Study tips

Being in the middle of exams atm i thought i would share some study tips that i have thought of as useful through Senior and Uni.

First is sleep! i find i need a lot of sleep when im in the middle of exams, and that doesnt mean sleeping in - personally i dont study well at night. My brain just seems to refuse to think. so i find it best to try and get to sleep early and wake up early and study straight away (easier said then done obvisouly lol)

Second treat study as the priority, but make sure there is good balance of study/fun and maybe work too. Often mine are a little skew - the social life tends to take over a bit through the semester and then during exams i shut off a bit cause i have to cram so much work. But the best thing to do is maintain a good balance throughout. Don't let study take over (having said that dont let doing nothing take over). When your in the middle of exams have one afternoon (maybe after an exam) or even a day where you dont study at all at least once a week - you need to give your brain a rest. If your organised enough then obviously you get more free time but otherwise give yourself some.

Third, have every deadline and exam written down throughout semester/term. This way you can prioritise your study so you know what has to get done a particular week and what could wait till next week etc..

Finally is to have a study timetable during exams and coming up to exams so you can work out how much time you actually have and how much time you want to devote to each subject (this may depend on the weighting of an exam or just how behind you are lol). Once you divide it up into subjects you can divide each subject into weeks of work or whatever if you want it more detailed. i use excel so its easy to change things and you can colour code things too.

These work for me, but everyone's different.