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Help guiding my son through his exams (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi folks. I think my 16yo son has ADHD. He shows a lot of the classic behaviours. (Not listed for brevity)

He’s smart, performs well in class, but struggles badly with exams, detail. He is also struggling with revision. He’s been a high performing up until now but he’s hit hit the limit of his abilities.

His exams are 2 months away, we won’t get a diagnosis in time 😔

Can anyone here suggest resources or personal insights that could help me help him through this period?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

ymmv, but my suggestion is: study with them. I'm a few years behind you in a similar trajectory, and we've been doing 3 study sessions each week, it's helped. even when they're re-reading notes and texts, it's helpful to walk them through it.

good luck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a good idea thanks! My wife and I talked about something similar recently. I think we’re going to try having some of our own office work scheduled for times when he is studying/revising.

My sense is that his problem isn’t particularly the understanding of the topic, it’s laying down a deep enough application of it to get the marks in the exams.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That brings me back! When I was a kid I did mostly good in school, but I despised history, so my mom would take the manual and make small test like question and quizzes that I could then consult the manual for to answer (but not copy). Just the change of format made it a search information task instead of reading a huge dull bunch of text.

History was always my weakest subject, but the help my mom gave always kept me from having terrible grades

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're looking to research more on this, look for "body doubling". It's the only way I get anything important done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

TY!