I recently graduated from IIT Delhi CSE, and looking back, a huge part of college was just chaos.

• Lecture slides in one folder.
• Books somewhere else.
• Assignments buried in WhatsApp groups.
• PYQs saved with names like final_final_REAL.pdf. 😩😩

And whenever I had a doubt, I would copy random pieces of context into an AI chatbot, explain the entire course again, and hope it understood what I was studying.

At some point, I got tired of it and started building the system I wished I had as a student.

The idea was simple:

What if every course had its own intelligent workspace?

A place where you could upload lectures, books, assignments, PYQs, notes, images, and other course material—and then:

• ask questions using your actual course content
• study selected topics with an AI tutor
• generate exam-style practice questions
• manage your calendar and academic tasks
• see what your friends are studying in real time

I kept using and improving it throughout college while managing academics, research, placements, and everything else that student life throws at you.

Now that I have graduated, I have decided to release it publicly.

It is called Pexorio.

Btw, The website is live at: pexorio.com

I am not claiming that an app will magically get anyone a great GPA or a high-paying job. But having one organised place for my academic life genuinely helped me spend less time managing study material and more time actually studying.

The early version is currently free, and I would love brutally honest feedback 🔥.

What is the most annoying part of managing your studies right now? Would having a separate AI workspace for each course genuinely help you?

Now in 4k for more immersive experience. Hope you enjoy!

So imma keep it short 4am-5 I wake up brush and all that and revise stuff (theory only) then 5-6 am I do a workout mostly consisting of running or light martial arts and 6-6:30 is revise or do practice questions of whatever I'm doing backlog of, exam of or doing in topics. 7-3 school including travel time and all that 3-4 rest time and lunch 4-5 is revise before tuition (on MWF only, on TTS it's 6-7) so 7-8 or 6-8 is do school homework which is usually quick since it's always copy pasting onto a register if I free time I prolly watch suits or any other things. Now tbh I feel like my day starts okay enough but ends way too early cuz I sleep at 8. And out of all of these two things are permanent - 1. I can't do shit in school to revise anything at all sadly cuz our school priorities completing syllabus so fast that after my board exams I had to start commerce syllabus 2 days after (9 march) and also the workout sesh is locked i can't change that and if anyone here knows how to manage dinner during this routine plz suggest cuz I usually have to skip dinner not waiting until 12am for food.

Hello, I'm new to this program and I would like to ask you a question. Please recommend some programs that are good for students and allow us to ask questions and talk in our lessons.

Hey everyone, I’ve been doomscrolling through a ton of "accepted college essays" and brainstorming guides lately, and I’m starting to feel like we’ve entered a bizarre new era of college admissions.A few years ago, the big advice was: "Stop trauma dumping! Admissions officers don't want a sad story, they want to see how your brain works. Write about something ordinary!" So, everyone collectively pivoted. But now? I swear every single example essay I read sounds like a hyper-polished, indie-movie monologue. It’s always stuff like:

• “What my broken toaster taught me about existentialism and the socio-economic state of my kitchen.”
• “How my daily routine of tying my left shoe first represents my meticulously calculated approach to global affairs.”
• “Why organizing my vintage mechanical pencil collection is actually a metaphor for how I’ll solve climate change.”

Is anyone else finding these "quirky, everyday object" essays just as exhausting and fake-deep as the old-school trauma essays? It feels like we aren't allowed to just write like normal human beings anymore. Every minor inconvenience has to be packaged into a life-altering, deeply profound philosophical revelation. I’m struggling to find the balance. How do you write something genuinely "authentic" when the entire process forces you to over-engineer your own personality for a target audience of 40-year-old admissions officers?

For those of you writing yours (or already accepted):

1. What is your essay actually about? Are you going the "mundane metaphor" route, tackling a big life event, or trying something completely different?
2. Where do we draw the line between "having a voice" and just sounding incredibly pretentious?

Let's discuss. I need to know if I'm just cynical or if the college essay brainrot is real.

Not about studying harder but about avoiding unnecessary stress.

I think mine would simply be: “don't trust yourself to remember deadlines."

Curious what everyone else's answer would be.

I want to write my o-level exams next year in June but the problem is I work the whole day and so the only free time I have is evenings. I'll be tired by then so I can only concentrate for maybe an hour and a half to two hours and then i can't anymore. I want to study mathematics, physics and computer science.

So my question is will it not disrupt retention and cause other issues I'm not aware of?. I want to be swapping between the three daily so for a week, I'll study each for two days. I know it's slow and will take longer but this I don't mind. Is this a good thing or not?.

Welcome to our weekly Study With Me session.

Here you can find partners for joint training and exchange of experience!

Have a productive week!

Progress of Tuesday:

• Study Time: < 1m
• Retention Score: 60%
• Sets Completed: 1/1
• Current Streak: 2 Days

Everyone starts somewhere!

I just blast energy drinks to stay locked in and blast music in my ears but i feel like it’s not enough. Any recommendations fellow study friends?

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Hi everyone!

I'm currently completing my Honours thesis and only need 30 more participants to finish my data collection. The survey is completely anonymous and only takes a few minutes.

If you have a little spare time, I would really appreciate your participation.

Thank you so much! 🙏

Researchers at Federation University are seeking female participants aged 18–35 years to participate in a research project investigating how AI-enhanced photographs affect body image and self-esteem.

We are looking for women who are fluent in English and not currently experiencing an eating or body dysmorphic disorder to complete a 15-minute anonymous online survey.

If you are interested in participating, please click the link below.

Feel free to share with your friends!
👉 https://federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5C2B0DXJsLnSiZU

Do you have any questions about the study? Feel free to contact Dr George Van Doorn at [george.vandoorn@federation.edu.au](mailto:george.vandoorn@federation.edu.au)

This study has been approved by the Federation University Low Risk Human Research Ethics Committee (reference 2026/124)

For a long time, I measured a good study session by how much material I covered. If I had ten articles, I'd try to read all ten. If I had multiple chapters, I'd push through every one of them before stopping. It felt productive, but I rarely finished with a clear understanding of the topic.

A few weeks ago I changed my approach. Before I start studying, I spend a few minutes deciding what actually answers the question I'm working on. If something isn't directly relevant, I save it for later instead of forcing myself through it. Surprisingly, I now study less material but remember more and feel much less mentally exhausted.

Has anyone else made a similar change to their study routine? What habit had the biggest impact on the quality of your study sessions rather than just the amount of time you spent studying?

I have a history final exam soon. What's the best way to study history and remember everything? Any tips for getting a high score? Thanks! 📚✨

If every study session begins with: where are my notes or which file is the right one, you're already spending mental energy before you've learned anything.

I'm curious if anyone else feels that getting started is sometimes harder than the studying itself.

Hi every learner:)

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Here is the mistake almost every student makes: they assume that if they read something, it will stick. It won't.

Unlike a hard drive, your brain does not store all information fed into it. Your brain filters information and retains the parts it finds relevant.

Take driving as an example. You encounter dozens of license plates per week. You read all of them unconsciously, and you do not recall any of them an hour later. Then there are the people you meet at a social gathering. The majority of names will go in one ear and right out the other. But occasionally, you meet somebody, and his name sticks. It is not because you forced yourself to memorize. There was something about the person maybe his witty comment, or the fact that he was your friend's friend- that flagged the meeting as being important.

It is the entire principle behind memory. It all depends on relevance.

Simply being told that a certain topic is going to be on the exam does not make it relevant. Your brain does not know about exams. All it knows is what you have made it care about.

To memorize something once and be able to retrieve it in the long run, you cannot just rely on relevance occurring by accident. Here is the 4-step process I apply in medical school to make sure something becomes relevant even before I open a book.

Step 1: Prime Your Brain (The Google News Trick)
Give your brain a reason to care.

Let us say I am supposed to study Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). Rather than immediately picking up my lecture notes, I go online, search for the topic, go to the "news" section of the page, and simply scroll.

I am not searching any information to memorize. I am simply searching for something interesting to happen – an actual case, some sort of a debate, something personal, something which would give me an actual reason to read about JIA.

If I skip this step, then JIA remains a boring topic amongst hundreds of others listed in the syllabus. But after having found the story I liked, suddenly this topic is no longer neutral. It has become relevant.

Step 2: The Handshake (Skimming for Hooks)
Your brain has a reason to pay attention to the topic now. You know the person's name, but you do not know the person.

Scan the textbook or resource for the skeleton of the topic, using headings, subheadings, bold words, and charts or graphs. Do not read the textbook properly; you are only searching for its structure.

Here is when Step 1 works well for you. While scanning, try to connect what you see to the news article. For instance, when the news talks about flare-ups and you see the phrase "disease flare" highlighted in the textbook, this term is no longer new and abstract for you. It has an anchor point.

Step 3: The Conversation (Deep Reading)
This is when you finally start reading your textbook or notes in detail.

Do it the same way you usually do when you study a topic in detail, but do you see the difference? Now you are not dealing with anything new and unfamiliar. There is always some place to hang a new piece of information – an article's context and skimming scaffolding of the textbook.

Step 4: Higher-Order Testing
No matter how many primings and reading sessions you do, there will always be a few blanks in your learning process. These techniques help bring new information in but they aren’t a proof that you absorbed it successfully.

What do most students do when it comes to checking their progress? Yep, you guessed it—dig into some old multiple choice tests. However, it should be mentioned that such tests typically focus on recognition (i.e., can you recall the particular fact?). But it doesn’t show whether you’ve really understood the concept.

Instead, ask ChatGPT to produce higher-order questions for the topic along with the answers.

Read the question, look away from the screen, and try to give an answer in your head. Think of it hard. After that, see the answer. And if you answered incorrectly, that’s precisely the knowledge gap you had to identify. It means that now it’s time to refer to the sources once more and eliminate this gap.

Making information relevant is the key, however, its relevance alone won’t be enough if you overload your brain too much during the studying process.

There is a limit to how much mental energy you have per one session, but usually, students exhaust it in vain before even starting to study properly.

I made an entire video that explains the whole retention framework along with the principle of “Cognitive Load” and how to organize your studying sessions according to it so you can learn faster than others.

Check it out: https://youtu.be/3uhGB25bSLQ

Happy studying this week!

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