A University’s Student Guide to a Successful Study Routine (or at least mine!)

If you are a student yourself you know that when it comes down to studying almost anything distracts you (like me writing this post). Most of us are great with highlighting and organizing our notes but when it is time to actually remember them, all hope is lost. Im not saying that these will work for everyone, but here are a few simple things that can make studying easier and to make that next test your bitch! 

1.       8tracks.com: Like most people the last thing I think of is to organize a perfect study playlist. This website is practically a god send for us! Basically it consists of numbers of playlists from every genre or mood right at your fingertips. The minor fallback is that you can only skip a certain amount of songs per hour, but if you`re into your study groove, this won`t even be a problem. Check it out; you definitely will not be disappointed.

2.       Solid Study Group: The best way to study is to find people studying the same thing as you, that way you can discuss with the group and learn new things!

3.       Highlighters Are Your Friend: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not highlight every dang word on the page, you might as well highlight the not important words if you are going to do that. When highlighting use different colours for different things, such as blue for people, yellow for definitions, green for important facts etc. This is useful because when you come to that part on your exam you will be able to sort the information out in your head into categories by colour and it will be easier to remember.

4.       Talk to Yourself: Trust me, it works. When you read a sentence, say it out loud: say it out loud many times. YES, people will give you weird looks, but whatever! Once you get over those initial glares you will be glad you took my advice.

5.       Don’t Procrastinate Studying: this is an obvious one but it had to be said. In the past I was a procrastinator myself, and I found that the more days I gave myself before to study (maybe even 20 minutes a day), the better I did!

6.       Refrain from Social Networking: Don’t even bring your computer if you don’t need it. Facebook and Twitter especially are two of the biggest distractions I have found in my studying! You can realistically look on both of them for days and never ever stop. If you have self control to not go on, then kudos to you, but for us addicts I suggest deactivating your FB or twitter around finals time. Ive done it every year and it has given me much less distraction and much more time to study!

I hope these help!
cheers