Tips for Successful Study Online From a Learning Challenged Adult Who Lived it.

Here's What I did to finally get my Real Estate License.  

I have a learning challenge but I am in no way stupid. I just learn and perceive on a singular level. I have been trying to get my Real Estate license for about 19 years now. So far I am enrolled in the course for the fifth time. You laugh but the fact is I never gave up no matter how many times I fell on my face. It just takes time to find the right school for me. And I have done that. That's requirement number one. 

The Real Estate school I am in right now is the one for me. I know this because I am acing all of the unit exams and the information being taught is sinking in. 

Study tips for anyone. 

Studying online requires commitment and determination to get through it. I tend to procrastinate, so I had to find a way to discipline myself not to do that. Easy, just kept telling myself to get it done. No excuses. Once I started working it didn't take much to lock on and get right into it. 

I have days when everything I read in english reads like Greek in my head. I'm not bilingual by the way. It's part of the learning challenge I have to get past when learning new things. 

I wasted two weeks of study waiting for my brain to get it in gear. I decided to come up with a back up plan so no more time gets wasted. 

I decided that I needed the discipline of a schedule. 

I get up at 5 AM but I made the decision that I was not going to pressure myself to get the work done. Stress and pressure are the enemy for people like me. I have never thrived under pressure. 

I realized that I am mentally ready to start my studies at 11 AM. So I start my studies every day at 11 AM.

I print out the reading assignments so I can copy them word for word into a notebook. This is one way I encode the information. 

If writing it out isn't making the information sink in I will read it out loud with a voice recorder recording everything. Then I can play it back to encode the information that way. Sometimes I understand better when the information is read back to me. 

Ambiance is also important. I have ADD so all audio and visual distractions have to be eliminated before hand. I have Echo dots all through my home so I can play meditation music on all of them to help me calm my mind to make it easier for me to focus and learn. 

I don't study when anyone is home. They are another distraction. 

If I need to study and family is home I have set up a study area in a tent that I set up in back yard. I let family know not to disturb me when I am in there. 

Mentally I stay in a positive frame of mind because I know stress and negative thinking are killers of success. Not gonna happen.

I have been studying for a month now and so far I have aced (100%) every unit exam and my learning "disorder" has no power over me. It's all psychological.