What's On My Phone

Hello everyone! How is everyone going? Hope you're all okay! I have finished my History, English and Maths exams. This week we've got Ancient Greek and Biology.
Another thing I wanted to talk about before writing the blog post is the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. Can we pleaaase make Mans and Petra hosts every year? I mean, they're the best hosts, no one will ever be able to top them and Love Love Peace Peace is the actual ESC 2016 winner. The ESC is something I've been watching since I was younger and I absolutely loved it. Anyways, let's get into the actual post!


For this week's blog, I decided I want to do a "What's On My Phone". Hope you enjoy!

My lock screen is Bethany Mota, and my home screen is Joe Sugg. Don't judge, I'm a fangirl.

When it comes to my phone, I am such a clean freak. I don't like having unnecessary stuff and I have my apps sorted in files. I have those files on the bottom of my home screen. In the first one, I've got Phone. Contacts, Messages and Viber.

The second file is named "Idk", since is just a miscellaneous apps, such as Settings, My Files. Voice Recorder, Clock, Memo and Clean Master.

The third one is all about photography and video apps. So, Camera, Gallery, PicsArt, Phonto, Retrica, VivaVideo Pro, InShot, Media Studio and VSCO (I use VSCO to edit my Instagram pictures).

The last one is my most used file, named Internet (Creative, I know). There I have Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Chrome, Tumblr, Play Store, Messenger, Wattpad and Facebook. If you wanna check out any of my social stuff, check my blog home page. There you can find my twitter, tumblr and youtube channel.

I've got three slides in my home screen. The first one is empty so I can see the home screen picture. The second is the main one, with clock, google search and apps like Flashlight, Calculator, Calendar and Browser. The last slide has Music and a picture slide.

                                    

So that's it for this week's blog post! If you want to check out the song I've been loving this week, go check my blog's home page. I am going to be changing the song every week, so make sure you check it out!

Tweet me (@mynicoleness) with what you want to see next and I'll see you next week with another blog post!

Bye!
-Nicole x

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Tips to help you with your exams!

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog! This is my first actual blog post so yay! Today I decided to show you some tips to help you with your exams. My exams are starting this Tuesday (17/05) and we have a week off to study. So these are some tips I actually use while studying for my exams and I hope they help you too!

 

• Manage your time.

Before you start doing anything, you'll have to plan your studying schedule. It will be less stressful if you know that you have time to study and that you won't have to do that the night before. Try and plan studying for your subject a couple of days before, and have one more extra day just to revise everything you studied those days.

• Find a comfortable space.

Next, you have to find your studying spot. Sometimes your desk is not the most comfortable place for you to study on. So, some alternatives I suggest are your bed or throwing some pillows on the floor to sit on. I personally study on a big pouf that I've got. But honestly, it's up to you.

• Get away from any destruction.

I don't know about you, but I find this the most difficult part of the whole "studying for exams" thing. What you can do is mute your phone, log off your accounts or even delete the applications. Though, it will be a lot of work to download them all back, so I don't really suggest that last one. You can give it to your parents and tell them not to give it back to you for another hour or something. Just try to block everything that can destruct you.

• Underline the important.

A lot of times, books have a lot of extra information you probably don't need to know for your exam. So the best thing to do is underline the things you have to learn. Personally speaking, I vary my ways of underlining, depending on what is important for me to learn. I underline with a highlighter all of the important things whilst I underline with pencil the less important ones. I also do a little wave under all the examples and the dates and I circle the things that I need to know the definition of. Afterwards, you can also underline with markers of different colours the things you know really well, things that confuse you still and things like that.

• Make flash cards.

For any definitions you have to study, even if those are word or science definitions, you should make flash cards to help you with studying. Write the word in the one side and the definition on the other.

• Have some breaks.

You have to let your mind breathe a little bit. Have 2-minute or 5-minute breaks once in a while to have a snack and drink something. Just don't start doing something during the break that is going to make it longer, so I'd suggest to not use your phone during the break, but it's up to you.

• Have a snack and a glass of water near you.

In case you don't want to waste any time, you can have your favourite snack near you. Either that's some fruit or potato chips. Also, it's important for you to stay hydrated, so it would be good if you had a glass of water as well.

• Revise.

The morning before you take your exam, spend some time revising what you've learnt. If you're planning to study chapters you hadn't already studied, that will be difficult, but you can do it. Still, it will be much more relieving if you know that you have finished with studying, so that's one of the reasons managing your time is important.



I really hope you enjoyed this post, and I hope I have helped you! Tweet me which is your first exam and also tweet me if you have anymore tips!

Bye and see you soon!

p.s. I might be uploading every Sunday so I can have a specific schedule, what do you think?

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