by Yasir Hikari

Published on April 18, 2020

Last update: April 25, 2020

Many students rely heavily on teachers; they passively attend to their studies - following lectures, copying notes, learning those notes at home and doing the homework assigned by the teacher. It's a passive process insofar students do not take any initiative outside the scheme provided by the instructor.

If you might be that kind of student, my post is targeted to you. Hopefully, I shall convince you to try and pave the way to self-studying through this post. Otherwise, if you already take your studies in your own hands, you can still find some insights to refine your ways.

Anyways, now that schools are closed, you better take responsibility over your academic goals, study plans and timelines. Your school may not provide their optimum help this year - We do not know for how much time the lock-down will be enforced. If you do not want this situation to badly impact on you you should at least review the way things are going for you right now. Besides, if you want to help making things better right now, the best you can do is unburdening your school system. Start with what falls under your responsibility and hopefully things will get better if we all do.

It should not be a dreadful experience though; self-learning is far more effective if you know the good strategies (stay tune, more on that below ;) ) and definitely more rewarding. But, above all, the virtues of self-reliance, assuming responsibility, and taking ownership of your endeavors are highly commendable in my opinion.

Let's start the crux of this post - how to self-study?

Side note: I assume you have your own pc and a stable internet access - these tools come in handy as you'll see

1] First you need to be aware of all the resources available to you. You may not need to use them all; but you need to know what is out there before you can select which resources are suitable for you. You may need to set some time aside - 1 or 2 days - just to explore them. Because you will be too overwhelmed with resources when you see the list below.

PHYSICS A LEVEL RESOURCES

MATH A LEVEL RESOURCES

CHEMISTRY A LEVEL RESOURCES

HOW TO SELF-STUDY

Note: the strategies below were designed using Physics A level as an example. But the same method works for Chemistry A level and Math A level.