff when learning a new word but what all the words in total provide is a greater comprehension and the ability to communicate more effectively.

Good Luck, Ann

I just really don't understand what the hell my brain is doing... Example! :) I had this amazingly hot Psychology teacher... I mean I wanted to date her ! :) So I would sit her class and some how I just absorbed all the information like a machine... I'd get 80s-90% on the test all the time... I'm able to retain the information to :) But with most things I do in school I just half *** it and move on :/ I never ever did homework in school... guess thats why I suck :D The main problem is... my memory is VERY SELECTIVE... I mean if you talked to me about something, and I thought I could use it against you... I'd remember you word for word... But if I sit in a class with a dush bag of a teacher... like my math teacher... who has *** EYES I SWEAR! I'll just sit there take notes and know how the formula works and everything... but then once the test hits, it's like hmmm what was what again ? I noticed I did better in math 101 just because I studied for it... I went to see my teacher each day and studied each day... did the homework problems and read the chapters... Maybe I need to start doing that :D I think what it comes down to is tests... I hate them... I can't do test... Cause they give like so much information at one point and time and it's like ahhh! My english test are no problem... our teacher goes over the material like 20 mins before we take them... I get 90+ each time... But then, you throw 3 weeks worth of material at me... on one long *** test... put a 60 min time limit on 20 long math problems then we got a problem :)

Also the stuff were doing now I did in 12th grade, and I could swear to god, that I've never seen this information before

You sound like me in college and high school.

I think it is an LD. I was never tested but 4-6 hours of homework every night of 1st 2nd and 3rd grade just ain't normal. After that it all made sense and I never had to do homework again. This makes for a rude awakening in college.

The only thing I found that helped was reducing my anxiety by reducing my total workload. M-F was just for school and my parttime job was for sat and sun only - 13 1/2 hours.
I could only party and socialize on fri or sat night. I had to do this the last two quarters so I could graduate. (my first 3 years was work 30 hours and party 5-6 nights a week. Sleep 3-4 hours a night)

I have to write stuff I hate to learn repetitively in order for it to stick and I must have all distractions removed to stick with it. if you chat constantly on a cell phone learn how to turn it OFF! This alone would be an outrageous distraction. Sometimes you just have to do homework and you are the only person that can determine how to remove yourself from all of the other temptations.

Also the foreign language thing -class was useless. But my friends all spoke spanish. I could understand almost every single word I just couldn't remember how to put them together to form sentences. I was starting to dream in Spanish when they all graduated. So much for that. Now I am trying it again, only I'm using the music of latin artists that I like so that the words are repeated over and over. Also I'm memorizing phrases so that sentences may one day be a possibility. I'll take classes after a little more sinks in.

Good luck, I feel for you. I still get Sunday night jitters occasionally and I'm measuring my time since graduating in decades now.