Oct 2, 2025

Study Resources

stuff that comes in handy when you're a scholar (WIP)

A scholar needs to have a ton of resources that he/she can refer to for studying or learning. This is especially helpful if he/she is an :autodidact.

Currently, I am starting my senior year of highschool in a CBSE school with an NCERT syllabus. And I do not recommend reading the NCERT books at all, except for the exercises, if you want to actually learn something.

Learners optimise.

I adore these resources that I have listed to improve your knowledge and to have fun while studying.

Last Updated: October 02, 2025

Note: Audio-visual media are marked with bold while textual media in italics

Overall #

• Khan Academy
• CrashCourse
• OpenStax
  • FREE and well written books for a wide variety of subjects, mostly introductory.
• LibreTexts

Physics #

• Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you love Physics
  • Indeed they will!
  • Esp. for highschool/college level physics
• Chad's Prep
• Flipping Physics
  • Cool explanations and visuals
  • Flipped classroom model rocks!
• Physics Girl
• The Feynman Lectures: learn from the best.

You also need to find a ton of problem sets!

Chemistry #

• Chad's Prep (see above)
• Seema Dhawan Arora Chemistry
  • Great for NCERT chemistry, awesome explanations.
• ChemistNate
  • Awesome Explanations
• Prof. Dave Explains
  • Great for mixing basic with high level concepts + practice
• Tyler DeWitt

Math #

Calculus

• Paul's Online Notes
  • top-tier math notes + problem sets esp. for Calculus I, II, III.
• Professor Leonard: amazing math teacher for precalc/calculus and intuition
• Calculus Made Easy (book by Silvanus P. Thompson)

Olympiad/Higher Math

• 3Blue1Brown | YT
• Art of Problem Solving | YT
  • Contests Page
  • Alcumus for grinding
• Michael Penn
• Mu Prime Math
• MODS Infobase for various olympiad math resources
• Evan Chen; olympiad page
• AMCTrivial for AMC/AIME problem set grinding

Misc

• Better Explained: learn based on intuition.
• ossu/math to study a full undergrad math course at home.
• blackpenredpen; 100 derivative problems
• Wumbo References

Comp Sci #

• Teach Yourself Computer Science
• ossu/computer-science

Sociology #

(based on my experience of ultralearning a semester worth of sociology.)

• Introduction to Sociology (3e) - OpenStax’s Free Textbook which reads like a damn novel.
• Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective - Peter L. Berger; amazing, witty and digestible invitation.
• Crash Course Sociology for the things that you can’t listen from books.

Simulations #

• PhET

Course Sites #

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• MITx
• edX
• Coursera

:x autodidact #

noun

1. a self-taught person