My School Aid: Study Habit
Showing posts with label Study Habit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Study Habit. Show all posts

18/01/2018

[Quick Tips]: How To Conquer Sleep During Night Class

11:18 pm



Have you ever gone for night class, with a determination to read, copy note or do something important, but only end up spending most of the night sleeping? It is not strange for you to feel sleepy at night; as a matter of fact, sleep is an inevitable phenomenon as far as psychology is concerned. However, when you have something really important to do, say, a test or an exam the next day, sleep is more likely to be your worst enemy.

These tips/therapies are tested and trusted ways to make sure you make the most out of your time in night class. It works for both serious and not-so-serious students, and can be applied that night before your exam, test, or any other important activity you would like to carry out in the night. Here are a few tips to help your night life:

Sleep: If you are going to cheat the night of its main activity, you need to make a small kind of appeasement in exchange. The human body needs sleep, no matter how small; try as much as possible to get a little rest few hours before you leave for night class (two hours, at least). This helps to relieve your body of the initial stress of the day and also gives you the opportunity to have a fresh start, and a fresh brain. However, it is advisable that you do not leave for night class immediately after waking from sleep; this is because your body might still feel insatiated from the sleep and the temptation to go back to sleep in class will likely set in.

Leave Early: If you plan to achieve a whole lot more out of night class, you need to also try to leave quite early (while the night is still nascent). This tip is especially good if you got very little or no sleep in the daytime. Leaving early for night class helps your brain to adjust to what you are doing, and there is a high tendency for to stay up longer when you are engrossed in what you are doing.

Get Rid Of Distraction: When you can successfully get rid of distractions, you are surely going to spend more time reading. If you are the type that cannot go for night class without your phone or device, you might want to reduce the rate at which you make use of them because you are more likely to spend more time doing something else, than what you actually set out to do. If you go in the company of friends who have the same resolve to study, you would find it relatively easy to stay awake longer.

Eat Light: Eating heavy food just before you leave for night class poses a strong threat to your effective stay during night class as you tend to find it difficult to read and you could embarrass yourself to sleep in the early hours on reaching your venue. If you have to eat heavy food, you should do it few hours before you leave for the class. 

Get Interested: The easiest way to get interested in what you are doing and not sleep off while you work is to make it fun. For instance, if you are reading, try as much as possible to make the reading fun, don’t just go through the wordings on the book; apply them to interesting experiences and objects (it is no crime to form music out of what you are reading, or writing through the use of mnemonics). This also applies to when you have notes to copy, or other relevant stuff to do.


In a nutshell, nothing works well as much efficiently as personal resolve when you want to do something important. Being spirited with the willpower to achieve a successful night-class helps to keep you awake for much longer hours than expected because you will tend to be more focused on what you are doing. However, your personal resolve may not work very well if the aforementioned steps are not followed properly.
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08/01/2018

How To Develop A Successful Study Habit (Part 2)

1:31 am

Dear Student,

This is the second part of the How To Develop A Successful Study Habit series. The first part listed five important tips to apply in order to enhance the way you study and ultimately, your academic prowess. This time around, I shall be talking about how to maintain a successful study habit.

It is a regular situation for you to get tired of having to follow a schedule. A lot of people see it as a very tiring procedure that may not be easy to keep up with. This, however, can be remedied by following these simple steps:

How To Maintain A Successful Study Habit

1. Make Reading Fun: This is arguably one of the best things that can ever happen to a student (and non-students alike). Reading is a very vital part of the human existence and if you can make it a fun activity, you are bound to end up achieving many great things because you will be virtually unstoppable. One of the ways to make reading fun is to embed what you love most into the habit of reading; some people love music so much -if this is your case, you can simply make it a point of duty to attach musicals to what you learn. Whatever else might be your passion can also be embedded into your study life.

2. No Dull Moment: Allowing yourself to be thrown into despair by the very thought of reading can cause you to eventually lose interest in studying. As a student, you need to be up and doing with your books -prevent yourself from being engrossed too much in the other things you do. Some people are labelled "bookworms" because of how much time they spend with their books; this may not be the best way to develop your study habit, but it is surely a way to maintain it. However, it is easier to just make reading fun than to become a bookworm, especially if you never liked (or enjoyed) reading in the first place.

3. Like Minds: Surrounding yourself with people who reason the same way you do will go a long way in boosting your study habit. If your friends are the type that love to procrastinate reading till a night before the D-day, you are bound to follow in their footsteps very often. However, if you have friends that are always talking about the new things they have learnt, it will surely encourage and challenge you to pick up something to read so that you will also have something to say in their midst. Also, surrounding yourself with people that think the same way you do can strengthen you in your weaker areas. Everybody in a group cannot lack knowledge about a particular thing, or how to go about acquiring the knowledge of it; this implies that in one way or the other, your weak areas will be fixed while you are in a group

The most relevant factor is having a positive mindset of determination; the determination to study at all times!
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07/01/2018

How To Develop A Successful Study Habit (Part 1)

7:05 pm

Dear Student.

It is no doubt that studying is one of the most important activities carried out by students all over the world. However, for some, reading is also regarded as a stressful and boring activity; that is the reason most students procrastinate studying till the night before an examination or test -this habit has been tested over and over again, but has never produced a very good result.

Students who are really interested in passing exams and tests in flying colors do not stick to reading the night before exams; this is simply because the student tends to enter the exam with so much nervousness that he/she is bound to forget, very quickly, what has been read.

In order to attain academic excellence,  students are advised to develop a study habit. This entails more than just reading, but also paying attention to what is being read so that the student does not only remember what is being read on the day of the exam, but also any other time such knowledge is needed.

Developing a study habit is actually quite easy to do. The major factor that is needed to do that is determination. However, everybody does not have the patience and perseverance to stick to a plan, especially when it involves reading books.

In this first part of How To Develop A Successful Study Habit, I will be discussing 5 simple steps to develop a successful study habit:

1. Get Organized: While you go around doing everything that makes you a student (doing assignments, writing tests, carrying out extracurricular activities, etc.), it is possible that you may end up losing track of the important things you should be doing. A planner can help you keep everything organized. Students should make a list of assignments, tests and every other activity they may be involved in, then review items in the planner at both the beginning and end of the day to stay on track.

2. Create Limits: Limit the amount of time spent online and in front of the TV. This may sound like one of the hardest things to do, especially in this age and time where everything is done online and the internet is even more engrossing than ever. However, it is practicably impossible to successfully develop a reading habit if so much time is spent chatting and tweeting. Some students even go as far as deleting their social media accounts in order to stay focused -this may not necessarily work for you if you are already a social media addict. Creating limits to time spent on frivolous activities is one of the important keys to unlock a successful study habit

3. Develop a Study Plan. First of all, students need to know when a test will take place, the types of questions that will be included and the topics that will be covered. From there, you should create a study plan and allow ample time to prepare – there’s nothing worse than cramming the night before an exam. You can help yourself by buying a wall calendar and assign topics and tasks for each day leading up to a due date or exam. Setting goals for each semester (or session) is also key to success.

4. Practice Active Listening. It is important for students to concentrate and avoid distractions during lectures. You should concentrate on the main points being made and what the lecturer is talking about, pay attention to how things are said (gestures, tone of voice, etc.) and avoid talking or thinking about problems when listening. Some lecturers also specify what points should be noted and these likely come out during exams.

5. Make Reading Fun. It is very easy for students to skim over an assigned book chapter and not know the main points of what has just been read. In order to make reading more fun, it is advisable to make an outline of the chapter or create flow charts and diagrams that help map out the concept at hand. After each section, write a summary in your own words and come up with possible exam or test questions. Making reading fun is one of the best ways to develop a successful study habit
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