Studying tips

Hello there, hope you’re all well :D

So now that I’m officially done with my 12 years of school (or more), I think I’m eligible to give out some studying and exam related tips. Those tips work very good for me, not sure if it’s gonna work for you as it works for me.

 

1-     Summarize: for each subject I had a notebook where I summarized everything in (and I actually learned this from a friend of mine which she also posted something similar on her blog click here to check it out). Break down long paragraphs into short bullet points. Try to abbreviate long words. Try drawing diagrams instead of writing the entire thing.

2-     Ask for help: If you have some doubts, or if you don’t understand something let your teacher know, I’m sure they’ll help. If not, then study groups can be useful sometimes. I personally didn’t like study groups, maybe because I always had them the night before the exam which was more of me teaching my friend everything I knew but never got to ask about the things I had doubts in. So never have study groups the night before the exam and never be the teacher who teaches and doesn’t get to ask the questions, that’s another tip right there.

3-     Make it interesting: use colors, cue cards, colored papers, whatever you think is going to make studying interesting. If you’re out of time, skip this part, it can be time consuming. Another way of making studying seem more interesting is by having study groups, where you can study and have pizza at the same time, instead of studying all alone and getting bored.

4-     Understand before you memorize: because imagine you memorizing an entire paragraph and when you’re answering the long response questions and forget a word, you’re screwed. This happened to me twice and I nearly had a breakdown in the exam. At least it taught me a lesson.

5-     Divide your work: I also learned this from my friend. for example; if your teachers told you about your test a week before, you can divide your work, study a couple of pages each day.

 

And now off to exam period tips

1-     Eat good food: Try to have good food; carrots, cucumbers, apples, anything healthy. If you are one of those people who get’s stressed during exams it might cause dehydration or breakouts or even hair fall. Try to keep hydrated by drinking water and eating healthy food. What I used to think was if I ate a heavy meal, then I won’t have to waste my time every couple of hours to grab a snack. But the meal was so heavy that I couldn’t concentrate.

2-     try not to pull an all nighter: dividing your work will really help, try to finish your work 2 days before the exam, so that the last day your just skimming through your notes or previous test papers. If you didn’t finish your work early, then you’ll have to pull an all nighter, and nobody wants to pull an all nighter.

3-      Try not to drink coffee, coffee isn’t healthy and what did we say about eating healthy? I’m a coffee lover, I LOOOVE me some coffee. But during exams it’s more of a habit that I drink more than one cup of coffee a day which isn’t really good for your body.

4-     Have enough sleep: if you don’t have enough sleep you’ll sleep on the exam paper in front of all those students and invigilators. So please sleep instead of embarrassing yourself.

5-     Try to have everything you need next to you. So that you don’t have to go looking for your pencil case, or papers every now and then. By doing that, you’ve wasted a lot of time.

6-     Because my room got very messy towards the end, I couldn’t study in my room it was depressing. So I studied in the guest room or living room sometimes (when everybody was there). So try to change the place every once in a while.

 

That’s it for my studying tips, if you have some more tips, leave them in the comments below.

See you soon x