ADHD Study Skills For High School, College, & Grad School (Udemy.com)
Award-winning Psychotherapist with ADHD shares how to get those top grades & surprise yourself with your greatness!
Created by: Alina Kislenko
Last updated August 2018
What you will learn
- How to get around the Last Minute Monster
- How to harness your ADHD abilities
- How to properly study for almost all exam formats
- The three parts of exams that always confuse ADHDers and how to ace them
- ADHD strategies for focusing, memorization, and building motivation
- How to start the most boring of tasks
- How to harness procrastination for good
- How to go from C grades to med school grades (like Alina did)
- Accessing and choosing Accomodations
- How Top Down Learning turbo charges the ADHD brain
- How the ADHD brain works, including optimizing on our unique neurochemistry
- Learn the Super Student method for those "Med School" Grades
How it compares
Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 34% of them
- Reviews747#299 of 1,108 by number of reviews
- Length1.8 hoursshorter than 63% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2018earlier than 90% of them
Course Description
Learn to harness your ADHD superpowers and start earning grades that match your ACTUAL potential and intellect (without sacrificing your mental health 8 sanity)!
Award-winning psychotherapist & Asst. Clin. Professor (Adj.) Alina Kislenko, who has ADHD herself and specializes in it (so....she gets it) takes you through cutting edge, research-supported methods and counter-intuitive approaches that you've likely never tried before. AND, you get to learn all this in short little videos while laughing along with Alina's absurd analogies, dark sense of humour, and fun graphics (she'll do anything to help you learn, including embarrassing herself and the ones she loves :p).
Alina herself went from almost failing out of undergrad to graduating in the top of her class from her graduate studies and wants to show you how you can too!
These methods come from her own successful experience improving her grades (and her husband's, who also has ADHD) as well as lessons learned from her thousands of clients during the decade that she's been obsessed with this field.
In This Course, You'll Learn How To:
Predict The 3 Parts of Most Exams (& The ADHD Way To Study For Them!)
Convert Your Learning From Bottom Up To Top Down
Why ADHDers Learn Differently & How to FINALLY Harness Our Intellect (Including a short neurobiology lesson!)
Apply Quick Tricks Right Away To See A Boost In Your Grades
Learn Relationships Between Concepts, The ADHD Way
Memorize anything, including ADHD-friendly memorization tricks
Do The Super Student Method
Avoid & Recover From The Dreaded Slide (The Cause Of Most Of Our Pain)
Tame The Last Minute Monster (And All About The Cordrenaline Effect that Causes It)
Start (and finish!) Anything Boring & Get It In ON TIME!
How to Start the Semester Off Right
Recognize Your Procrastination Type & Prevent Episodes
Self-Advocate & Access Accommodations and grants
The videos in this course were filmed all over the world while Alina was travelling for international advocacy work, including Bali, Cuba, Quebec, and Italy, which adds a bit of extra oomph to the course!
This course was made for us ADHDers, but would do wonders to anyone's grades!
What people have said about Alina Kislenko's Previous ADHD Courses:
"I wish I'd seen this 20 years ago! They should teach this in school. My son LOVED this course, and you usually can't get him away from his video games!"
- Dr. Loraine Murphy, Cardiologist
"I've tried dozens of courses on ADHD and this is the first to have changed my life."
- Erik Wong, IT
"Alina is silly, brilliant, and definitely one of us! So much better than learning from a stuffed shirt who takes themselves too seriously Her classes are professional and informative, and the first place where anything about ADD brain chemistry ever stuck!!"
- Pat Rodrìguez, Paralegal
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
747 Reviews
Alina Kislenko
Alina Kislenko is a Registered Psychotherapist and Asst. Clinical Professor (adj.) in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neuroscience at a top medical school. She specializing in ADHD, Autism, & Gftedness. She was diagnosed with both ADHD & ASD herself in adulthood. Alina is also an international speaker, writer, and founder of the ADHD & Spectrum Centres in Guelph and Ottawa in Canada, which she now runs with her husband Matt Goetz, a fellow therapist and ADHDer/Autistic. She also founded the not for profit Women Trailblazing that helps women in poverty build entrepreneur and tech skills as well as spread mental health awareness.
Alina has won several awards for her work in the field, including the Woman of Distinction Award and the Mayor’s Award. She was diagnosed with ADHD in her early 20s and sees it as a superpower that she wouldn’t give up for anything!
She lives to help others with neurodiversity learn to drive their Ferrari minds and harness their special abilities.
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Reviews
By Arti S on 8/20/2022
Wow. This is chalk-full of information. I wish I had known this information when I was in school. Regardless, a lot of this is very applicable to adult life. I'm impressed with the explanations--concepts clicked for me. While I noticed issues I had, I never knew WHY, and it's great to understand why so I can invest in the solutions. Highly recommend!
By Phoenix Haydon on 1/5/2022
This course gave me a whole new outlook on my life with ADHD. Lessons were easy to follow and so engaging! I'm currently an illustration student, and I am having trouble with procrastination even while doing the work I love. I think what I've learned here is going to help me understand how to work best with myself and get through school!
By Rachel Whittaker on 12/5/2021
Very useful stuff to put into practise. I note that there are a few things that others students have mentioned such as section repeating itself (what should be there instead? what has been missed out?) and the black screen for 2/3 minutes remains, so its clear nothing has been done to address these but all in all, good hints, tricks and tips I can take on board to help me study for my long term goal of working in mental health - so much to learn! I will have to come back to this again and again though.
By Kinte N Hill on 3/28/2021
Thank you so much for this course and your instruction is amazing. I suffer from adult ADD. Some days worse than others. I feel like a train wreck some days when trying to study, I feel tired trying to read and my mind goes in some many directions. This course has empowered me, gave me hope and strong direction that already is helping to restore that solid method of study. I'll be going through this course again and again.
By Julius Alamarvdashti on 3/19/2021
Two of the videos abruptly ends and one is a copy of another one. The advices themselves are more general tips, I was expecting something more indept. Two videos near the end had some good advice but all in all it wasnt for me.
By Christina Pretty on 5/21/2020
I learned at least 1 new thing to use in my daily life in each segment. Such basic nessecities that I didn't think about, that I know will help as soon as I impliment them. The 2 quick tips modules seemed like the same video just added twice, with the second to last video having a blank black screen the last 3 minutes.
By Chuck McKay on 8/31/2019
I watched this with my 14 year old daughter, who's just starting high school. There are multiple techniques and strategies she will start using right away that I believe will help her tremendously! We both have ADHD, and this literally described my life. I wish I had known about all this when I was going through school an had to work ten times harder than others to be successful. The amount of stress I endured was unnecessary with proper help, like this course.
By Ashraf Islam on 8/30/2019
Instructor had a very fun, warm, friendly vibe. That was a bit off-putting because I was going in expecting something much more serious and technical. She explained things in layman's term which is nice, but could have used more in-depth explanations on the biochemistry of dopamine/cortisol. I didn't like how she kept mentioning how her grades improved using her example alone---I feel she should have backed it up with more evidence. Her mentioning of the S.T.R.E.S.S pseudonym to fight procrastination and endorsement of the mind map techniques as well as the accomodations made a lot of sense and seemed effective. She stuck to the topic and facilitated comfort among people with ADHD by praising the good qualities ADHD people have. Overall, I found this course worthwhile and would recommend it's solid, concise advise to people looking to study more effectively.
By Anita Sethi on 5/26/2019
Absolutely loved watching and taking notes on so many things from this course. I wish I found this before I went to undergrad, started my masters or professional school. I really struggled back then and know now I can feel confident with the knowledge to do better. I'm excited for my journey ahead with the tools I learned! Big thank you to the author for this course!
By Sharia Battle on 2/3/2019
This course really hit home with me; the examples given about ADD behaviors and our thought patterns were spot on. It felt good to have some validation about my experience coupled with some brain facts. The comparisons to those with non-ADD brains offered the context I needed to connect the dots; I could accept that I may need to do some things differently to accomplish my goals.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100







