I can’t concentrate on anything. I was never good at studying, even as a student. Especially when work isn’t interesting, my mind is always somewhere else. I want to get my real estate license so I can quit working at a hostess club, but I can’t bring myself to study. How can I actually study? I can open a book, but I just stare blankly at it until the day is over. How do you all get the material into your heads? Please teach me how to study—down to the smallest details, lol. Anything is fine, even the most basic tips!
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I assume those of you who have worked so hard are good at studying.
What motivates you?
Reading is so painful for me that I’m practically at that level, but I absolutely want to get my real estate license. Please help.
This is Joe.
Even if you get your Real Estate Transaction Specialist certification, the kind of wonderful things you’re dreaming of probably won’t happen. But when it comes to passing the exam, I can offer some advice.
The good thing about this exam is that there’s a clear passing benchmark. Get 70% and you’ll basically pass. Pretty easy, right? For someone of average ability, you’ll need about 300 hours of study to reach 70%. That’s three hours a day for 100 days, so you can pass in a little over three months. Start by putting that into practice.
If you still fail, the cause is probably one or more of these three things:
1. Your study method is wrong.
2. You didn’t actually study for 300 hours.
3. You’re not that sharp, so 300 hours wasn’t enough.
As for the specific method, I’d recommend studying with a standard real estate exam prep book while repeatedly working through past questions. For now, just try some past questions. We can talk after that.
You might not actually need 300 hours. But Joe studied for 300 hours. At Joe’s company, they said, “If you study for 300 hours, we’ll cover your exam fee—even if it’s just your own word that you did it,” haha.
By the way, there’s no age restriction for taking this exam. In the past, even a sixth-grader has passed. That’s about the level of qualification it is.
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If you truly want to get it and have no other options, you need to let go of that needy mindset.
“I wanna get it so badly—I can’t concentrate!”
“Then it’s not going to happen. You’re the one who has to do it, after all.”
Akari
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That’s a really great question.
This is definitely the best place to ask. I want to know too. I’m genuinely terrible at studying—I’m the type who buys a study guide, feels satisfied, and then lets a whole year go by without opening it.
The real estate broker’s license is seriously an elite-level qualification.
With my plum-sized brain and an attention span of less than three minutes, there’s no way I could do it. So I’d love to hear how you study, too.
Come to think of it, I can’t even last three minutes with a god-tier provider’s tornado technique…
A born loser.
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If you find reading text painful, I think working after getting your real estate license would be painful too, since the job involves dealing with piles of real estate documents.
If you’re only getting the certification, you can work hard for a few months, but once you make it your job, you’ll be doing it for a long time afterward.
Marika
Mr. Joe,
Three hundred hours for the real estate license sounds exaggerated.
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I’m Kazu, a male member.
I think you need to really keep reminding yourself, “I have to quit working at the hostess club, and I have to pass the real estate license exam.”
Whenever I catch myself mindlessly staring into space, I remind myself, “I have to quit the club, and I have to pass the exam.”
Everyone has different study preferences. Some people focus better with a moderate amount of background noise, like at a café; others need to listen to music, study in complete silence at home, or work in a library. Why not try changing your location and the time of day to see what works for you?
As for the habit of staring blankly, some people find that writing things down is the best way to memorize them. You could buy a notebook and organize and copy the information from your textbook into it. Simply copying may feel like busywork, but at least you’re doing something rather than just staring at the page, and you may find yourself able to concentrate once you get into it.
You probably haven’t found your own study style yet, so I recommend trying all sorts of approaches. Personally, I like studying at a café by organizing the information from my textbook and writing it down in a notebook.
P.S.
You’re right—it wasn’t really related to papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan). I ended up giving a serious answer.
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